RoseCrag Genealogy

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JOEL FREEMAN LEBOW  (1855-1912)

7th GENERATION:  Joel Freeman Lebow was born 27 November 1855 in Ray Co., Missouri; died 28 June 1912 in Binger, Caddo Co., Oklahoma.  He married Isadora Melancina Elam 19 February 1878 in Jasper Co., Missouri.   He is the son of Jeremiah W. Leabo and Lucinda Caroline Rainwater.
Joel on the left and Isadora on the right, based on the style of photo and frame, were taken about 1895.  If so, Joel would be 40 years old and Isadora, 35.   Joel's photo is an extraction from a photo of him in the same style of frame as is shown with Isadora.  We don't know who has these framed photos but copies were acquired from Ross Cameron, a Lebow cousin.
       Joel married Isadora on the 19th of February, 1878 in Jasper County, Missouri. John Nelson was the preciding justice of the peace. Isadora had been living with her parents, Albert & Catherine Elam, in Pleasant View, Cherokee county, Kansas on the 1870 census and the family remained there on the 1880 census. Thus Isadora was probably living there when Joel met her. It is thought that Joel was with his family in Lawrence Co., MO so it would be interesting to know how they met. Lawrence is the county immediately east of Jasper Co. where they married. Cherokee county, KS is immediately west of Jasper county. However, the Cherokee Co. archivist told me, upon failing to find their marriage record in that county, to go to Charthage, county seat of Jasper in Missouri as that was the "Gretna Green' for their area. Thus, Jasper is where the couple eloped to for a quick marriage.

      Joel & Dora were in Newton Co., MO, (immediately south of Jasper Co) in 1880 with a 3 mo. old son, John. They had lost their one month old baby, Birdie, in Feb 1879. No records until they are in Galloway Township, Christian Co., MO. in 1900 just south of Nixa. He was a blacksmith by trade and always farmed on the side. He had a blacksmith shop ein Centrailia (Welch area) at the time daughter Mable ws born.

      Joel & Dora moved to Binger, Oklahoma Territory in 1905 and had a farm east of town. He also had a blacksmith shop in Lookeba, Binger area until he died in 1912. Cousin Deloris Long Morgan said the house set upon a hill and she remembered (at 3 years of age) when they brought grandfather Lebow out of the house int he casket.

       According to Earline Morris Hendrix "Mother told me that grandfather Joel was in the field (springtime) plowing when he became ill. Mother (Mable Lebow) said that he could never eat hot biscuits, he always ate cold cornbread for breakfast, but the morning he died he had eaten hot biscuits because they had no leftover cornbread. Mother said he died of acute indigestion." However, Joel's death certificate clearly states that cause of death was angina pectoris.