Alvin Joseph Garrison and Clara Arcela Kitch were married on May 10, 1899 at noon, by the Rev. W. D. Robertson of the Harmony Methodist Church.

    They first went to housekeeping at Burdett, Kansas, where they had a feed mill and bought poultry; they then bought a farm near Greenland, Arkansas in January, 1903.  Three years later, in October of 1906, they moved back to Kansas, settling in the town of Rozel, near the Pawnee River, where Alvin bought wheat for the Union Grain Co. until May, 1913.

    The Pawnee River will occasionally flood, and this is a picture of the center of town from the 1906-1913 time frame.  The people are unidentified.

    Without a hospital, many people were born in homes or, in the case of my Father, Kenton Kitch Garrison, he arrived into the world on Feb. 1, 1907 in the hotel in Rozel.  (Shown during a flood.)