PETER "PETE" LOBDELL, Bio, Granite Co., MT Indexed and contributed for use in USGenWeb Project by: Wendy Garner USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. © 1998 by Wendy Garner. This file may be freely copied for non- profit purposes. All other rights reserved. PETER "PETE" LOBDELL Born: Place: Died: Place: he died at St. Patrick's Hospital, Missoula, Montana. Occupation: he was employed by Sam Ritchey as a handyman and miner at the Nancy Hanks mine near Garnet, Montana in 1900. Married: he never married. Children: None. His photograph is shown with other miners at the Nancy Hanks mine about 1900. He was well known by everyone around Garnet. He bought an old horse named "Shorty" for the children to enjoy. He scouted for good huckleberry patches and took "Shorty" to carry the brimming buckets home. He cut the Ritchey's firewood and stacked it in their big woodshed. He wasn't the most immaculate house keeper and the neighbors would ascend upon him to clean his cabin. It didn't set well when they threw his sourdough away. Bibliography: Hammond, Helen 1990. Garnet Was Their Home, unknown publisher, pages 8-9. Hammond, Helen 1983. Garnet-Montana's Last Gold Camp, Acme Press, Missoula, Montana. Morin, Mary Jane Adams, 1995. Interview by Bureau of Land Management concerning persons who lived at Garnet, Montana, unpublished.