Family stories of the children of Israel Call

Typescript volume (51 pages) of a compilation of short biographies of the family of Israel Call (1854-1938) and his children by his two wives. Call was one of the settlers of Sunset, Arizona, where the United Order was practiced. Essays probably date from the late 1960s or early 1970s.

Some white men had killed an Indian and the Indians were on the war path. The news was scattered abroad by the Indians that the next white maa to pass tb.ro~gh their territory would be killed. But my Grand Father. Josiah Howe Call. started out anyway, and here is the story as is told by the news. TRE LATE lNDlAN MASSACRE EDITOR DESERT NEWS: Filmote City, Oct. 19, 1858 Thinking you would like to hear the facts concerning the massacre of brothes Josiah Call and Samuel Brown, between Salt Creek and Filmote, I take the liberty to write them to you as they ,appeared in evidence before the coron~r•s inquest. held over the bodies yesterday. They left Salt Creek on Tuesday, 5th Oct. with two days' provisions, saying that they were going down Chicken Creek to see if a drove of cattle could be taken that way into this valley. Some brothem came in from Salt Creek the Sunday following; bearing that Brothers Call and Brown had not arrived, told what they heard at Salt . Creek. On Monday, four men started in search and found by their horse tracks that they had taken the north side of Chicken Creek. They also found where they got off and led their horses to water. This satisfied the men that Brothers Brown and Call had gone this way. It was somewhat difficult tracking them; as to all appearance a large party of indians traveled the same trail. The brothern followed Chicken Creek and Sevier Riv~r into a valley. From this valley they returned home for more provisions and men. Indians with whom they were acquainted told them that there were many Indians close by. Friday 1st some fifteen started again to renew the search. They met at Cedar Spring, who bad just come in from the north. He told Shepard Brother a dead body about two miles south of Chicken Creek. Accordingly , saw them that he and found both the bodies within about two hundred yards of forwith they proceeded each other. On Brother Brown was shot through the heart, scalped and his throat cut. The birds had eaten the flesh from Brother Call's bones, with the exception of his leg below the knee and his left arm. tt was evident he bad been shot three times; once through the right breast, the shot lodging in the back bone; onee through the left ankle and once through the head, the ball entering the back part of the skull near the seam and coming out the left side of the nose. It is supposed that his throat was also out, as the blood had run from where his neck lay. His right arm was entirely gone and it was not found. They were both stripped of all their clothing except their under clothes, shoes and stockings. The remains were this day interred in the ceme~ery of this place, the occassi , being one of the most solemn I have ever witneesed. This ls the first instance of the lind that bas happened to any eitizen of this place since its settlement. Report says some Indians went to Sanpete and said they had killed two white men in the Sevier liver valley. The men fought like bears and killed one Indian. That they (the Indians) had to rtn into the canyon, but they got more help and followed and killed them. Which may be true, as they bad eTidently been down the creek and their bodies were found on the road home-they would not have come back on the road again if they had not been molested or mistrusted some danger. An Indian, wearing Grandfathe r'• hat, caae six months later to the home of my Grandmother. Grandmothe r's six frightened children clung to her apron while he told the 1tory. Grandfather had begged for his life. He told them he had six little papooses and a squaw that he would like to go home to; that they need• ed him, He offered to trade them anything for his life. They refueed him. When an Indian says he'll do a thing be u1ually does it. He told her they took his ·, right arm as e sign of Bravery. ANSON GALL'S ACCulJNT uF ThE FOUNDING OF FILLMORE AND EARLY ECPERIENCES ThERE. ( \ ( Following is Elder Anson Gall's account of the founding of Fillmore and +,be early experiences of the settlers there; 11 The First Presidency of the Church gabe me a mission to return from Parowan to Salt Lake City and raise 50 families to settle Pauwan Valley. I accor&ingly returned in June and found all well at home . I went to work to raise the company, I also carried on r y farm work in Davis County. We h3d a fruitful season; Wheat and corn and vegetables we~e never better; I raised about 1500 bushels of grain. In October, I syarted with my company, for the Pauwan Valley. There was a special session of the Legish ture called in October ( I had before been a ppointed President by the Conference) made a county and named it Millard, and appointed me Probate Judge, authorizing me to organize the county. Arrived in Pauwan Valley, Chalk 0reek 13th_.9f November. Eolin,d1-ur Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and surveyor and about 40 others. Tbey had laid out a city and were surveyingit and called it Fillmore, which was set apart by the Legislature as the capitol of the Territory. The chief accordingly had obtained the horse, xm NE ki:s ElfJ¼ i lii:indiih~ili but did not fetch t be thief and thebishop r;fused to give hirr the presents without delivery of the thief. The chief said he did not agree to bring the ttief but only the horse and he wanted nis pay. I decidea fuhat the chief was right and entitled to his pay according to the contract. The decision was immedia tely complied with. I then afreed to mzke the chief some presents if be would bring the Indian. After 4 aays the thief was forthcoming . The Indians and whites woon ga ttered round to look at him . he told me· he waneed his pay . I asked him if he was going to puniah the Indian. he said he would if I paid him for it. I asked him if he wa s willing we should. punish him. he said , No , that we punisbed our own mwn and he would punish his . But he said he agreed to f'etch him but not to punish him ,therefore be wanted his pay . I then told him he care not punish uim. The chief took this as a great insult. he then arose to his feet, clenched a club and struck the Indians with the club and feet which brought many of them to the ground . After he had dwelt out blows to each of them, abuut 20 in number, without any resi:tance from many of them be said to · me, you c a "e not do that to your men; if you were to they would knock your he ad off. I then made him his presents and be became well satisfied • They then went to their lodges. I was informed that he wbipped the thief. lVKld2lli We immediately commenced building a corral for our cattle. We then built a school house, established a school within 15 days of our arrival, made a road into the canyon,where we obtained logs for our dwellings, built a fort in shape of a triangle. The camp was generally poor, consisting of brethren who had just emigrated from the State and England. I wa s counselled by Brigham to erect mills. I immediately commenced building a There was no more st aling from them with the exception sawmill. Our settlement was 70 miles from any other. Our wheat of taking wheat ana corn from the fieldsand potatoes and were good and we raised some 2000 bushels of over-plus grain which other vegetables, which the squaws made a free use of. went to other settlements, The hands laboring on the State House This band of Indians numbered about 125 warriors, made but slow progress in consequence of the newness of the country, our fofces in Fillmore were about 75. ·Ne were iocE.ted canyons to open and roads to make to stone quarries. about 65 miles from Nephi, 80 from Manti , 100 from At tte August election I was elected re presenta tive for Parowan, Iron County. Millard County. In September I returned to ua~is County and We were surrounded in every direction by different found rry family had raised a bountiful crop of whe Lt ; about 1300 tribes, who annoyed us much by a constant begging . bushels. After making necess a ry arrangements for my family I Occasionally small bands of Spaniardswere passing ret~rned to Fillmore. I was immedia tely accosted by the chief, wh o were buying up Inctian children for the purpose of who sta ted trat Bishop Bartholomew had not done with him as he agreed . making slaves of them . Indians obtained ttem by The chief was conside rably excited. I immedh tely inquired in;to yJ1 e gambling and stealing them from the different tribes they nature of the case. I found tbat an Indian had stolen a horse, for were at war with. which the Bis.hop agreed he would give the chief so r.ie clothing and ammun.1. "!"ion if he would return the horse/. 0 ( ( .. 't . ..,J This I taught them to be wrong at every oppor tunity that presen ted itself , and not to sell the chilor en to the Spania rds but to sell them to the Mormons and we would clothe them and educat e them. I instru cted them concerning their fa the rs , which Kanosh , the would at time please them very much. age whom I agreed to of chief gave me his son about 8 years clothe and send to school for 3 yearz and then givA him ber.k to him again. I washed clothe d tim ®nd he commenced His mother came and the boy wept and wanted the schoo l. to go with her and she 'p,,.,eva iled wi +,h the chief and I bought an Indian boy, wu o accord ing' ly took him. was a prison er of one of the , Indian Chief Walke r's ·I named him Dan. They told me he was a Piute. men. I also I judge he was betwix t 3 and 4 yea·rs of age. s, who Indian bough ta · Piute girl of one of the Pauwan Ruth. I judge to be 2 years old. I named her LI l ( \ I starte d to the Le gisla ture 18th Novem ber. Fetchi' ·d with me my two Indian childr en and gave them to my wife , Mary, wro was much please d with the presen t. I spent the winter very agreea bly with my family and in the Legis latur e City. t nat was held in Grea t Salt Lake Journa l: Copy in the Histor ians Office 2858 mh CR (41-41 ) unae r 1851 file ( . .. .. 't Not to be considered as Church Doctrine JFS The f&llowing statement is by the late Anson Call of Bountiful; made just prior to his death: 11 Om£ one occasion when Brother Joseph (Smith) was cutting wood, tbere Cpme to him some brethren, and I was among them. We said, Brother Joseph, we have some questions to ask, and we will cut your wood while you answer them." "All right," saod Joseph, and we went into the house, Joteph placing his arms across his knees, bent over as if in meditation,said, Now for your questions." We said to him: 11 What about the crea~tion of the world,= How was it inhabitated?" Joseph answered and said; " I will tell you how it was. You and I were in the spirit world at the grand council, amd there we were s pirits together. We saw and heard t hat coupcil and heard them talk of the formation of our world, and we were amomg those when the morning stars sang together and when the sons of God shouted for joy . We were among those who had more courage tnan others and therefore we came down here and t cok bodies. Some who did not have the courage said; 1 Father, we have fought Satan face to face here in the spirit world and helped to cast him down there, now to go down and fight him again face to face, we are afraid we shall never VQturn to thy presence and would prefer a less degree of glory and go to some other of your creations where we are sure of returning! Yes , you and I had more courage and came down here of our own agency and choice. Now regarding Adam: He came here from ~another planet an immortalized being and brought one of his wives, Eve, with him, and by eating of the fruits of this earth became subject to death and decay and he became of the earth earthy, was made mortal and subject to death. Now after proving ourselves worthy befo re -;God in our spiritual condition to go through temporal sufferings, privations and trials, we were chosen or elected, and we merited our reward according to the works we did in the spitit world; but we were not ~hosen or elected until we had shown by our works to our Heavenly Father that we were willing to go through wh at He might permit us to, and we were not deprived of our agency. Inthe grand council in heaven, there were some spirits that did not take part in the great rebellion at all. They were called m~utral spirits= they were on the fence; and when Cain killed his brother Abel God placed a skin of blackness upon him as the first of Adam 1 s race and through the posterity of Ham this seed was propagated through the flood. And the He'diFa:lneutral spirits in heaven possess those black bodies. And after the flood no doubt Noah must have found him doi ng some lttle lpw trick ,for he said: "Cursed, Cainan, a servant of servants shalt thou be to thy brethren. 11 And those neutral spit:its in heaven preferred to take the boljt-y of a negro rather than have no body at all. FJ.MILT STORIES OF THE CHILDREN OF IS~ CALL WESTERN AMERICAti L .... ISRA T ('\ ,fr;' T CALL (1R75-1961) FAMILY STORIES Western Americana DeDartment University of Utah Libraries Salt Lake City ... ..... TilE CHIWREN OF ISRAEL The following biographies and auto biographies are the stories of the lives of the children of pioneer Israel Call and his wives Medora White Call and Jane Lucinda Judd Call. These men and women were, and are, steadfast, courageous, stalwart, and shared a deep and abiding love or our Church. The older children were pioneers in their own right, and certainly played a great part in the building or this part of the West. None or them hav.e had an ovor abundance or worldly goods, but they have raised good, respected families, and have produced many leaders in Ch1.1rch, schools, and communitd.es. Those of us who think life is hard now can certainly gain a testimony of our blessings by reading of the hardships suffered by our immediate ancestors. Wa are grateful for their lives, and for the heritage which they have given us. Israel Bowen Call John Anson Call Medora Adelaide Call Bergeson Vasco Call Lydia Call Hancock Schuyler Call Newel Call Chester Monroe Call Hettie Jane Call Sainsbury Wilson Knight Ambrose Call Vinson Oro Call Willard White Call t L motbei· Ho was burned severe ly, before tho other childr en could got their thore. Israel Bowon Call wns born Octob er 10, 1~?5, at Bount ifu.l, s Utah the first child of Israel Cl\'.11 and Medora Mrl.te. His travel m Brigha year, next ·the of ry Februa in began ·short ly afterw ard - for es, famili othor JO about with along , frunily Young cn.Uod the Israel Call drawn wagon a in .him took ts paren his to ·goto coloni ze Arizon a. l'hus, new fronti er. by four mules, and follow ed by the family cow, starte d f'or a deep they so were mud and snow As they procoo ded into Southe rn Utah, the ce distan the stone a throw could n't got throug h. Nnny days they could above milos Five way. e thoy had travel ed. They had hardsh ips a..llth Lee's the bridge that crosso s tho Colora do I'..iver at a place ca.Ued someone ago years 15 (About Ferry, they had to cl.'Oss over solid rock. rocks tho on mado marks tho soo still visite d this spot, and they could :Rivor , do Colora Little the on . settlod y by the wagon s.) The .:'. tlnts finn.U east and north miles 3 · about was It am thoy called the /place Sunse t. the way, · of what is now Winslo w, .Arizon a. The hardsh ips encou ntered on of this e becaus s porhnp but great. 'and in settli ng the now countr y wore d learne enrly he time, the of a~ the fact that he father was away much · job. good a to work, and the .satisf action s of doing C In 1883 tho railro ad came throug h, and L'ad reme~ bcrs going brothe r, there with his Father to sell meat to the ·workmen. Ho and his (also il.1<: butterm John, also carrie d a gllon of milk and n · gal.lon ·of butter ) to Winslow to sell it. This was a distan ce of 3 miles. United... to live the,,ere weren 't prewr oduntil H9}18ver 1 th~se woule only tliere tl.mo a nt ono out n~ droppi l~opt they Order, and eight famili es left. Grand pa's was one of those. The Apost les sent George Teasd ale and Franc is 1·~. Lyman to to go Hexico to look for a new place to coloni ze. Gra.'1dpa was callod a lost Grandm gone, was with them. Grandp a found a place, but while he en childr the had She sand. hor sight. It was caused by the blowin g ill. for yarn t.1'1e spun She them. load her to tho cows so she could milk io,"':)uld she and cloth, the weave their clothe s, and then the weave r would , cloth make all their clothe s includ ing their hats, straw for summer (!;ad also shoes. their was make for vrl.nte r. The only thing she didn' t -was this course Of s. n:dian remem bers eating corn fiakes with the 1dians had their own method the but before 1hey were made comm erciall y, we now of curing , arxi Dad later recogn ized these as tho smno type as .) buy in our grocer y stores r After they had been there a shor1t .time, soma !~avajo Indian s ri__ 8 go huntin g. Lot t.it1 and wnntod to borrow some guns arxi lUllilluni tion to would snu..th gave theJll · all tho guns in croup. Some people figui-o d they with tho back came soon and lef't they but come· back and kill the Saints , \ aihts. Sthe with it d horses loaded with meat~a rrl divide The Saints hAd to have water so a little Zast of ;llinslo w but it they triod to build a dnm. They hauled about 15 ton of rock, to move had they so and, quicks much so was loiOuld n't hold becaus e there their making began thoy before years l severa on -down the river. It was own cemen t. Thirty famili es were living the United Order. The Church . were owned everyt hing, rurl all contri buted everyt hing they made and table. same tho at ate all They needs. ir totho ing given suppli es accord on. The· women took turns cookin g. Thoy used open firepl aces to cook cattle • the for care to some sheep, the af'tor look to They appoin ted men better over . . They would take the cattle owr by the lake as the food was famili es the to it sent and cheese a.oo thero. The,J made their butter at -the settlem ent. \ Ono mornin g Grandp a built a firo in the fil•epl ace am left Dad's a log sticld ng out. Grandma was in tho kitcho n, and somehow on fira. brothe r, '.fa~co, got too closo to tho fire, arx1 ·his clothe s caught 'i-4len Grandp a got the letter tellin g him his wife was blind, she Apost le George Teasd ale told him to take her back to Uta.li, am to back go to wanted a Gramp did. she -would regain her sight, and countr y that to back her take to not him .Arizon a, but Erastu s Snow told again. or she would lose her sight Young Israel was 10 years old when his family return ed to s, ·but Utah. He attend ed school in Bount itul during the ¢.mer month him st kept Father his , spring the in ble worka as soon as the land was P.e home to help l.'1 th the work. He plowed when he 1as 12 years old. too, but says, "My Father expect ed us to work. Of course , ho ~rked , he kept us busy." ! In the early days of Ptah . he Ninem bers his Grarid fathor paying $3.00 a pound for potato es. He said they would peel them and eat the peelin gs, and then eat the inside s. At 17, Israel went to Chest erfiel d, Idaho, to stay with his cousin s Uncie, Cheste r Call. Here he enjoye d the compa nionsh ip of his . L .... squirrels had gotten all they wanted to eat. 11 !Io planted the lnnd aGair. tho next yoe.r. thon ho placed strychnino around the edge. C!l one side, or about ono-fourth mile, ha counted 180 doad squirrels. a!.d hns remninod close to somo of them all his life. Cne of the highlights of his life was tho dedication of the Salt I,n..l(e Templo. Whon they laid the .capstone to the Temple, he re~e::bers going to the top of the Temple, right up to the foot of the a..'1gel. They had built scaffolds so people could walk up. He was also present at the dedication of tho Idaho Fa.lls Tcmplo. He wasn't livi~g on the homestead, and a fellv~ got angry at him and · said he would contest it. no had a two-room frame house ho couldn't move, so ho traded it for n log cabin. Re tor~ it down, marking the logs so he could put it up exactly as it hcd bon orignally. The daubin's ~"Ore still wot, but he slept in it the socond night. Before the second winter ho bought a lcanto from Ira Call arrl put it on tho cabin so he had two rooms. Ho had 7 years to imp1·ovo upon it, and he says it took him a.1.1. 7 years. Lnte in 1900 he 1-ras called to fill a mission for tha Church. On February 9, 1901, he sailed for Austrs.ilia. He was on tho same train from Sa.lt Lake City to Oakland .rl.th John Phillip Sousa's band. He sailed on the ship Ventura on her maiden voyage. Ho was a good sailor going ovor. He left San Francisco about 10:00 P. z.;. and by morning had gottten tho feel of tho boat so he wasn't seasick at nll. He didn't see much of Austrailia, only along the coast of New South lialos, arrl Victoria. The land was green all tho year around so t.'l;o sheep did •,:ell. Thoy had one dro·uth ;;hile he was there in Victoria and they chopped the trees dom1 so tho cows could eat the leave s. Hbst of his ti.~e ~as spent in the cities. ifnile he wns in AustreJ.in, ho wont into a cold-meat shop arrl 11 sixpence of this, I guess. 