(1890-1900) 

          John James Leabo was born on 9 Apr 1843 in Missouri, to Isaac and Mary [Lewis] Leabo. He was one of thirteen children born to the couple. His family traveled by ox team to the Willamette Valley in 1846 and settled in the French Prairie area in Marion County. 

          He married Mary Long, February 21, 1871, in Independence, Polk, Oregon. They were the parents of six children: Hannah, Isaac, Robert, Ella, Jesse, and Hazel. In 1876 while the family lived in Brownsville, Mary and their two oldest children contracted measles. Both children died. When Mary recovered and found out that her two oldest children had died and were buried, she nearly lost her mind. She disappeared for three months. John eventually found her, working in a restaurant. She did not know her own name.   

          John died on 14 May 1913 in Peoria, OR. He was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery in Peoria. Wife Mary died 13 July 1926 in Deming, New Mexico where she lived with daughter and son-in-law Ella and Guy Price. She was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Deming, New Mexico. 

 1895   Marion County Census – J J Leabo. Birthplace: Missouri. Estimated Birth Year: abt 1843. Residence: Salem, Marion, OR. Height: 5’10”  Weight: 200# Religion: Protestant. Gender: Male. Age: 52. 

 1900  John Leabo (57) Born Apr 1843 in MO. Owns home in Benton County, OR. Married HOH. Married in 1871. Married 29 years. Occupation: Sawyer. Additional members of household: Mary (age 45), Robert B. (age 21), Jesse D. (age 17), Hazel D. (age 3), Mary Leabo (age 79) mother. 

 1910   John J Leabo (67) Born about 1843 in Missouri. Rents home in Waterloo, OR. Married HOH. Occupation: “own income” Married 39 years. Additional members of household: Hazel D (age 14).  

Mary Long Leabo Scott. Birth: 15 Feb 1855 in Boone County, Iowa. Death: 13 July 1926 (aged 71) Deming, Luna, New Mexico. Burial: Mountain View Cemetery, Deming, Luna, New Mexico. Memorial ID: 17130281. “Mary (Long) Scott was the daughter of Jacob B. Long and Hannah K. Waybill. She was a pioneer girl who traveled by oxen-drawn covered wagons from Iowa to Oregon in 1864. She married John James Leabo on February 1, 1871, in the home of her father located at that time in Monmouth precinct, Polk County, Oregon. They had six children: Hannah, Isaac, Robert, Ella, Jesse, and Hazel. While living in Brownsville, Oregon in 1876, she and her first two children became very ill with measles. She nearly lost her mind when she awoke from unconsciousness to find out her two children had died and were buried. She disappeared for three months, and when John finally found her, she was working in a restaurant and did not know her own name. After John Leabo died in 1913, she married the widower, Zachary Taylor Scott, on July 3, 1915, in Harrisburg, Oregon. After he died in 1921, she traveled out to Oklahoma with her widower son, Jesse D. Leabo, and his children. They lived in Turkey Ford, Oklahoma until Mary decided to go live with her daughter and son-in-law, Ella and Guy Price in Texas. They later moved to Deming, New Mexico, where Mary died from pulmonary edema. Since Ella and Guy could not afford a headstone, the city provided a concrete marker.” 

 The deceased was interred in the Pine Grove cemetery at Peoria, on May 16. He was a member of the “Latter Day Saints” church and a true Christian. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn his death. Mrs. Mary Leabo, Hazel Leabo, Bruce Leabo, and Jesse Leabo, of Peoria, Ore., and Mrs. Ella Price of Centralia, Wash., besides four sisters, three brothers and several grand children.” 

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