Surber, William H.

SURBER

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 7/9/2021 at 21:51:23

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.663

SURBER, WILLIAM H., farmer, Jackson Township, Sec. 20; P. O. St. Charles; was one of the earliest settlers of what now constitutes Warren county; having, in company with his father, in the spring of 1848, settled one and a-half miles west of the present town of Summerset, where he resided until 1860, when he removed to Wapello county, and engaged in coal mining, which he followed for seventeen years; in 1877 he returned to this county, and resumed farming, purchasing eighty acres of land, where he now resides; born in Washington county, Virginia; Mr. Surber was married February 1, 1854, to Nancy M. Webster, of McDonough county, Illinois; to them were born eleven children, of whom ten are now living: Sylvester A., Delila C. (now Mrs. Wm. B. Thompson, of Wappello county), John A., Susan E., Adam I., Catharine M., Wm. H., Sarah E., Francis L. and Lena J.; Ann A. died Dec. 10, 1873.