Confusion exists as to Lee Dakota Leeman's date and place of death.

*According to a newspaper account, Lee Dakota Leeman was originally buried in San Diego, California, then his remains exhumed and shipped to Deadwood, South Dakota, for reinterment in the family plot in Mount Moriah Cemetery. He had gone to California for his health.
(source: The Times no.2 October 30, 1918, page 6 City: Sundance)

**The CA Death Index 1905-1939 has Lee D. Leeman dying 1918 in Los Angeles; the October 30, 1918 edition of the Sundance Times has him dying 1918, presumably in San Diego.

***Mount Moriah Cemetery records list the date November 4, 1918; perhaps that is the date of Lee Dakota Leeman's actual interment in the cemetery.

****The death date and place used for this memorial was excerpted from the CA Death Index 1905-1939.

spouse: VERA FERN RICHARDSON ("Fern")
[daughter of James Benjamin Richardson, 1851-1918, and Isabelle ("Belle") Watson Richardson, 1859-1939]
birth: December 24, 1889 Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
marriage: June 10, 1908 Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
death: September 2, 1972 place of death and burial unknown
After Lee Dakota Leeman's death, (Vera)
"Fern" married Samuel Matteson Ewing.

known children:
1. Erskine Lee Leeman
birth: February 17, 1910 Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
death: 1911 Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
burial: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
2. Darrell Champnee Leeman
birth: February 28, 1912 Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
death: July 20, 1931 Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
burial: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
3. Della Fern Leeman
birth: December 16, 1913 Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
death: May 29, 1929 Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
burial: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
4. Elvin Ray Leeman
birth: July 6, 1917 Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
death: March 24, 2009 Belle Fourche, Butte County, South Dakota
burial: Black Hills National Cemetery, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota

parents of Lee Dakota Leeman:
WILLIAM EGAN LEEMAN
birth: April 10, 1854 Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine
death: May 29, 1920 Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota
burial: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota
married: November 8, 1877 North Vassalboro, Kennebec County, Maine
BERTHA SCOFIELD WINN LEEMAN TALBOT
birth: December 17, 1858 Benton Falls, Kennebec County, Maine
death: August 12, 1945 Wyoming
burial: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming

known children:
1. George Hamill Leeman
birth: February 11, 1877 Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine
death: August 10, 1967 Belle Fourche, Butte County, South Dakota
burial: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Sundance, Crook County, Wyoming
2. LEE DAKOTA LEEMAN
3. Alice C. Leeman
birth: November 1881 Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota
death: September 13, 1900 Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota
burial: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota
4. Adassa M. Leeman Zimmerschied McDaniel
birth: November 22, 1886 Deadwood, Lawrence County, South Dakota
death: July 1974 Saint Maries, Benewah County, Idaho
burial: Freeze Cemetery, Potlatch, Latah County, Idaho

Lee Dakota Leeman had engaged in a number of enterprises throughout his short lifetime: jailer, janitor, and deputy sheriff for the city of Sundance; forest ranger for the Sundance National Forest; Crook County deputy assessor; co- organizer of the city volunteer firefighters; excavator for the Sundance Hardware building; sawmill operator; Sundance sidewalk contractor; ranch owner; Bear Lodge mining property owner; auto livery owner/driver; owner of a fruit, confectionery, grocery store/ short order restaurant; garage proprietor in Upton; worker in the Newcastle oil fields.