Lenzy Lafayette “Fate” Harper

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Lenzy Lafayette “Fate” Harper

Birth
Gilmer County, Georgia, USA
Death
9 Sep 1954 (aged 86)
Downey, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Westminster, Orange County, California, USA Add to Map
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Son of William Pinkney Harper and Leer E. Plemons. Known as "Fate," (his middle name was pronounced La-Fate) he left Georgia in the late 1880's or early 1890's and moved to the West Plains, Missouri, area. He bought farmland in Gunter's Valley, Peace Valley, MO, married Lou Emma Weeks, and with her had ten children. He outlived six of his children and his wife, who died in the influenza pandemic. He loved being a farmer, and loved lilac bushes. Even today, on the land that was his, there are lilac bushes thriving next to the foundation of his long-gone house. When one of his daughters, Mary Pauline, was dying of tuberculosis, he moved to Colorado to care for her family, and stayed on after her death. Later he moved to California to live with his children there. He never remarried, and as there was no room for him to be buried next to his wife in MO, he asked to be buried in California. He was a kind, generous and religious man, and still missed by his family.
Son of William Pinkney Harper and Leer E. Plemons. Known as "Fate," (his middle name was pronounced La-Fate) he left Georgia in the late 1880's or early 1890's and moved to the West Plains, Missouri, area. He bought farmland in Gunter's Valley, Peace Valley, MO, married Lou Emma Weeks, and with her had ten children. He outlived six of his children and his wife, who died in the influenza pandemic. He loved being a farmer, and loved lilac bushes. Even today, on the land that was his, there are lilac bushes thriving next to the foundation of his long-gone house. When one of his daughters, Mary Pauline, was dying of tuberculosis, he moved to Colorado to care for her family, and stayed on after her death. Later he moved to California to live with his children there. He never remarried, and as there was no room for him to be buried next to his wife in MO, he asked to be buried in California. He was a kind, generous and religious man, and still missed by his family.

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