11 The woman c.lerk replied, want I said, "You guess, eh? You must be a Yankee, and whnt are you doing here?" He told hsr of tho nootings being held just around the corner from her shop. She joined the .C hurch am later becrunc Reliof Society President. In relating this story, ho said, 11 :te never know whon a word or an act may be noticed for good or evil, so wa need to be careful at all times." He retu1•ned ho11ie in October, 1903. on :-:arch 24, 1904, he was mn.rried to Hartha Dalfour in the Salt Lake Temple. To this union v,as born two so:-is nnd one daughter, Bowen, John and llarlha. Tho 1-:other diod.giving birth to tho daughter, who lived elovon days, and then joined her mother. He filed on a homestead nt Chesterfiel d, and the first year ho was ablo to sew only 16 cacres of wheat. He was very proud of his · straight furrows which he plouod with a walking plow. This farm was in the foothills, a.nd only the tops of the hills could bo wrked. They cidn' t live on the ho:;1estead much boi'ore his wife died in 1909. In 1910 he plated 10 acres of dry-farm wheat •. Ee was up to soo it about tho 4th of July and it was all headed out. :re went back in about JO days, and the ground squirrels had ca on all tho heads off. 1:0 planted a little r:,·o with the 1-.heat, but tho squi1•rols didn't. bother that. i/hen ue asked hl.rl hou he felt about his grain crop, ho said, "I folt liko the He had : a. beautiful tonor voice, and ha found music . could make friends vor both him and tho Church. P..is brother, Vinson, alweys said, "Israel was born fifty years too soon, or he would have boen a top voice on the radio." \ \ \ D.lringihis time, he was still vory actl.v~ iri tho Church. In 1906 ho was called to be a councelor the tho ~tnkc Superintendent of the Religion Class. In 1909 he was called as councolor to Bishop Carl Loveland. He also served as counselor to ·Bispop Christian Call, but he couldn't romamber the data Bishop Cris was put in. i:e served continuousl y from 1909 to 19JJ, whon he moved out of tho ilnrd. Ho served as a Homo l1issionary in Chesterfiel d ...-hen the Stake was ovor 100 mi.los lone. They had to travel by tcan. ThC'.f had to go to Soda Springs, <;>r to Cleveland, or over to Graze L~lce. etc. They went, dep~nding upon the Saints to fe9d them and provide than •,d.th a bod. He rcmcr.:?bers going to Priesthood Heeting wi ~h Uncle I:ep Sessicns, who hnd somo horses he kopt well fed for this occo.s:,.on. On the wv.y home both of them wou.ld zo to sleop and the horses wuld t:lke thc::i homo. Uncle Kap wo.s on the High Council, and ['ad s~s, "Ro liked mo to go with him. I mndo a good slooping pal'tnor. 11 After his wife died in 1909, ha had a proolcm of taking care of his two sons and keeping his work goin~. Eventually, he boca-ne intarostod in a pretty dark-eyed ,<:,irl narned Charlotte Vienna ('linnio) Davids. }:e says his brother Schuyler carne up to visit him anc:1 r.e said, "Isn't that Vinnie !'avids a pretty one7" Of cour:;e Israel had noticed this before. Even now, ho never tires of t ·o11ing us what a prctt~· girl Eothor was. Once .I heard him say she didn 1 t have a d!iu1,ht el' who cou.ld hold a cand.lo to her whon sho was young. Thus, in 191~, ,,hen the · brethorn went to Salt L:lkc fol' April Conforonce, he took th(. p1·ci:.ty girl a.long, ,mo had pro:,t lsed to be his b1•ide. '!'he train at 3ftncroft h['.c to wa.it for them whi1o they woro stuck in a mud pucd.le . about a quo.rter of .... ti~ain bogan a mile fro:n the statio n. 1-: e says some of tho pooplo on <t>t he told, wer~ and up, them g . to get impati ent', and asked v:hat was holdin Lake." Salt to go to want who "Oh, thei•c' s a bunch of farmer s out thoro L~e .Salt the in 1913, 9, He marrie d Charl otte Vienna !;avid s, f,.p ril Hotho r' s . ·Temp le. ., _ rocop tion was givon for them that 'night at his :home in Sounti fu.1. a They return ed to Chest erfiel d, 1-rhcre they lived with Grandm cabin little the in homo Davids for about a month , then they mado their n), and on the homes tead. Hero they took 0,10 of his little boys, (:3owe a dark, Davids Elton en, hero also were born I•:otho r' s first throe childr eyed boy, arrl two girls, Leone Ruth, and Goncv iovo. Here, too, they expoio nced som e terrif ying times as clo·ud bursts a gully which · occurr ed in those mount ains, and tho cabin was locate d in' occurr ed flood such served as a chann el for the torren ts of water. One After the · beans. qf ls one evenin G just aftor thoy had harves ted 2 bushe having garden any of sign no water had 1•olled ·on dorm tho vcll.oy, . there was and b1•ood little her up ed been there at all. ;'.noth or time ~:othe r father · g rushin the of ahead just fled across the valley to her sister 's house :waters. At this tinle, ~ad invest ed in tho sheop busine ss, nnd as this into took him away from home part of the time, the family was moved ter, daugh third tho when liveq a ·house dow~' in the valley . Here they Nay Medor a, was born. , Later, he bought a ho·u so :from Aunt Anno. It had 2 rooms downto,ms ite stairs and 1 largo room upsta irs. He moved it do,;m to tho to piecos four • :.:. roof tho rurl th~t was quite a job. He had to c·ut the house, a t bough am ry move it. He later sold this to Theo Bradbu two made Ile ~900. for nd, Lovela - ono we all remem ber so wall, from Ada Dad so ss, busine dai~J the into go to payme nts on it ,;. thon Do.a.a wanted the for p¢ng d. finishe this rurl sold him his cows for $50.00 a hoe.d born. . home. It was here his last two girls, !:ildro d and :•~·a, wore e It was at this time (in 1927) he was given a leave of absenc he t:imo This Field. n from : his .Ward duties to servo in the Eissio served in Counc il muffs , Iowa, .for 6 month s. ed . In April, 1933, he .moved to Osgood , I.daho. The fa.mi.ly follow when 1941, until thoro fanned . aft.er school let out for the summer. Ho Vienna they movod to Grant, · Idaho, whore ho reside d until Charl otte passed away in 19.58. · He taught the Gospe l toctri co Class, both at Osgood a.11d Grant; Ee tau~ht sang in the quai•to t at Osgood , and a1so one at Chest erfiel d. years many for er Teach :,Jard as tho r:·oacon' s Quorum at Grant. Ee sorvod -ws, roadsho , choirs as such , ctions produ al music and was always active in outoporo ttos, otc. He loved to sing, and .,Jhon he was wrkin g ro.•ourrl er at remar.b all '·!o side you could always hear him singin g or whist. ling. g, singin him ber remem f~-nily gather ings, ho loved to sing. I espec ially from him ted provon has 'l'hc last f ou years his astl-m1a • 11 0nly a Leaf. 11 singin g, and it has boen a great disapp ointme nt to him. He could always see tho other follow ' s side of an argllI!l ent, never and would always give anyone the benofi t of tho doubt. I havo Ho time. the all Rule" kno1-m anyone who so aptly lived "The Golden never would he homo At . grudge lovod his on?¢o s, nnd never hold a , he allow us to falk bacUy of anyone . If we quarre led with anyone in their been had you if clone or always said, "~;bat would you have said place? II Ee was alw-.iys thinki ng of tho other follow . I rer:1ember the becaus e first summer we wcro in Osgood . :·Ie didn't have much of a garden the g gettin busy so were and d, wo a1•rive d too late to get it plante we had little money crops in. It was in tho middle of the depres sion and bor's cows neigh our of One weeks. two monoy, only our milk check every our cows of one sent Daddy so milk, no had were all dry, and tho fami.ly again. g milkin were own their over for· thom to milk until Daddy was always an hones t 'W'Orker, an early riser, a loving thoughts father , a consid erate husban q, arrl a ld.ndly neighb or. Theso gabl e infati an was ho us to seamed it kids As are shared by n.1-l of us. to work worke r, never restin g, but always busy. Now we can see he had :his -.Jhon old years 50 over ·was He . fmnily hard to foed and clothe his could age t.."iat at us of many how r -wonde I born. last two childr en were do as good a job as he did? To us, as kids, it soemod he was a stern man, and yet he novor has hnd to use force to got us to mind. Now I worrle r wheth er he whethe r or ity, nsibil 1nellow ed, when discip line is no longe r his respo :hi s eyo. in e twinkl the ·wo were too scared , or too simple -minde d to -see ure now. nat good his of Anyway, his grandc hildre n surely take advant age the in wns he ":.' 1th his orm childr en, it was anothe r matte r. ,lhen us kids • Bisho pric and sat up on "The Stand" he kept an "Eagle E"<Je" on 1 a make d ;.,-o arrl little a About the t:ilne we would think he was dozing am __ up march to have . d "(,,TC' a~ noise, ho would wiegle his finger at us, kno '. gation congre the in ne everyo sit by him. It was embar rassin g to have turn. our wo'd-b een noisy, but I think we all. had r, Seforc modern plumbi ng he always carrio d tho water fo..; It.othe . in times linny :wnsh. the out hang a!'rl, in tho winter , he always hclpod us off to the winter ho would get up and cook break fast for us nnd got school . , Lor onco •. ,lettin g us think we woro 8.1\V better thnn anyono else. I re.-nc. he home, ca.mo he \'hon woll. did when I wns in a Semin ary Play and I ud pro be must s parent 'Har. snid, mo said, "The fol.low sittin g next to he t to said ho what him asked I nnd of hor'." This made me fael gooc;l more mnn. He said, ."I said, 'I run proud of bor, but I have four '" of. proud as just I'm daugh tors nt homo Dnd was nover ono to critic ize. 1:.·lhen wo girls first starte d Ho'd say, to cook, he never refuse d to oat anythi ng we sot before him. if hurt "This could stand a little more salt," or, "It would n't ho.vo 11 back g Lookin you'd have cooked this a little bit moro, but it's bood. five w:lth what did, now, I don't see how he ato some of tho things ho ont and girls learni ng to cook, but ho gavo us n feelin g of accom plishm . bettor at the sruno time encour aged us to do Yes, ho is a. groat man. }:ot groat with "":orldl y goods but a' l ifc ho hns groat? r riches -- a great horita go, a good tro:.D.y, nnd only rity, poste as We, lived so he 1.s assure d of greate r reward s. · in hope .1nd pray thnt we can livo up to his oxpoc tation s and follow a ivileg tho···pr us giving for Lord his footst eps. Ench day we thank our 11 . F~HER my is of boing able to say, l11!o He was aJ.wv.ys very active , and only two years ago ho gave up kids had his COY'S and garden . I!e always raised a big garden and we of vegeta bles · respec t for his garden s, too. In Chest erfield ho gnvo lots Hnll Reserv aFort and garden stuff to the Ind.ion s who came over from the tion. P.e was always a.n early riser. As long as I can remem ber he how early we was always .up by daylig ht, or before . Even now, no matter rogrot ted always lie g. get up, we're apt to find him at the table readin arrl he now road to loves that he didn't get more oducn tion, but he dearly sperxis ·a lot of time rondin g. was His suP.ny dispo sition is one 'to be admire d by exeryo ne. Ho gs mornin tho I work. his about wont he as always singin g or whistl ing tho cows. it was most pleasa nt to .,-alee up and hear him singin g ris h~ miled One of his outsta nding quaJ.i tios is his abilit y to get along I though t with people , ospeci al1y the young people . ~·.'hon I wns n kid, beans in jolly or it was becaus e ho always carrie d a bag of pepper mints concer ned be to time his pocke t, but now I cnn see it was becaus e he took him, with "'-ant you whero about what they were doing and why. ?o matter 11 Call!" Hr. Hol.1o, you al·ways hoa1•d somo child greot him u:lth, ng ~le all enjoy having hi.rri with us and since ho has beon visiti ti.'lle hn.s he e bocnus ovor than more him ciate with us, I think we all nppl'e respoc t nnd to talk and visit more. .Also his sons and daugh ters-in -law mnn. nny ~o e tribut great a is which love hi.,n as a true Father , P.e has lived a good life. Iris family and his Church have bo it always been his mains tays. Each achiev ement one of us makes, !:e always it. about childr en, or grandc hildre n, ho is more than please d ies. abilit and encour aged us to work in tho Church and use our talent s tho of point to not but us :•'hen \:O did an~Jl \g: uoll ho was proucl of ,. Compi lod by his daugh ter, l!ildrc d C11ll :=:nuer July, 1959 . \ ' \\ . . CH ILOREN OF ISRAEL CALL AND MARTHA BALFOUR CALL . , \ I Bowen Ca 11 John Ba I four Ca I I Martha Ca 11 r CALL I CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CALL AND CHARLOTTE VIENNA DAVIDS , Elton Davids Cal I y Leona Ruth Cal I Shiple Genevieve Cal I Bendixen May Medora Cal I Adamson tH I dred Ca I I Sauer Myra Ca II Martin sen ... . ISRAEL BO\'-IEN CALL Rupert, Idaho I 1 m·sure most of you know Dad died last February 28th at Seattle, Washington. No matter what I would say In his honor, I would be prejudice, so I am just going to print some excerpts from letters the faml ly got. I think the greatest tribute any man can get Is the love and friendship and respect of his fellowman. The first is from the young mother who played at both Mother's and Dad's funeral. "At the funeral they al I said what a good neighbor he was to everybody. That certainly was true. I only hope some of your parents' goodpess has rubbed off on us. Lynn {her husband) and I were saying we hoped we could raise as good a faml ly as they did. You wer;e al I so good to him when he was so ,Jonly. We were so thankful that we knew them and lived next door to them. It was a prl vi lege to : be asked to p Iay at the Ir funera Is." The second Is from a friend who was asked to speak but was on his way to Callfornla and his daughter could not get In contact with him. "It was a great honor to have been asked to speak at the funera ·1 of such a great man. I don't measure -reatness by one's money or worldly possessions, but by character and by one's deeds. "Your father was a noble man, a great and true friend, a kind neighbor, and practiced the Golden Rule.· In fact, he was goodness I tse If.. When I th Ink of Israe I Ca I I, there is nothing but good comes to my mind. · "We have reasons for fee I Ing th Is way about your father for on two occasions he defended me when I wasn't present. He was Indeed his brother's keeper. I don't know of anyone else who ever did that for us. ''Bless his heart and your dear Mo-:-her too. You know how I loved and respected her. You children surely have a· wonderful heritage and a great deal to live up to. You all must have some wonderful memories. "May Our Father bless you al I and comfort you and help you to know of your great blessings," We, as a family, do know and appreciate the great heritage which is ours. We fee I our Mother and Father were both outstanding people, and., as I read each of these biographies being pub 11 shed In the Ca 11 paper, I think of what an outstanding family Grandma and Grandpa had and how much alike they are, one to another with their thoughts of others and their "golden rule" way of I lfe. Myra Ca 11 Mart Inson (Israel's youngest child) ....... Order John Anson Call was the first child born in the Dnito d were there e befor 1876, lh, at Sunse t, Arizo na. He was born ~ecember pione ering the. doors ; windows, or floor s in the new homes built by those l and r~edora Israe of son second and child · new movement. !{e was the second · ':.'hite Call, and was one of twelv e child ren. I have alway s wondered how Srandma felt befor e he was born. the trip, with She was pract ically a young ster heres elf when they made expre ssion . beond a nearl y new baby. Trave ling those days was diffi cult mfort for disco but g The bumping, lurch ing wagon could have meant nothin ·,,;e who come. to son her with her first born in her arms and her second have and tals hospi n moder of have our babie s in the sanita ry antis epsis rrust she ty anxie the fathom t canno fears for the safety of the new born to be born in. haye felt befor e he arrive d, with no priva te room for him and fearle ssnes s ge coura raw his of I like to think that Cad acqui red some from his Mothe r durin g that trip. Dad was not a sturdy child in the first years of his life, he was five he often said he didn' t know a really well day until after he weigh ed only nine years old. He said he was Grand ma's small est baby big brown eyes and pound s. Grand pa said he was a good- lookin g baby with a two years of age an even bigge r grin. He nearl y drovmed when he was just a plank spann ing c placo in the canal that ran throug h the Order . They had (l'Xdo ubtedl y in. fell it to_ be used to cross the water , aril little John men about of group a with he shoul dn't have been near it.) Grandpa was spotte d them of one when ct · f mile down the canal worki ng on some proje oat!) pettic the for speak "I ed: shout somet hing floati ng in the water and it. 11 in kid a 's there ns, heave "Goor1 d, Ee picke d the ganne nt out and helpe ed. '.-:hen he They worke d on the baby for some time befor e he was reviv . Eis hair fever id typho with ill rately despe was four years old he was illne ss. his of had been black and curly until it all ca.,ne ou '. becau se a poker . as ht straig When it came back in it was platin um white and as d to go starte it when en fourte He said it stayed white until he was about (who ruff Wood rd :lilfo and Smith dark around the sides . '(•;hen Elder s Lot sed promi ey him1h to ed nister were visiti ng the Order at the time) ad.mi record shows that him he would live to lead a lifeti me of servic e. His he surely f'ulfi lled that promi se. were cerLife in the Unite d Order was not one of ease, but there I it g about . tain rewar ds in it. As I remembt3r Cad and Grandpa talkin in excel to recal l him saying that it gave each perso n an oppor tunity ber 3rano pa remem I * for. some field ; somet hing they were vest suited and as he was a.bcut. tellin g :nc of the ti;::e he was taking a part in a play, out fa.! :'hey' re "~,oak :., to be shot frc.11 the rear, [ad ju...'llped up and yelle. have ,9,n a'oili ty to see!~ed ::e gonna shoot ya! Ecy, don't you shoot my Pa." vouch for can Vinco !Jncle to lose himse lf in anyth ing he was watch ing. g the "rass els" durir. :Cad watch to g mo whon I say it was lots more enter tainin up in the air leg his got ho Once f. itsel than it was to watch the conte st ator in a 11 '.-.'i ld and got a charle y horse while he was a partic ipatin g spect .?..ed 3erry '' conte st.. broke attend ed two years of schoo l in Artizona befor e the order for d studie they up and they return ed to Utah. And such erudi te subje cts they and cards t being first and secon d grade rs! I found one of his repor and were graded es", had such subje cts as "Hist ory, Penma nship, Socia l Studi on "l:;epo rtmen t, Appli cation am Aptitu de". pa had I have heard it said that when they arrive d in Ctah Grandfor the d clothe ately adequ too not were ren 35¢ in his pocke t and the child wagon the cover ed clima te. Dae remembered cross ing the Colora do ?.iver in about leanin g tell to used He boat. ferry the on as ~t made tho cross ing him by the big ing over the side to see what was going on, and 3ran~ma catch Ee told about dive. a butto ns on his jeans just as he was ready to take side, and feelin g losin g his hat that Grandma had woven from straw over the him anoth er one ma~e to able be n't badly becau se he knew his Mothe r would state they lived becau se her eyes were so bad. After their arriv al in this rathe r meage rly for some time. Ho schoo l. L'ad·o ften spoke of his exper ience s in his early years in slate the r rathe bur It would seem that penci ls and paper were seldom used, w~o those a~d these h and slate penci l. The famil ies thems elves had to furnis ut witho elves thems found came from large famil ies with limite d means often r. rad often spoke a slate or a penci l, or shared it with a broth er or siste punish ment was the cal physi ntly Evide of the beatin g ho receiv ed in schoo l. of misch ief as chasti semen t used most often . He was, I am sure, as full didn' t worry him ing strapp e sever a of ht most boys and evide ntly the thoug al a year. They much, becau se as I remember him tellin g it, he got sever which he taugh t to used to sing o. song to learn the vowel s and conso nants his grand childr en. It went: D-A-:.:ay, B-E-B ee, ·:S-I-Bye Say, 3ee, Bye, 3-0-B o, Bay, Bee, Bye, Bo, B-U-3u, Bay Bee, Bye, Bo, Bu. C-C-I:ay, C-~~C-ee, C-I-C ye Cay, Cee, Bye, S-0-C e, Cay, Cee, Cye, Co, C-U-Cu, Cay, Cee, Cye, Co, Cu. and so on through the conson ants. The tune is catchy. The followi ng was taken from a talk he _gave on early schools in Bounti ful:"The Bible was much used as a Reader . The multip licatio n tables were put to music as were the AOC' s. The larger pupils sang the tables o.nd the younge r ones the ABC's. I have seen some of those older pupils sing the .table over and over if they had forgott en the numbers to multip ly." Many years s.go Joseph Mabey told nie that Dad was exceptionall y good in Arithm etic, that he was able to solve problem s that took a great deal of reasoni ng. I know he J.iked Hath, and ho am grandpa vere al:w·ays trying to stump each other with a new problem to solve. also enjoyed Reading - Espoci ally History . He He often remarke d that Grandma had brough t him up to be a girl how he-scru bbed floors, washed clothes , churned butter, baked bread, and so on. I can't quite see him in this role, am I wonder if we don't enlarge in our mims on what we conside red our childho od persec utions.a(• I wrote a paper while I was in college about the Order from inform tion Gran::lpa gave me - why didn't I koep it!) He attende d school at the L.D.S. College after gradua ting from the eighth grade in Bounti ful. When he first enrolle d at the L. D.S. he and John Hil.l got an apartm ent in•Sal t Lake :ity and batched during the w-aek. O!J the 'Weekends Dad went home, am in the season for it he brough t fam goods back to the city and peddled them from door to door to pay his expens es. I'm sure this was an entirel y new life for him, because he had not had much contac t outside of his home town. I remember him telling us of once asking a girl to go walking with hi.."Tl in Liberty Park. He didn't know that the Park had a most unsavo ry reputa tion for walks after dark, he wasn't and he said it took him some time to convinc e tho young lady th.at trying to insult her. He excelle d in so~e forms of athleti cs while attendi ng school. broadY.y mmory reminds me of him telling about running races, relays and