Welcome to the Scarbeary family on the web.

 This site is more than a family tree. It is a living record of the people, the faith, the migrations, and the moments that shaped who we are — from our early Quaker settlers in 1682 to the high country of Colorado, where later generations built their lives.

 My great-grandfather, John William, was the first to use the spelling Scarbeary. Before that, our name traveled through earlier forms, and growing up, we never quite knew where it had come from. My father, Donald Leon, liked to joke — tongue firmly in cheek — “We’re animals, not fruits.” Strawberry, we were not. The joke never quite landed, but it carried a quiet curiosity beneath it.

 We were six boys in Colorado, sons of Donald Leon and Phyllis Jean, raised without a clear sense of the deeper origin of our name. This website began as an effort to answer that question — to catalog, preserve, and celebrate the roots we did not fully understand growing up.

 Over time, its purpose deepened. First, our father left us. Then, in the years that followed, Stan, Marc, Richard, and now Bob. Each left behind a life, a story, a mark upon us. What began as genealogy became remembrance. What began as research became tribute.

If these pages trace where we came from, they also honor those who carried the name, in all its spellings, forward.