This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LeBeau, Dukes, Stahl, Rossback,Kern Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/INB.2ACE/1484 Message Board Post: don't know anything about the family, just found this on another website and thought ya'll might like to read it Mrs. Josephine D. LeBeau Passes Away In Missoula; Her Mother Was First White Woman in That Section Missoulu, March 25.—Mrs. Josephine Dukes LeBeau whose mother is believed to have been the first white woman who settled in this valley, was laid at rest here Saturday. She passed away in Missoula Wednesday, aged 66. Requiem mass was celebrated at St. Francis Xavler church. Burial was in St, Mary's cemetery. Mrs. LeBeau's father brought his wife Into this section In 1870 by ox team. He had resided in St. Louis. Settling here, he engaged in mining and ranching. Mrs. LeBeau was born In Hell Gate. She married Frank Le- Beau, rancher and stockman, in 1889. Later, Mr. LeBeau opened the first gunsmith and lock shop In this section and in after years was a partner in the first garage, that of Kern and LeBeau. He passed away in 1934. On March 9, last, while visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Stahl, in Orchard Homes, Mrs. LeBeau was credited with saving the lives of the Stahl family when the home burned. It was she who discovered the fire, which had gained a good start, and enabled all to escape. Surviving her are H son, Edwin L. LeBeau, of Missoula, at whose home she died: her daughter, Mrs. Stahl, in Orchard Homes; one grandson, Dr. W. Edwin Stahl of Uoxburg. Idaho: a half sister, Mrs. Lillian Rossback, of this city, whose son, Lyrin, died here on March 9, and a niece and a nephew.