of 1140 feet. This discovery led to the Sinclair Oil & Gas Company becoming interested and the investment of millions of dollars in the development of the present field. In 1918 he and his brother sold out a portion of their interests in the Garber Field to the Exchange Oil and Gas Company for several millions of dollars, placing each in the millionaire class, but with all his money and property, he is still "Bert" to all his neighbors and acquaintances.

Mrs. B. A. Garber is a woman of large sympathy and fine personality, who is eminently a home-maker, although she is also devoted to her church and social life. At Garber their home was the center of many pleasant social functions.

His children are: Helen Garber, b at Garber, Nov. 15, 1909; George Burton Garber, b at Garber, Oct. 16, 1912.

Lucy Rife Garber, the mother, died June 16, 1918, at Garber, where she was buried. The Garber Sentinel of June 20, 1918, pays this worthy tribute to her:

"Her practical common sense in all emergencies has always been proverbial and she was followed to her grave by more than a mile of automobiles filled with those who felt a direct personal loss in her passing."

The history of the Martin Garber family in Oklahoma was verified by Milton C. Garber as to authenticity in 1920.

3--Abram Garber--6006--born in Ohio, died and was buried at Guide Rock, Nebr. April 26, 1893; was one of the earliest settlers at Guide Rock; became postmaster there in January, 1873, and served several years, and was also a prosperous merchant there. He organized the first school district in Webster Co., Nebr.

He was a member of the 3rd Missouri Regiment, Company "I," of the Union Army during the Civil War. He married Hannah Jewell, who also died and was buried at Guide Rock. Their children were:

1--Ida Garber, b June 30, 1861, married Andrew J. Hayes, Jan. 13, 1886, at Guide Rock; has one son, Ernest, b at Guide Rock, Sept. 12, 1891.

Ernest Hayes enlisted in the navy at the training station at Great Lake, Ill., in the World War and attended radio school at Cambridge, Mass. He is now, 1921, in the grain elevator business at Superior, Nebr. Ida Hayes was with the Garber party that came into Webster County, May 20, 1870, but because of the Indian scare in the Republican Valley, was left at Fairbury until her father could come back for her. She then lived in the family of her Uncle Joseph Garber until her mother came on to Guide Rock with the son Edwin to live in the new cabin, in 1870. Ida is a devoted member of the Baptist Church, was clerk of that church at Guide Rock for years, and now is clerk of the Baptist church at Superior, Nebr.

2--Edwin S. Garber, was reared at Guide Rock, had two children, a son, Anson, who died in his youth, and a daughter, Ethel, who married James D. Cather, son of Charles Cather, of Red Cloud, Nebr., July 20, 1914, and now has a daughter,