Lemhi County ID Archives Obituaries.....Vreeland, Henry November 2, 1925
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HENRY VREELAND
ANSWERS LAST CALL
(November 2, 1925)


One of Lemhi Valley’s Early Settlers Dies at Home in Leadore Monday, After 
Illness of Three Weeks.

Henry Vreeland sank into his final sleep at his home in Leadore at 1:30 Monday 
afternoon, after an illness of three weeks suffering with heart trouble.

Mr. Vreeland was born in Patterson, N. J., in the year 1848.  At the age of 16 
he boarded a vessel for panama, crossed the Isthmus and came up the western 
coast of California.  (Note: I heard he was a stowaway who was allowed to work 
his passage, and rounded the horn to San Francisco.) He soon became a stage 
driver in that new part of the world for years holding a whip hand over six 
horses hitched to a Concord coach.  One of his stations on his route was Santa 
Barbara mission where the Padres christened the Indians when America was new.  
He came to Nevada a few years later and drove some of the stages in the Nevada 
camps.  Came to Malad Idaho 52 years ago.  There he married Elizabeth Perry.  
To them were born four children: Margaret, Mrs. Ed McRea. Peter, William, and 
Lillian, Mrs. Mark Percell, who died about 10 years ago.

In 1883 he came to Lemhi and took up a ranch near Junction, where for many 
years he was engaged in the cattle business.  For the last ten years he has 
lived a quiet. retired life with his wife in Leadore.  The sympathy of the 
community goes out to the aged wife who has enjoyed his companionship for more 
than half a century.

Funeral services were conducted at the family residence by Rev. G. R. Archer.  
Mrs. William Dolly, Mrs. Stone.  Prof. Wood and E. W. Burch sang Beautiful 
Isle of Somewhere and Nearer My God to Thee.  The pall bearers were: W. R. 
Keating, Fred Chase, Gus Mulkey, W. F. Stone, T. R. Denny, M. W. Friedorff.  
Burial was in the Junction Cemetery.


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