Another family listing has Esther A and Alberta O as 2 separate peoplew ith Alberta being born in 1876.
The 1900 census calls her Vertie, botn 9/1876.
The date of 12/18/1875 is on a tombstone in the Daugherty Cem but itmu st belong to another person because because this "Albertie" was 9and l iving with her parents in Seward, NE in 1885.