size. his for strong jun:.ping. He was wiry and quick and excepti ona.lly f.lthoug h at his full height he was only five feet three and a half inches, he was able to throw many much larger It.en in wrestli nG. When he was a child he could run, grab 11 horse by tho tail, and ca.ta.pu ll himsel f to the back of the horse. He said this trick din't necess arily endear him to the owner of the horse, however. Uncle Schuyl er said once that Cad was the kingpin around the home when it came to wrestli ng, and tho boys really felt they he did had accomp lished something .men they were able to pin him. Ee said used to P.e time. noxt the him it once, an:. ~ad real.ly wrked until he got ,. tell the story of one man in Bountif 'ul who was 6 feet 4 inches tall an:l. had em a tremend ous grip in his ha.n:ls. He'd offer to shake hams with soreeone this then squeeze their hand · until the pain was unbear able • . After doing two or three times to Dad, r:ad grabbed his thu.'Ub and pulled back on it and r' r e~e~be soon had him on his knees. It happened in the old Co-op Store, as Icure the to see:aed it it. Dad said he had severa l poople thank him because his for sate compen to big fellow from this trick. Hie quickne ss seemed shortne ss of stature , rurl I reme:mbor Grandpa saying that he never had to wrry about him being able to defend himsel f in any situati on He joined the Nation al Guard of Utah on Octobe r 23, 1897, am was honora bly dischar ged on the 8th of Februa ry, 1899, for the purpose of going on a mission . His dischar ge so.ys his charac ter was "good" . The discharge is signed by .Levi S. Hey-wood. He was called to th.a Lone Star (Texas) V.issio n where he served for two and one-ha lf years. He talk-d a great deal about this Missio n, the people he met and knew, and the circum stances of it. At that time they travele d withou t ence "purse or script" and relied upon the goodness of peoplo for this subsist He made many friends on this mission , severa l of whom remaine d !riend ly. . f or the rest . of his life. I don't know which year it was that he tried to join the armed h0'1-1 forces to serve in the Spanish American War, but I remember him saying too inch e.n half' heartbr oken he was when they .turned him down because he was had they bodies t short. He said they told him he had one of the most perfec examined, but the minimum height had to be five feet four inches. · A.rt.er he returne d from his mission he went back to school atl subs e, ye ar, quently taught school at Grants ville, Utah at Farmin gton, Utah, for cne worked ' hnd he said He s. n-year thirtee and at Stoker School in Bounti ful for him er rememb I and years, r younge his in at the Old Bounti ful Co-op store to telling about working at the Bounti ful Bricky ard in the summer arrl going but '1,,,r:ls, it year what know don't I haying. the with help differe nt to.ms to he worked in Durley , Idaho for one summer with a te3:ll of hor ses when t.."ley ha. were putting in a canal. He learned barberi ng with Wall.ace Session s '"hen was a young man and added to his income by barberi ng nights and Saturda ys. He contirru ed with this side-li ne work for all but the last five years of his life, mostly for members of the . family. I used, as a child, to love to have his brothe rs an::l. nephews come to have their hair cut. . I especi ally remember the times Uncle Israel came from Idaho and they got to talking about old times at home. I always looked forward to these visits, and Uncle Israel 's specia l brand of salty humor. John Anson Call and l1 nnie Beatrice Law were m~rried ·;n December 23, 1907, in the .' :ale Lake Temple;. Theirs was certainly not a ·whirl-wind courtship as I remember them saying they were en. gaged for two nrd one-half years. Cad was thirty-one and }~other was thirty at the time they were married. I always worrlered why they took so long-to take the vital step,but I never did receive a satisfactory answer from either of them. They were both teaching school at stoker School at the time they were married. ! believe ~1other and Dad must have been exceptionally happy. I can remember them having only one dllference of opinion. I'm sjre there were others, but they had the wisdom to have them in private. I can never remember Dad leaving the ·house without kissing Mother goodbye. I realize now that they were very different in disposition and personality. Dad was an outgoing sociable person who had been reared in an atmosphere of give and take; Hother was reserved, quiet, a conservative English lady ard of amuch more serious nature. I think their natures suplimated each other to · · make an ideal pair. The~two of them had planned to have at least . six children the resultf of their planning must have ·been especially heartbreaking. I tound pictures of them taken on t .1 eir wedding day, and they were four folders left in t}?.e envelope that was entitled "for our children". Their first child, Ruth, a premature baby, lived only six minutes. She was born October 18, 1909. Their second child, a boy, lenneth John, born October 19, 1910, lived six hours. He was_ an eleven pound baby who was too long in the birth process. Mother was told by the. Doctor that she shouldn't. have any more children, but they couldn't accept that decision • .After special treatment Alteri was born }~ay 12, . 1912. I guess Dad must have been the proudest father in Bountiful. Some of his students have told me that he had pictures of the baby on his desk, an:l if they could get . him to talk abotit•the baby or his mission, they could usually put offa test for at least one day. I was born on August 1.5, 1914• . It was an especially memorable day, not because of my birth, but because it was the . day · Grardpa 1 s barn burned down. One more child, a boy, was stillborn on September 20, 1916. This was all of the children they ~re to have, ·with two of the five living to adulthood. . and . They lived in Bountiful all of their married lives with of about six weeks when trey were first married • . In exception the the Spring, when school closed after their married in December, they went to Syracuse where Dad and Uncle, Chet had a ram. The drinking water was highly alkallm there and Mother suffered terribly with disentery. 1he dcotor informed Dad that if they didn't move she'd be dead in another month, so they had to come back to Bountiful. This occurrence was unfortunate in more ways than one, because from the day that he bad to sell his farm I;ad became a "frustrated farmer". He was sure that if he had stayed in Syracuse he would have been a wealthy man. After he turned eighty years of nge he was negotiating for a farm in traper, Utah, ard because more indignant than I have ever seen him '!-t rny husband, Haeser, when he told him he was too old to start far.ming. Dad and Hother lived in the old Mitchell home, the Thurgood house, a room of Grandpa Law•s· house, part of Aunt Hettie's home, Aunt Katy Holbrook's apartment, Sarah Ann Session's home, the Old Hill, and probably others I have forgotten. Thoy built the home they both died in - in 1912. Mother died December 6, 1926 1 of Spinal Meningitus. It was a sudden death, lasting only three days from the time she was stricken until she was gone, and a horrible death to see. I'm sure the blow to Dad at that time must have been more than he felt he could stand, but I never heard him complain about how hard it was for him. He did all he could to make it easier for us children. The fact that he cci-uld · never seem to find anyone to take her place even . though he knew he would have been better off, indicates his devotion. As I have mentioned before, Dad's work was varied. He used to say he was a "jack of all trades, a master of one." . I know he wrked at the Capital :Mercantile Company for several years. am can remember his working at Cudah,y Packing Company •. He was Postmaster at tho Bountiful Office for twelve years. I believe he was a good Postmaster while he was in office. I know he spent marry more hours there than he law required. He made special trips to the. office to -accommodate J:eople who were unable to get there during the office hours. In 1927 the Post Office was robbed and he had to appear in El Paso. Texas, at the trial where the thieves were apprehended. Hrs. Fadel, a natire of Assyria. who ·ran a dress shop in Bountiful, said of him: · "Yo·ur Father was such a splonded man in the Post Office. . He was so friendly and acconnnodating, and I knew he was truly a public service as it was intended to be. r,~ miss him so much." She told me this long before he diod, so I know she didn't say it to make me feel better aftor he had gone. He used to walk miles to deliver special delivery letters although the law did not require it. He used to say that "if a. ~peciaJ. I:elivery stamp on people felt something was important enough to put it was good for his besides, delivered, be· to enough important bo must it, it constitution! He arouse at .5 o'clock every morning but Sundays while he was in office to moet the early morning mail. This mail was discontinued as soon (ls he was replaced in tho office. He worked for 3ountiful City_ in various positi.Qns, and at the ?:ava.l Dase in Clearfield. · .... /J_ten Law Cn.11 was killed in action durinz the II World ~far, in :-err.Any, on !:arch 15, 191~5. !!c had married Lucy ::=-ctcrson on Febrtrnr:r lh, 1939, in the :alt Lake Tcmplo. They hnd no children. for a long ti'l!e after J;lten' s death Dad had a hnrd time to reconcile himself to it. Ee had been so suro . that he l-muld return, ht>.d so much faith as to his safety, that his d0:tth was a heartbreaking blow to him. I have always been so · :;rnto.fQl to the O:'ficors of the Sundny ~chool in our· ·.-:ard at tho time. They came to hi.In am insisted that he become tho cho1•ister of that or 6 anization. He turnc~ them co;..'11, but they rofusod to tako his answor. , s soon as he started back in hls music, comfort and consolation crune to him. Dnd has had many years of service in tho Church. I don't hmro tho dat.e s of thorn, but these are some of the positions ho has hold: An officer in all of his Anronic Priesthood Quorums . · Superintendent of tho Sunday School 1 . Young i.:en s Nutual President ',{a.rd Choir Leader Assistant Stalrn ::uporintendent of Religious Class Stake 3oard of Y:<:::L\ St~ke !•:elchizcdcc Priesthood Committee Aaronic Priesthood Corr,mi ttee Secretary of the Stake :.igh Priests :rard .Superintondent of tho F.igh Priests i!ard Clerk for seven ycnrs Scout !·f aster for two years Scout Corranitteoman SUnday School Chorister Chair.nan of the unrd C:enoalogica..l Cammi ttoo Served two stake ::issions :,'hen he ;;-a.s r.iado Choir :.:.oader he was very youg, nnd as the cormnur.ity life practically emanated from this organization ho was ~ven a groat deal of criticism. '.ie ,ras so eroatfu.l to so many of the older pooplo who supported him in this endeavor. ::c sorved in tho !3ishopric of the Jountif'u.l First \·ard ,,.rith Richard S+rir'ti'ham, Quayle Cannon and !:'avid Tolman. I can't reme::-.'ber when he ,:irfo't have a church job of some kind. I bolfovo he enjoyed his '}enealogical work more than anything he _evor did. Ee ,:as so thrilled and enthusia~tic about · it that our Ward crunc up in participation from one of tht- 1m:est in tlw Stake to the highest while he was serv:.ng as president. Ee served a six month mission in the California ::orthern District in 191:11 • . ltusic was always one of the great pleasures of his life and he actively participated in it whenever he could. ~.'hile he was attending the L.r:.~. · High School, Prof. John J. :foClcllan wanted to finance tad's r.:usical education in Europe. ~randpa didn't feel that it would be for the betterment of ['ad's life, and he was probably right. I remember I:ad sayint; thet a worrlerful time they hnd at home singing together. Ee ·thought Grnndmu Call had one of the prettiest voices. and tru e st voices he hnd hoard. Ee DJ.ways thou;:ht that she could have gcine far if her voice had boon trained. 3he certainly instilled the love of music in her family, and who car. say what better thing she might have done? '!.'hoy m;ide their own fun when r:·ad was a young man growing up. I remember his saying that one of their favorite games was to have a fist fight to see Hho could draw blood first. Dad said Will Waddoups usually won that game because I:ad' s nose bled if it were only flipped. Their parties, dances, drama groups, and II sing-outs" wore events that influenced many lives for good. In writing of the drama in the town he said, "One Crruna Group was called the 'Bountiful Young Recruits' with Charles R. ~abey, President, John A. Call and. ½'illiem Waddoups. Custodians, and John W. Hill, Treasurer. Besides the· officers there were in the company, Jack Pearcy, director, Truman Barlow, Alonzo Sedgwick, Gertrude Arbuckle, Laurine ',lilley, Armenin Willey, and Margaretta Waddoups Smedley. These young hopefuls toured the country in White Top buggies or sleighs if it were winter." one I He sang in quartets most of his life. The ;earliest recal.1 him speaking of "~as when ho sn~ng with ½'ill Waddoups, Aunt Acdie, and Rettie '..,1addoups SniOdley. fie was an nvid Republican and campaigned with quartets in rallies al.lover the northern part of the state. Dad loved sports of arry kind. He started the first b a ske tbal.l team in this part of the United States whon he wa s President o! the Y.:M.!1. I. A. I have never seen him so indignant as he would get when he watched the ''rassels 11 on T. V. He never did convince him that they were set up ahead of time. He was a good wrestler himself when he was a young man, liked baseball, swimrr.ing. or any other physical activity. !fe nevor co u.ld understand why anyone could not share his enthusiasm. Alten and I must have been a great disappointment to him as far as · being skilled in these fields was concerned. last few He was privi leged to trave l quite exten sivel y in the leted were comp years . He visit ed all. the Temples of the Church hat When he went to le. Temp iian Hawa the t at the t~me of his death , excep some marv elous Europe for the dedic ation of the Swiss Temple he hadws who share d a fello the of One ds. exper ience s and made many frien me what 11 11 fine state roo~ with him on the boat trip repea tedly tells littl e gentl eman your daddy was. i, his life. Dad had exce ption ally good -heal th the latte r part of outcould he how · He was proud of how well and how young he looke d, andhim for Boun tif·ul work many much young er men. Fello ws who worked with half his age after City tell me all the time how he could out-w ork men he had turne d 75 years of age. his One of the most ·outst andin g thing s about :Cad to ·us was in those a.U but ren, child grand chann with child ren. Not only his own store His them. loved he knew they the neigh borho od loved him becau se be remembered. His of songs , some nonse nse, some folk songs , will long lland y, every littl e "Rye -Tour -al,ou r, I-litt le-oh -lay, Rye- tour- I lour"Oh, Hr. Dunderbeck, '.twig and bush is cover ed with sugar ani candy ." and and .All Around," how could you be so mean, 11 "Mousie"~ "Up . and I:'own ltzy" child ren were Jim Dadun", am so on where songs Alten and I and reare d with. d save part of Dad was a fruga l man who belie ved he shoul he usua lly had a money much every thing he made. vlhile he never made get impa tient to used I it. d lit'!,l e "laid by" to ·use when he neede but it didn 't elf, hims with y sting with hiI!l becau se I ~bought he was so peopl e have ral Seve him. e chang 't matte r how m·uch I comp lained , ·r didn finan cial them ed offer and them -to told me since his death how he came heard never I ; clean was mouth Lad's help when they were in troub le~ was swear him heard ever I time only The any foul words come from it. able damn know so when I was abou t sixte en and he said, "You think you my own go throu gh of ren child g havin Since " much more than anyone else! lii.s tempe r was · ~at stage I don't know why he didn 't thro ttle me! check . in sometimes shor t, but I know how much he held it warmth Dad was not a perfe ct man, he had. many fault s, but his ess busin in rity integ his s, of chara cter, his genui ne inter est in other s. fault these ighed outwe matt ers, and his outri ght coura ge, far old When he had his 80th birth day celeb ratio n one of his ge, for coura his for r frien ds said, 11 I have always admired yo·ur fathe g." I think that his abili ty to take what he had to witho ut com.p lainin about aeyth ing was one ot his.t iner- poin ts. I never heard him whine r •. • . lves. Since his in my life. !'.ot many of us can say that about ourse when they were hem t death so many men hn.vo told me how he encou raged progr essio n; and re disco urage d, how inter ested he was in their wlefa l becau se they didn 't schoo espe ciall y yo·ung men who were abou t .to quit ition s. One su~h man feel they cou.ld tonti nue again st unfav orabl e cond and has given tion educa cal musi in Boun tiful went on to finis h his gh his ta.len t~ throu tmm the in le poop to . thous ands of hours of pleas ure 1958, and When we found f'ad dead on tho morning of August 31,1 t belie ve n could we e, befor day the since lmew he must have been dead k, arrl have it could be possi ble. ile think he died of a hear t attac hter, Beat rice Call praye d that it was sudde n. Ho is survi ved by a daug R. (Harco) Mo.bey, five grand child ren, John Haes er ;,fa.bey, Hrs. John n .Alten Ha.bey, C-ushing, David steve n Ea.bey, Karl Call }:a.bey, and Gordo arrl now two great -gran dchil dren. ~alt rad spent the list t-wo years of his life working in theletely comp be to d seeme and work Lake Temple. He dearl y loved thiw other s is a happy in it. His genui ne inter est in the welfa re ofis the resu. lt of and rs, siste and -cha racte ristic of all his broth ers and devo tion being reare d in a home fille d with love, cons idera tion that is Fathe r and l.fother who were bless ed with the goodness nzy Heaver.: from thank I endowed by God above to a few of his chose n spiri ts. er and the Hoth and ather : the or born be to Fathe r ror allow ing me Grarx ipare nts I have been pribi leged to know. te to my Presi dent Chris tians en has writt en a beau tiful tribu te. tribu that with ry histo fathe r, arrl I -would like to concl ude his a II JOHN C.lil.l., man "One of the great est tribu tes that can be given to any Call Broth er John is that he can be trust ed. IN this respe ct I found at the top of the list. dable in his assig ned 11 Not only was he trust wort hy and depen am humi lity. He ..rent ty tasks , but he had a rare comb inatio n of abili antne ss and polit epleas , ility about his tasks in the temp le with gent reali ty the serva nt in was he se becau ness. He was· one of the great est al way and consider of all who waite d upon .his breth ren in the most meni · it an honor to do so. by his "He was lovab le and he was loved . We were saddened of our se becau sudden passi ng. but wa have all been made bette r men y. assoc iatio n with him._ Ho was an hono r to a great famil · "God bless his m~mory. Beat rice Call Mabey Eay 22, 1960 Since rely, El Ray L. Chris tians en. P~si dent Salt ~.ake Temple IE BEATRICE LAW CALL CHILDREN OF JOHN ANSON CALL AND ANN Rut h Ca 11 Ken neth Joh n Ca I I A I ten Law Ca I I Bea tric e Cal I Mabey ... ---.~·· ' J. • ..::.l .. v-·u::. In the year of 18?6, Israel Call and I1odora '.-)l:tlto Call and their baby son "Isrnol Jowcn woro called by 3righo..'ll Yougn to movo to .Arizona to holp sottlo th.at country. Thoy wero to livo in tho United Order in Lot Smith's comp~ or under Lot Smith. On the 14th of 'Ccccmbor 1876, 1-: othor gave birth to another son who uas nmnod John Anson, thon on tho Zlst of r.-ecembor, 1878, I was born. I was rather a small child with a fair complexion, blue eyes and cotton white hair that was thin and strnggloy. .Thero isn't much that I can remember of our community, but there are a few things that do stand out. ·.-;e lived in .a square fort, I believe, with roads running through and tho homos built against oach other with a large house in tho center whore tho women took turns (two weoks at a time), doing the cooking. We all assembled there for our meals. There wer long tables and we .a..U ate together. 1,/hon any of the children needed shoes or clothing of any kind, thoy wore sent to Brother Smith to tell them of their needs. Tho company had its oim shoomal<:e1•, - doctor, etc. I was blessed on tho 6th day of February, 1879. I ranomber when I was a very small girl, lfother sent me and Is1•ael out the ,roodpilo to gethor some chips to build the fire •• Brother Savage was cutting "rood and a stick new up and struck mo in the forehead and laid rrry head opon and knockod mo unconscious. They carried me into ono of the houses and when I cam to my head was aU bandaged. From that time on, Bl"Other Sava.go was very dovoted to me. to I romomber tho- old gallows whore -they would slmightor their cattle tor market. We children used to go there and swing. There were a lot of Indians ·who came to the fort to trade. I remember there r78ro some old Indians that would bring me trinkets, but I was always a litt1e shy' of than. I wi'.Ll never forgot tho time I brought home a thimble I had picked up in the neighbor's dooryard.. 