Wandering Around The Family Tree

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...

In the fall of 1867, after working the Ives place the third year, Robert and Charlotte Call began to look for a farm to buy for themselves. They decided on the Woodruff farm of about 56 acres a mile east of Stafford, and move here April 1, 1868. In March, before they moved, the seventy acres east of the Woodruff farm, bounded by the road north of here, came on the market. They wanted it, succeeded in borrowing the money to make a payment and bought that also. he paid $ 2000.00 down, ~ and had his team and tools and very little besides. After he made his purchases, he found himself $ 10,000 in debt on which he paid 7% interest. What magnificent daring! With a different result we would say What foolhardiness! When they moved, Albert and Charles drove the cattle, eight or ten head, and three pigs. Of course the pigs were the problem. All the buildings were old, small and inconvenient.  A pig pen was jacked up, and made a stable for horses which served the purpose until 1881. In ...

On April 1, 1865, his father moved the family to the Ives place where he had engaged to work the Ives farm on shares. The house is the one where Gilbert Prole now lives. There was some discussion whether his mother would drive "the little black mare." Old Tom was hauling heavier loads. The buggy was loaded, and mother and three young children packed in, -- Lizzie was now two and a half years old, -- and "the little black mare" hitched on. She attended strictly to business, and going around by Stafford to avoid the rough Horse Shoe Lake road, the family arrived safely at their new home. It must have been the same month that Charlie was watching the men build a stone wall. He thinks John Price, father of Mrs. John Gillard was one of them. One of the men asked "Does your mother know that Lincoln has been shot?" The little boy ran in and told her, and she came out excited to hear all they knew. He remembered that she cried. Before that they had heard that Lee ...

Charles Joslin Call was born in Stafford on Monday, March 28, 1859. His birth place is a house now owned by Leonard Gillard, our mail carrier now for over twenty years. There was an older brother, Albert Henry, born March 24, 1857. The first child of Robert and Charlotte Call died as the result of burns caused by pulling a pan of hot water over himself, when he was about a year old. In 1860 The Calls moved to Elba, where Robert worked as a farm hand for Mr. Pettibone. They lived in a small house just west of the Presbyterian church. In 1861 he moved to the Randall road east of Morganville into a small new house built for his occupancy. Here he worked for four years for Orsemuse Bassett, on shares. This was a step up for the ambitious young Englishman and his wife. But it was a hard struggle for the four years with poor crops and other trials. Charles says his earliest recollections was of the building of a cellar wall under the little new house. He also remembers when Peter (?) McVea...

On Page 74 Vol I of the Family Records, I note the following from the Obituary of Mother Call.  Mrs. Robert Call at 3 o'clock (Sept 27 1908) at her home in this town aged 74 years. Her health had been failing for a number of years, but pneumonia, with which she was afflicted only a little more than two days, was the immediate cause of her death. She is survived by her husband; four brothers William Joslin of Chelsea, Mass; The Rev. G.A. Joslin of Madison, Wisc.; Samuel Joslin of Batavia; one sister  Mrs. Ann Jones of Chelsea; (Mass.) three children Albert H. and Chas. J Call and Mrs. Lizzie A Daniels, 12 grandchildren and a number of nephews and nieces, including Mrs Flora E. Challice who has tenderly and devotedly cared for her during the years of failing health.  Mrs Call, whose maiden name was Charlotte Joslin was born in Devonshire, England in 1835. At the age of twenty years she want to Mass. and was married to Robert Call. In 1858 Mr. and Mrs. Call came to Staff...

Memories of the Calls Some Reflections of Charles Joslin and Elizabeth Coe Call Book 1 Because I have so desired to know more of my immediate ancestors personal history I have thought of writing what I can of my own and Charles' earliest recollections. These, of course, are for our children and grandchildren, those to whom the personal touch will give a value to these little stories. Charles' father wrote sketches of his life and labors and achievements at least twice, and read them at gatherings of his family. The last one, read, I think, at a family gathering celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of his coming to the United State, has been lost or destroyed. I am still in hopes we may find an earlier record. until then, we must refer to his obituary, which is the fullest of anything we have at present. On the next pages I will copy geneological records as compiled by Rosalind Daniels. (the next four pages carry the genealogy) I copy from the Batavia Daily News...