Wandering Around The Family Tree

  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.  Several of the photographs on page 5 were taken in July 1904 around the time of Robert Call and Charlotte (Joslin) Call's Golden Wedding Anniversary.  Three Generations of the Robert Call Family Very back, standing: Russell White Call, Arc...

    I've started editing/re-editing some family photos. Figure I'll post the images here as groups, and add to the posts as I get photos edited.These will be photographs related to Robert Call and Charlotte Joslin.  Shared December 2024  I believe this is a Christmas card sent to my grandmother Evelyn Clara (Call) Hankins by her cousin Rosalind Daniels in 1941. She included photographs of two crayon drawings of their grandparents Robert Call and Charlotte Joslin. Rosalind identified the artist as her mother Elizabeth Alberta (Call) Daniels who created the drawings in 1891.  Robert Call and Charlotte (Joslin) Call Scan of a modern print of an early 1900s photograph. 

 Photographs of my great great grandmother Charlotte (Joslin) Call and her relatives.  Posted December 2024  Charlotte Joslin and her Siblings Back Row: William Joslin, George Adams Joslin, Samuel Joslin Front Row: Ann (Joslin) Jones, Robert Joslin, Charlotte (Joslin) Call This photograph was taken in July 1904 when the extended Call and Joslin families gathered in Stafford, Genesee County, New York for Robert and Charlotte (Joslin) Call's Golden Wedding Anniversary. It was the first time the six Joslin siblings had been together since before William immigrated to the United States in 1852. One brother, another George Adams, died at the age of two. A sister, Elizabeth (Joslin) Challice remained in England where she died in 1886. Flora Francesca Joslin (1864-1953) Probably from the mid-1880s Flora Francesca Joslin was the daughter of William Joslin and Charlotte Blackmore. She married Charles Newton Peabody in 1888.  George Adams Joslin George Adams Joslin (1844-1921)...

  The twenty-first photograph in the album is Charlotte Joslin, daughter of William Joslin, first cousin of Charles Joslin Call.  Charlotte Elizabeth Joslin was born on 3 June 1867 in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, the daughter of William Joslin (1832-1916) and Charlotte Blackmore (1830-1885).  In 1892, Charlotte graduated from the College of Liberal Arts at Boston University. While at BU, she was a member of the first group of women initiated into the Delta Delta Delta fraternity, being the nineteenth person to sign the Alpha Chapter Constitution. She earned a Master's Degree from Boston University in 1899.  Following her time at Boston University, Charlotte traveled to Europe. She spent the summer of 1900 traveling, ending her travels in England. She spent the 1900-1901 school year studying at Oxford University, working towards her doctoral degree.  Professionally, Charlotte was a teacher. She taught at the High School in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and t...

I wish to copy one of Charlotte Call's papers. I think it was giving at Silver Lake W.C.T.U. Day.  "Woman Suffrage The subject to-day brought before us What is the next thing to do? brings forcibly to my thoughts What we want done for us? We have had the privilige for the past years of working allong the lines presented to us this morning. We must sow the seed, keep sowing and waiting for the Harvest. Are we entirely discouraged? No. We have had showers of Blessings seen some of the fruits of our labors- but the terrible thing in our midst against which much of our effort has been spent exists in all its hydra headedness. We have been trying to teach the children to keep away from it, to shun it in all its forms, we have tried to incite men to vote it out, put it out of existence but Oh! so many like it, others are afraid of it. This this is a great moneyed power, and some are afraid they will lose their office if they should offend it, and would not get elected next time and ...