1-Iother thought I had taken it out of the house and sh_e told me to take it back and ·tell them I was sorry. I told ;1other that I wouldn't, and I got one of the hardest whippings that I ever got in my life. !lo'ther was so anxious that we all be strictly honest. The corn.paey had lots of cows and ran a dairy. Tho women did the work at tho dairy. one time while Hother was _w orking there, John wandered o·ut of tho house and fell in tho river. One of the men found him rloating downstream and got him and for two hours thoy didn't know whothor ho 1-rould live or not. Anot~10r time, wI:1i1.o at tho dairy, tho women were skimming the cream off all tho ~lk, preparing to chu1•n. Somo of us children were up on the table p~ar,ing with tho sc:°cns they had put over the pans of milk, ,Jhen I fell and b:i: o.,o my right ann in. the elbow. The men set tho bone as be st they could and put slats on to hold it in place, but it being summer, the flies got under the slats and blowed the .,round and the maggots grew and it was surely painful. Brothor Lot Smith brought mo an apple a time or two and I don't remooibor of anything tasting so good. I have often wished that I could find an apple ~hat tasted as good as those apples did. ;·le nevor had apples except at Christmas tizno. I remember one timo going with tho women to gather wild goosoborries t?oro wore a groat many thorns on the bushes. I also remember catchin ' first ~ish. I had a bent pin for 9: hook. I got it up and it fell in~iap and I JUmped up and screamed and threw it back into the wator. I didn't want to fish arzymoro. Ono .~ime Mother was working intho kitchen and Father was off with the cattle. r.other had built a fire in the fireplace before she left arxi told Israel to get tho chi.1.dren dressed and washed for breakfast. It being winter, m.y brot~er, Vasco, was standing by tho fire and his nightgown caught on fire. ho ran out of doors and the wind blew it aO'ainst his body Th0 burn almost cost him his life. 0 • 1:lhile in J\rizonn, Hothor lost hor eye-sight. Hy oldest brother had to lead her rto tho _cous so she could milk them, then lead her back to the house. Lother used to sit and knit for the other women while they did her housework. Her eyes got so bad that she couldn't tell one of her 0 ~ children when they came into the house oxcopt by their voices. In tho fall of 1884 or 188.5, Father and Hother were released to come bac~ to Utah to have !{other's eyos t;reated. So in October, 188.5, Father · !:1'rivod in Bountiful with six children, his wife, and a team and wagon., ne loft his second wife and family in .Arizona, having provided them with : a homo there. i-1hon we left Arizona, we couldn't bring all of our things. I had a 1--rruc dol.1 that I prized very much, I also had a little sowing machine that would se.1 by turning the handle; those things I had to leave behind. . It was a long 't thin k I ovo1• had one that tine befo re I got anot her doll and·· I don er hnd to do all of tho cook mean t so much to me. On our wny home, Fath od whon ho bnkc d it in the dutc h ing. I rmei r.ber how good the bren tnst ovon . some of thorn wore so so..."l.dy that Road s '\\-ero not like thoy nre toda y, it easi er for the · hors es. i·Jhen we cruno to l."8 a..U hnd to walk to make we had to cros s a VC'J.'Y high and tho Colo rado Rive r bofo re we cou.l d cros s, to cnn'Y rock s to put undo r tho rugg ed mou ntain . 1-:othor and tho boys had Fnth cr let tho hors es rest . when wagon wheo ls to keep it from goin g back ~,'hen wo got to tho ri vor we had Tho ~oun ta.i.n wa.s cnl.1.cd Leo 's Back bone . n o.nd hors es on tho fen7 and to bo fcrr iod acro ss. They 1·an the wngo on. Tho rnon took rope s and held :-:oth or and wa chil dren sat unde r the ·wng It migh t have been a thri ll to thc:n to keep it from goin g do,m stroa m. call ed Loe 's Forr y. hnd it not beon ·so dang erou s. This was a. livi ng nnd st.a.r t from the Uc had n prot ty hard stru gglo to make dfat her lot us live in n litt le botto m lrhen we arriv ed in Bou ntifu l. Gran deal .. tJc wo1'0 mndo to feel kick ed nbou t a good adob e hous o nr.d we ,-,ore Then comi ng into Utah in the a good ::w.ey time s thc.t we wcro in the way. comi ng from such a warm clim ate, fall when a lot of tho frui t u-a.s on nnd com plain t. I W1.l sn' t yot sovo n and ·with v:O all got sick with sturanor almo st onti roly . I uas very !-: othe r almo st blin d, I had to tond Che ster yone who spok e to mo. ever ly bash ful and shy and was afra id of near Call . He carr iod a cnne I was nh:-a ys fri~ hten ed of my Grnn dfa.th er , he woul d ·thre aten to uso his nnd if you did ru-.y thing that ho didn 't like ca.no on you. t wint or. I don 't know how wo got thro ugh tho firs in the sunuuort:Lne, bunc hI used to ,rork o·ut in tho fiel d a. good deal d I coul do to earn a litt le ing vogc tablo s, pick ing frui t, 01• nnyt hing on Sntu rdny I woul d wash nnd il·on monoy. I i!OU.l d have only one dres s and ol. In t..½o sumrno1· I ucnt it so th.'.l.t I ,~ou.ld be clea n fo1· Sund ay Scho or I ,:ou1 d wear rrg shoo s wint tho bare -foo ted unti l I ,-rns n big gil'l ; in so them lri t!1 tel.lo w so that I a.l.l ucck and then on r~tu rc.ny I uou.l d groa cou.ld 1~ear the;-:i on .:.undnys. I ncvr :r s~,~ n :r tcliu f Soci ety Thro11;;h :•.1 1 our pove rty and ha1•d ti.mo s, s litt lo dona tion , so::iotirnos o. teac her co~o into Olll' homo with out Foth cr' or, some time s a bnr of soap , hut f0".r c:;,:;s, · so!·io ti'1.c s s0r.~ctir.1os so:r.o butt t~u,i ;ht that ::.1' .:o cm•noc1 o. do:U ar, alwa ys so~c t~in; _;. ,'.nc ~'.c chil dren were ten cent s of it ~-rl'.C for ti thin ;:. didn 't get thro u rzh t he Hy scho olin g was so much brok en into thnt I I had to stay at ~ho:u c scho ol~. 1:oth or' s hool th \-ms so poor thnt grad e and help o. gron t deal of tho timo . such a block hoo.d . I do lay blam e to that for rrry bcin z · · derf ul time s. Our homo was ,11th all of our povo rt-J, ue had somo won come . Fath er i-ais sd his o,m a plac e wher e tho youn g poop lo love d to a w-oek pass ed in tho win wr cane nnd mado mola sses from it n.nd hard ly le 1n the popc orn and ma.~o · thnt we didn 't havo some of tho youn g peop cand y. call ed into the choi r. When I was abou t fm.J.rtoon or .f'if't eon I wns a Call. And. arson , Will ia..'11 i,.;ad1-le form ed a qun rtot: John , mys elf, Varn with us. Ho wero cnll e d on do-ups, and sa..1ot:iincs Rctt io Haddo·ups sang samo crow d, but Fath er was v ocy to sing a good deal . i;o all ran in tho ol he wou ldn't let ne go out stri ct with mo. W~en I was goin g to scho e wns scho ol tho next c..:.y. to a part y or stay out afto r nine when ther didn 't appr ove oft vary many of I had quit e a few boyf rien ds, but Fath er ied the bost man ,I ovor we nt them . Fnth or has alwa ys said that I marr ght soma of thciri wore prot ty 1dth and I agi•oo ·with him, . o.lth ough ·r thou Sue ll. •.re cous in Vorn a Call It,y most trea sure d and best frie nd wns rrry .. til:lo somc day ~ eve ly near ther live d clos o toge ther and we wcro toge d woul ~nu tos. · Someti.-ncs I duri ng tho dny if it wero only for a fow s time some her gran dnot hor and stay l:ith her all nir;h t. Sho livo d with nnd rs stai d cree p doun tho afte r her gran cmo thor got to ·sloc p, wo woul crea .~od, so we woul d cmm t that stop ono o·ut tho fron t door . Ther o was d step ove:i;- it. unti l we ca.mo to that ono r. nd then wo woul with Erne st Thompson ~ Cnc tine Vern a and I wont to Cho sterf ield in Ha.rch arrl was cold . ! bclir fvi 1 Vorn a' s Fath er• s ol<l buck boar <l. It wns . I stay ed up thm· c nearl y twi: it 'tras thro e days that uo woro on the road •rlll and step ped out 1ri th him Ib.onths. I met n man by tho namo of Ed I:01 me onco afte r I got ho:r.o, but soe whil o I uas up thcl. 'o. Ho c.ir:10 do1m to was tha.t . neit her Fath er or Isra el lil~o hir.1 ---so that to Lew iston to visi t thci Afto r Vern a and P.:onry 1re1·0 ma.1-ricd, I wont tho 11th of Apr il, 1901 ( J osep h and mot my husb and. ;10 woro mari •icd on · Borg eson ) wo live d with Joe' s ·noth c r. Thu firs t surr.mor afto r we woro r.w.i ·riod , d in the homo his fath er us od t In tho fru.1 wo moved to :Uchmond and live o,m • ,. our first child, Josoph !;oVon ' 1as born Februai,y 8, 1902. of tho mud,:1iost ,drrtcrs I have ever seen. J:'uring that winter, house on some of .Joo' s :-:other's land and after fixing it up we it and ·u ved there until the spring of 1909 whon we bo·ught the home. It was one wo mo•rod a moved into old Brewer In the spring, r-~arxh 22, 1903 :Udrea Clifford was born and in September 1903 IeVon was run over by a woagon and killed. It was a great shock and I was very thankful that I had Sldred. Before teVon was born I had a dream. I dreamed that I was at -Lagoon and we wore looking at the animals. I thought I was carrying a baby boy in my arms and I thought that when we came to the be~r's den that he "'ave a lunge and went out of my arms to the bear's den arrl I saw the baby torn limb from limb before they could get him out. l fter Levon's death t mourned and could not become reconciled to it until one day a:U at once it was like someone spoke to me and. said, " ;}by you knew that he would be takbn; 11 Then the dream came before mo and I felt that it hAd been & warnmg 'to me. t~ring this time Eldred was a great comfort to me. AugJ~; 26, 1904, I gave birth to a _b right blue-eyed baby girl, She .was ajoy to me. She was always smiling and happy. Th.it I · didn't have •:tong to enjoy our babies as I - soon gave birth to another boy. We called him Sheldon and he . was born on the 1st of J·une 1906. Each of the children brought their joy and their work, but through it all I thanked God for them. When they were very small they learned to be help.tu1. on Arata. When Sheidon was born there were three of us ·women after Sister Jensen, the midwife, at the same time. Maggie ~-Iil.liam' s George was born first, then FI1II11a Hyer' s A.lice was born ( they were born Hay 31) then Sheldon came the next morning. Some people thought I should name him Brigham .Young because he was born on his birthday. · Ori the 18th of November, 1908, Rulon made his appearance. .He was so different from my other babies. 1.- lith his black eyes and black hair he looked like a little papoose to the side of the other little toe-heads. It's needless to say how proud we. were of him. in While I was bed with Rulon Aunt iv:arie died. Bergeson' s second wife. Sho was 3randpa .\ year from the next spring ,re :noved to the .3rewor home• one rdl.e west and a quarter of a milo north of the home in which we were living. rt took us fro::n the Lewiston 1st ward. :;e moved in 1\pril and the next August 22, 1909, Thora came along to live with us on a sunny Sunday morning. She was so different from Rulon with her cotton whit~ hair and her crooked but happy smile. But, oh how glad we were for another little girl. We had a ha.rd time getting hor nanied Thora, because as Brother Rigby blessed her, he tried several times to name her Cora. He tho-ught it was :COra for my mother and we had to stop him several times. ~·ii.th the month of roses, June 29th, 191.1, Arnold brought his broad smiling self to us - and who could resist his grin? Someone gave him a dime for his birthday and he paid his first time after he was baptised to the Bishop for tithing. (We taught our children that it was right to tithe their money after they were members of the Church.) Cn the .following June 3, the horse on which he was riding fell on him and killed him. On the 20th of February, 1915 Nell came with dark brown hair and dark blue eyes arrl a very ·fair complesion, but she didn't stay with tis long - Just a few months - and then she died suddenly with what the doctors said was paralysis of the. throat. I don't think I ever saw a ~rattier corpse, she was a beautiful baby. One cold night in January (January 10, 1917) our seventh boy, Philip came along to fill my arms and gladden my heart and to help to take care of the sting of death. On April 22, 1919, little June came to ble ss our home. She was another dark-headed ll ttle girl w.l th smiling blue eye s. Hhen she was nearly two years old she contracted prurumonia and was very sick for three months. She had two operations on her lungs, we called in three doctors and we had the elders in to administer to her time and again. The Lord he ard and answered our prayers and she is now married and is a beautiful little mother. the 28th of August, Lorine . was given to us to love and Then on ca.re for, but for a short time. She lived seven months and then the Lord called her back home to Himself. ! have the faith and knowled ge that I will hs.ve rny fou.r lovely childre n ngain to love 11hen I go on the other side if I but keep my myself in harmony and keep the covenan t that I ha.'118 made. That is respon sibility . I run very proud of rr;y childro n and their wives and husban ds, every one of thom -- there isn't one that we don't love. I am proud of tho livos they are living. There have been tiines, I guess, when I have not measure d up to their expect ations. Perhaps I have failed t at ti..'lles, but I have tried in my weakne ss to do the things I thou3h right. I ~nt to toll my childre n that they have a good noblo father who had stood by me a.nd given me encoura gement when the way seemed hard and a.lt1ost more than I could bear. His faith in his God was el.ways unwave ring. I suppose I should list a few of the things that I tried in my humble way to assist with in a church capaci ty. I was. called to act as second counse lor in the Y.L.?-:. I.A. Soptem ber 1, 1905. I served one wintor , spring and sum."!ler, and then as Sheldon I was sr.iall, I ·c ouldn' t work the next winter and so I ·was roloase d. in was called as a Relief Society teache r in rovemb er 1906, nnd acted 1909. of spring tho in wnrd 2nd the to moved that capaci ty until we I served also in the followi ng cape.ci ties: Teacho r 2nd Ward Primary First Counse lor in Primary Preside nt of Y.L.H. I.A. Primary Counse lor and Pres. Preside nt of Y.L.1-I. I.A. Preside nt of Relief Society 1910-1912 1912-1913 1913-19 14 1914-1917 1917-19 2.l 1924-19 27 · About three years ago I receive d a blue ribbon for acting as a Relief Society teacher of twenty years. In all my work I suffere d terribl y because of my handica p of lack of educati on. I determ ined, wh9n I was first called to act in a church n . capacit y that I wou.ld sacrifi ce a grent deal to see ~at my ch11dro educagood n with a.11 thom seo to lived havo had their chance and we tion nr.d able to meet life arrl make a good livelih ooc. lay . And nO\-: we have come to a time ·in o·ur livos whon wo have had to off most of the strenuo us work and take life easier , but whon I run of r.o more uso to manh.-ind, I run rondy and willing to go on. I do apprec iate all of my chi.ldre n and want them to. know that we so love thein a:Ll. ·Hother (Compi led Octobe r 30. 1943) (~his last written in Juno, 1960) After we sold the farm to Philip, ];ad's blood pressur e was so high that tho doctor ordered him off the farm, as he couldn 't let the work hor:,e and 1-:orry a.lone. ~1o moved in August , 19h2, to Cal t l.a.ke :ity in a work got Dae since. over here lived havo nnd ale ; !-· Ol-mcd by Thora and . £1.t odd jobs ns a janitor in s01uo of the stores, he also helped ..rl.th the ·up-keep of the lawsn. It helped us some, ::hi.lip was paying us some each mo~th and still doos, to help with oxpens es. Then :Cnd got what the doctors claimed rs was Dorgor s Ciseaso in his leg. Although we went to sevotru . ·docto d nputatc a. . ' it have to it contir.u cd to got worse until finally he had six inchos abovo the knco. He lived two years after his ieg was a~puv e r,1 to.tod. :~ost of this time he spent in a wheel chair. He ·Mfore d all. it through l. cheerfu ar:d sive much uith it, but ho 1ta.s very submis Ee passed away tho 10th of July, 1948, at tho age of 75. !,fter I moved down to . Salt Lake City, I 1-:,as called as a visitin g · tenchcl ', theri as tho quilt directo r for which I act~ for 12 yea.rs. I have done somo temple work for tho dead and still . go occasio nally, althoug h I don't do as much as I should. d :::n the S1.UlllllCr of 1958 I wont to visit !lulon a.nd Sheldon in Portlan , plane by travel _end ::cattle . /\lthoug h I have always said I would 'not to the fnmily persuad ed !'le. I arr:i,ved thero C!~ but .- r am not anxious ropcat the trip. a dinner for my brother s Cn my 80th birthd:. ty the chl.ldre n had homo. i:-rnny of tho friends ny at house and sisters and later on a open experie nce. won,~or a was it and mo soc and rclati vc c;.une to In closin3 . I •,wu.ld li1rn to sny somoth ing about rr;y fnrnil:,r. I hac. 12 chi.1cro :r.. Four of theffi diod in infanc-,.1. Of tho oight chi.1c·o n living, ll.J.1 h::ivo nwrric,: '. well, nnd ho.vo happy, woll-ad justcd. hor:c s. t ho ' c h~•.vc continu ed to h.:ivo a closely !:nit fc1..1r.ily group. .Saven of ir:. · vo acti · oight ,~ere .r.Drrie d in tho L. :c. s. ':'omplo and ha vc continu ed the charch. :-:o have had a bishop, a bishop• s counsel oi-, a high · councilm an, prosiden ts and superint endents of a:U tho auxiliar ios, members hip on Stake boru.•ds, ·ruxl so on. The family. has al.so boen active in civic orgo.niz ations: members hip in Lions Clubs, Cicy Go·uncils, traft 3oards, P.T.A. and so on and two (ono female) of the children have servod on Boards of Educatio n. Three of tho fivo boys fillocJ I.. r. s. Nission s. Five of tho eight children graduato d from college - throe with :r.asters l:'ogreos. · Of tho three rema.inin g, ono had a special courso in dross-ma king and tailoring, one graduato d from Business . Col.lego, and the othor had two yoa1·s of collego. None of the trunily are wealthy but all have good or.iplo;pnent. Eldred (Ethel) i& JuvoniJ,.e Probatio n Officer for Salt l..a1rn County and lives in Salt Lake City. Al·eta (Conrad) :COney, lives in Franklin , Idaho, where she am .hor husband have a i'arm and mink ranch. Sheldon (:-rolba) is Field t':1.recto r of hmerican Red Cross at Fort Lawton an1 lives in Seattle, Washing ton. Rulon (:COro~ ) is Chief Land 1,:anagerno nt for the north-·w est division C:ashing ton, Oregon, and Idaho) for the Indian Ser-· vice. His affine is in Portland , Oregon. Thora (Malcolm ) ;/atson is a Social ~;orkcr for Travele rs Aid Society , :; alt Lake City. Her husband is fuployo r Roprose ntative with the Departm ent of Employm ent Security . Al'nold (Mildred ) is an instruct or and pnrt time Adminis trator at San Diego Jr. College, s..,n Diego, c~liforn ia. Philip (Faye) hns a dairy farm at Levdston , Utah, arxl also works part ti.'lle with the .l\.gricul tural ste.biliz ation and C:onserv ation Committ ee. He is Vice-cha irman of the county. June (Frank) Swallolf works with her husband in the Crystal- oen Corpora tion, Sttlt Lake City, of which he is owner arxl manager . I have JO grarrlch ildren arrl 12 groat-gr andchild ren. Six of the grandch ildren (J girls and J boys) ne rnarriod . Five of ther:e grandson s am grandso ns-in-law have graduate d from college, the othor '. 1i1l graduate in tho spring. Five have filled L. D. s. Missions an::i ::~·; o were married in the L.r.s. Temple. At the present time there i" one grandch ild on n mission, three in college- (one working on his :COctora te) one teaching nt the branch state College or Cedar City, and three housewives. The rest of the grandch ildren are of high school age or younger . All are active in the church and school. I have tried in tT\Y' _way to be holp:f\i.l to some of my children and grandohi l.dron with tT\Y' hand work and I hope whon my usefulne ss is no more, I am :ready to go. 1 am very proud of my faml ly and I do apprecia te them and ·want · them to know that I love them al I. With all my love, Addle Bergeson CHILDREN OF MEDORA ADELAIDE CALL AND JOSEPH BERGESON Joseph DeVon Bergeson Eldred Clifford Bergeson Arata Bergeson Doney Israel Sheldon Bergeson Rulon Call Bergeson Thora Bergeson Watson Arnold Verne Bergeson Horace Bowen Bergeson Ne 11 Bergeson Ph I I 11 p Eugene Berges(:., June Bergeson Swallow Lorene Bergeson LIFE OF VASCO CALL (1880 1, Vasco Cal I, was born July 24, 1880 in Sunse t, Apache County, Arizon a. My father and mother had been called to help settle the countr y with a number of other saints in the Spring of 1876. They lived In a fort on the Little Colora do river which ac~orrmo- didated 36 famili es. The Fort was bui It of logs that stood perpen cular and each faml ly occup ied a room with a door and a ,,.Jlndow. 1ays The rooms were bul It togeth er to form a rectan gle with two drive\< closed open Into the square . Heavy gates to these openin gs were kept agains t Indian attack . The faml Iles lived the United Order and the were office and councl I house; the community dining hal I and kitche n pig and calf n, chicke shop, ter carpen The . bui It within the square pens, the blacks mith shop and vegeta ble garden were immed iately ls. on the outsid e of the Fort. Some of the rooms were used for schoo r. anothe Jane Aunt My mothe r had one room and I was the fourth chi Id and the third son of Israel Cal I and Medora iful, White. \tlhen I was four years old the family moved back to Bount too got I when fire caught e nighti my Utah. It was In the fort that s close to a burnin g log in the firepl ace and the scars sti I I remain er Broth but t Sunse at le whl on my leg. Mother lost her eyesig ht she George Teasd ale promised her that if she would go back home thatto went and family her up picked would be healed whereupon father Bount iful. I was then five years old. I went to school and when I was twelve I went to live with Aunt ued Mary, Grand father Cal 11 s first wife. I did her chores and contin In school unti I the spring of 1897, I attend ed the Latter -day led Saints Colleg e for the fol lowing two years and then In 1900 enrol In the missio nary class in the same schoo l. In the spring of 1900 my Uncle James George, his son and I went toy Big Horn Country in Wyoming which was being coloni zed by a compan uff of Latter -day Saints under the leader ship of Apost le A. o. Woodr, Cowley at of Salt Lake City, Utah. I bui It a one-room log house ~/yomlng. We starte d from scratc h in a barren countr y that needed a water, roads, people and everyt hing else that goes to make up and meet community. Four years later I return ed to Bount iful to marry Maude Dobie, June 8, 1904 in the Salt Lake Temple. We were · marrie d by John R. Win i r. EXTRACTS FROM MAUDE CALL'S DIARY ARE INTERESTING IN DETAIL: \•/e had corres ponde d for some time as I grew up in \•limberly, Texas and by pre-ar rangem ent had planne d to be marrie d when I came to Salt Lake. \'ie left immediately for Cowley, \'/yarning and soon estab1ished oursel ves · in the one-room cabin with a sod roof and rough oven f Joor. ~le I ined the room with chees e-clot h and had a handv1 born. was Id chi fourth rag carpe t. We lived In this home unti I our Texas rly, \'limbe to Before Max was born, I took the childr en back to visit my people . 