Stephen J. Harper

Stephen J. was born in September 1858.  Stephen J.'s father is Samuel A Harper and his mother is Mary Shaver.  His paternal grandfather was Enoch Harper and his paternal grandmother is Elizabeth Jane Bowles. He had four brothers and six sisters, named John, Lafayette, William H., Ulysses Samuel, Sarah A., Rachel, Mary Ann, Martha L., Emily J. and Lovernia Elizabeth.  He is the sixth oldest of the eleven children.