Lorenzo Lafayette "Fate" Lancaster married Mary "Mollie" Missouri Houston on April 26, 1898, in Decatur County. Fate (1872-1929) was the son of William F. Lancaster (1833-1899) and Eliza Jane Houston (1848-1933). Mollie (1880-1946) was the daughter of Felix Houston (1853-1940) and Mary Ann Myracle (1858-1889). William F. Lancaster was the son of David L. Lancaster (b. 1807) and Permelia Davidson (b. 1804)
Fate and Mollie had five children: Bertha, William Tillman, Lena, Opal and Wilma Mae Lancaster. William F. and Eliza Jane, Fate and Mollie and their children are all buried at Mt. Tabor Cemetery in Decatur County.
- Excerpted from Decatur County, Tennessee
History and Families 1846-1996,
Compiled by Wilda Graves Patterson
and submitted by Marcia Graves Burton.