Some of the the people who settled in the Ramer's Chapel community from 1850 to 1865 were W.T. Staires, Henry Starnes, William Fisk, D.L. Baxter , G.W. Ramer, Jeff Ramer, John Eastep, Moses Eastep, Murph Seagroves, Tom Dortch , and the Beaton family . Other settlers in the vicinity were Hezekiah Wright, Bill Hill, Dan Frock, and the Nolan, Lauchstaedt, an Wagner families.

Herman Toelkin came in 1886 to the section later known as Upper Lafe . He advertised in the newspapeer "Germania"for other German Lutherans to come to the community , and was successful in inducing many families to come. They founded a Lutheran church at Upper Lafe and later united with the Lutheran church at Lafe.

The town of Lafe was originally named for a sawmill owner. The postmaster secured the name of Loulyma for the post office . This caused confusion , since freight was billed to Newberry . A group of citizens circulate a petition and obtained the name of Lafe for the town, in honor of a local merchant, Lafe Miller.

This little town has a reputation of producing substantial, law-abiding citizens.Young people who come to Paragould from Lafe are highly regarded.