Lemhi County ID Archives Obituaries.....Vreeland, Eliza June 18, 1934 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: George Finch geofinch@earthlink.net April 21, 2005, 1:15 pm Believed to be Lemhi County Recorder Herald LEADORE PIONEER CALLED BY DEATH Funeral Services for Mrs. Vreeland Held Today Monday June 18, at 7 a.m , death visited the home in Clark Addition and called away Mrs. Eliza Perry Vreeland, and in her passing the upper valley is again bereft of an honored and beloved citizen. Had she lived until October 24th, 1934 she would have been 82 years of age. Eliza Perry was born in the little far off country of Wales, coming with her parents to America when but seven years of age and later crossing the “plains” at the age of 11 years to Malad, Idaho, where a permanent home was established. Here she grew into womanhood and was united in marriage to Henry Vreeland in that place, and there the young couple made their home until after the birth of two children, Margaret and Peter. Leaving their they came to the Sinks of Birch Creek where Mrs. Vreeland had charge of one of the stations of the stage line, then operating between Junction and Eagle City (Idaho Falls) via Camas. The stone ruins of this little station still remain as a marker or guidepost to point the creek crossing where the traveler turns toward Howe. Here the other two children, Will and Lillian were born. After leaving Birch Creek a year was spent on a Horse Prairie, Montana and a period of time on Eighteen Mile (Idaho), then a home was established which became the old Vreeland ranch on the east side and the owner became, and was until his death, a cattleman. Here the family lived until just prior to the railroad’s building when the ranches and their responsibilities were left to younger hearts and hands and to “Grandpa” and “Granny” Vreeland moved to the old town, where to remain until Leadore was established, and then although loth (reluctant) to leave the old town with it’s memories and associations they secured a home in the Clark Addition where they spent their remaining years. The surviving children are Mrs. Margaret (Ed) McRea, Peter and Will Vreeland all of Leadore. One daughter, Lillian, wife of Mark Percell passed on several years ago, and the husband and father Henry Vreeland died in 1925 some nine years ago. Mrs. Wilda Johnston, Mrs. Gladys Reamy, Mrs., Effie Robinson, Will, Edward, and Earl McRea, Wilda Vreeland Fayle, Emma Pearson, William and Kermit Purcell are immediate grandchildren and there are great grand-children, two nieces in Los Angeles and a nephew at Malad to miss and mourn a venerable and beloved mother and grandmother’s passing. Funeral services were conducted from the home this afternoon at 2:30 with the Rev. Father Bradley officiating , arrangements being in charge of W. C. Doebler with internment in the family plot at the cemetery overlooking the Old Town. “Granny” Vreeland's friends are many. Men, women, and children. With every faculty keenly alert; with a fund of anecdotal lore gleaned by a life’s experience; with a mind in which humor and wisdom quaintly blended; with a heart of gold which gave of its riches without ostentation or display; such characters are priceless gems in a world of humanity. But, “Granny” was tired, so her small feet went searching for rest and peace. Please God, may she find them. (F.F.M.) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/lemhi/obits/v/vreeland60gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/idfiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb