Daughter of Lenzy "Fate" Harper and Luemma Weeks Harper, and known by Pauline. She married a young man whose family farmed down the road from her family, Lemuel Theodore Stein. They had two children, Nadine and Don, and lived on a cattle farm down the road from his father and across the road from her father. Mary Pauline developed tuberculosis, which was rampant in MO at the time, and she had helped nurse her brother Kenneth, who died of tuberculosis. The family moved to Colorado in an unsuccessful attempt to nurse her back to health in dry air. She was treated in the Porter Sanitorium from 1928 to her death in 1934, living there most of the time, coming home for holidays or occasionaly weekends. Her daughter Nadine caught a mild case of TB and her son Don tested positive for TB thereafter. Nadine's case was cured, but from that point on the doctors were stringent about restricting how much time Pauline spent around her children. Her family never healed from the stress of the time spent apart. She tried to write a final letter to her children, her final word trailing off of the page as she was too weak to lift the pen.
Daughter of Lenzy "Fate" Harper and Luemma Weeks Harper, and known by Pauline. She married a young man whose family farmed down the road from her family, Lemuel Theodore Stein. They had two children, Nadine and Don, and lived on a cattle farm down the road from his father and across the road from her father. Mary Pauline developed tuberculosis, which was rampant in MO at the time, and she had helped nurse her brother Kenneth, who died of tuberculosis. The family moved to Colorado in an unsuccessful attempt to nurse her back to health in dry air. She was treated in the Porter Sanitorium from 1928 to her death in 1934, living there most of the time, coming home for holidays or occasionaly weekends. Her daughter Nadine caught a mild case of TB and her son Don tested positive for TB thereafter. Nadine's case was cured, but from that point on the doctors were stringent about restricting how much time Pauline spent around her children. Her family never healed from the stress of the time spent apart. She tried to write a final letter to her children, her final word trailing off of the page as she was too weak to lift the pen.
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