Jesse Douglas Leabo, Sr.

Jesse Douglas Leabo was the son of John James Leabo and Mary Long. He married Martha Evelyn Carow, the daughter of August Herman Carow and Hannah E. Tucker, on December 27, 1909, at Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon. They had five children: Doris, John, Jesse, Vera, and David. Jesse ran a sawmill at Peoria, Oregon with his brother, Robert Bruce Leabo. In 1915, he sold his share in it and traveled by covered wagon with his family to Council, Adams County, Idaho, where he homesteaded 320 acres next to his Uncle Martin Tucker's homestead. After three years of improving the Idaho homestead, he moved back to Oregon, where he worked as a saw filer and timber scaler. After his wife died in 1923, he moved his widowed mother and family to Ottawa County, Oklahoma, where he worked in the Picher Lead and Zinc Mines. He traded his Idaho homestead for a chicken farm in Turkey Ford, Oklahoma, but the farm failed. He sold out and moved back to Oregon and worked in the timber industry until he died while visiting his daughter, Vera, in Alameda, California.

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