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 James Roland Leebo Zinc Headstone - Portland, Oregon Posted by:  BruceS
N 45° 29.386 W 122° 34.816
10T E 532798 N 5037445
Zinc headstone for an early pioneer to Oregon located in the Multnomah Park Pioneer Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WM63RG
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 03/28/2009
Views: 6
 
James Roland Leebo was born June 23, 1823 in Cooke County, Tennessee. He came to Oregon over the Oregon Trail in 1846. He served in the volunteers in the Cayuse Indian War. He was a farmer once settled in Oregon. He died Good Samaritan Hospital in Portland, August 25, 1898.
Date of birth (optional): 06/23/1823
Date of death (optional): 08/25/1898
Headstone text (optional):
James Roland Leabo
Died August 25, 1898
Aged 75 Year 7 Days
James R. Leabo
Was a pioneer of 1846, served in the Cayuse Indian War, and was one of the party who rescued the women and children who were taken prisoners by the Indians at the Whitman Massacre, which took place in the fall of 1847.
A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is stilled,
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
God in his wisdom has recalled
A boon his love had given,
And though the body moulders here,
The soul is safe in heaven.
Gone from our home, but not from our hearts.
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