Susa, as she was called, was the daughter of John Hiram Lucas, and wife Jane Cubbage, of Page County, Virginia. Susa helped her neighbors in sickness or trouble. She was a midwife to many a child in her neighborhood.

Mary Susan Lucas married Andrew Godfrey Stoneberger in Page County, Virginia 5 May 1885, Andrew's third marriage. They had eight children, Virgil, Savilla, Wilmer, Mattie, Maud, Myrtle, Della, and Mildred. At Mary Susan's death in 1935 there were 42 grandchildren, 88 great grandchildren, and 3 great-great-grand-children. She applied for a Confederate Soldier's Widow's pension in 1930. She was 71 years old. She received the pension based on her husband's Confederate record.

Andrew Godfrey Stoneberger, age 18, enlisted with his older brother Siram on February 1, 1863 at Luray, for the period of war. A week later their father George Stoneberger enlisted in the same company. This battalion of scouts, guides and couriers was organized September 1862. Andrew became a Private in Samuel Bradford Brown's Company C, 13 Battalion Virginia Calvary, officially the 39th Battalion. Samuel Brown's Company C became Lee's Body Guard March 9, 1863.

Company C, 39th VA Battalion was official escort for General Lee as his forces approached Appomattox on April 9, 1865 virtually surrounded by the Union forces.

After the Civil War, Andrew returned to the home near Stanley, Page County. He farmed and served as a watchman for the railroad bridge close to his home. After each train passed he would walk the bridge to see if any live cinders had fallen on the wooden bridge that made up the Ochre Bank railroad bridge. In 1885 the Ochre Bank mine and mill was operated by the Oxford Ochre Company about one mile southwest of Stanley on Stony Run where the Railroad crosses Stony Run. Andrew died 5 February 1901.

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