Leabo
Americanized spelling of French Lebeau.
French: nickname for a handsome man (perhaps also ironically for an ugly one), from Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ (Late Latin bellus), with the definite article le.Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
Our Leabo's original spelling was Le Bas. Distribution of the surname Leabo in the 1920: Missouri 20%, Oregon 16%.
Francois Isaac LeBas came to America with General Marquis de Lafayette in 1779. He was born in Normandy, France, about 1754. Died about 1840 in Gosport, Indiana at the home of his daughter, Catherine Leabo Van Buskirk, and is buried in the Van Buskirk Cemetery, one and one-half miles southeast of Gosport. This cemetery is a historical one, having soldiers buried there from every war of the United States with the exception of the World War, and is called "Little Arlington."
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