ONE OF EARLIEST SAN DIEGO PIONEERS TAKES LAST TRAIL
John Gibson Adams Who Will Be Buried Today, Arrived at Encinitas in 1868
John Gibson Adams, one of San Diego's earliest pioneers, died Monday at his home, 1320 Union Street. He was 78 years old. Funeral services will be held this morning at 10 o'clock at Bradley & Woolmans's undertaking establishment, sixth and Cedar Streets. Interment will be at Greenwood.
A typical pioneer, Adams who was born in Texas in 1849, crossed the plains with his parents in 1868 and settled about five miles northeast of where the town of Encinitas is now located.
His first visit to the town of San Diego was in 1869 when he made the trip with a wagon and six yoke of oxen to get a load of barley. The trip was made for a man who kept a station on the old emigrant road that came through Carriso Creek.
the route followed took Adams up the step grade back of Mountain Springs and into San Diego by way of Jacumba.
Adams married Miss Julia Barham of San Marcos in 1889, two sons and a daughter, all living in San Diego.
Date: Thursday, December 29, 1927, Paper: San Diego Union
John Gibson Adams Who Will Be Buried Today, Arrived at Encinitas in 1868
John Gibson Adams, one of San Diego's earliest pioneers, died Monday at his home, 1320 Union Street. He was 78 years old. Funeral services will be held this morning at 10 o'clock at Bradley & Woolmans's undertaking establishment, sixth and Cedar Streets. Interment will be at Greenwood.
A typical pioneer, Adams who was born in Texas in 1849, crossed the plains with his parents in 1868 and settled about five miles northeast of where the town of Encinitas is now located.
His first visit to the town of San Diego was in 1869 when he made the trip with a wagon and six yoke of oxen to get a load of barley. The trip was made for a man who kept a station on the old emigrant road that came through Carriso Creek.
the route followed took Adams up the step grade back of Mountain Springs and into San Diego by way of Jacumba.
Adams married Miss Julia Barham of San Marcos in 1889, two sons and a daughter, all living in San Diego.
Date: Thursday, December 29, 1927, Paper: San Diego Union
ONE OF EARLIEST SAN DIEGO PIONEERS TAKES LAST TRAIL
John Gibson Adams Who Will Be Buried Today, Arrived at Encinitas in 1868
John Gibson Adams, one of San Diego's earliest pioneers, died Monday at his home, 1320 Union Street. He was 78 years old. Funeral services will be held this morning at 10 o'clock at Bradley & Woolmans's undertaking establishment, sixth and Cedar Streets. Interment will be at Greenwood.
A typical pioneer, Adams who was born in Texas in 1849, crossed the plains with his parents in 1868 and settled about five miles northeast of where the town of Encinitas is now located.
His first visit to the town of San Diego was in 1869 when he made the trip with a wagon and six yoke of oxen to get a load of barley. The trip was made for a man who kept a station on the old emigrant road that came through Carriso Creek.
the route followed took Adams up the step grade back of Mountain Springs and into San Diego by way of Jacumba.
Adams married Miss Julia Barham of San Marcos in 1889, two sons and a daughter, all living in San Diego.
Date: Thursday, December 29, 1927, Paper: San Diego Union
John Gibson Adams Who Will Be Buried Today, Arrived at Encinitas in 1868
John Gibson Adams, one of San Diego's earliest pioneers, died Monday at his home, 1320 Union Street. He was 78 years old. Funeral services will be held this morning at 10 o'clock at Bradley & Woolmans's undertaking establishment, sixth and Cedar Streets. Interment will be at Greenwood.
A typical pioneer, Adams who was born in Texas in 1849, crossed the plains with his parents in 1868 and settled about five miles northeast of where the town of Encinitas is now located.
His first visit to the town of San Diego was in 1869 when he made the trip with a wagon and six yoke of oxen to get a load of barley. The trip was made for a man who kept a station on the old emigrant road that came through Carriso Creek.
the route followed took Adams up the step grade back of Mountain Springs and into San Diego by way of Jacumba.
Adams married Miss Julia Barham of San Marcos in 1889, two sons and a daughter, all living in San Diego.
Date: Thursday, December 29, 1927, Paper: San Diego Union
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