Jackson County OR Archives Obituaries.....Gall, Christopher Columbus November 5, 1917
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Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Saturday, 10 Nov 1917, p. 2, c. 3
Christopher Columbus Gall was born near Washington, Franklin county, Missouri, 
March 18, 1833, and died in Gold Hill, Ore., November 5, 1917, at the age of 
84 years 7 months and 18 days. In the year 1851 Mr. Gall, with his father, 
mother, one sister and two brothers, crossed the plains and settled at Salem, 
where they spent the winter and then moved to Jackson county, the following 
September, 1852, and settled near Gold Hill on the creek that bears the family 
name. In 1859 he took up a homestead claim in Sams Valley, where he held the 
office of justice of the peace from 1868 until a few years ago, when he 
resigned and sold the old home place and since made his home with his 
children. ¶On October 9, 1861, C. C. Gall and Sarah Jane Pankey were married 
in Jacksonville, Ore., by U. S. Hayden, justice of the peace. The following 
children survive: Albert L. Gall, Phoenix, Ore.; Ellam R. Gall, Sams Valley, 
Ore.; Mrs. Carrie I. Smith, Pilot Rock, Umatilla county, Ore.; Mrs. Isora L. 
Hodges, Gold Hill, Ore.; Ellis E. Gall, Ashland; Mrs. Minnie A. Rowe, Vallejo, 
Calif.; Mrs. Anna L. Meyer, Ashland, Ore.; Mrs. Dora V. Collis, Sacramento, 
Calif.; Mrs. R. Della M. Newland, Roseburg, Ore.; Mrs. Cora E. Hargrave, 
Parma, Mont.; Mrs. Gall passed away January 5, 1891.

The funeral services were held in Gold Hill Tuesday, November 6, 1917, at the 
home of his daughter, Mrs. Hodges, and were conducted by Rev. Samuel March of 
Central Point, who also conducted the services over the remains of Mr. Gall’s 
late wife, Mrs. Sarah J. Gall.

Mr. Gall has been making his home with his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Myer, in 
Ashland, since 1911. He went to Gold Hill a few weeks ago to visit a daughter, 
and passed away there, his ailment being dropsy.

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