Individual Details

Sarah Jane Adamson

(9 Sep 1835 - 18 Sep 1926)



Married (1) Lewis Hastings (1829-1907) and (2) Rufus Gilmore Callison (1839-1915)
The marriage to Hastings took place 5 Sep 1851, Lawrence Co IN, Abraham Kern, MG, officiating.

The Vancouver Evening Columbian
Tuesday, 21 Sep 1926, p. 2
Obituary
Mrs. Sarah Jane H. Callison
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Jane Hastings Callison, 91, former resident of Vancouver who died Saturday at the home of her grandson Walter Haynes of Portland, were held this morning at 10:30 in the chapel of the Knapp funeral parlors. Dr. Herbert F. Jones officiated and interment was in the family plot of the Vancouver City cemetery.
Mrs. Callison was one of the first passengers to travel on the Union Pacific railroad train from Indiana to San Francisco. This trip took several weeks to make. She came to Vancouver in 1870. And during the early days here the family was forced several times to seek safety in bunk houses at the Barracks when the Indians became troublesome.
On September 5, 1851, she was married to Lewis Hastings in Fayetteville, Ind. He served through the Civil War, engaging in 13 of the principal battles of the war. In 1907 Mr. Hastings died and in October 1914, she married Rufus P. Callison, who died ten months later.
During her lifetime Mrs. Callison was a member of the Christian church, Women's Relief Corps and the Rebekah Lodge, all of Vancouver.
Besides a host of friends left to mourn her death are the following relatives, a daughter, Mrs. Mary F. Moore, Los Angeles, 12 grandchildren, 16 great grandchildren, and three great, great grandchildren, and a brother, John Wesley Adamson of Bedford, Ind.

Events

Birth9 Sep 1835Lawrence County, Indiana
Marriage5 Sep 1851Fayetteville, Lawrence County, Indiana - Lewis Hastings
Marriage6 Oct 1914Rufus Gilmore Callison
Death18 Sep 1926Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
BurialVancouver City Cemetery, Clark County, Washington

Families

SpouseLewis Hastings (1829 - 1907)
ChildMary F. Hastings (1854 - 1931)
SpouseRufus Gilmore Callison (1839 - 1915)
FatherJohn Wesley ADAMSON (1802 - 1881)
MotherFannie Kern (1808 - 1877)
SiblingAbraham Kern Adamson (1824 - 1855)
SiblingRachael Susanna Adamson (1827 - )
SiblingAbigail Adamson (1830 - 1915)
SiblingAlexander Adamson (1834 - 1915)
SiblingJohn Wesley Adamson Jr. (1839 - 1929)
SiblingOlivia Jane Adamson (1845 - )

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