3-1-1883

TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE

Thursday.....March 1, 1883

DEATH OF HANK MONK.

A Veteran and Noted Stage-driver Ferried Over.

Hank Monk, the noted stage-driver, died at Carson yesterday morning at 11:30. Hank came to this coast in 1857 and began driving stage on the Placerville route. For some years past he has driven the stage between Carson and Lake Tahoe. The fright he gave Horace Greeley in driving him over the mountains to Placerville and his joke in connection therewith made Hank known all over the United States. Hank Monk was a dry joker as well as a first class stage driver, and was
very fond of putting upon travelers wonderful stories of the mountains, the people the animals and the birds and fished
thereof.

Deceased was born at Waddington, near Ogdensburg, New York, in 1828. He seems never to have been anything else than a stage driver. At all events since his advent on this coast he has always seemed out of place except when handling the ribbons of a spanking stage team. About his only failing was one that gave him more pain and trouble than it gave any one else. He was addicted to over indulgence in drink, particularly when off duty.

He had been failing for some time past and an attack of pneumonia hastened his departure. He died in a little cabin in which he had long resided, at Carson, [word "and" blacked out]