Reverand Hines also had two brothers that were Methodist ministers serving closely with Jason Lee, Rev. Harvey Kimball and Rev. Joseph Hines.
Rev. Harvey Hines was sent to organize and set up the Methodist Church in The Dalles, Oregon. Later Gustavus served as minister there.
Marker also has a DAR plaque: To Honor One of Those Patriots Who On May 2, 1843 At Champoeg Saved the Oregon Country to This Nation.
After the death of Jason Lee's wife Gustave and his first wife Lucy took in the Lee's little girl, Lucyanna Lee. Apparently they raised her as she was about 24 when Mrs. Hines died in 1870.
Rev. Hines married Ann Johnson in The Dalles, Oregon in 1871. In 1872 they had a baby daughter, they named Gussie.
She was not very old when Rev. Hines died, and her mother Ann, started getting very ill when she was only about 2 years old. Gussie was taken in by one of the original founding families of Columbus, now Maryhill, Oregon, the Hicenbothem's. She remained with them until she died in 1880 of diptheria. She was buried in the Hicenbothem's family plot in Maryhill. However, a stone in her memory was placed with her parents in the Lee Mission Cemetery in Salem.
Reverand Hines also had two brothers that were Methodist ministers serving closely with Jason Lee, Rev. Harvey Kimball and Rev. Joseph Hines.
Rev. Harvey Hines was sent to organize and set up the Methodist Church in The Dalles, Oregon. Later Gustavus served as minister there.
Marker also has a DAR plaque: To Honor One of Those Patriots Who On May 2, 1843 At Champoeg Saved the Oregon Country to This Nation.
After the death of Jason Lee's wife Gustave and his first wife Lucy took in the Lee's little girl, Lucyanna Lee. Apparently they raised her as she was about 24 when Mrs. Hines died in 1870.
Rev. Hines married Ann Johnson in The Dalles, Oregon in 1871. In 1872 they had a baby daughter, they named Gussie.
She was not very old when Rev. Hines died, and her mother Ann, started getting very ill when she was only about 2 years old. Gussie was taken in by one of the original founding families of Columbus, now Maryhill, Oregon, the Hicenbothem's. She remained with them until she died in 1880 of diptheria. She was buried in the Hicenbothem's family plot in Maryhill. However, a stone in her memory was placed with her parents in the Lee Mission Cemetery in Salem.
Inscription
He was a member of the Oregon Conference of the Methodist Church at the time of his death "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace" p 37.37
Family Members
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