The Dickinson press., 1917-02-10
ANOTHER PIONEER
HAS PASSED AWAY

illness Of several months duration.
Funeral services were conducted at
the Boulger & Hughes undertaking
rooms at 2 o'clock on Wednesday.
afternoon by John Orchard, who con-,
Quoted the funeral service over the re-
mains of the wife of the deceased
twenty-four years ago. lnterment
was made in the Dickinson ceme-i
terry.
The deceased was born near Cleve-'
land, Ohio, July 18th, 1881, and when
Illinois, living there during the years
1849 and 1850. He made two trips
in the early SOS and had started on
a third trip to California at the be-
ginning Of the Civil war and on &C.
count Of the guerilla warfare going
on the first year Of the war his third
trip to the gold fields had to be
abandoned. He was in the gold
fields of California as early as 1851,
and while on one Of his trips was in
Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1862, and
Witnessed great deal of trouble that
the Mormon colony was having at
that time. He returned to Illinois in
1852, and enlisted as a private insthes
Oath Illinois regiment of volunteer
infantry and served in the command
until the close Of the war. He took
part in the seige and final captureSof
Vicksburg, and was in many other
important battles Of the Civil war.
He was married at Andersonville,,
Indiana, to Helen Brown, and for
few years thereafter lived in Illinois,
and other points in the
middle west. fsfsa
In 1876 he left his home in Minnie
sofa for a hunting and trapping trip
through Dakota territory and for sevAass
eral years made the historic town Of
Medora his home. The family moved
to- Medora in 1883, and have resided!
there, or in the vicinity, since that
time. He served two terms as county
judge of Billings county. in the early
'90's when the salary of that office
was but $500 per year.
Mr.. Lebo was n Of the many.
typical characters of the frontier
days, and did fully his share toward
making history for the northwest. In
the early days he trapped and hunted;
in the Little Missouri country and
enjoyed several hunting trips with
Roosevelt during his Medora ranch
ing days. He was at Fl. Benton
when Custer was killed, and at
Brownsville, Texas, during the time of
the Maximillion trouble. His travels
extended over the entire western por-SS
ton Of the United States, and crossed
the Isthmus of Panama on the rail-.
road that had the reputation of hav-l
ing a dead man for each tie on the
road. He endured all the hardshipst
of pioneer and frontier days but
through it all enjoyed the life he lived
to the fullest extent. Naturally of
adventurous, nature, one Of his great
est pleasures in his younger days was
to seek new fields and to have a part.
in any undertaking that might come
up.
He was the father Of ten children,..
three Of whom died in infancy. Three
sons and four daughters, all living in;
the vicinity Of Medora, are left to-
mournahis demise. Mrs. Clara Collis,;
Mrs. N. d. Nichols, Mrs. j. B. Har2s
mon, Schuyler N. Lebo, Mrs. Mary b.
Gilman, Judson P. Lebo, and Paul
3Lebo, present clerk of court Of Bill
ings county. Mrs. Lebo died at Me-
dora. in 1898. Deceased has two sis:
tiers living, one in Nebraska and one
in Illinois, neither; Of whom were able
to be present at the funeral. 81
The pail bearers at the funeral held
on Wednesday were S. M. Ferris
John Britt, g. Peterson, Jerry Hayes
fL AZ Simpson and "a. G. Pagenkopf.
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