A weathered stone marker commemorates Susanna Alderdice, a non-Indian casualty of the summit springs fight, born Susanna Zeigler in N.E. Ohio in 1840. She married James A. Daily in Missouri in 1860, and shortly afterward moved to Salina, Kansas. She had two sons with James before he volunteered for union service in 1864. Daily soon died of typhoid fever at Ft. Leavenworth in 1866. Susanna married Tom Alderdice and settled on a homestead along the Saline River near present day Lincoln, Kansas. Susanna had a son and daughter with Tom, and her husband was away tall bulls' band of dog soldiers raids homesteads near Lincoln, killing 9 settlers and capturing a pregnant Susanna. Her 8-month-old daughter, Alice, and Mrs. Maria Weichel, whose husband was killed, the dead in this raid. Susanna and Maria remained in the village for 3 days until July 5, when major Carr's 5th cavalry, buffalo Bill Cody and pawnee Indians attacked Cavalry, Buffalo Bill's, at Summit Springs.