11 "I suffer ed with hayfev er and asthma and my doctor advise d me to try anothe r clima te. In September 1920 vte left old \'Jyoming and spent the winter in Bount iful, Utah where our last chi Id Hele n v!e was born. The fol lowing spring we went up to Gooding, Idaho. I lved in that vicini ty for five years but never felt I ike making it our home so this time to Macdoel, Califo rnia where Vasco andt our son Lester had gone to prepar e a home for us. Vasco bough a 80 acres of land and then found that the Irriga tion Company v1as swind le; clima tic condi tions were unfavo rable to my health and it was a poor place to raise a faml ly so •11e moved to Gridle y, Cal ifornla in March 1927. · In Gridle y I bui It .a home on a small acreag e and the family became a part of the community. Dora, our eldes t chi Id, had marrie d with while we lived in Idaho. Ruth found her husband whl le I iving father at Bount iful and the others marrie d their mates in and around Gridle y. It was when I was working at the high school that I con tracte d als. tracoma in 1935 and for the next ten years I was bl ind at interv 1.:rn s days those In given ent treatm the I suffer ed extrem e pain and than the diseas e as they used b I ue vitro I sticks right in the eyes. In September of 1944 I had just come from the hospit al in San Franci sco and being in the High Counci I of the Gridle y Stake, I m_et \'11th the brethr en and ~vith Steven L. Richar ds 1-;ho and was visiti ng at the Stake Confe rence, I asked for a blessi ngthat and n missio a on go would_ I Elder Richar ds promised me that I wou Id be ab le to read the script ures. I left for the Northw,estern States missio n in Octob er 1944 and I labore d in The Dalles Oregon and in Aberdeen, Washington. After return ing home, Maude became very sick due to an accide nt where she and Ruth col I ided with the electr ic train, She never re~cv~red but was an Invalid untl I her death December 24, 1948. Th 2 n I f".\ecam!'! a 1•1andered as I left horne lrrrnediately . During the year 1949 I visited all the temples on the continent and I lklng t,e Arizona Temple the best, decided to make my home there. On Fe~ruary 20, 1950, President Payne set me apart as a Temple Ordinance 1.-:orker where I remained unti I July 1959. was a busy time as I worked day and night and the work was was miraculousl y healed when I had a blood clot form rewarding. I lfe was despared of. I was in the hosp Ital and my and let in my notified but after I had been administere d to, been had my family in size and I walked out a wel I man. nomal again rny leg was This Fol lowing are offices that I have held In the Churc~: 1892 1895 1898 1900 1902 1910 1921 1921 1944-45 ~ountiful, Utah Secretary in the 3d Ouoru~ of Decaons P.ountiful, Utah Second C-ounci lor In Teacher" 0uorum Rount i fu I, Utah Secretary of Drlests 0uorum Bountiful, Utah Ordalnnd an Elder Cow I ey, Wyom Ing Ouorum Elders In Teacher home as missionary apart set and Seventy a Ordained 0rdalned a High Priest Set apart as Second Councl lor In Gooding Aishoprlc Missionary North Western States Mission I surprised my family by announcing my coming Special apnolntmen ts; Stake Secretary of Sunday Schools in Big Horn Stake. First Councilor In HcDoel Rranch, First Assistant Superintend ent in Religion Class, !3ig Horn Stake, McDoel, California. Sunday School teacher and President of MIA in the Llbertv Ward, Gridley Stake, µember of the Gridley Sacra~ento Oistrict · Sunday School Board. High C-ouncilor in the Gridley Stake 1934 IQ48. Stake 11issionary in the Gridley Stake In the years 1945-1947. Esta was made an ordinance worker In Apri I 1954 and we both continued in that work untl I July 1959 when we Nere set apart to be missionarie s at the Liberty Jail at Liberty, Missouri in the Central States ~ission. Set -,part as a TP.mnle \·J orkar February 20, 1951 an_d \'lnS released in .July 1959 to <JO on a mission to the Central States ~~isslon. was Teacher in adult ~unday School In 7th \•lard, 1954 - 195Q. '·-'Yornin~. Cowley, in 192() and 1910 in Fnumr.rat~r Censum U.S. Co,.,ley City Assessor, to Mrs. Esta Tnmple on Arizona the in consumated was Sarager of Phoenix which alona celebrate to 1 came· Dora and ldred ~1 February 4, 1954. Later fo; ~ife dear his and 80\'1en Uncle with !:sta's far,,! ly. \-Je visited our honeymoon. This mission had been rewarding. '-'le have told the story of the rnssourl •~ormon episode to many tourists and 1<1P. never ti re tel I Ing it. We have found where grandfather Anson Cal I was here with the saints in the years 1835~1839 and he suffered the persecution s that was poured out on the saints during their sojurn here in ~qssouri. This region of the country Is full of historical interest because it was at Independenc e 1-Jhere the Prophet Joseph said the Garden of Eden was and at Adam-0ndi-Ahmen was where Adam was cast out of the garden and where the human race began. Independ ence is where the beautiful city of the New Jerusalem wl I I are in be bui It and the Temple where the Christ wi 11 return. the Kansas City Stake and the Liberty Ward and have enjoyed the association of these good saints. hope that. I may return As we are soon to return to homP, in •-.1 esn, more rewarding been has work that as Temple the in to my duties done. ever have I than any church work that . I wl I I say that the Lord has blessed Me in many ways and saved my I ife on several occasions. I bear you my testimony that I know that the Gospel Is true; that if we will live it and keep the co~mandment~ of God all the days of our lives, there wi I I be a glorious resurrectio n for us. Vasco Ca 11 Post Script, by Lester D. Call, Son. Some of my earl lest memorir.s in Cowley, \.'1yorrilng were of 83d .tal<ing part In plays in the ward. I~ was gifted in acting and reciting poetry and was always prepared to oerf6rm w~en ever asked. He has always heen a loving and kind father to us children and thounh In poor material circumstanc es throughout his I lfe, he was al~av: anxious to do al I in his power to provide for us that which we needed • oad has always been a hard worker and was respected ~ y al for whom he worked. L those curing the many years he was janitor of the Gridley Union High School, Dad was always popular with both the students and teaching personnel alike. I don't believe any teacher or member of the administrative staff ever wi I I be remembered for good more than Dad Is to this day, The many Inquiries about his health and wel I being from those who knew him at that time attest to this fact. Yes, Vasco Cal I: \~e are ill proud to honor you on this occasion of presenting a few historical events of your life, Your life is ful I of good deeds to others, unselfishness, good humor, honesty, hard work, integrity and an unshakable faith in the Gospel. Our lives wi II ever be Influenced by the good example you are. CHILDREN OF VOSCO CALL AND MINA MAUDE DOBIE CALL Ruby Medora Cal I Davenport Lester Dobie Cal I Mattie Ruth Call Naylor Tarancon Max Oob i e Ca I I Carma Cal I Pryde Douglas Helen Call Doering data. She was nine years old because every time they µlanned to baptize her, she would run and hido. She was so afraid of the water, she knew they would drown her. HISTOitY OF LlTIA CAIJ, HA1JCOCK 1881,:_ . ~dia was born in Sunset, Al•izona, l!ovomber 9, 1881 to Israel Call and Jane Lucinda Judd Knight. Sunsot was located just three miles east, across the Little Colorado R1ver from Hlnslow, 1\r:tzona. 'I'hore is no f"own there now and about the only . markings to s ow tnere was one is in the cemetery. Grandfath er Israel Cnl.l and his two wives, Medora and Jane were living in the fort. Arizona was just being settled and they had been ca.U.ed there · by the Church. It wns the srune as a mission call. and they settled measles the had she old months four was Mother When was blind for She eyesight. poor had has she life her all so eyes, hor 1n Grandmot her's two years following .the illness. Uncle Joseph E. Knight, patient. · so child a seen never had he said marriage, former · a ~ ,on When the United order was abondoned in Sunsat,-G randmothe r Call moved to the Fort a~ 1'llen•s Camp near the present town of Joseph City, Arizona. In Grandfath er Call': s _history we find recorded that in 11 Janua.ry 1886 Gl'tlndfather returned to Arizona; purchased the Standifir d Ranch .near Ta~lor, Arizona on January 20, and moved his wife, Jane and her family onto it. He stayed there and farmed through the next summor and returned to Bountiful , Utah, October, 1886. In the fall of 1888 he went again to Arizona and stayed through the winter and spring with his family there. After planting tho crops in tho spring on the Standifir d Ranch, he returned to Bountiful . This was the last time that he spent any time with his family in Arizona." This left Grandmother with nine children, seven by Joseph E. Knight Sr, and two by Israel Call, I,ydJ.a and !Jewel. They had lost a baby, Leonard, in 1889. Grandmot her's throe oldest boys went out to work to help take care of the family. Sho later sold the ranch and moved into Taylor. She bought a place in Taylor, and that is where 1!othor started to school. Her eyes wero bad and she had chi.lls and fovor, and to put. it in her words, "I didn't get very darn much schooling on account of my -: oyes." ( She says she remembers they used to play ball and sh·o was a regular _· There wasn't a fence, chbmey or anything else in Teyler that 11 Tomboyt 1• she hadn't been on_top of. Sho woul:'I walk on stilts that were so high she'd have to sit: on the roof to put them on. She wn s bupti. zed i.n Taylor b:• Lanuol Cnrdon. exact dato, " l rln•i1 n-· She doesn't know the lt ·;a~ in gay, 1890. Tho log school house, church burnt ·11 f·h·· r"'~"l'l"rlr- ""1 '0 h111•11c-:irl , r-n ~ho c1omm't 1mm: tho nxa~t b·.1t When she was about ten years old, her brother Joseph had work in Panguitch , Utah, and he wanted Grandmother to move up there where he,could better take care of them. So she sold her home in Taylor and movea to Panguitch . They lived in Panguitch for about a year. They were rentincr a place and Grandma had a nice garden just coming up good when the mru she was renting from saw it, so he told Grandma she would have to move. She found a house, got moved into it and that night she went back to herA~rde n with a sharp butcher knife and cut just under the groun, scf that the garden all died; she figured that was the reason he , wanted her to move. · 0 They moved back to Taylor, and Qrandma bought the home where · she lived until she moved to Hesa, Arizona. 11 Mother always went to Sunday School and Primary. We never missed a. chu~ch -with Mother for a Mother. 11 She says, One day when Mother was sixteen she was with Annie Hancock an Annie said, "Let's go over and see my cousin. 11• Dad had been si~k and Mother seys she fell for him right then. She had been going with his brother George before that. $he was married to Joseph Clarence Hancock, son of Joseph Smith Hancock and .Emily Davis Wallace on September 5, 1900• . They were married in Taylor by Bishop z. B. Decker They made their first home in TayU:,r in a little log house_. the first place his folks had built. They had then built a larger place, next to the log one. Later Dad moved it across the street south and east. Son,:.after they were married, Dad and Henry Mccleve got the c?ntract to mnke the brick to build the church. They built their kiln and fired the brick tn the same ya:rd where the chur ch was to be built. Henry and Dad used to take turns keeping the fire going in the kiln, because once it was started it had to be kept going day and night. The tempera.tu.re was kept the same. Dad .,."Ould tako tho wagon and team and go £or loads of Cedar wood to burn ~other tomboy again, liked to go with him. Grandniother worried ;bo~t her' ~oing because it was just before Clarence Regnald was born but • .-! other enjoyed being with Dad. Clarence was born October 16, 1901• . on May 1, 1903, Dad end Mother, with Clarence in the front seat ot a spring buggy, and Grandmother Hancock and the girls, Ida., _ Rose arrl May in the back seat were on their wa:y to the May Day Dance ~en they ha.d an accident, and five dqs later Grandmother Hancock passed away, May 5, 1903. On May 16, 1904·, their second son, Roy Judd was born. Shortly thereafter they bought their first home, just across the s~et west of Aunt Sophia's present home. They bought the p1ace from McCleves. They ha.d so badly wanted to go to the Temple, and in ootober of that same year, 1904, .they started to Salt Lake C~ty. There was an excursion going up on tho train for Conference, and the folks want in t hat company. It was quite a tripl There were noods am the- railroads were washed out, they had to route around, and by the time they ar r ived in Salt Lake City, the Conference was all over with. But on October 19, 1904 they went through tho Temple, got their own endol>ml.ents, were sealod to each other and ha.d the two boys sealed .to thEm. Hothor had written Grandfather Call, telling they were coming, and when they wou1d arrive. He was at the station when every train came in. But the7r.- were ton days late, so of couree Gr andfather wasn't there to meet them. him Mother didn't remember her Father. They hadn't seen each each other since she ~s such a small child, so it was quite a reunion when they finally got together. !-: other tells about how good Aunt Dora was to them, making their sta.y a pleasant experience to cherish. They stayed at Grandfather's home while they were up there, and dear to Mother's memory was the little crock of choke cherry jam Aunt Dora packed in with their lunch to be brought back on the train; the crock was . a cherished possession until broken only a few years ago. From the ti.me of their marriage, Dad had worked for soverfll different sheep companies. In November, 19~, Dad-was. hired by a Mr. Jackson to sta.y in Heb8r, Arizona with some cattle; he later was foreman for that Cattle Company. The only house that was available to live in was a tuo-roomed log house with no .ri.ndows. That winter there wore only two families living thoro, fJ.vie and Lizzie Porter and 11r. Hoyle, who kept a shall store. The otho1• :families moved into Holbrook in the winter.to ~t their children in school. I,u"dia Jane was born during the night ot February 18, 1907, and next morning the snow lzhich had :fallen during the night rea.ched to the top o:f the door. A Sister Stratton, the lllidwite, ·came from · Pinedale to care for Mother. Because Mother's health was so bad, the follov.1.rig summer a move was ma.de to Taylor, where the family stayed at Grandmother's until it was found necessary to seek a Doctor's . care. So in August of 1907 the little group left Taylor. They went to Holbrook in a lumber wagon, amking a bed in the wagon for Mother. Then they -went to Hosa, Arizona. by train. A nurse, Lillie Wakefield, cared for Mother, Grandmother taldng care of the three children and · Dad overseeing the entire group. Grandmother ~ned w.i th the family for one month, then re- . turned to her home in Teylor. Hother had been pu;t under Dr. Neilson' s care and her heal th had begun to improve._ :i.'he f'amily then rented a house just south of the corner of Maodoriald and First · · · Avenue. Various rontal houses serv~d , as homes f~r the next few years. It was in one of these, located on South D?-ew<St., that Mother a., waited the arrival of her fourth child. On August 31, :Il.909, when Russell arriv¥, Dad was w6rldng at Cortes, and arrived home next morning by .train. _That winter Dad sent for Grandmother to come down to st~ 'With I•. other, because his -work kept him away from ·b()me so much, running sheep in the Cortex ·area. The next spring Mother returned home to Taylor to spend tho sunnner, returning to Mesa to put --=--· Clarence and Roy in school that fall. In the fall of 19f0 a lot was purchased :in cuber dition and a one-roomed lmnber house was built for the fmiill.y by a B1'Undage, this being tho first home built in the subdivision. Grandmother, having sold hor homo in Taylor, bought a lot just west of the folks, where sho built and small homo in which sho · lived for tho rom~nder of hor life. Mr. !.fothhier' s he~;!-th improve<,h and sho startecht.eachi ne: in Primary, t eac ng botn boys and 0 ...r.Ls ciassos. T ere wOre two istors Genovievo and Enid Cooley whome she especia.1.ly romombers ~ecause' they woro so dependable. Later she worked in tho YW1•:IA presidency with Lyle :rewal, arrl Eva ·:1einman; she· also taught HIA classes. In Soptanbor of 1915 the home on :Iahorioy was rented and the family movod out between }:csa and Chandler on the highway, on an eo ·acre pieco of land, purchasing 30 hea<l of cows. Thora they operated a dairy for a number of years. In order to attend ~lma School that winter, tho child1•en drove by horse and buggy tho eight 11dl.es. It rn.inod almost continually for six weeks that winter, but ovor-.1 10.orri:tng l-!othor managed a dry quilt for us to use along with hot 1•ic:=s, to keep om: foot uarm. TvlO weoks after moving to this ho:no, a bab;:r girl, ~cy I..aPreel was born October 3, 1915, weighting about four pounds, and was delivered by L'r. B. !3. I(oeur. •\fter waiting for over six years for a baby, she was n renl prize to ail in the family. When La.Rreel was born Mother 'W1)s sehing(•as, Pres,.· ·of the·~Y.J.,;JI.:. 'I. 1'.• Dael would take care of the baby nnn the other children while ~laronco would tal<e mother in a 'two whoolod cart to ?-:utual. ·After t,10 yoars on that ranch, tho f~'tlly purchased a forty aero place on Extorsioh road, just one mile South of Hain St. ,.,,hero they would be closer to the church, school and town, and Dad wont bac'.~ into the sheep business, leaving ~other and the boys to :ror. the farm. The old hou!'e on the place was very roomy, though much out of date, but many happy memories romain of our life in that hor:ie. ::oweve1•, when the farm was woll under way, including a dairy, a now three bodroo;n modern home was built, and the old house was torn down. While living in this homo in June, 1918, ::other journoyod to Salt Lake, had a nice visit with the fmnily and did sorne Tc:np.lo work. :_other says wile she was in 3ountiful, Aunt Addia came down from Lewiston, :daho, and the three girls, Addie, Hattie and Lydia really hac a good time together. 'Upon returning to Nosa, she found that Grandmother, Jnne Lucinda Judd had suffered a stroko tho preceding night. :-!other believed that ~randmother recognized her when she got home, for Just a minute, but frorr. thon on she did not knoi.J' aeyono. She was stricken on Friday anrl fHtssed away on .1onday, Jul:,· l, 1913. :.::t vas oxtrcmc,ly sad cndinc; to n lovely summor. On Oct. 16, 1922, Clarence Regnald left l iesa to fulfill a mission to the Southern States. He served honorably, returning . home in November of 1921.}. 0 Jane became the bride of William Ray :.:cCle:Lla:n: on December 2J, 1924, being married in tho family home. The .Arizona Temple was so near completion that thoy decided to wait to be sealed thore. Four children came from that union, two of which died in infancy. Clarence married Sarah Katheryn ravis on September 1, 1925. 'l'wo children were born to them. On I)ecember 31, 1941 he married Eva Jones Peterson. Clarence married Sarah Katheryn Davis on September l, 1925. 'l'wo children were born to them. On December Jl. 1941. he married Eva Jones Paterson. While we were living on So. Extension, rfother was released as President of the Young Ladies' ·Mutual, and was selected to serve as President of the Primary. She was soon back in ?•: utual, though, working with the girls. ~lhen one of tho girls found that we were ·writing this hirtory, she sent us this note--"As a person matures (and. by that I mean when one is getting into the middle-age status) one's fondest memories turn to the adventures of her youth. And so it is that I ,rrite of an evont of long ago. It was at a Bee-F.ive over-night outing and in . the days when we had only to drive to the P.i ver and be far from the now spread-out }.iesa area. I remember it was hot--rea.l hot? We spent most of tho day swimming. Of course a counselor wo'lu.d always have to accompany us, and going in and out c the water so o:f'ten tested the patience of the teachers. But not · Sister Hancock; she was the only one willing to go sit on the hot ~oaks in the sun - or even wade, while we screamed and . splashed in the water. And oh, she was so much fun: "That night as we huddled around the camp fire, once more it was Sister Hancock who told the most thrilling and hair-raising incidents of the Pioneers, that sent frightening but delivious little thrills up and down .our spines, as we shared tho hardships and persecutions of the Saints I might add that today, as I give my Relief Society Literature lessons, I'm so happy and pleased when Sister Hancock comes, as she is always alert and. interested in rrry ondeavour-s and I have never seen her closo her eyes and doze right in the middle of Ben Frank- · lin or Ra.lph Waldo Etnarson! Thank you for these memories and many moro. God bless you always. Uith Love, Haude Cummard, 196.l r used to get on those trips tha.t Maude speak s about . MotheDel.la ha.d a boy eel. -La.Pr and ll i,eUa Jennin gs to stay with Russe toget her. times great had they and ll Russe named Fay the same ·age as , :,!othe r's mind was at ease wen t'ella was 'With the child ren. In 1927. when Mother was strick en .w ith a paral ytic strok e and to .town. away from the Doctor and Dad thoug ht it was best to move her a home at 224 t bough Dad ls, the work that livin g o-n a fs.nn entai away, and until d passe Dad where , Ea.st 1st Averrue. They lived there 1957. of ber ½othe r's accid ent in Septem of Af'ter the Octob er Confe rence in 1927, the First Presid ency dedithe the Church asked Grand father Call to come to Mesa. attend the Temple · cation of the Hes a Temple, and to instru ct the worker rsandofwile he Mothe in the begin ning of their work. He lived with her was there . It was a brigh t spot in Moth er's life, forr. it gave Fathe her With ' . the chance to become bette r acqua inted As mothe r's health improved• she first taugh t a class in Pri-ty. f Socie mary, then she was chose n as Second Counselor in the Relie elor couns first nger Messi Olive ar:rl dent Presi with Vida .Brint on as and Siste r Huber . as secre tary. 9. Perry Russe ll marri ed Dorothy ·Audrey Richa rds on November inin died three 1929. To this coupl e were born nine chi.ld ren; fancy . !