Show r DEATH OF A Gilbert He Heiry ry Van schoon Stage Driver of Early Eary Days i Passes Away Gilbert Henry Van one ot of the Utah pIoneers and ancI Iy the I best known stage Ja In the west i ir r early days died at hI hie homem home in thIs city yesterday ot of old age and aDd ge general eral debility Mr Van Schoonhoven was Wag bOrn In Albany N Y In and was a ascendant e from an old Dutch family of I th t state When but 18 years of age ge geb b met ome Lome Mormon missionaries and andT T ent with them to Nauvoo In 1St when Brigham Young started acro member ot of the I the plaIns he was waa a I first company He Be however did not c me further than Green r From that place he was ent back to Florence to purchase supplies for tor the Mormons End nd then returned to Massachusetts to L visit relatives i In 1856 he came caine across the plain with witha 1 a hand cart company and settled In Inthis I this cit city In the early days he be drove tage Hage between here and Carson City I Net and also drove stage in varioUs places in this state At one time h he heran I Iran ran an opposition stage line to the rail railroad road between here and Sandy makin I Ithe the trip and return In one day while the train made only one wa way each day He hf helped to build the portion of the old Id nion r between Morgan and Ogden Before trains traina ran into Juto this of the wild Dd west he hetra tra traveled veed across the plains thirteen timeS time Mr Van Schoonhoven wa waa 75 1 years of age ae and leaves a wife and t three ree children hildren C to mourn hi his Jot loss The fu wiD be held at the re residence J Third street t Tuesday at 2 p m in I |