Family
Plato believed in helping others and devoting himself to his family. In 1939 he devised a plan to move his sister and her family off the old homestead in Waugh, Alabama, and into a new home nearby.
His second wife, Samuel an Elnora Plato (1891–1975), helped put several nieces and nephews though college and graduate school, with Plato employing some of them on jobs in Louisville and Washington, D.C.. Elnora Plato was his constant travel companion and business manager. Having built her own successful dressmaking business before their marriage, she used the funds from this enterprise to help Plato. She funded the cost of Samuel's sister's new house in Waugh and was able to keep Samuel's sister's company from going bankrupt.
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