-father was set apart as a Temple worker in Octob er of 1928. where she She worked there four years and has been called back since . time Dad's vorked in the cloth ing room for a short time. :CU.ring that health had begun to fail. In addit ion to her five child ren, she has twent y-thre e grand w". "escro in child ren and thirty -one great -gran dchil dren and two hope she· · Al.1 of us are grate ful for her life thus far, and we cal.l her to pro·ud all are We' has many more happy dn.ys hwere with us. ·our "Moth er". son as She worked as Couns elor in the Mutual with Lavaun Smith times at er teach ng visiti ty Presid ent. She was also a Relie f Socie . weak too e becam eyes her when throug hout her life, until in 1955, . to study the lesso ns. ber Roy Judd was marri ed to Daisy Franc es /J.len on Decem 25 · 19.'.34· to this union five child ren were born. ·on November' 19, 1958 h/ marrie d Jessie Grady; they have one child . Emily LaPre el was marri ed to James El.mer Crawford on her 20th ono birthd ay, Octob er J, 1935 in the Arizo na Temple. Thore was September · child born to them. She marri ed James Richa.rd Goodman on 16. 1939, and they have one child . he was For sever al years b~for e Dad passe d away on March 6~ 1949, or work, h Churc do to confin ed at homo, so Mother had little time passin g• aeyth ing that would take her away from home. After Dad's ing her break fell. she when ent, Hothe r lived alone until her accid the Mesa to home her sold had she this, to hip. Just a few days · prior in being School Distr ict. She suffe red a great deal with her hip, . After the and out of the hospi tal sever al times . havin g surge ry twicet 'With a metal last surge ry. when they had replac ed part of the hip socke pain and bal.1, she was in tracti on for eight days, causin g her much disco mfort . the · After this accid ent, she left the hospi tal, and staye d in rful wonde very all were says she whom homes of her sever al child ren, ·1nto a to her. Later , when she felt more sure of herse lf, she moved h. Churc Ward First the of east just • ey small apartm ent on E. Hahon her enjoy could she where Jane, to door next After a year, she moved of north company, nnd have a little help. Later she moved two doorsing her landhere. into a sma11 house , where she is much happi er, '. enjoy feel that she lady' s company very much. Her healt h isn't ideal . but we own house her do d. has been bless ed great ly, being able to get aroun ed templ e work, and being able to atten d her meeti ngs. She hak· attend e member_ activ an 1~ she Al.so, sessio ns on sever al occas ions recen tly. years . many for been has and of the "Daug hters of the Utah Pione ers", s, called friend ~t close her of many with She also belon gs to a small club ds .frien her ui.th ng visiti day's a her s afford the "Chee rio" Club. This · once ·a month. ' I~dia 's child ren, 1961 CirILDREJ; OF LYDIA CALL Al:U JOSEPH CLARENCE H.trnCOCK Roy Judd .Hancock Clare nce ~egin ald Hancock Perry Russe ll Hancock. l.lan 2-recle r~dia Jane Hancock Emily LaPre el Hancock Goodman · HISroRY 011' SCHUYLER CALL 1882I, Schuyler Call, am the ti:rth child of Israel Call and )ledora l'hite. I was born in the old Sunset :rort, A;pache County, ( now Navajo County) Al:'izona, J'une 6, 1882. I was born while my pa.rents wero on a settling mission in that part ot the country. All the people in the ooloDY' lived in the fort. Thay were living the lJnited Order and all ate at the same table. I do not remember any- at allot the place or the conditions there. While my parent• or n children wsre born: J'ohn .Anson, Jledora Adelaide, Vos'Co.., Schuyler, and Chester Monroe. thing lhed there, tiTe Jly ancestors were all sturdy pioneers--the type that has been on the 'frontier in making this a nation. I shall try and name tbea back to the tirst one who oame to Amer1oa in 1636. Ky rather, Israel Call, and my grandfather, Anson Call, tho son ot Cyril, son ot J'oneph , son ot ~amusl, Son ot .John, son ot Thoms.a, who settled in the N~ ·Engl.,md States. They have all been -very t'ine, sturdy, t'rl:Jgal mn. I am proud of my torebearera. Soon a~er I was 'three years old, the :mission at :rort Sunset was discontinued • .Al.l the people wero roledsad to come hom.a, includ-ag m.y- parents~ ltY mother had gone blind. Father wa.s advised by :Apostle Teasdale to take her back to Salt Lake City. It he wou1d do so, he pro~sed- Father, she would regain her sight. During that win. ter the 1n.t'eotion disappeared and she never had anyD>:re trouble with her . eyes. · It was hore in Bountiful they raised their family. Father had l:l&rt'ied another womn while in .Arizona. Her name was iane J'udd Knight; and as soon as he moved Mother to Bountiful, he went back to .Ari7.ona.. I we.• only three years old, but I well remember the l1 ttle adobe house we lived in. It was Gre.ruU'ather•s and stood back and to the north ot his big, brict house. We did not live there long. I pres'l.ll'» we children were too noisy tor Grandfather , ao moved into the little old two-roomed rock house down the street, north ot Grandfather's house, .but on his property. Here Mother raised and had the balance other tuuly, except tor Hettie, who was born at Grandmother Whit••~ place 1n 1"llll1ngton, Utah. She 118.S born while l"ather was still in Arbona. uncle Schuy-ler White moved us into the rock house. I do remeaber it. That ns in 1885 or 1886. My memory is keen about our livesin the iittle old rock house where m:y mother had the rest other family from Hettie J'ane down. Ambrose was the first one born in the.t house. I can rel!l8mber sone ot the things which happened there that made lite a drudgery on my Mother ; also many thillgs tbat were happy. Vas co has told about Mother being blind, and being there alone with seven children, and the bai1 time she had to keep things going. we liTed in this little house until 1900 when Father bought a house and .mo"f8d it trom Salt Lake City. He put it on the acre piece ot land on the corner ot Page's Lane and what is now called Second west. · My childhood days in the old rock house were happy and unhappy. You can illlagine how crowded we were in these two rooms. Father later built t more rooms on the back, but they re only livable in the summeni:m:3 . I · remember how they leaked and how cold they were. we had to col1l6 in the other part ot th& house in cold weather. A1J a little boy I vas very happy there. My J!other 11as so vrondert'ul to her family. No person ever worked harder than m:, J5<>ther did to raise her family and make a happy hams ~or them. She :made all our clothing, excepting our shoes. lie children had no shoes in summer, only in the winter. It does nQt take long tor a boy to get to be eight yaars old at'ter he is tour. Whon we were eight, we had to work haul.ing hay, mil.ldilg cows and doing all wo could to help ·the crops to grow and develop. Aft r reaching eight years or age, we had little time to play. At noon we usod to :practice our ball paying, etc. After starting to school we got more time to play, 11' we did not have to stay in at noon a?d recesses tor soe misconduct • I remember on the Fourth and Twenty-fourth or .Tul.y, ve always had a big oelebrat ion and a parade . It s wonderf'tll tor us as wa ,';ot a holiday- on these days--also Christmas and New Years. On the 24th or J"uly, J.890, I had a broken arm end could not go to the celebration. I oat with Grand.rather Call on his poaroh. The parade went past us and we waved ate ch tloat it passed by. Grandtather died the last day ot August ot this year. Be:toro Grandfather died. he made Father promise to have onfll ot his boys stay with Aunt Mary (his first wife) to help her with the chores and live wi'th her there. Israel ~s the first one to live there and to do the outside work:. He did not stay there too long, tor when he was 18 years old, he left home and went up to Chesterfield, Idaho. Then Vasco went to 11 with Aunt :uary. This left a little more room tor the rest ot the kida 1n the rook house. Well, when I got to be about 14 years old, I lilaS sent up to A'L'lt },7ery' s to be "her Boy". It was a happy day for me as it gave me :core 1 i berty. I ,ras not around the other kids so-, much and there was less quarrel 1. g and bickerin g, and less confusio n. Some of them claimed I was quarrel3o me and herd to get along with. I admit that I was hot-head ed, b•Jt I think I was no wo::-se than the rest of the 'bunch. Verna. Call, Uncle Chester 's dsu.;hter , end Aunt Mary's grandda ughter lived there 1:1.nd uid the work on the inside. We went to school togethe r, and I became very fond of µ.er. through ~e had nany fine times togethe r. My love for her has lasted all the years. She is still my loved and adored cousin. I was much happier at Aunt Mary's. Ch, we had many happy and pleasant times together at home. We used to pop popcorn anu make molasse s candy. Mother would malce popcorn balls for us. Mother used to entertai n a lot. She loved the young folks to to her home. She knew ~hero her own children were and what they were doing when they were home. Father forbid us from playing cards, but Uncle Jim George had cards, and we want up there and learned to play. I know we were very poor, and we scarcely ever got hold of a nickel. a When v.-a did, 1 t was thro,1P,:h working hard for someone else. When I got I that r little older, I picked up a little more money, and I remembe bought myself a trunk. I also boue;ht one for my sister, Addie. We s•.!rely needed them as we had no place to keep our Sunday clothes during the week. All tho~e kids, und not a sin~le closet in our house. I have never been able to fi ,~ure out bow Mother mana:~ed. eat a little older, I was able to go to the dances. How I used to lo'78 to dance\ I used to take a few girls. I started with my sister, then picked np Verna; Retta Waddoups, Armenia Waddoups, Myra IYilley, !end ~any others who did not have escorts. Then, If I had a girl, I would pick her up last. Oh, we had many fine timesl I didn't pick them all up all of the time, hut just when they did not have an escort. Some of their co=panio ns were on mission s, or off to school, etc.,but they helped te~ch me to dance. As I I was very small ~or my age, until I was sixteen or seventee n, tr.en I grew up and became more uthletic . \'lhen I was big tinou~ and old encugh that I could go out to work in the sUin.lllertir.,e, Ambrose went to help Aunt Mar-1; then in the fall I would go back for ~he winter. ::e How well I remember how earnestl y my Mother w<:•uld work with us l'Jhen externa l ~ot sick. She made her own medicin e, both for intern.al and use. I was the most sick when I had the measles . I had a high fever, I rememher that they sent ror thu elders. Uncle tered to William Mann had just ret.;rned rrom his mission. He adminis me, and I was ma.de so much hatter that I was not so much trouble to my Uother. It left e f,reat impressi on on me. And wus very 111. Mother put neck, and and fRce fat, salt, bacon ond hlack r apper on each side of throats our swab would she it helped. If we hAd a cold or so ,·e throat, my swabbed She well. be s66h with sturf she used to mAke, And we would by treated or out, tonsils my have tonsils all away so I ~ever had to any doctor. ~' Mother was as good as any doctor for children . I had the mumps, once on one side, then on the other. my I was a creat pouter when they made me do things I did not ~~nt to do. One Sunday morniM , I did not want to go to Sunday School, but }.~other made nie go. I was pouting v;hen I left the house, and I had not gone many rods when Aunt MAry•s old turkey sobbler cnme do\10 to meet me. He was ferociou s. He would attack almost anyone. Well, I had quHe a fight with him. Then I saw a stick a.bout as lone as e ball bat (not quite so large), and I swung with all my mi~ht and hit him in the head. He went down in a heap, and I thou.:~ht I had killed him. Uother had been watchi_n g, end when I came home from St:nday School, she asked n:e what I had .lone to Aunt Jfory' s gobbler . I said, "Nothin g." •rhen she told me she saw the whole thing. I was caught. of course. ~other went up to the turkey und put it on the inside of the fence. It laid there for some time, then finally got up end staggere d away. It took him a month to get well; but he never jumped on aryo~e again. Before this, he had taken Ambrose down and was picking at his eyes. We had · had to reacne him. One time Vasco e.nd I were in Grandfa ther• a yard playing horse shoes. He came out on his porch and c:-1lled us to him. He told us to go home. We started, and went around the barn. Then when Grandfa ther Call had gone be.ck in the )'rouse, we came back and started to ple.y again. It we.a not lonp; until he came back out and celled us up to him a._q;ain. He said, "I tho~ht I told ::,01.; boys to go home." We said thot we did. He gave us each a whack with his cane and told us to go home. The whack didn•t hurt us tiny, "ut we went home bawling very loudly. When we told Mothc~r shat had happene d, ~··e was ft.:.rious with Grandfa ther. In the days when the U.S. Marshals were h1 ,ntiI13 those who lived in polygamy , we were tm11~ht not to tell an:rone where anyone else lived. One day a man in a fine carriage and a t'ine team 1,e:ssied o; ·r li ttl.e alk and this mun aske d us hous e. Vasc o and ·r were play ing on the sidew and said , "I don• t know ." where Anso n Call 11-ve d. Vaso o came righ t out behin d vasc o and poin ted Well , I did not thlnl c that was righ t, so I got the .Anson Call ho.me wn to.to Gran d.rat her• s hous e. The man went on up me up to Gran dtath er•a. , too.le er Fath me. tor the next day this man sent . He was impr essed with me and the msn turne d out to be l!ose s That cher He knew trher e Grer uttat her sayin g noth ing, but show ing hill the way. . .It was "'fer'T imliTed , and was just hidin g out trom the :maJtShal.s an apos tle ot the him, pres sive tom to be h9ld on his lap and have spel led wy name tor him, Lord , aakin g all the ques tions he aske d me. I hour with hia. I have e yabl prono unco d it -tor hui, and n had an enjo year s old. neTe r r ~ t e n 1t, altho ugh I was on.l,y :ti Te tif'ul tor seve ral. Ther e was a t'am i~ ot Gott s who 11-ved in Boun rgrou nd beca use ot polyg amy. year s whil e thei r moth er was on the unde pair ot tw1.n.s by the Dal!leS ot .'lb.sy took 'tho name ct Alle n. They had a us, and I used to say that .Edit h am .Edna . They went to scho ol with nnt dOWJl to West J"ord an Edna was JIO" girl . They lett Boun :Uf'u l and not so activ ely runn ing . a-rte r the days that the U.S. Jlars hals ,:ora , and Boun tU'ul ll'B.S home dtr.m poly gem ists. That -was thei r rogu lar nams unti l afte r 'true r thei know thei r unde rgrou nd home. - I did not e, they came back to see they lefi Eoun tif'ul . ETer y onoe in a whil occa. aiona l.ly met thea We . them irith f'rie nds, and .e kept in touc h s toge ther. More at Salt air, lib.er e we danc ed end had good time · abou t 1!113' asao oiati ona with them , late r. when l!"ath er had One inci det, not to my cred it-w as once He sent 1 t home by me e. borl'O'l.9d a draw knif' e .trom Bro. 1 ohn A. Wait tit'ul row of boxbeau a hed e when he was throu gh with it. Bro. Wait pl.ac e. They his by ditch the that he had put out along eide r treea . . I went dolfll that row were youn g and had. youn g, aliek bark on them ot near ly all ot them with or -tree s and 8ld.n ned the l>ark off one't side go al.l the way &rou nd them ; -the draw Jcn.1fe. It was lucky I didn over :tir-t y one of them died , but they all had a oars tor ber thea and l.ook :,.an . I ne"'f'er pass thos e ti-ee s but what I rememseve rely :for w:r very at tbe scar s on thea . lfel.l. , I was puni shed JmlllY' got accu sed I me. to n lesso t grea a lftlB resh act, and ·u J.egs my ver, Haw ous. thlng s 11hic h I did not do, but 1: was Jd.so hieT n outru d coul beca use I ha-ve kept Jl9 ri:oa getti ng hurt many -time s, the boys w:, age and olde r. n>st :m>t eTe11 to do on the .tars . Well , I kepi on. grow ing and doin g as I had a t'a.ra, and both t'alli .lies Fath er IIDd Uncl e .n.a Geor ge Tim Aunt Jla.ry' . I was eigh t year s old., I was work ed toge ther in the field s. One day when ard Dark and Isra el, -zrq oldhelp ing Fath er and Uncl e J'im, along with Rich the team . As he nnt aroun d. est brot her, haul hay. Isra el was drivi ng ard and me. Riche .rd 1188 olde r a ditch , the load of hay tippe d over on Rich make it. Uncl e Jim saw wher e I and got out all righ t, but I could not my arm and brok e both bone s 1'ell and dug in to-g et me. I had falle n on arm and pu.ll ed 119 out. They abov e the wris t. Uncl e Jim got bold of that out. I r emember Fath er said I •a• abou t as black as coal when I got nt Strin gham , lll!ho had Just carri ed 138 to the hous e. They got Dr • . Brya arm. They had no anes themy come f'rom Medi cal Coll ege, to eome and set . Well , I got alon g; but then it tic in thos e clays , they knew notb lll8 ot arm. 11oth er had two ot his e brok and befo re l01Jg, Vasc o Fell ott a hors e Ohl how happ y I was when I could use my WI 1ai4 up with arms 1n sling s. . age.i n. It heale d up in a quic k t1.m9. arm t:ras very labo riou s. fie t'irs t The meth od we had of putti ng up our grain by hand into bund les shoc kea it cut it with a sel1' -rake , then we boun d it it in large staek s, a~ it stays d.' and let it dry. Next , tiie haule d 1t. put thres hing mach ine cane and the When in the stack s tor qUi.t e a 11hil e. nged work with tmm) vs ~ot it with all the neig hbor s help ing, (we excha in a day, can do-i n om thres hod and put in the bins . Now, two msn do in mont hs. Oh, thos e good. _ope ratio n--w hat a whol e comm unity used to usad. to make all the best tood. days when w_ha d the thrss hers i The women s, pudct i.ngs, aIJi tuJ. good that could be ~ro._ught togo ther; pies , cake good t.ood . Thon we got to see thing s -to eat •. :'I& lliOrksd hard and need ed too. the girls we were s~~ ) on, I at-ten ded.. Ji3 :r1rs- t I JlilllSt now sey some thing abou t the scho ols ·· a one--...-oamjd~ brick scho ol •oho ol was the littl e north scho ol. It was s on the e 0 ld race tr ck• hous e loca tod just east -0:r the Bamb urger track 1:Jill. ey Cor.p .er. izy-' l1:13t acro ss the stree t and a littl e east ot the Old e CO';lley, a siste r or ~ath ias l!'ath er at'ter wa.rd s boug ht this cornl!'l'r. .Anni f irst teach er. I :made two Y'. Cowl .ey-:1 "athe r or Mntth ew Cm1le y---cr as r.r:, ingto n ffll8 I\Y" noxt taach eJ.'" grad. as the 1'1rs t year . l:Iabe l Walk er o:r Farm re taken of us in :fron t and llh1l e she was our teach er., we had a pictu the scho ol. or ·Arte r two ·or thre1 ' f f ~ _ 111 thfs Hall. . just «cross the etre ot tram -the thu scho ol a -few Y8a.r8., -then OTer to aout h east corn er ot the same bl.oe.Jc. Dutr 1ct Scho ol With Char les R. lfabe y Then ·I went to th& L.»·.s. scho ol, I weut up to the Ol.d Bric k l3oun t1:ru1 Tabe rnac le. I went to the Cent ral Scho o.l. It -was 011 the n vaa here I grad uated .tl:"O.U the last -teac her ther e. as Un1T ersU y tor the next two year s. It mr:ny thing s ther e. I had gre~ t help t"or me to go ther e. I learn ed three to our cows , do the to get up at 6 a.rn. every morn ing, milk from stati on. Then I had to walk from •est of the chor es and walk a mile to the to our class room s. I Third West and Sout h Temp le.up to the Lion Hous eall tha ,my I but we ha.a y had to get the re be tore 9 a. m. It was a hurr w stud ents and frien ds. fello our with li~~ ming lots ot tun doin ~ it and w,as 8 that have laste d I rBde a lot ot frien ds whil e goin g to the L.D. S. throu gh the year s. getti ng a farm , so Well , Fath er had his idea s abou t scho oling and to go out in the me od wq~t He he disco urag ed me from goin g to scho ol. befo re. So, s year three or Big Horn Basi n wher e Vasc o had gone two home lllld a a get to there out efter Apri l Conf erenc e, 1903 , I wont st:'lr t in life . Gott agai n. I made At the Apri l Conf erenc e befo~ e I left , I met Edna er. She neve r got day, and I took hor to dinn 8 date with her for the n·xt . It was wond ~rful , and we had such a nice meal t!:lrou~h talki ng abou t that my wife . He I went homo and told my Fnth er I had found til:l!, toge ther. 's , "Wel l, that alrv ,ht." asked ~e who it _we.s, I told him, and he said did our cour ting by to me, and we or course,, I ai::ked hAr to writ e at conf erenc e were the happ iest days of days two e Thos corre spon denc e. She \78.S so divin e, I tho• 1 ght, and that is rnv lite up \lnti l that time . be. I did not know I felt r.