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Show Final Rites Will Be Held Friday For L R. Cropper Leigh Richmond Cropper, 78, one of the oldest residents of west Millard county, died suddenly at his home in Hinckley Monday at 8:30 p.m. of a heart attack. Mr. Cropper had been a farmer .at Deseret and Hinckley since he was a youth, and was a leading alfalfa seed producer. He was born at Fillmore Oct. 18, 1871, a son of Fanny Powell Cropper Crop-per and Leigh Richmond Cropper, Sr. His parents moved to Deseret when he was two years old and were among the first pioneers to settle there. When the dam went out the family moved back to Fillmore until the farms and home in Deseret were rebuilt. He received his early education in the first crhnnl at nacot-of which was near the old Mud Fort. As a young man he attended the Millard Academy at Fillmore. Homesteads On Nov. 29, 1893, he and Lula Bishop Cropper were married in the Manti temple. They home-steaded home-steaded 160 acres of brush land near Hinckley, railed the brush and made their farm. Mr. Cropper served as watermaster in the Hinckley Hin-ckley and Deseret area for the Des eret Irrigation company for 27 years. He operated the Deseret flour mill for 27 years. A lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1906 he fulfilled a mission in the western states. Later he spent three years in the Unita aBsin supervising su-pervising farmers on alfalfa seed production. Active Church Worker Four years ago he retired from his farm and moved into Hinckley. Hinck-ley. He was active and a hard worker up to the time of his death. He was active in many church works, serving for many years as a ward teacher, Sunday school teacher, and at the time of his death he held the position of High Priest in Deseret stake. For the past two years he held the position of supervisor of the Hinckley ward teahcers district. He was supervisor of one of the projects on the church welfare farm. Mr. Cropper was a successful farmer by dint of hard work and long hours. As a boy of 15 he worked on his uncle's ranch to earn money for his schooling in Fillmore. His original homestead, located on what is now known as Cropper Lane, was brought to a high point of production. Besides farming he hauled ore from Fish Springs and worked on a threshing machine. When he operated the flour mill people came from all over to get their flour, meal and cereal in exchange ex-change for their wheat. He would work in the mill from early in the morning through the day, and after aft-er mill hours served as water-master. water-master. He traveled at first on a bicycle, then a cart and buggy, and in 1932 he went around his route in a car. '. While he was in the mission field his wife worked to keep him there and cared for their family of five while he was gone. In 1914 the family moved from the farm into their new home in Hinckley. At that time Mr. Cropper owned and operated a barber shop in Hinckley. In 1924 they moved back to the farm. He is survived by his wife, three sons and five daughters: Lawrence Cropper of Oasis, Mahonri Cropper and Ladd R. Cropper, Hinckley; Mrs. Mary C. Pratt, Mrs. Fannie Lee Hilton and Mrs. Sebrina Ekins of Hinckley, Mrs. Florence Robins, Delta; and Mrs. Melba Mclnttosh, Salt Lake City; 31 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Grace Warnick, Delta; Mrs. Fannie Maxfield, Oasis, and Mrs. John T. Jacobs, Vale, Ore. Friends may call at the home from 11 a.m. Friday until time for the services, or at the mortuary Thursday after 4 p.m. Funeral services will be held in the Hinckley ward chapel on Friday Fri-day at 2 p.m. by Bishop Walter L. Ekins. Interment will be in the Deseret cemetery under direction of L. N. Nickle and sons mortuary. |