Small Town Kansas: Hamilton

My mother graduated from high school in Hamilton, Kansas. That was about all I knew about it, so I did some research. Here's what I found out about this small Kansas town.

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Photo on the left shows my mother's graduating class at Hamilton. It is in the family photo collection (Gail Lee Martin)

My mother wrote many family memory pieces about her early life. I gathered these together in a book that I self-published on blurb.com. Her book is titled My Flint Hills Childhood: Growing Up in 1930s Kansas. In the book she includes a picture of herself in her prom dress for the Hamilton prom. Her name at that time was Gail McGhee. She dated Johnnie Faylor in high school, but ended up marrying my dad, Clyde Martin.

Now there's a book about his life as well, Clyde Owen Martin: Family Memories of His Life and Times. It's also available on the Blurb online bookstore.

This might be around 1904-06. Harry Earl Joy, son of Marie (Kennedy) and Henry Alfred Joy, is in first grade in this picture. I don't know which child is Harry. He was born in 1898 in Baldwin, Kansas.

This photo is from the paperback edition of Clyde Owen Martin: Family Memories of His Life and Times.

Do not copy this photo without permission from my mother, Gail Lee Martin.

This is my great-grandfather. That's Alfred Joy and his son Harry standing in front of the feed mill.

The picture is from the book, Clyde Owen Martin: Family Memories of His Life and Times.