~en I told Fath er who my wife wns to the grea test influ ence been hns how it rroul d cone ahou t, but it did. She y. todA to shape rny 11 f.'e and make :me what I am o livih g with Edward When I got out to Cowl ey, Wyoming, I found Vasc Mark . I went Elsk e and Pa:-t ridge , who was a wido wer with two sons , Vasc o•s log cabin buil t. got we l unti too, , righ t in and lived with them our wate r asses smen ts I staye d there work ing on the cana l, getti ng Vesc o and I, in company worked up, unti l late r in the sprin g. Then to Yello wsto ne Park to of Bowen and Ray Geor ge, our cous ins, went up staye d up ther e unti l our work . The work was late that sprin g, and ws out to so up into Mont ana funds were abou t denl eted . Then ~e start ed t the swr,mer work ing for to work on the rail~ oad. We got a job and spen Hunt from Richm ond, Utah a cont racto r by the name of E.J. and Will iam close d down, o,q thei r wo~k We staye d th•rq unti l Nove ~ber, whe~ the a whil e befo re we for h cont ract was done . Then we worked on a rfillc fina lly left and went back to Cowl ey. ife did not stay there long , beca use we got a job over at Bill ings , ng $2.0 0 e. day tor a sing le ,. onta ne, build inR a canl' ll. We were onl:,, getti team , so only made the man, and $4.0 0 for a man and a team . I had no -we did not get rich . that$2.0 0 a day. Then we paid our board out of our camp and crune In the early sprin g, Vas co and Ray Geor ge left ract was finis hed, cont the l unti back to Utah . Bowen Geor ge and I staye d hay all s ~ r up put and there d then we went back to Cowl ey. We staye d and room . Not much, long . We were getti ng $40.0 0 a mont h, and boar eh? so I could come This is the summer I wos work ing for a stak e, to Cowl ey, he had sent for down and marr y Edna . Befo re Vasc o retur ned latte r part of June . I Maude Dobi e, marr ied her, then came out the and get marr ied, too. was work ing hard to get enou gh to com down to see the bisho p In the fall , when I crur.e back to Cowl ey, I had firs t coun solor the to mo and get him to orda in me an Elde r. He took ined me an orda by Cros w. of the Pres iden t of tho Stak e, and Jess ie ded, and got inten had I than Elde r. -I left Cowley a few days earl ier lka were thefo and home our to down in Bou ntifu l abou t 4 a.m. I went for floep more no was there and all in bed as.le ep. I woke them up she and .i:n.e, e gniz reco to first the anyo ne that nigh t. Moth er was whol e hous ehold was ajum:pod out or bed and embr aced me. Then , the wake ned. hitch ed her to The firs t Sund ay, I got John 's mare , "Bes s", and to see Edna .. What went we the buggy that Ches ter and I had bours ht, and disc uss the coming to ther toge nll were s folk 's a meet ing1 Edna was th~re eatin g when I ho wedd ing. Fe.th or ·Gof f had neve r mot ra,, and for a while . Mary anson came in. Well , it was a mad hous e from then ware . Knowing that all they e woned the door and took me righ t in wher with my Fath er ed visit dy alrea we were goin g to be marr ied, Edna had ing. and Moth er befo re I got home from Wyom and the p~ para t ions Durin g the next few days , thing s were arran ged ied on the 12th day of for the wedd ing were comp leted . We were marr d all day long . we did Octo her, 1904 in the Salt Lake 'l'emp le. It raine ale, as the rece ption was not see the sun once all day. We went to Midv had raa.rr ied "Old Goff Hall ." How happ y I was, for I knew I into the held fD ~~rr ied us. We went a wond erful Girl . Elde r John R. Wind er a day, and we tiot out o~t ion sess Temp le at ?:30 a.m. , had -only one d~y did not get out abou t 3 p.m •• Some of the peop le marr ied that new marr ied peop le that unti l ?:30 p.m. It was the larg est grou p or had gone throu gh the Temple up to that date . , We went from the Temple into the Godby Pitt Drug Store it to 1'tiere Edna asked me for my ring. I had forgo tten to give Murra y, her in the Te11.ple. Then we rode the str-ee t car out to Clare nce and Lydia Aunt . bu~.gy a in le Midva and from Murra y to timeHanco ck came up from .Arizo na and were marri ed at the same and s friend . or :perha ps the week after . There ware a number of a Hornrelati ve.a at the weddi ng. My Mothe r dance d the Fishe r' our ber r9lll!l'm pipe, and it so intere sted the peopl e that they weddi ng by her danci ng. The day be.for e the weddi ng, Edna clean ed the hall and ely speak conta cted a sever e cold. The next day she could scarc The . nisht that n Jorda west at aboTe a whisp er. we staye d d staye and home, t•s paren ur;y to tiful next day- we went to Boun there tor sever al days. For about a week ve made arrang oment s to return to a .few C<mlay, WyOlUing. We took our weddi ng gi!'ts , along with 111b.ich car ht freig a on tjiem ·thing s we had purch ased, and put Colon ies. was being prepa red to send goods out to the Big Horn we and Edna, for t ticke a ased Later 1n ths month , I purch y. Cowle board ed the train back to Wh~nwa got on ·the ~rain with the rest ot the peopl e who 'ticke h. going to Wyoming, we realiz ed wo had not Talid ated our When . We were 'atrai d we were going to bo put orr the train co.re or this. we got io Provo , they le't us ott . the train to take hov "Oh, said, The man asked Edna to sign her nam9. She alway s you l.1k:e it "Sign shoul d I sign it?" The agent said, " ot e. befor it d signe never do.• and thsn Edna said, "I've weds. newly were cours e they all knew then we with Then were se'fl')ral coupl. es from Wyoming that had camo us. e u to be marri ed, and they ,:are marri ed a week bef'or We hadWe a ing. had a very pleas ant and joyou s trip ba~ to Wuom • lot ot 1"un going throu gh tho tunne ls. You c a n ~ what were all doing& When we arriv ed, we had no place to go cabin with rq broth er, Taseo , and his wi.t'e, just marri ed the J'una betor e we. It wasn 't two tamil iea to be in one room, so we hired but a one-ro am l&aude. They were too ploas ant tor a tent and board ed in it, and stretc hdoor a U up, makin g a frame fo't' 11;. We put this tho ed the tent over the trams we had buil.t . We lived in r. 1"1rat winte r. It was a ,rery cold winte ned to make Our 11.fo in Cowley was a happy one, but many thing s happe I stayed in Cowley us wonde r 11' it was all worth while . The first summer little home and and farme d. Vaaco went out to work. Then I rente d a t, l90B, our first lived in that durin g the summer. On the 12th of Augus child , Edith , was ·born . to Billin gs, The next summe r, I took my cover ed wagon and my tamily so the l.a latera an~ s Monta na, to work on thfl canal s. We built canal y-ti u twent camp moved we water oonld be used on the l'Uld. That smmner her. times , and we had a great time toget misha p. The One artern oon I came 1n .for dinne r, and Edna had had a fallen doW"' had tent the or walls the l"OOt' or the tent had b11rned arr a"d in the oat ri.ght etc., b&d, , table r, dinne on th-. 0'1tsi de. She had the new tent. That iR open. That at"tern oon I had tog~ to Billin gs to get a on, ot ~he incid ents in th~ winni ng or thfll Weqt. rrom Monta na. I.n going We a1>ent six years pione ering out 1n i'yollti ng and wer,q no bridg es. there as s, river pl•ce to Pl"'ce , we had to ford the ud, we were build One winte r while I lffl"' worki ng in Montana at the Roseb got our sup-t> liea. to River e wston Yello the ing a canal . We had to crose very thic~ . was ice The over. froze ete.l,y Th"'t winte r the river compl ice. Touar d sprin g, the We were able to drive our teems acros s on the with hand ice got rathe r dange rous, and we bad to get our suppl ies sleig hs. suppl ies, One day I Wl'IS l1'"lrk1ng with a rew men thRt were bring ing iDg l.oad re ~ .. and s sleigh hs.nd on and we had pullo d our suppl ies over wex-0 and over, load last the ht them on our m:igon. When we broug t en minute s ilhen 1eavi ng to go back to C8lllp, W1' hadn' t 'heen gone over up t went y feet piled and dnwn o8l!l8 ice whole the ice gave way and the ut sup~11 s high. It stopp ed the cours e or the river . Wa 1:"ent witho had to cut we until the river went back to its natur al cours e. Then, conld tord chann els throug h the 1oe on both sides ot tho river so""" g those cuttin were ffll While it and go to Rosebud to get our suppl ies. to had I wet. very e becam and chann els throug h, I te11 in the water es. cloth my e chang to wallc about one a"d one halt miles .t'roze n oTer. . One tiu we went to Loval l and the Shosh one Rher 1'88 rl Ter. the s aeros team our Tho ice W1lB 36 incheo thiclc . We droTe became frigh tM thit ioe crack ed under the wtieel s of the wagon , Edna wagon, that ened and wanted to get o~t. I told her to stay. in the wa WW1t over r summe first The was. it every thing we." all right , and up a long going were we and wagon same the in tf'.\ Billin gs. We went the road and long It was so ~'llgR 1 on the Crow Ind,ia n Reser vation . FiDD Litt 1 ~ and jeseph Mathews had the contract for building these canals end laterals . That tall, we went back to cOl?.1.ey. bought a one room house down by the pond. This pond was the 11ace wn.ere they had put a dam in the creek and had made a reser~ir• The cattle and horses also came here to drink. Above wtiere the cattle crune to drink, we used to .cut ice for our drinkiM water. We had a big 50-ge.llo n barrels and filled them with tee. Then we warmed a boiler of water and poured it over the ice. That was our water for culinary purposes . In the summerti me, we used these same barrels to get water out of the creek. We would tbeD have to let it stand until the mud and residue settled. During the time we lived in this little house, Wyo.ma was born, on the 3rd of March, 190?. We loved this home. It we.a here that we were living when Uncle Newell came from Arizona out to the Big Horn country. Israel and Am.brose also came out there to spend the summer. In July, we all had our pictures taken together . There were five or us brothers there at that time. In the summer of 1906, I left Edna in Cowley, and I went over to Billings again to work for Ed Johnson . We were freighti ng from Billings up to the state of Montana to take supplies up to the people who were building the Great Northern Railroad . I wns driving a string of five teams on this freight wep:on. We hauled goods up to the camp, and hauled wool back to Billings to ship. In the summer of 1907, I farmed. Then in the fall, I hel~ed to build the big conal that the Governm ent was building up above the Sidon Canal. Arter it was complete d and the water was put in it, it caused our land to go boggy. They were charging t.30 an acre to drain our land. I had no money to pay for it, so I had to abandon it. I got nothing out or the land, nor the stock I had in the Sidon canal. In the fall of 1908, Edna's father sent money for her to come home. She stayed at my rather•s place. Four weeks later, our third girl, Dora was born, on October 19, 1908. After Edna left, I went over and worked on Crooked Creek. I stayed there all winter. Edna, with her three children lived with my folks and hers. While she was living with her twin sister, Edith, our children came down with Scarlet Fever; and they sent for me. I left Wyoming, all of my property , home, team, wagon, etc., and Vasco disposed of what he could. ;I stayed in utah end started to work tor Hyrum Bennion and Sons Co. During this winter I took an extentio n course of play producti on from the Univers ity of utah in the old Granite Stake House. Arthur Welling was at the head or our Stake Mutual, and sponsere d this program. Boys and girls from all over the stake were attendin g these classes, which were under the directio n of Maud May Babcock. However , Moroni. Olsen was the one who directed us. We were cast in as many. at three differen t plays at one time. How we did enjoy itl We learned a lot and we formed a theatric al company in Taylors ville. During the spring of 1910, I went back to Bountifu l and got what ever work I could find. I helped Father build his new home, and I lived in hie old rock home. While we lived in the rock home, and on the 4th of Septemb er, 1910, our fourth daughte r, Thelma, was born. In 1911. Father's home was complete d, and I bought his home down on the corner across from Brother John A. Waite. While we lived here, we had a very happy life. We had a ge,rden of fruit on this little acre plot. I got a job in Salt Lake plenty and City working for E.H. Robinson Coml)8.1ly, which was a distribu ting company for J.C. Penney. My rrother Chester and I each h-.d charge of a floor there. During this time, Marinda was born on the 22nd of June, 1912. Later on, Schuyle r was born, on the .4th of March, 1914. When J.C. Penney moved their offices to the east, I had to seek other employmen t. I worked for the Decker Patrick Company, then the Carpente r Paper Company. Duri#g this time, Newell and Chester also were working in Salt Lake, and we used to meet and have lunch togethe r. In the fall of 1915, I started working for Bennions again. I worked for them for 15 years, until 1930. During that time, we lived in Taylors ville by the power house. I worked at the mill deliveri ng · flour and running the packer on the inside of the mill. Boy, was it hard workl On the 8th of October, 1916, Donald Goff Call was lk>rn in Taylors ville. During the next no or three years, we had two babies which were still-bo rn, and we wondered what was causing it. Our family doctor sai~ that Edna had acidosis , and was treating her tor it. One day, Edna, Edith and their sister Dora got together and took e :,mples ot urine to another doctor. He declared that both Edith and Edna had Diabete s. · In the spring of l'J20, we were going to purchase Father Goff's old home in West Jordan. We moved i;here, but reverses came and we couldn't pay for the place. While we lived in west Jordan, on the 30th of January, 1921, our son Chic (Charles) was born. And oh, how Edna did suffer before and after he camel The family doctor wanted to perform an abortion, but we refused to have it done, and he refused to have anymore to do with Edna. About th is time, •rhey sent Edna to the L .D .s. Hospital. Dr. Gill Richards took care of her for four weeks be f ore Chic was horn, and kept her there four weeks after he was born. He got her free of sugar. ?le did appreciate all he did for her. l'lhen Edna found that she had diabetes, she ordered a book containing all conce~ni ng it. i9h1le she was in the hospital, they sent h~r down to the kitchen to teach the nurses how to formulate menues for diabetic patients. They appreciated her efforts. When Chic was about one and one half years old, we moved into this house in Murray. I had to scrape up every nickle I could get to make the down payment on the place. From then on, I bad to struggle to pay for it. It has been a happy home since we have had it. After moving here, I still wo~ked for Bennion and Sons, until January 1, 1930. I quit to become Chief of Police of Murray City. This was a job that I wasn't too familiar with, but I learned as days went by. I had many interesting experiences with this job, and one I will try to relate. One morning a bout 4 a.m., I saw a car comi ng slowl~r ·.,p the street. It stopped in front of our house, and a men got out of the car, tool, an oil c1-.1n, and went over to Clyde Marsdan's house, and was stealing gas from his car. I didn't waken Edna, but got out of bed, put on my clothes and gun, and went out to his car. The~ was a man sitting in the front seat waiting for his pal to come with the gasoline. I ordered him out of the car. He camein the house with me while I called my night man to come and help mo. He broke loose and ran. I told him to atop, or I would shoot. He didn't stop, so I shot over hi_s head. The man dropped, and I thought perhaps I had killed him, but when I got hold of his collar and twisted it, ' he began to beg. I brou~ht him back into the house just asthe night man was about to hang np the uhone. I told Tom Lewis, my deputy, to come over. By the time he •~at here, I had the other man who was stealing the gas. I was siirely glad he came when he did, as ~ve found three loaded guns in their car. 'rhese men were from Colorado, and were /~oing throt:~!l the country stealing everythi.ng they could get their hands on. We tried them, and they were imprisioned in the County Jail for sixty days. During the first part of January, 1~32, I was replaced as Chief of Police by Andrew Lundquist. The depression was then in full swing , and Thelma had just been out on her mission ei•?;ht months. I had a hard time to make enough money to keep her on her mission. During that time, work was scarce, and I couldn't get a job anyplace. The Government came along with the F.E.R.A. ( Federal Emergency Relief Association). I worked for a few weeks as a foreman on their projects. Then it turned out to be the W.P.A., and because I was not on relief they would not give me a job. I did not want to go on relief, eo I had to get work elsewhere. I worked on one job after another, but we kept Thelma on her mission for her two years, along with Father's help. sick just many that It was a str111?,Ble to keep the home after we had bought it. Edna was for many years before she passed away on the 24rth of November, 1941, two weeks before the Pearl Harbor incident. She went to the hospit al times for diabetes a.nd sick,,esses. It was ex~ensive to buy insulin at time, and enough for her to ~et a.long on. After ~dna died, I lived alone for nearly two years. Dur ing thi s t ime , I continued. my labors at the Temple. In a course of time, I got acqua inted with a beautiful girl who was laboring there hy the name of Alissa Mann ing . I wntched her actions for some time before I da red ask her for a dat e . Whe n I finally did get up enoUP;h courage, she said she already had a man friend. But a little later, she didn't mind getting acquainted wit h me. After that, we started going together quite steadily. Our first da te was in October, and then on the :;0th of June, 1943, we were married. I had been working with the boys in the City, and Leonard J,i,.ackay was rey partner. I took him three times to the doctor where I had to get my blood test. I didn't tell the 9oys at City Hall that I was going to get married; but, I tried to get Len to go to the ·'l'emple with me that day. He said, "Oh, some other time." The night we were married, we went up in the canyon and stayed in back, the boys at City Hall we c.c,m• Brin tons Cabin for two days. 11~en uwo ,u had seen our marriage license published in the paper. Then, of course, I marr ied. He said , tneY jumped on Mack~y and aske d him who it was They did not real ly rs." "l ao~' t know. I don' know. Hon~ st relle the hous e and do bel1o ve him. They had it in mind to brea k into d thqµ ghts and son.oth1ng abou t the bed; hb'we ver. they had secon they just wait ed unti l we ca.me back . Alis sa's We went up to Garla nd over the 4th and brou ght heav y . Tho boys from City Hall helpo d me move the thin~ s down livin g in our home. thilJ.€:S into tho hous e. And then we start ed the peop le and our It rras very 1nte restl ng to see how read ily ely loved Alis sa. I frien ds end relat ives acce pted , and imm ediat with me. She has been have c~rt ainly appr eciat ed havin g so~.9one erful to me. more than a comp anlon , and she has been wond in whic h we We have been choi r ~emh ers in all the word s ed thei r work start er. sist twin her h, have lived . Edna and Edit r when I was seve nin tho choi r very youn g. I ste.r tod in the choi Ua.le Chor us here in teen . I was a char ter member of the Olympus st Chor us in the uu~r a7. I have been a member of the High Prie ille. I also eang in a cotto n,roo d Stak e, also a choru s in Tayl orsv who was tho musi cal choi r and chor us led by Willi am F. Robi nson . choi ce incid ent was her dire ctor or the Murr ay High Scho ol. Anot ot J. Spon cer ction when ~e sang the "Mas siah" , unde r the dire Corn well. lead ing part s Edna had a wond erful voic e, and sang solo s and in near ly all of our acti vitie s. and ~uri able . acti vitie s in the Chur ch have been plea sant . M.I.A in every eard I have been a member or the Pres iden cy of the firs t coun selor , and that I have ever lived in. In Cowl ey, I was s. I havo h~lal the hed cherg e of the danc es a.nd soci al acti titie , Secr etary , Drama ~osi tion ~f Pres iden t of the M.I. A., Coun selor also been a havo I Dire ctor, Recr eatio n Dire ctor and Teac her. have held I d, thoo toach er in the Sund ay Scho ol. In the Pries Deac on~s the in selor the follo win~ posi tion s: A:3 a boy, coun denc y of presi the in um, Q.uoron, Pres idem t or the Teac her's Q,uor on ot ods, stho Prie or Less the Elde r's Quorum, Supe rviso r of the the of r rviso supe e twic the ~res iden ts of the Seve nties Quorum, ical alog Gene the ot High Prie st Grou p. I have also been chairill6.n the of er memb a Co:rr:mittee in the ward and stak e. I have been Stak e Miss ions, High coun sel for six year s. I have fille d four Miss ion. one six mont h miss ion to the Sout hern Stat es ~\y . Llslmal lout , 0110 ulgl.lL u Prio rto 1938 , I work ed five year s ou Lhe UU!J s, or sinc e 1~38 . I have week . I have been a Temp le work er for 28 year year s. I have enjoy ed been a ward and home teac her. All throu gh the erful supp ort from Edna and Alis sa. my activ ity, and have rece ived wond our live s, we all Concern1Il('; the faith p~om oting incid ence s in n of the Elde rs. ratio inist have been heale d many time s throu gh the adm re Chic was befo g Youn K. Edna was admi niste red to by Brot her Newe ll child . and live a to birth born . and ~as prom ised that she would give this prom ise was kept . ren all had \llbil e we were llvin g in Tayl orsv ille, our child tons ils out at the same tons illti s. 