Biographical Sketch of Mary (Stigall) Surber, Johnson County, Missouri,
Rose Hill Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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Mrs. Mary (Stigall) Surber, the highly esteemed widow of the late 
Alfred Surber, a successful and prosperous farmer and stockman of Rose
Hill township, has been a resident of Johnson county for the pasty 40
years.  Mrs. Surber is a native of Kentucky, a daughter of F. Stigall.
She was born in 1849.  In 1866, Alfred Surber and Mary Stigall were
united in marriage in Kentucky.  Mr. Surber was a well to do and indus-
trious farmer of that state and a Confederate veteran.  He had met with
splendid and deserved success in the South but, in 1877, believing that
opportunities were greater in Missouri he desired to move to this state 
and in the same year the family came to Johnson county and settled on a
farm in Rose Hill township.  On the place to which she then came, Mrs.
Surber still is residing.  To Alfred and Mary (Stigall) Surber were 
born eleven children, of whom the following are now living: John and
David C., who are unmarried and make their home with their mother; 
Martha and Eula, both of whom are teachers and reside with their
mother; Levi, ex-constable of Rose Hill township, who is married and 
resides on a farm in Johnson county; George, Garden City, Missouri;
D. R., Garden City, Missouri; Mrs. Walter C. Elliott, Tyrone, Oklahoma;
and Mrs. Walter S. Jackson, Holden, Missouri.  John has charge of the
home farm and David C. is in charge of the lumber yard at Medford.
Martha is employed as teacher in the Garden City schools and Eula is
employed at the home school at Doak school house.  Alfred Surber was 
one of Johnson county's most worthy citizens.  He lived to enjoy the
new Western home but a score of years, nevertheless in that length of
time Mr. Surber became widely known and respected.  In twenty years, he
established a name and reputation in this section of Missouri which was
the synonym for honesty and uprightness, a name that his children may 
well be proud to bear.  Mr. Surber was a consistent and highly regarded
member of the Christian church, a truly Christian gentleman.  He died 
in 1897.

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