Susan Frances Lollar was strong woman who lived through civil war, many deaths, reconstruction, western migration, 3 husbands (conspicuous by their absences), and 7 children. Susan was born in Walker Co, Alabama; she married at the start of the Civil War to Jack Courington when she was only 14 years old. They had four children: Sylvester Newton (1864), John Monroe (1868), Hosea Leonidas (1869), and Eudora Ellen (1872). The Lollars and Couringtons were some of the most prominant families in Walker County, with large plantations, many slaves, and nearly all fought for the Confederacy with losses of several family members. Jack disappeared after the war, (presumed dead in 1873) and Susan married Berry Strickland in Lee Co, Mississippi in 1881 (they got their license in 1875 but it took 6 years to stand up with a Minister of the Gospel). They had one daughter, Sally Ann (1878); it is unknown what happened to Berry. Susan married a 3rd time to John Fields and they had two children: Minnie Pearl (1887) and Jesse (1890) in Arkansas; they divorced before 1900.By 1883, (according to son John Heavener's bio) Susan and her large family had moved to Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory in what would become SE Oklahoma. She was a devoted mother and grandmother, and from all accounts her children had successful, productive lives, despite the lack of husbandly support.

1850 and 1860 censuses, Susan is with her Lollar parents (John and Susan Lollar), and siblings (Hugh, Isaac, Charlotte, John, Pheba, Richard, B Frank, W Nolan, Margaret, and Henry) in Walker Co., Alabama. In 1870, she is still in Walker Co. (post office York), listed as Susan Courington with sons: Newton, John, and Hosy, but husband Jack is missing. In 1880, she is in Lee County, Mississippi, listed as S F Strickland, with sons Newt, John, Hosie, and daughters Eudora Courington and Annie Strickland; again no husband is listed with her. Sons Newton & Hosea are listed as born in Alabama, Dora, John and Annie are listed as born in Mississippi. In 1900, she is Susan F Fields in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, the mother of 7 children, all living. Susan is listed as divorced, and living with children Minnie P and Jesse C T Fields (both born in Arkansas); her sons, Newton, John, and Hosea, are also living in the newly opened Indian territory in their own households; Annie Strickland is believed to be Sally Ann Strickland who married George Chronister; Dora married Thomas Wise and they are all also in Choctaw Nation in 1900 (no further information about Jesse Fields has been found). 1910, Susan Fields is in Howe, LeFlore, OK (the county formed after statehood) living alone as a widow of independent means. In 1920, she has moved to McLennon County, Texas to live with daughter, Minnie Howell, now a widow with 5 children. From 1924-6, she took care of Newton and his younger children in Howe, OK after the death of Newt's wife, Tula. In 1930, she is in Bell County, Texas with daughter Minnie Smith, who has remarried.

Susan died in 1937, in Moody, McLennon Co., Texas, age 84 of "carcinoma of the face". Her Texas death certificate lists her mother as "unknown" and her father as Isaac Lollar from Germany; information provided by daughter Minnie. This is incorrect. Isaac Lollar had no daughters named Susan, and he lived in Rusk, Texas. It is believed that Susan is the daughter of Isaac's brother, John Anderson Lollar and Susan Gillen of Walker Co., Alabama, but no official documentation has been found for this.