Wandering Around The Family Tree

 From 1936 Diary (1936. square of 44!) As usual, we had New Year's Dinner  here. Had twenty three. Lacking were Evelyn's folks, Helen and husband and Alden, eight of them. We had a quiet, pleasant time.  January and February in 1936, seem to have been quite uneventful. There was much bad weather. Jan 22 at night was very bad, very cold, the roads were filled with snow. Edith did not get to school the 23-24. "Mon. to Fri Jan 17-20. Very cold, part of the time blustering. Schools did not hold Wednesday-country schools and some children were marooned from home by impassible roads." "Lucile Torrey's husband Arthur Haynes died Jan. 17, after a year's illness." Eileen  was taking music lessons  of Mrs Miller, Fridays after school.  Charles and Irving wired for Electricity a house near Akron, Mr Doktor's  Charles prepared for a banquet for the Akron Growers, and wrote and figured on the business of that and his other interests. He worked our furniture, ...

 After the entries for December 1935, Elizabeth Ann Coe Call included a list of the people she gave plants to that year, a comment on the year, and excerpts from some of the letters she received.  Some of the people who I gave Plants to  Fred Gardiner for his roadside garden Mr and Mrs Watts Mr & Mrs Perce Brown, Tonawanda Kingstone, Mrs., Bessie, Carrie Ward Hunte, Akron Mrs Ralph Adams Carrie Mrs. Hennig Mrs Flossy, Geneseo Mrs. Wheeler, Batavia Miss Burrs, Mrs W. Radley Donchys Mrs. Nellie I had many lovely rides with Charles when he had business to do. Some of the happiest times of my life.  Excerpts from some nice notes Ella Thomas - "The nice Christmas greeting with you and Charles pictured there on your wedding picture is one of my cherished possessions." Mrs Isabelle Crocker - "We want you to know how much we have enjoyed your lovely Christmas greetings. Have it standing on the table, near the radio where we can talk to you each time we site down. Am so g...

Dec 6    Working on Christmas cards. Used Juniors snap shot I like so much inside, with "We send out youngest grandchild, Irv Jr with heartiest Holiday good wishes." Thurs 12  Started  for Dunellen  at 7:A.M. 323 miles. Arrived at 5:30. We returned home Dec. 19. Had a very pleasant time. Details in 1935 Diary. We, Charles and I, had a bad scare  when our car turned at right angles and stopped at the double cable at the edge of the precipice. We left one post dangling. just a little while before I had said "It would be an unpleasant sensation to be falling over the mountain side, but I shouldn't expect to feel much when we got down." It was just before we reached Scranton. Men were sanding the road - it had been sanded except for a little space where we had our near accident, which seemed to be between gangs of men. I had said "Our government is pretty good to us to look out for us like this." I am not sure we ever got over the horror of this incident. ...

 October 1935 Sat  Oct 5     Finished work at Akron, Charles home again.  Sat 12      The Dellinger building  in Batavia burned .  November 1935 Sat Nov 2   Chas. and I drove to Buffalo and brought E.F. and Sarah home with us. They stayed with us until the 6th. We went to the Annual Dutch Market supper at the Presbyterian Church, Le Roy, and they went home with Carrie and Frank Walkley.  Thurs 7     There were 46 young fish in the pool and 5 old ones. Sun 10      Carrie's birthday. Chas and I, E.F. and Sarah with Carrie's children and grandchildren and Frances Covelle were there at Clarence Walkley's at a birthday party Fri Nov 15   Malvern begins work at 8 A.M. instead of 7, so we are to have breakfast at 6:30 instead of 6:10. I have been getting up at 5:30, lighting the kitchen fire, getting on  tea kettle and milk for cocoa, as He and E. take it for lunch. M and usually ...

 September 1935 Mon Sept 2  Labor Day. I went to South side on an errand and two kittens and the puppy started to follow me home. I went back and asked Irving to call them off. He took a swatter and followed me to the road and drove them back. Louisa  came over soon after, and with wonder in her eyes said "Why did Daddy chase you home?" We went to see Shirley Temple in Curly Top. Louisa wanted her mother to ask Shirley to come and play with her.  Tues 3    Herbert  entered Stafford School  today. He went to the school east of us last year and paid tuition. Teacher Miss Jean Aldrich, later Mrs Wendall Call. Tues 24  Caucus . Howard Bell   nominated for Supervisor 195, Mr Blood 145. A.D. Call less than 60. Charles had a brush with Sanders, A.D. said the town committee had been picked beforehand. Charles retorted all the trouble was Sanders didn't pick them. People cheered. ---- Then Charles and I went to see Dr. Davis about some spots...

