Show I HISTORY OF EARLY OA DAYS YS Pioneer Completes BiograPhY Biography Biography raphy Before Death VERNAL Sept 1 Belief I. Belief that death was near prompted prompted G George orce Freestone an I Ashley valley alley pioneer and prominent member of or the thC th Mormon church to write a n biography Ho died several days after the th completion of or his life lIe story and was at burled hero yesterday c He was Yaa S 8 82 years old Mr Freestone wrote of or the con er conversion lon lonto to the Mormon faith of ot his parents and of or the tho family coming continI to Americas America from England in n 1838 when ho he was war 2 years old Ho Ito told of or the great brut hardships en endured endured endured en- en dured by tho the pioneers In their long trek to Utah from Iowa The family first resided re- re sided in American Amerlean Fork lork and later In Alpine The pioneers pioneer's service In the Black Blaek Hawk war was asp S described d ec After Arler this he came to Aeh Ashley's Ashleys e a Fork now the town of ot Vernal where he resided until his death lIe He became one of tho the moat most successful farmers in that section and became bishop of tho the Vernal war ward which church office he held for eleven years For two years cara he was Y K a missionary to England Fifteen children were fathered by the tho pioneer Seven Se of ot these and numerous grandchildren survive him |