Early 1900s Call Album - Page 39

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 Sometime in about 1904, someone in my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's (1895-1962) family started taking photographs and placing them in an album. My grandmother was nine in 1904, so she could have been the photographer. Or it could have been one of her parents Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) or Elizabeth Ann (Coe) Call (1861-1956). Most of the early photographs are of family gatherings and places someone visited. I believe by about 1911, my grandmother was taking the photographs. There are photos of her classmates at Batavia High School and groups of teenage girls. 

The Call family live in Stafford, Genesee County, New York. They had a cottage at Silver Lake in Wyoming County. So many of the photos were taken in these locations. Based on the ages of the children in these photos, they were likely taken in 1911. 



Bertha May Hotchkiss

Bertha May Hotchkiss was born 11 April 1882 in Arcade, Wyoming County, New York, the daughter of Horatio Nelson Hotchkiss (1855-1938) and Carrie Adell VanName (1861-1944). She married Charles Arthur Call (1885-1962) son of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) on 28 July 1909 in Gainesville, Wyoming County. Bertha died on 19 July 1946 at Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York. 



Helen Elizabeth Call 

Helen Elizabeth Call was born 1 July 1910 in Schenectady. Schenectady County, New York, the daughter of Charles Arthur Call (1885-1962) and Bertha May Hotchkiss (1882-1946). She married Robert Wilson Johnson (1910-1991), son of Harry Johnson (1884-1940) and Mary Sipko (1891-1965). Helen died on 16 January 1997  in Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine. 

Helen Elizabeth Call 

Helen Elizabeth Call

Marion Amelia Call 

Marion Amelia Call was born 26 June 1911 in Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York, the daughter of Charles Arthur Call (1885-1962) and Bertha May Hotchkiss (1882-1946). She married John Kay Strickland (1911-2007), son of Edwin I. Strickland (1878-1972) and Mary E. Kay (1880-1973) on 8 June 1940 in New York City. Marion died on 15 February 2000 in Austin, Travis County, Texas. 

Back left: Charles Joslin Call
Back Right: ?
Front Left: Marion Amelia Call
Front Right: Helen Elizabeth Johnson

Charles Joslin Call was born 28 March 1859 in Stafford, Genesee County, New York,  the son of Robert Call and Charlotte Joslin.  He married Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) on 5 November 1884 in LeRoy, Genesee, New York. He died 12 June 1939 in Stafford. 










All the photos on the page have been digitally enhanced.


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Location: Stafford, NY 14143, USA

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