Rosa Adelia Robinson
Clockwise from left: Jessie Mildred 'Sister', Leota Lee 'Chick', Cecil Benjamin 'Hank', Luther Edward 'Ted', Harold X. 'Heine'
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Edward Mathew Dolen
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Rosa Adelia Robinson |
Clockwise from left: Jessie Mildred 'Sister', Leota Lee 'Chick', Cecil Benjamin 'Hank', Luther Edward 'Ted', Harold X. 'Heine' (Images are clickable) |
Edward Mathew Dolen |
Miss Rosa Adelia Robinson was born in Atkinson, Henry County, Illinois, November 27, 1868. When still a young girl she moved with her parents to Fairmount, Leavenworth County, Kansas. At the age of sixteen, she went to Oketo, Marshall County, Kansas, to make her home with her grandparents; where she lived until her marriage to Mr. Ed Dolen.
Mr. Dolen was born on a homestead, nine miles north-west of Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska, November 22, 1867. He is the eldest son of John C. and Araminta Dolen, deceased. At the age of seven years he moved, with his parents, to Dewitt, Nebraska, where they lived for six years. Mr. Dolen attended his first school in Dewitt, Nebr. They then came to Kansas, in 1866, to live on a farm one and one-half miles north of Oketo, Kansas. Their new home was part of the Indian reservation which was sold to the Whites in 1883. In 1889, Mr. Dolen and C. M. Slaughter operated a drug store in Oketo, Kansas.
After Mr. and Mrs. Dolen were united in holy matrimony, July 25, 1889, at Oketo, Kansas, they made their home with his parents. Sometime later they moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma for a year. Here their first child, Luther Edward, was born. When he was one year old they returned to Oketo, Kansas, and were there a few years. In 1892 they moved to Phillips County, Kansas, and spent two years on a farm near Logan. In 1894 they returned to the same farm north of Oketo and stayed there until 1919. The following spring they moved to a newly purchased farm home three miles north-west of Blue Rapids, Marshall County, Kansas, where they now reside.
Through the years of hard work and toil together, Mr. and Mrs. Dolen have acquired considerable property and their real estate is considered among the best in Kansas. Mr. Dolen has always been a prosperous and ambitious gentleman. The drought and hard times have never made him lose faith or give up hope. He has been active in county affairs and community activities.
Mr. and Mrs. Dolen have always been kind and loving to their children and especially to their grandchildren. Mrs. Dolen is a true "grandmother." She loves her family and none of them have ever been seriously ill and needed her, that she couldn't go to them—no matter what the sacrifice, or the condition of her own health. She is a Christian mother and has grown old gracefully.
For the past few years Mr. Dolen has been failing in health, making it impossible to celebrate this "once in a lifetime" occasion. Their children and immediate relatives will be home to congratulate them Sunday, July 23, 1939, and wish them many more years together.