Elizabeth Joslin married John Challice. They never came to America. Her husband was a religious worker. I think we have nothing the corresponds to it here. Elizabeth has four children, E. Anna, Flora, a son and Rose Mary. Anna and Flora came to Stafford in 1900. Anna worked for us for a while and for Lizzie Daniels, and then for many years for Mr Frank. Benedict. She died October 9, 1933. She was a sweet girl, and very ladylike so one would know she had been brought up in a home of refinement. She and her brother had epilepsy when small, and it affected their intellects. Flora is a sweet capable woman who stayed here and cared for mother Call until her death. She visited in England and married Samuel Radley. She is active in church and temperance work. Rose visited American relatives a few years ago. I think she is bright and witty. She has written fine letters to us. _____ Patty's notes on this entry Elizabeth Joslin was born in Meshaw, Devon, England, in 1841 before July 4 wh...

George Joslin, another brother, was a minister for some years in England. He came to America about 1881. He went to Wisconsin, where he joined the Methodist Conference, and preached for many year. When he retired, he bought a home in Madison. His children were educated in Madison. He was quite a successful business man, as well as in his profession. He had three children Mary, Stanley, and Vera. The girls were pretty and charming. Stanley is a successful Methodist minister. ________ Patty's notes on this entry George Adams Joslin (1844-1921) George Adams Joslin was born April 10, 1844 in Meshaw, Devon, England. He was the second George Adams Joslin born to his parents  Robert Bird Joslin and Mary Adams. They had a son, George Adams Joslin born on December 26, 1838 in South Mouton, Devon and died there July 10, 1840. According to his obituary, he began preaching at age 18, so in about 1863. He married Mary Whitford Verrin (1841-1908) on Sept 4, 1873 in Redruth, Cornwall...

Ann Joslin came from England with mother. She married William Jones a plumber and gas fitter. They lived in Chelsea. She was the mother of seven boys and two girls. The boys were, William, Samuel, George, Alfred, Frank, Robert, Charles. The girls were Mary and Elizabeth. Samuel was drowned in 1877. He was a very bright student. Mary died young with tuberculosis. William worked here one year on the farm, and another year for Uncle William at Elba. All but three are now dead. _______ Patty's notes on this entry Ann Joslin Jones is in the front row on the left in this 1904 photo of the six Joslin siblings. Ann Joslin was born on June 4, 1836 in Filleigh, Devon, England, the third child, second daughter of Robert Bird Joslin and Mary Ann Adams. She arrived in Boston on the ship Meridium with her sister Charlotte on May 31 1854. Ann married William Jones on July 2, 1858 in Chelsea, Suffolk, Mass. She died there on April 19, 1918. William Jones was born on November 7 1820 ...

William Joslin was the oldest of mother's brothers and sisters. He was a man of extraordinary fine character. He was a very fine looking, patient, and kind. He was a Christian man, and a regular church attendant. He came to America with father. He was a carpenter by trade and worked at it all his life. He lived in Chelsea, Mass. and owned his own home, which was a two apartment house. This house was destroyed in the great Chelsea fire when practically all his accumulations were destroyed. Then he built a four (or more) apartment house. He had two lovely and unusually bright daughters. Charlotte, the younger, graduated from Boston University, and after some years of teaching, spent a year at Oxford. She was a great student and a very fine character. At her death - from tuberculosis - when she was about forty, she had been teaching at Woonsocket, R.I. The flag of the city was put at half mast, - the first time that honor was given a woman. Flora graduated from Boston Normal, but didn...

In the spring of 1874, uncles Robert and Samuel Joslin came from England. Uncle Robert worked for father on the farm that summer, but in the spring of 1875 he went to California where he stayed several years. On his return he married Lizzie Squire Kingdon, a sister of Frank Squires of Bethany. He bought a farm in Elba. They had two children, William and Grace. William died with appendicitis in the days before appendicitis was really understood and how to treat it. He was a promising boy of eleven. Grace was in high school with Arthur and Edith, and we saw a good deal of her in those days. After his wife died, Uncle Robert went to England. There he married again. It was said that his second wife was an early sweetheart who refused to cross the ocean when he came to America. Samuel, youngest of the mother's brothers and sisters, was lame. He went to Le Roy and worked for Mr. James Annin (?) a jewler, who was in that business in Le Roy for many years, - his lifetime, I believe. Samuel...