The Calls, 1935-43

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. 


1935    January
            February - March
            May 
            June 
            July-August
            September 
            October - November
            December
            Some Lovely Letters

1936   January-February 
           March, April and May
           June
           July
           August and September


1937
           January - Mid February 
           July
           August 
          September & October
          November & December

1938
           January - April 
           May & June
           July & August
           September & October
           November & December 

1939
           January & February 
           March & April 
           May & June
           July & August
           September & October
           November & December

1940
          January - March
          May & June
          July - September
          October - December

1941
         January - March
         April - June
         July - September
        October - December




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