The Lenorah Cemetery

I remember well when in 1933 the little Hopper girl died in the home of her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Will Hopper, who lived on the Herman Deavenport farm a little more than a mile south of Lenorah on the west side of the road. ...

In two or three months little Raymond "Tommy" Hopper died with scarlet fever and he was buried in the same plot beside his baby sister.  Raymond was seven years old at the time, and I went to the funeral with my mother.  Earl Evans was the star route mail carrier, but also a great gospel singer and lay preacher and he "preached" the funeral....

In 1939 Mr. Silas Green Gregg who lived just west of the Cottonwood Grocery passed away and he was buried in the Hopper plot.... later on in 1948, Mr. Gregg's remains were exhumed and he was re-interred at the then-New Trinity Memorial Cemetery south of Big Spring.

I interviewed the oldest Hopper son, Willie Lester, by phone at his home in Goldsmith, and again in person at the 'Old Soreheads Trades Days' in Stanton on October 9, 1994. He stated that his little sister was named Vida Mae and she died with the stomach ache.  He stated she was three years old, and as I stated earlier, "Tommy" was seven. 

Willie Lester says there was no one else buried in the plot until Green Gregg died