This post is part of an ongoing series, sharing the first draft of my Revised Callin Family History.
Sarah Montgomery is the 19th person in a descendant report beginning with the earliest known ancestor of our Callin family, (1.) James Callin. This descendant report uses the Register Style of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society.
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Fourth Generation
The Davidsons farmed in Newcastle, and after Sarah’s sister Mary died, they took in their orphaned niece, Sarah Elizabeth Ferrell. In 1852, the Davidsons set out for Oregon as part of the Murphy Train. Captained by John Ecles Murphy, the group consisted of family and friends, all members of the Christian Church known as Campbellites or Disciples of Christ. In the early 1830s, the followers of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Disciples of Christ, moved from their homes in Warren County, Kentucky to Warren County, Illinois, and established the town of Monmouth, named after their home in Monmouth, Wales. As the word of the virtues of the Oregon Territory reached Illinois, the group began planning another move. An advanced migration of church members went west in 1850, which included Elijah and Margaret Davidson (of unknown relation to William Henry Davidson). In April 1852, the second migration of church members began the journey. This second group was made up of the families of Burford, Butler, Davidson, Lucas, Mason, Murphy, Roundtree and included Henry and Sarah Davidson and their children, as well as their adopted niece, Sarah Ferrell.
The Davidson family settled in what is now Halsey, Linn County, Oregon, where the two youngest children, Samuel and Mary, were born. Sarah and Henry lived out their days in Linn County.
Henry died on 19 Feb 1894 at the age of 75 and was buried in the Pugh Cemetery in Shedd, Linn County. Sarah remained in Halsey until moving to South Lebanon, Linn County, by 1910, and she died there on 8 May 1918 at the age of 93 and was buried near her husband.
Henry Davidson and Sarah Montgomery had six children:
62 i. Rebecca Lucretia Davidson, born 18 Aug 1842, Fulton County, Indiana; married Henderson Warren Murphy, 1864; died 20 Jul 1917, Linn County, Oregon.
63 ii. William Montgomery Davidson, born 8 Apr 1845, Rochester, Fulton, Indiana; married Sarah Rosetta "Rose" Morris, 1867; died 26 May 1939, Albany, Linn, Oregon.
64 iii. Theodore Bruce Davidson, born 3 Jul 1848, Rochester, Fulton, Indiana; married Margaret Ann Work, 1876; died 11 Mar 1932, Eugene, Lane, Oregon.
iv. Frances Mary Davidson was born in Aug 1850 in Fulton County, Indiana, and died in 1855 at the age of 5 in Linn County, Oregon.
65 v. Samuel Thurston Davidson, born 6 Aug 1853, Oregon Trail; married Susan E. Briggs, abt 1878; died 25 Apr 1889, Linn County, Oregon.
66 vi. Mary E Davidson, born Nov 1854, Oregon Territory; married Charles W Malson abt 1874; married Richard Cunningham, 1896; died 19 Jul 1929, Linn County, Oregon.
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