 July 1935 Thurs July 4    Evelyn  and children   came .  August 1935 Sat Aug 10    Frank Hankins came. We had a weiner roast with 29 of us here, but it was rainy and we had to have it in the house. And early Sun Aug 11  Evelyn's folks started toward Dunellen at 7:30 Fri 16    Fair Week. Charles, who is now working in Akron, found me at the Fair and we were together the rest of the time. A good fair.  Sun 18  Mrs. Della Jones, Malvern's  step mother, came to visit us. She says Robert Jones was 12, Malvern 11, and James was 5 when she married Mr. Jones. Malvern seems very fond of her. I think she has been a real mother to her step children.  ________ Patty's notes on this entry Evelyn - Evelyn Clara Call (1895-1962) daughter of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956). She married Francis William Hankins in 1920 Evelyn Clara Call with her children Ralph William, Elizabeth Ann and Philip Ch...

June 1935 Sat June 8      Floyd Walkley married   in West Virginia Thurs June 20 Ingham Centennial Celebration.  Fifty years to a day since Carrie and Clara were graduated. Three of the class of '83 present, Stephanie Wentworth Collins, Martha Prentice Smallwood and I. Albert and Jane Walkley's little daughter Deborah was born today  Fri June 21  Edith's class, The Miller Class had an ice cream social. It was to have been on the Worthington lawn but it rained all day more or less, and steadily at night, and it was held in the barn. Arthur's Orchestra  played "and I thought it sounded fine." "A very good turn out. Nearly all the available Calls." Sat 22   Edith's folks, with others they invited, went to the Cottage to clean and fix up. Malvern and Chas. included. Lucille took "aunt" May Hale and are to visit gardens, fee for benefit of Y.W.C.A. We visited Mrs Arthur Miner's, Mrs McCools (I had seen these before) Mrs Washburn's, t...

 May 1935 Sun May 5    Frank Hankins  came. He showed us some samples of goods he had and demonstrated his way of selling them. He gave a lecture at Cornell Wednesday.  Tues 7    School meetings  Olan Sheffer elected trustee at Stafford. Elbert Torrey without opposition at East Bethany, or Torrey district.  May 30  Edith's folks started for Royal Oak about 3 A.M. Charles and I picked and arranged flowers for Mother and Father Call's graves and took them to the cemetery. I rode with Chas. to Akron where he delivered the sack of the cucumber seed. Had a fine 65 ct. dinner at Henley's Clarense  Then to a cattle auction, then to Grace Joslin Shaver's. Set out plants till dark. Very happy. A Red Letter Day.  _______ Patty's notes on this entry There are no entries for April 1935 in the manuscript.  Frank Hankins - Francis William Hankins (1897-1983) son of William Lucas Hankins (1872-1930) and Mary Jane Kellam (1874-1944) He ma...

February 1935 Mon Feb 11.  Bought rug  for our bedroom. But when dining room rug looked more worn, exchanged them. We used Golden Wedding money and $ 5.00 more. $ 30.00 Thurs 14   Charles and I drove to Ithaca for Farmers' Week.  Saw Mrs. Roosevelt and like her very much. I had been strangely prejudiced against her. The next day Charles heard Gov. Lehman, and said it was a good sensible address. I enjoyed the exhibits, beautiful and historic dresses, table setting, ways of using canned meats.  Sat 16   Edith took Eileen  to the hospital soon after eight, and at nine she was operated on for appendicitis . They say the appendix was diseased and would have given her trouble. Eileen was very brave, acted more as tho she was going to school than to the Hospital.  Mon 18  Malvern started work  for the Climax Corporation  which makes threshing machines and other machinery  Fri  22    Eileen  home from Hos...

 On February 16, 1942, Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956, daughter of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice and widow of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939)) started a notebook as a continuation of the "History of the Charles J. Call Family". The information is taken from her diary entries starting on January 1, 1935. I believe this was intended to be a third volume to the "Memories of the Calls/Memories of the Coes" she wrote in 1936 and a second volume of the Memories of the Calls that I don't have a copy of. Rather than narrative paragraphs about different topics that she wrote in the first volume, this volume is strictly chronological with information from her diaries.  My plan is to do a separate blog post for each month between 1935 and 1941 (I know - the title says 1943 - but the notebook ends with information from 1941).  January 1935 Embed from Getty Images New Year's Day, 1935.  Twenty three of Our Folks here. Malvern showed moving pictures. Marian Call h...