January - March 1940 from The Calls 1935-1943

 Records of 1940 from My Diary

Jan 1. Had our Family Party. Of Arthur's folks  Arthur, Bertha, Adelle and Mrs. Hotchkiss. All of Robert's folks but Robert. He had a cold and temperature. Irving's folks, Edith, Eileen and I

Jan 2. Irving was here awhile, figuring. Junior was here and tried to sew. He had trouble to thread a needle, and finally got the field glasses to help him thread it! Not very successful!

Jan 3. Eileen was ready to return to Ithaca. After supper she suddenly began to fell bad, tired, aches, sore throat, temp 100°. She had the doctor the next day, who said it was tonsilitis. She went back to college on Tues the 9th. 

Alden return from Mayville the 10th. His engagement to Marie Bennett of Mayville near Gloversville has been announced there. He returned to Norris, Tenn.

Jan 25. Letter from Sarah. She has been very sick with pneumonia - taken before New Year's. She doesn't try to do anything yet. She writes "I have been wanting to write something Albert told me about you. He knows a man who is interested in Spiritualism, and he has asked Albert to go with him a few times, but he is not interested in it, but this is what happened. The person asked Albert whom he had that had entered the spirit world recently. He told them he had an Uncle Charles who had gone recently. He said this uncle wants to give you a message for Elizabeth - they call her Lizzie. He said to tell her that he was happy, and that after a while she would come where he is, and that she was being looking after and would be all right." 

Feb 3 went to town. First time I have been out since Jan. 3. Have had a cold. have spent my leisure time on braided rugs. 

Mon 5. Florence Sheffer Wilson died in a hospital. 

Feb 14. Wed. "Irving and Thelma were planning to go to Farmer's Week, and they started. Junior stayed with me - seemed happy making valentines. It was cold 20° or 22° and they found the roads too slippery. Thelma said they tried four times to get up one hill - and the blizzard too bad. They turned around at E. Avon and came back. I was much relieved to have them home. Thelma and Junior started to go to Edith's school Valentine party, but the roads were so filled that she came home, and Irving went back and hurried Edith and his children home. Radio said all Rochester schools closed tomorrow."

Sun Feb. 25. "Edith and I were invited to Robert's to dinner. They have had their dining room remodeled. - new floor, lovely new cupboards each side of the kitchen door, new paper there, and in hall and living rooms." In repairs, they found interesting papers up under the attic eaves. One book, somewhat mutilated, tells of the Morgan-Mason affairs; very interesting, 1827, I think."

Sat March 16. Arthur and Bertha came, tho weather and roads were bad. He began fixing things that needed doing. Visited till near midnight. 

Sun 17. We asked Irving's and Robert's folks to dinner. Fifteen of us. 

Mon 18. Edith is getting ready for little chickens. We are clearing out the store room for them. 311 little chick, R.I. reds, came.

Sun 24. Easter Sunday. Very cold and stormy. Jim and Katherine Walkley were run into on their way home from church, and Katherine's leg was broken. 

Tues 26. School vacation this week instead of next, because of the blocked roads. Edith and I went to see the Movie from the famous book Gone with the Wind. 

Sun. 31. Still much snow. Saw the first robin. Thru the winter have had crumbs on my east window sill in my bedroom, and have fed many chick-a-dees, some butings and a few sparrows. 

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Patty's notes on this entry

Arthur's folks - Arthur, Bertha, Adelle and Mrs. Hotchkiss - Family of Charles Arthur Call - Charles Arthur Call (1885-1962), his wife Bertha May Hotchkiss (1882-1946), their daughter Edith Adele Call (1921-2006) and his mother-in-law Carrie Adell VanName (1861-1944), widow of Horatio Nelson Hotchkiss (1855-1938)

Robert's folks -  Family of Robert Vincent Call (1892-1961) - his wife Lucille Alice Hale (1893-1996), their children Marie Charlotte Call (1920-2013), Elizabeth Ann Call (1922-2012), Evelyn Hale Call (1924-2016), Robert Vincent Call, Richard Coe Call (1930-2014), David Lincoln Call

Irving's folks - Family of Irving Joslyn Call - Irving Joslyn Call (1900-1995), his wife Thelma Louise Keitel (1905-1996), their children Herbert Joslin Call, Louisa Ann Call (1931-1975) and Irving Fancher Call

Edith - Edith Alberta Call (1889-1989) daughter of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956). She was the widow of Malvern Smith Jones (1884-1937)

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

I - Elizabeth Ann Coe daughter of Albert Coe (1827-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910), widower of Charles Joslin Call

Irving - Irving Joslyn Call, son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe

Junior - Irving Fancher Call, son of Irving Joslyn Call and Thelma Louise Keitel

Alden - Alden Malvern Jones (1915-2010) son of Malvern Smith Jones and Edith Alberta Call

Marie Bennett - Marie Elizabeth Bennett (1917-2001) daughter of Fred Bennett (1884-1969) and Eva Nettie Walker (1877-1956)

Sarah - Sarah Frances Ward (1856-1941) daughter of Charles Kendall Ward (1819-1898) and Laura Caroline Davenport (1822-1876). She married Ezra Frank Coe (1853-1942) son of Albert Coe and Deborah Prentice in 1883

Albert - Charles Albert Coe (1890-1978) son of Ezra Frank Coe and Sarah Frances Ward

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

Florence Sheffer Wilson - Florence Sheffer (1909 - ) daughter of Martin Sheffer (1873-1941) and Mary J Harding (1870-1955) She married William H Wilson (1892 - ) in 1933. Her brother Olan Newell Sheffer (1903-1982) married Gladys Pauline Call (1909-1933), daughter of Archie Duane Call (1881-1956) and Mabel Elizabeth Westbrook (1881-1966) in 1928. 

Thelma - Thelma Louise Keitel, daughter of Herbert Philip Keitel (1879-1957) and Mary R Fancher (1885-1980). She married Irving Joslyn Call in 1927

Robert - Robert Vincent Call, son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe

Morgan-mason affair

Arthur - Charles Arthur Call, son of Charles Joslin Call and Elizabeth Ann Coe.

Bertha - Bertha May Hotchkiss, wife of Charles Arthur Call

Jim and Katherine Walkley - James Harry Walkley (1903-1985) son of Frank Lincoln Walkley (1867-1961) and Carrie Evelyn Coe (1864-1948). He married Katherine Louise Persell (1905-1957) daughter of George Albert Persell (1871-1953) and Mary Duggan (1880-1959) in 1929. 

Gone with the Wind - Movie starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell

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