September & October 1938 from The Calls 1935-1943

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  Sept 4-5. Wm Weaver came as a tourist and asked for lodging. I looked at the nice appearing elderly woman and saw Alice Pratt Weaver! Was glad to see her, and we visited quite a while before bed time. They stayed to breakfast. - Labor Day - Wm starts teaching again tomorrow in a High School where he has taught five years. An unusually fine appearing young man. 

Tues 6. School began. E teaching at Stafford. 

Thurs 8  "Charles came soon after noon. He has been doctoring for a cold all the week, 'sore spot in chest and a cough.' I put on a mustard plaster at his request and then another on the skin which reddened it."

Fri 9 Woke at 12:45 A.M at a short but strange cough of Charles! His breathing was short with a catch in it, - quite annoying. I put on some clothes, got some onions from the outside cellar so made onion syrup and cooked an onion poultice, fixed doses of medicine and then asked Edith to come down and see what she thought of him. He did not feel bad at all, and she thought we need not worry as long as he had no temperature. We had the doctor come - Dr. Davis - and he said the trouble was from his heart, and he must be very quite, stay abed. He was not as quiet as I would like, as there was telephoning he seemed to have to do. He has felt comfortable. 

Sat 10. Mr Ward Hunt and Mr Arthur Byers came to see Charles and arranged business affairs. Mr Hunt has been working with him all the fall, and knows just how to go ahead with the business. The doctor came, said he was better but 'we'd have to sit on him, yet.'

Arthur and Bertha came, bringing E.F. and Sarah. Clara had invited "the girls" to luncheon at the Robert Wood. There were 12 including E.F. 

Sun Sept 11. Several callers. Lucille said Robert felt very bad when he heard his father was sick, but said to me, he'd rather hear he had heart trouble than a cancer. 

Mon 12 "Doctor came. Said Charles was better. Still keep quiet."

Thurs 15. "The doctor came. I took it that Charles can do just about as he has done before, only not hurry and not do heavy lifting and things old people should avoid doing. He said quite a little about that - old people giving up hard work."

Sun 18 Marie expects to go to Cornell Thursday

Sat 24. Edith and Eileen started for Ithaca. I have carried Charles' breakfast to him on a tray since he was sick. 

Tues Oct 4. "We went to Batavia and saw Dr. Davis. I told him I wished he would tell us everything he knew about Charles' trouble. He did not tell us anything that alarming. If he begins to pant he must rest until he gets over it, also when he has the bad feeling in his chest. He can do anything that does not over tire him."

Sun 16. Visited E.F. and Sarah yesterday, then to Arthur's at night. "They have made a lot of improvements since I was here." "Jerry is a darling pretty, dimpled laughing, always on the go." We called on the Hayes'es at Wilson where he preaches. Mrs Hayes is in a State Hospital in Buffalo. "Ten years ago she had trouble, and has had at intervals since."

"Robert O. returned yesterday from a trip across the Continent and back." Bertha counted she has had 170 tourists, 4 more to-night. She enjoys the work very much, and has paid for the new furniture she has bought. Thing the house is very pleasant."

Sun 30. Charles and I went to church, and were quite impressed by the new minister, Wm Walger.

Mon 31. Edith had her scholars here for a Halloween party. I enjoyed it all. They were lively and active. Pretty as well as funny costumes. 

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Patty's notes on this entry


Wm Weaver - William Cartter Weaver (1911-1986) son of Cartter Weaver (1871-1924) and Alice Louise Pratt (1872-1950). He married Margaret Sarah Westlake (1913-1993) daughter of Frank Westlake (1881-1946) and Esther Eliza Duff (1884-1943) in 1940. 

Alice Pratt Weaver - Alice Louise Pratt (1872-1950) daughter of Peabody W Pratt (1838-1874) and Josephine E Crocker (1843-1927). Alice's mother Josephine was the daughter of Henry Crocker (1819-1899) and Huldah Melissa Coe (1821-1902) Albert Coe's older sister. Alice Pratt married Cartter Weaver (1871-1924) son of John DeWitt Weaver (1833-1910) and Nancy Elizabeth Cartter (1833-1914) in 1908. 

Elizabeth Ann Coe wrote about Josephine Crocker in her Memories of the Coes. You can read that entry at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2020/08/memories-of-coes-29-schools-cousin-josie.html


Alice Louise Pratt (1872-1950)
Photo courtesy of Marion Sperry Howe
Marion's blog with Coe photos is at https://mlsperry.blogspot.com/2020/07/coe-family-this-post-presents-pictures.html

Alice Louise Pratt (1872-1950)
Photo courtesy of Marion Sperry Howe
Marion's blog with Coe photos is at https://mlsperry.blogspot.com/2020/07/coe-family-this-post-presents-pictures.html

E - Edith Alberta Call (1889-1989) daughter of Charles Joslin Call !859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956). She was the widow of Malvern Smith Jones (1884-1937) son of Daniel Southard Jones (1853-1923) and Ida May Gardiner (1856-1892)

Charles - Charles Joslin Call, son of Robert Call (1831-1913) and Charlotte Joslin (1834-1908). He married Elizabeth Ann Coe in 1884. 

Dr Davis - Charles Louis Davis (1883-1943) son of James Davis and Anna Hull. He married Susan Irene Fleming (1887-1973). Charles was a physician in Batavia. 

Arthur -  Charles Arthur Call (1885-1962) son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. He married Bertha May Hotchkiss in 1909.  

Bertha - Bertha May Hotchkiss (1882-1946) daughter of Horatio Nelson Hotchkiss (1855-1938) and Carrie Adell VanName (1861-1944). She married Charles Arthur Call in 1909.

E.F. -  Ezra Frank Coe (1853-1942) son of Albert Coe (1829-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910). He married Sarah Frances Ward (1856-1941) in 1883.

Sarah - Sarah Frances Ward, daughter of Charles Kendall Ward (1819-1898) and Laura Caroline Davenport (1822-1876) She married Ezra Frank Coe

Clara - Clara Addie Coe (1864-1950), daughter of Albert Coe (1827-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910). She married James Daniel McEwen (1861-1901) in 1890. 

Lucille -  Lucille Alice Hale (1893-1996) daughter of Frank Herbert Hale (1860-1942) and Amanda Carpenter Reynolds (1864-1919). She married Robert Vincent Call in 1919.

Robert - Robert Vincent Call (1892-1961) son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe. He married Lucille Alice Hale in 1919.

Marie - Marie Charlotte Call (1920-2013) daughter of Robert Vincent Call and Lucille Alice Hale. She graduated from Cornell in 1942 with a degree in Journalism

Eileen -  Eileen Evelyn Jones (1919-2015) daughter of Malvern Smith Jones and Edith Alberta Call 

Jerry - Jeremy Robert Johnson son of Robert Wilson Johnson (1910-1991) and Helen Elizabeth Call (1910-1997)

Hayes'es - Possibly George Hayes and his wife Tillie. In 1940, they lived in Niagara Falls which is about 25 miles from Wilson, with his occupation listed as Pastor. 

Robert O - Robert Olin Call (1919-2000) son of Charles Arthur Call and Bertha May Hotchkiss



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