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a. Note:   Charles Elmer Leach was born March 11, 1912, on his brother Bob's birthday. He was named after his uncles.
 He started school in 1917 at the Woods School. His first teacher was Bertha Robinson. He attended this school for 2 years then his family moved to Lantry, South Dakota. He lived there for 10 years including his first year of high school. The family then moved to Arnold where he went to school his sophmore year in Arnold. This was the end of his formal education.
  His last year of school in Arnold, his father gave him and his brother Bill, some money to go get new school clothes. They went to the Jameson's Department Store where Williard Brummet was the sales clerk. He sold them the very latest in fashion, in mens pants. When the boys took them home their dad was very angry, especially at the clerk for selling them to his children. His idea of new school pants were some jeans, not what they had bought. The pants had been shortened, so they couldn't be returned, so that year the boys went to school in style.
  Charlie must have been an obedient, well behaved young man. The only thing the family can remember him doing bad, was when he rolled his parents new Model A car. About a year later they sold it to Bill Rosentrater for $100.
 Charlie started working out as a farmhand in the Arnold and Gothenburg area and around Lantry and Dupree, south Dakota. He began dating Marjorie Brummet. He did not have a car so he would walk to go see her, or sometimes he would go horseback. They made plans to marry, but this was depression time and money was scarce. He borrowed $10 and the use of his brother Bob's Model T and took his bride to be to South Dakota, where his brother Jack(a Methodist Minister) would marry them no charge. They were married August 3, 1935.
  They began their married life working at various farms. One employer they mentioned often was Babe Woodward. In 1943 they bought a 360 acre farm from Marjorie's parents, 11 miles north of Lantry. They raised cattle, pigs, and chickens. They miked 9 cows and sold ice cream. In the early years they had a ice house, later a refrigerator run by gas. There was no running water or electricity, until 1953. They had a vegetable garden each year which supplied the vegetables for the winter.
  They were members of the Congregational Church in Dupree, South Dakota, and were very active. Marjorie belonged to Ladies Aid and the Royal Neighbors Lodge and Charles belonged to the Odd Fellows Lodge. Most tof the activities were in the community north of Lantry. Charles was on the school board of the Aldredge School. They had many potluck socials, where all the family came to eat and make ice cream. They were both very envolved with 4-H Clubs, they were both leaders and spent much time with young people of the community.
  Marjorie was ill for many years. She had surgery on her gall bladder in 1949. This had been the cause of her many years of illness. During her long stay in the hospital at Pierre, the family got along with Anita and Valera's cooking. Charles was busy combining. He said we did just fine, except the creampitcher got to looking fairly rank. During that time there were extra men to cook for also.
  Charles was fun loving and also very patriotic. Every 4th of July he would get up early to light firecrackers under our beds. We would go to Dupree for the 4th of July Days, and he would honk the horn all the way. He never failed to have some carefully thought up April Fools joke for us. We worked hard, but had time for fun.
  The whole family worked together, putting up hay, helping in the harvest in the summer and milking the cows and doing chores.
 In 1955 they auctioned off the farm and all the equipment, bought a trailer house and moved back to Arnold, their birthplace. Charles went custom combining the first year with Gerrit Brower. Later they traded their trailer house for the Shaw house where Dewey and Viola Hagler were living. This was a hugh two story house which was once used as the Arnold Hospital.
  They bought the Old Arnold Creamery, called it Leach's Farm Supply. They operated it for many years, then sold it. He then went to work for the Custer County Roads Dept. Clearing snow and fixing roads. He worked there until his death from liver cancer in 1971.



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