A family history/personal memoir written by Ida Faddis. The manuscript begins with the move of the Weith and Newton families to Iola, Kansas, in the 1870's and ends with Ida Faddis' retirement from public school teaching in 1954. The memoirs are mainly drawn from the reminiscences of several family members and contains some early history of Iola, Basset, Gas City, and LaHarpe, Kansas.