John Nicholas McKeever, the son of Nicholas and Mary McKeever, was born in
  Promise City, Wayne County, Iowa, on Septebmer 15, 1859. His family resided in
  Iowa until he was eighteen, when they moved to Kansas, settling on a ranch nine
  miles east of Wichita. After two years there, they moved to Harper County,
  homesteading on a ranch near Danville. John McKeever herded cattle on the range
  both in Kansas and in northern Oklahoma.
     On August 14, 1883, he was married to Mary L. Clough, the daughter of David
  and Sarah Clough, who was born in Strawberry Point, Iowa, on May 4, 1867. She
  moved to Harper with her parents when she was nine years old. A year later, in
  1877, the family moved to Sharon, where she lived the rest of her life on the
  original David Clough and McKeever farms.
     The McKeevers had ten children - six boys and four girls. They were faithful
  members of the Christian Church.
     John McKeever died on December 3, 1933, in Anthony, the result of injuries
  received when the team with which he was drilling wheat became frightened and
  ran off. Mary McKeever died in Medicine Lodge on September 17, 1952.
     The McKeever's daughter, Lois, attended country school south of Sharon for 
  three years and completed her elementary and high school education in Sharon
  in 1929. She then attended Phillips University from 1929 to 1932 and became a
  teacher. She also went to summer school at Phillips U., Emporia State, and
  Northwestern Oklahoma State University.
     Lois began her teaching career in 1932 in a school south of Hazelton. She
  taught in Sharon from 1933 to 1948.
     On April 16, 1943, Lois McKeever was united in marriage with Kenneth Brock,
  who had worked on her family's farm from the fall of 1934 until he was inducted
  into the Army in 1942. Kenneth served in the Army during WWII from 1942 to 1945.
     The Brocks lived on the farm south of Sharon from 1945 until April, 1954, 
  when they moved to Medicine Lodge, where Lois had accepted a teaching position
  at the Primary School. She taught there for 17 years, until her retirement in
  the spring of 1971 to enjoy housekeeping, oil painting, and freedom from pressure.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 305 
     Submitted by: Lois McKeever Brock