Information below was obtained from "Book I, Record of Burials - City of Marysville - From 1870 To 1939", on page 151 (Maintained at Marysville City Hall)
Date Interred: 10-6-1930
Age: 86 Years
Sex: Female
Color/Race: Colored
Single/Married: Widowed
Nativity: Massachusetts
Place of Death: Marysville, Yuba County, CA
Cause of Death: Chronic Myocarditis
Physician/Coroner: Dr Stratton
Number of Grave: B-867
Location of Grave: City cemetery
Aged 86, Native of Boston, Massachusetts. The wife of African American California Pioneer, Albert Callis, who settled in Downieville and joined with several other African Americans prospecting for gold with William ( Major) Downie. It was thought by his mining companions that Albert Callis was a runaway slave from Virginia, detailed stories and information about Albert Callis can be found in the book by William Downie,"Hunting for gold reminiscences of personal experience". Most of the Callis children were born in Downieville and were raised there and after Albert had enough of the hard life of a miner, he decided to settle down and went to work in Downieville as a barber. Alberts death place and date is not known at this time. Catherine moved the family down the hill to Yuba county after Alberts death. Catherine and Albert were the parents of William (Willis), Grant, John and Jennie and Fannie Callis also buried in this cemetery. Their daughter Josephine married Romeo Breeden in Yuba County on 3-5-1900 and they are both buried in Oroville as is another daughter, Louise Marie Callis Blackwell, and her husband, daughter Virginia Adeline Callis Edwards is interned in the Chico Cemetery with her husband. There is in the 1880 Downieville, Sierra census two more children, Sarah and Albert.
Date Interred: 10-6-1930
Age: 86 Years
Sex: Female
Color/Race: Colored
Single/Married: Widowed
Nativity: Massachusetts
Place of Death: Marysville, Yuba County, CA
Cause of Death: Chronic Myocarditis
Physician/Coroner: Dr Stratton
Number of Grave: B-867
Location of Grave: City cemetery
Aged 86, Native of Boston, Massachusetts. The wife of African American California Pioneer, Albert Callis, who settled in Downieville and joined with several other African Americans prospecting for gold with William ( Major) Downie. It was thought by his mining companions that Albert Callis was a runaway slave from Virginia, detailed stories and information about Albert Callis can be found in the book by William Downie,"Hunting for gold reminiscences of personal experience". Most of the Callis children were born in Downieville and were raised there and after Albert had enough of the hard life of a miner, he decided to settle down and went to work in Downieville as a barber. Alberts death place and date is not known at this time. Catherine moved the family down the hill to Yuba county after Alberts death. Catherine and Albert were the parents of William (Willis), Grant, John and Jennie and Fannie Callis also buried in this cemetery. Their daughter Josephine married Romeo Breeden in Yuba County on 3-5-1900 and they are both buried in Oroville as is another daughter, Louise Marie Callis Blackwell, and her husband, daughter Virginia Adeline Callis Edwards is interned in the Chico Cemetery with her husband. There is in the 1880 Downieville, Sierra census two more children, Sarah and Albert.
Information below was obtained from "Book I, Record of Burials - City of Marysville - From 1870 To 1939", on page 151 (Maintained at Marysville City Hall)
Date Interred: 10-6-1930
Age: 86 Years
Sex: Female
Color/Race: Colored
Single/Married: Widowed
Nativity: Massachusetts
Place of Death: Marysville, Yuba County, CA
Cause of Death: Chronic Myocarditis
Physician/Coroner: Dr Stratton
Number of Grave: B-867
Location of Grave: City cemetery
Aged 86, Native of Boston, Massachusetts. The wife of African American California Pioneer, Albert Callis, who settled in Downieville and joined with several other African Americans prospecting for gold with William ( Major) Downie. It was thought by his mining companions that Albert Callis was a runaway slave from Virginia, detailed stories and information about Albert Callis can be found in the book by William Downie,"Hunting for gold reminiscences of personal experience". Most of the Callis children were born in Downieville and were raised there and after Albert had enough of the hard life of a miner, he decided to settle down and went to work in Downieville as a barber. Alberts death place and date is not known at this time. Catherine moved the family down the hill to Yuba county after Alberts death. Catherine and Albert were the parents of William (Willis), Grant, John and Jennie and Fannie Callis also buried in this cemetery. Their daughter Josephine married Romeo Breeden in Yuba County on 3-5-1900 and they are both buried in Oroville as is another daughter, Louise Marie Callis Blackwell, and her husband, daughter Virginia Adeline Callis Edwards is interned in the Chico Cemetery with her husband. There is in the 1880 Downieville, Sierra census two more children, Sarah and Albert.
Date Interred: 10-6-1930
Age: 86 Years
Sex: Female
Color/Race: Colored
Single/Married: Widowed
Nativity: Massachusetts
Place of Death: Marysville, Yuba County, CA
Cause of Death: Chronic Myocarditis
Physician/Coroner: Dr Stratton
Number of Grave: B-867
Location of Grave: City cemetery
Aged 86, Native of Boston, Massachusetts. The wife of African American California Pioneer, Albert Callis, who settled in Downieville and joined with several other African Americans prospecting for gold with William ( Major) Downie. It was thought by his mining companions that Albert Callis was a runaway slave from Virginia, detailed stories and information about Albert Callis can be found in the book by William Downie,"Hunting for gold reminiscences of personal experience". Most of the Callis children were born in Downieville and were raised there and after Albert had enough of the hard life of a miner, he decided to settle down and went to work in Downieville as a barber. Alberts death place and date is not known at this time. Catherine moved the family down the hill to Yuba county after Alberts death. Catherine and Albert were the parents of William (Willis), Grant, John and Jennie and Fannie Callis also buried in this cemetery. Their daughter Josephine married Romeo Breeden in Yuba County on 3-5-1900 and they are both buried in Oroville as is another daughter, Louise Marie Callis Blackwell, and her husband, daughter Virginia Adeline Callis Edwards is interned in the Chico Cemetery with her husband. There is in the 1880 Downieville, Sierra census two more children, Sarah and Albert.
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Plot information was obtained from : Book One, Record of Burials City of Marysville 1870-1939 page 151
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