Bio of PAYNE, Mr., Wright Co., MN
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451   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY

Mr. Payne, Sr., was married July 26,1886, to Leona Labo, and they have 
two children, Louis, Jr., who married Minnie Perisien, and Mary. Leona 
Labo was the daughter of Joseph Labo, a native of Canada. From Canada, 
Joseph Labo went to New York state, where he married Catherine La Plant, 
a native of that state. From New York state they moved to Illinois. In 
1872, they came to Maple Lake, took up a farm, lived in a log cabin, 
cleared up the place with the assistance of a yoke of oxen, and gradually 
achieved prosperity. Mr. Labo was at one time chorister in his church. 
He was also sexton and bell ringer. He died at the age of eighty-four. 
His wife died at the age of sixty-five. In their family there were thirteen 
children: Joseph, Mary, Phelia, Phelix, Charles, Adeline, Peter, Rosa, 
Martha, Amelia, Elizabeth, Leonard and Leona.