Early 1900s Call Album - page 52

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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. 

Photos on this page date from 1911 and 1912. 




Evelyn Clara Call is on the right

Evelyn Clara Call, daughter of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956) was born 12 February 1895 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. She married Francis William Hankins (1897 - 1983) on 31 December 1920 in Stafford. She died on 10 June 1962 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

Evelyn Clara Call is on the left


4th of July 
Back Row: Robert Vincent Call is on the right 
Middle Row: Evelyn Clara Call is 2nd from the left, Malvern Smith Jones is on the right
Front Row: Edith Alberta Call is on the left

Robert Vincent Call was born 4 December 1892 in Wichita, son of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956). He married Lucille Alice Hale (1893-1996) on 1 January 1919 in Fayetteville, Onondaga, New York. He died 9 July 1961 in Batavia. 

Malvern Smith Jones, son of Daniel Southard Jones (1853-1923) and Ida May Gardiner (1856-1892) was born 5 February 1884 in Kortwright, Delaware County, New York, He married Edith Alberta Call (1889-1989) on 26 June 1913 at Stafford, Genesee County, New York. He died on 8 February 1837 in Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York.

Edith Alberta Call, daughter of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann (Coe) Call (1862-1956) was born 5 June 1889 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. She married Malvern Smith Jones (1884-1937) on 26 June 1913 in Stafford. She later married Cary Clinton Daniels (1878-1970) on 29 September 1945 in Stafford. She died on 23 November 1989 in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina 

1912
Front Row: Edith Alberta Call is on the left, Irving Joslyn Call is 2nd from the left - behind two men seated in front of him.

rving Joslyn Call was born 21 July 1900 in Stafford, son of Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939) and Elizabeth Ann Coe (1862-1956). He married Thelma Louise Keitel (1905-1996), daughter of Herbert Philip Keitel (1879-1957) and Mary R Fancher (1885-1980), on 22 June 1926 in Albion, Orleans, New York. He died 30 December 1995 in Stafford. 





Ladies Aid at Mannix's   1912
Elizabeth Ann (Coe) Call is 2nd from the right in the back row

Elizabeth Ann Coe was born 8 October 1862 in Pavilion, Genesee, New York, daughter of Albert Coe (1827-1907) and Deborah Prentice (1833-1910). She married Charles Joslin Call (1859-1939), son of Robert Call (1831-1913) and Charlotte Joslin (1834-1908),  on 5 November 1884 in LeRoy, Genesee County. She died 3 November 1956 in Zephyrhills, Pasco, Florida. 

The Mannix's may be the family of William E. and Harriet (Ray) Mannix, who lived in Stafford. There are photographs of the Mannix family in my grandmother's college years photo album at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2021/01/mannix-family-and-charles-arthur-call.html



The Woodchucks


Horse Shoe Lake 1911
Evelyn Clara Call is in the middle of the boat

All photos on this page have been digitally enhanced.



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