In the early 1890’s there was severe drought for several years and the land boom in Wichita County and Leoti, in particular, started to subside. By 1894 the farmers were in hard straits and a lot of people left the area. Most of them had enough wheat for bread but none for seed (Blackmar 1912). This was probably why John, Elva and Mamie went back to Pennsylvania in 1891 and settled in Corry, east …
