When Gilbert Francis Van Velzer was born on 24 January 1860, in Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States, his father, Gilbert Marks Van Velzer, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Jane Bardwell, was 19. He married May Frances Eastwood on 2 November 1884, in Jewell, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in De Luz, San Diego, California, United States in 1900 and Beaumont, Riverside, California, United States in 1910. He died on 21 July 1950, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Odd Fellows Community Cemetery, Fallbrook Junction, San Diego, California, United States.
(Above is an image of his grave and below is his obituary)
When Gilbert Marks Van Velzer was born on 22 December 1835, in Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States, his father, Francis Walker Van Velzer, was 29 and his mother, Hannah Jenks, was 39. He married Sarah Jane Bardwell about 28 March 1857, in Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Allegany, New York, United States in 1850 and Grove, Allegany, New York, United States in 1860. He died on 23 August 1863, in Hampton, Virginia, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, Virginia, United States.