Ernest Leroy Dibble

Edgemont, SD

1933, 790, Hazelrodt, F-11,

Ernest Dibble's CCC discharge certificate indicates that he was 60 years old at the time of his Civilian Conservation Corps service.

Ernest was a mason (sidewalks, foundations, cisterns) and carpenter. And he was a professional musician (band leader of Edgemont and Artesian city bands). He homesteaded in Niobrara County in 1912 but moved permanently to Edgemont about 1919. He married Mary Ann Scott and had nine children.

Ernest Leroy Dibble was born September 2, 1872, in Norwich, NY and moved to South Dakota in 1885. He died August 27, 1963, in Edgemont, Fall River, South Dakota.

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