'Ne had five or them with thei r Mari nda. At 4 R.m. they time . Two of them were blee ders , Wyoma and not get Wyoma•s calle d me from the hosp ital and said they couldt her earty . So, I got bleed ing stopp ed. They were very fear ful abou to her. The blee di~ up and went to the hosp ital and ad.m iniste red on. stopp ed and she ~ot along fine from then incid ents like We have ho.d a ma.rv elous , happ y life fille d with Fath er and enly Hoav our thank do these all throu gh our 11 ves. Wo give n to us has He 1ngs hless and tos morc prais e His Holy Nnme for the e I have sinc expe rienc es as a fami ly. we have also had some of these . Lord s of the marr ied Alis sa; and we stil l enjoy the bles sing a large f81!lily and to It haa been an inte restt ng expe rienc e to have ied and have marr get raise them to matu rity. Also . to natch them who have all do as • fami lios 9f thei r own. We had our prob lems did as good we ider cons ! and fami lies, but we got throu gh someway, I expe cted as good as live to as the avor age fami ly. I have tried for me. have they m estee and them to live and I am prou d of the love and me for them . r and We advi se all othe rs of the fami ly to give hono have they thank s unto the Lord ror the bless ings that • that it' you 1ge prom a as you to this give rece ived . And I andments, He will will try to serv e the Lord and Keep His comm ised to the give you all the bless ings that He has prom faith ful. all, and I leave this testim ony and my love with you pray the Lord to keAp you. · Schu yler Call --13 Apri l, 1965 Alissa Marie Manni~g passed away April 4, 1969 CHILDREN OF SCHUYLER AND EDNA RAY GOFF CALL Edith Call Robinso n Wyoma Call Buckley Dora Call Tolman Thelma Call Brown Marinda Call Clark Schuyl er aorr Call Charles Gott Call AurOBIOGRAPRY NEW EL CAL L 1883-1 968 at the . • Where shall I begin, please your Majes ty?• he asked. "Begin to come you till on •then y, begi nning ,• the King said, very gravel the end, and then stop.• lttf parent s were Israel Call and Jane Lucind a Judd~ They were went pionee rs in settlin g what is nmrNava1o County , Arizon a. They other or number a with pany com 1n to Arizon a in 18?6 rram Utah place colon its under the leader ship or LOtt Smith, and settle d at a the they called Sunse t .on the Little Colore.ao River across tram presen t city ot Winslow. That countr y was then entire ly new and raw, and they had the in usual diffic ulties gettin g water t'rom the rivor onto the land ber Septem there born was I . · order '.;o make it yeild them a living 26, 1.883. The Little Colora do River was ver:y treach erous and kept washwas ing out the dams ~ho people put in, so the settlement at Sunset return abando ned and the people scatte red to other locali ties, some now is ing to ute.h. My parent s bought trom John Standi ford what miles seven lcna.vn as the old Solomon ranch on Silver Creek, about my south ot the town ot T~lor . It was on that ranch that I have excava 9.11 , dugout a in earlie st recoll ection s. I remember living door a having boards of tion 1n the eide or a hill, nth a front r's and ono window, and of going acros s the fi eld holdin g to mothe the fixed and field the or out hand while she drove wild cattle ones fence. I remember fallin g in the creek and some or the older y countr that in made people our ments settle J>ull ing ma out. The The . ations Reserv Indian Navajo end Apache the n were just bet,eoe e Apaches p re wild and the soldie rs from Fort Apache hat troubl was n keepin g them on the reserv ation. A man named J &Jees Stinso killed by the Apachos on his ranch tour miles up the creek from us, and mother would not stay on the ranch so she sold, or traded it, to Willia m and Edwin Solomon tor proper ty in Taylo r. It was in Taylo r that I spent DlY childh ood and grew to young manhood. It was there I tirst went to schoo l and finish ed . the "firth reader ", which was the highes ~ grade in that school Later the Church . built an academy- at Snow!' lake, three miles troa Taylo r, and I was among the first studen ts to enter. There I , finish ed High Schoo l. In School and outI loved all kinds ~ sports a Att~r base. espec ially bas ball. I did my best work at second you geme with a team from Fort Apache, a :man said to me• "Kid, if But you." of out player will come with me, I will make a baseb all hurry. a in idea when I told Mothe r, she quashe d that In the swmner time-- and later in winter , too--I rode the range s and worked with cattle . At that time .Arizona was !'ull or outlaw ' to g nothin was it and Texas, of out run been ~ostly men who had hirty hear of a man ·being killed . There was a saloon in Holbr ook--t t ot "Bucke he t ed miles from Holbr ook--t hirty miles from Taylor --call were n me These . here t Bloodw becaus e so many men had bee n kills d every very unjust to our people . When they made a roundup the y took t hem ipped h s and s, ealv with covm animal that wroe loose, oven milch aid s ho hor aut nx>dern a oad r ly recent I regard less of O"lfflerahip. ' , "If there ever was a countr y withou t l aw , it was Navajo County st greate I knew aome of these out laws , als o two ot t he Arizon a." est ever saw. One , the greate st , was con:modore southw law men the went Owens, a fabulo us charac ter, who came from no one knew where and and , County o Navaj ot the same way. He was fina lly made s heo/1! lav after many thrilli ng explo its cleane d out the nest. The other in but , co Mexi New 1n k wor great some He did n:a11 was Burt Mossman. on, s s hi knew I . e peopl our with t es dishon Arizon a he was unjust and the in work to went I n The . camp 1n him Berl Jr., . and sle pt with g to railro ad shops in Winslow . I worked nights from 7 in the ev~nin '1 ther 7 in the morni ng,? days a week. Arter about eight months ' find a locomo tive out ot Winslow on the Santa Fe Railro ad. I was assign ed · German hicago C in to tho Norlhe rn State s Mi s sion with headqu arlers company 1~ Lake Salt Ellswo rth fflll!I presid ent of the MiMio n. I left g in t hee workin been bad who with John P. McGuire, a young man from Provo l. genera e.nd keeper book class ottiee e ot Jesse Knight and was a first in range the oft right office man, while I was compl etely green, back .. Arizon a. Upon our arriva l in Chicag o, we were asked about our office , the ground , traini ng and capab ilities , and John ~s taken into In 190? I was called on a miss ion for the Church . given a nice comfortable c_h air and a nice desk to 1VOrk at, while I ,res put to unloading a load of wood that had just arrived, and earl""Jing it from the street down into the basement or the church building. That experience had a lasting impression on me and helped shape the course or my life. After I had completed the mission end returned to Arizona, I, of course, turned to the only kind of work I knew how to do. (The Chicago experience over e.~ain) I was not content to do that kind of work but knew that if I was ever. to do any other I must train myself. So, in August, 1910, I said, "goodby," and went to Salt Lake and entered the L.D.S. Business College. I completed their two year course in 1912. The first job I had after leaving Business College was with the Jenson Creamer-/ Company as bookkeeper. About this time I met a beautiful, young school teacher and on June 24, 1914, I married Ruby .Annette Thorstrom in the Salt Lake Temple. I never returned to Arizona again, except for an occasional visit. All or our children were born in Salt Lake City. Newel T. August 19, 1917, Grant T. September 16, 191Y, Annette T., April . 26, 1926. In 1915 I joined with H.D. Rsnson in organizing tho Consoli- dated Roolen Mill~ in Salt Lake. In 1920, I sold my interest in that company, and with four other meb., etartod the Western Woolen ~ills. The husiness prospered and we bought e home at 172 Edith A7e. It t.38 while living there that tho boys first started to !':Chool. They wero happy years that wo spent thore. I was an ordained w~rker in the Salt Lake Temple , and for five years was et the Temple every ti:ondr::.y morning et 5 a.m., sometimos baptizing 200 people before going to my business. Each Wodnesday and Thursday evenf-ng I was there at 6 - p.m. unt1.l midnight. I realize now that I neglected my family then by working too long hours, and too continuousl y. I should. hnvo Rpont more time with my children and givon more assistance to their mother. But my children.had a wonderful mother who taught them correct principles und habits of life which I hope will &lwa~rs romain with them. Then come the great depression in 1929, and we lost our business. So to. gone in 1932 I went to Los Angeles, the worst place I could have That country wa.s crov,dod with unemployed. It was a tough year we spent in Los Angeles. Newell completed hid high e0hool work in Los Angeles 1n 1933. I was greatly humiliated and wanted to go where I was not known. Late in 1932 I weqt to work for the L.B. Price Mercantile Co. and early in 1933 they sent me to San B~rnardino in charge of their branch store. There we were active in the Church and mo.de many fin" friends. Nowel completed hie first two years of colleee there at the San Bernardino Junior College. He paased the entrance test to the University of California and went to Berkeley for his last two years. Grant completed grade school and high s~hool in San Bernardino, then joined the Army in 193'7 and was sent to He.wa11. In 193? I was transferred by my company to Bakersfield . In 1938 I quit that job, and Mother, Annette and I w~nt to Borkele:r principally to bo with Newell and s~e that he finished college. After his graduation he ~arried Any Brinton on May 29, 1941, in the Salt Lake Temple. After three years in the army, Brant joined the Air Force, and while stationed in Newfoundlan d, he married Beryl Mercer on July 4, 1946. While we were living in Berkely, Annette completed high school and graduated tram the University of California, and married Russel M. Koch on August 10, 1949. After our children were all married, mother and I sold our home in Albany and moved to Sanjose where I had been working ror tour. years. \'le built an apartm~nt house where we no•,q live. We are comfortably situated, have good health, and are happy. Newel Call November, 1~54 Newel Call wrote to his eldest grandson: If' there is anything to be learned ~ram my experience, it is the importance of doing things--all things--in the season thereof. I hope you will do things in their proper order, and will study hard to be a leader in all good things. (from a letter to Newel•s ·son, Branson Cali, November 18, 1954 Newl C4ll died in San Jose, Calirorni a on November 8, 1968. CHILDREN OF NE\'lEL AND RUBY ANNE'l'TE THROSTRO:M CALL Newel Thorstrom call Grent J". Call Annette Call Koch I THE LI.FE STORY OF CHESTER MONROE CALL 1884-1934 By Otis M. Call Chester Monroe Call was born April 11, 1~84, in Wilford, Apache county, Arizona, the sixth child and fifth son of Israel Call and Medora White Call, When he was about seventeen months old, the family returned to Bountiful, Utah. His sister, Adelaide tells of the hard trip back. She said they walked part of the way and she remembers that her brother, John, carrle:l Dad part of the way up the mountain known as Lee's Backbone, just before they crossed the Colorado River. They came from a warm climate to a cold one, and as they ate fruit on the trip, Dad got the sunnner complaint. As a child he had the habit of sleep walking and talking in his sleep, and would try to do the things that he had done in the daytime. Aunt Addie says, "One day we had been emptying straw_ ticks and filling them with clean fresh straw. In the night Mother heard Chester going outside and said, 'Israel, that baby is walking in his sleep.' Father went out and found that he had pulled the tick off the bed and was dragging it to the pigpen to empty it." Still quoting Aunt Addie, "When he was a small child, he had a lot of faith. When he got sick he would always call for the elders to administer to him. Once when he had the croup, he got so bad he could hardly breathe. He told Mother to send for Pa and Brother Waite to administer to him. While they were praying, Chester fell asleep and slept through the night." His sister, Hettie, tells th~ following story of his fRith. A group of Dad's friends were together loading a wagon for market and they started daring one another to lift the wagon. Dad lifted the end of the loaded wagon and in doing so ruptured himself. For about two weeks or so, he suffered with a hernia. Then he asked his friends and family to fast and pray for him. At that time people were sometimes taken to the temple and baptized for their afflictions , and Dad wanted to be baptized for his hernia. Grandfather took him and after the baptism, he was never troubled with the hernia again. His brother Ambrose, said that the day Dcd was ordained a Deacon, he said, "Let's see how long we can go without swearing or forgetting our prayers," and from that day on, Uncle Ambrose never heard him swear, and, in my life, I never heard him swear. Aunt Addie says "He was a lovable child, but he was sure full of He was the prankster of the family, and he never missed the old nic." a chance to pull a trick or play a joke on someone, when the opportunity presented itself. His associates were always trying to outwit or get the better of him, but they were seldom able to do this. As a boy, and a young man, Dad was exceptional ly strong, and there wasn't anotha:-perso n near his weight or age that could best him in wrestling, swinnning, foot racing, or in any other sport. Cousin Will Mann said he was the best wrestler in the bunch and could throw any of them, two out of three times. In his early married life, world's heavy weight wrestler, Ira Dern, who was a customer of Dad's, gave him some instruction in wrestling. After that, I don't remember of anyone ever throwing him. Dad was good at entertaining , and participated in many home dramatic productions and could take any character part that was assigned to him. He loved dancing and managed the Hales Dance Hall during two winter seasons. He and Mother also belonged to the "Happy Evening Dance Club" for many years. He like to entertain the children on Sunday afternoons by making candy or popcorn balls or ice cream. He was always on the entertaining connnittee in ward affairs. He liked people and made friends very easily, and retained their fr:iend;hip over the years. He had the ability to iron out difficulties that arose. While serving on the Sunday School Stake Board, Dad accepted assignments of straightenin g out difficulties that came up in the various wards. Dad was born into treChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was always a staunch member. He advanced in the Priesthood from Deacon to High Priest, fulfilling every requirement necessary for these advancement s. He was ordained a High Priest on Feb. 28, 1928; by William R. Smith. The following are as many of his church activities as we can remember. He served in the pr~sidency of the South Bountiful YMMIA. My first recollection of his church activity was in the Bountiful Second Ward, where he served as Scoutmaster . He worked with Alvin Sessions and Frank Grant in the scout work and they organized the first scout troop in the Bountiful Second Ward. Dad was well liked by the boys. When I have occasion to talk to one of his former scouts, they express their liking for Dad and recount some of the good times they had. He served in the suoerintende ncy of the Bountiful Second Ward Sunday School. He served with Henry Stahle and Matt Sessions, if my memory serves me right. Next he was on the Mutual Stake Board. (South Davis Stake at that time included all the Bountiful, Centerville , andFarmingto n Wards). He then served on the Sunday School Stake Boards. He was usually a member · of the ward choirs. . Three years prior to the family going to Wyoming, he worked as an ordinance worker in the S2lt Lake Temple. When Dad's eyes were so bad he couldn't read, we would read the scriptures to him so he could prepare talks for speaking assignments he had. Dad was also c1v1c minded and spent much time for the good of the community . He was a member of the Bountiful Volunteer Fire Departmen t for many years. He was interested in good government and always make it a pnint to encourage people to get out and vote at election time. · He wou1d even furnish transport ation for those not having a way to the polls. Dad recognize d the good things in life and never missed an opportuni ty to try to lighten someone's . load. As the years go by and I face the realities of life, I rzalize more fully just .how good a man my father was and I am thankful to be one of his children and to have received the coun~ cil and teachings that he and Mother gave their children. And I know that I will have to improve a great deal to be as good as he was. Dad was not a selfish person, even though he didn't have . very much of the worldly goods, he shared what he had with those in need • . In looking back to my childhood , I believe there was hardly a week passed that he didn't have sometime during the week, as many neighbor children at the dinner table as he had of his own. He never turned any one away hungry, even tramps that ca~e to the house for a handout. Rather than misjudge or wrong a person, he would always give them the benefit of the doubt. Dad was strictly honest in every respect. On one occasion, he would have ben e fited by one thousand dollars, in a legal transactio n by signing his name to a document in a certain manner, but knowing it was wrong and dishonest , he refused to do so and signed the document the w~y it should be signed. Dad started keeping company with my mother, Maud Parkin, on Jan. 18, 1902, and they were married on the same date three years later (1905), in -the Salt Lake Temple. Cousin Will Mann and his wife, Janet, were married the same day. Mother and Dad had eight children born to them; they are as follows: Otis Monroe Call, born May 7, 1906, in South Bountiful ; Chester Parkin Call, born October 23, 1909, in Soi. th Bountiful ; Virginia Call born January 22, 1914, in East Bountiful , who died of pneumonia March 5, 1915; Blaine Parkin Call, born March 7, 1916, in East Bountiful , who died of infantile paralysis , October 15, 1934; Beth Call Woodard, born November 22, 1918 in East Bountiful; Madge Leora Call Bradley, born August 31, 1921, in East Bountiful ; Ve rn Parkin Call, born March 28, 1927, in East Bountiful; and Frank Parkin Call, born July 9, 1929, at· Kemmerer, Wyoming. Mother and Dad lived in South Bountiful , East Bountiful , and West Bountiful , during the first five years of their married life. Dad worked at Hatch's store in South Bountiful ; also at Hatch's Brick Yard in South Bountiful . In the early spring of 1910, Dad moved the family to Gunnison, Utah, where he dry farr.,ed for one season, and returned to South Bountiful early in the 1 . winter oi: the same year. Aiter 11vlug tl1 e re iu r ulwuL a yt:! a l, l1 1:! !J Uld1asd the home in which Mother now lives, which is located at 405 South E. 1st West, Bountiful . He obtained employmen t at the John Leddingham brick yard . While work ing there he used to have Mother put up lar ge lunches for him. Moth er fi na lly found out that he was feeding an old man wh o lived alone and never had a good lunch of his own. Going from there, he went to work for the Dinwoody Furn i ture Company, and from there, he went to work for the Salt Lake Glass and Paint Company. He left the Salt Lake Glass and Paint Co. to buy in as a par tner in the Davis County Furniture Co. which is now the Union Furn i ture Company. After he left the Union Furniture Company, he opened an O. P. Scagg s Grocery store in Kemmerer, Wyoming, in the fall of 1928. Th rou gh the dishonesty of his partner, he lost everythin g he had. After this, he moved h i s family back to his home in Bountiful , which was heavily mortga ged. The reverses that he had. had contribut ed to his failing health. Dad h ad for many years been on a diet for kidney trouble. He had granulate d eyelids, and had suffered for many years with this afflictio n. On several occasio ns, Dad found it impossibl e to even lie down and sat in a chair night and day for as much as three weeks at a time. Dad suffered a great deal. I have se en him, .when the pain was so intense, it was almost unbearabl e. Yet he to ok h i s suffering without complaint or grumbling , and he always had a pleasan t wor d fot anyone who might drop in to see him. After returning from Kemmerer, he went to work for tbe State Road Commis- 1 sim here in Bountiful , and early in 1934, they made him night watchman a t t he state road shops, at 10th North in Bountiful , where he was wor king at t he time of his death. One night in midsumme r, his cousin, Arley George, came down and . visited with him while he was on shift. Dad told Arley at that time that he wouldn't live the sununer out. He died Sept. 26, 1934, and was buried in t he · Otis M. Call May, 1960 Bountiful City Cemetery. Children of Chester Monroe Call and Amy Maud Parkin Call: Otis Monroe Call Chester Parkin Call Virginia Call Blaine Parkin Call Beth Call Woodard Madge Leora Call Bradley Verne Parkin Call Frank Parkin Call HISTORY OF HETTIE JANE CALL SAINSBURY WILSON KNIGHT 1886-1969 I, Hettie Jane Call Sainsbury Wilson Knight, am writing my history for my family, my father's and mother's family, as well as for the b=nefit of my children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren. I was the seventh child of Israel and Medora White Call. When their oldest son Israel was 4 or 5 months old they were called to go to Arizona to colonize. They set1·led in a little town called Sunset. Five children were born to them the ten years they were down there. Their little community was called and instructed to live the United Order with Lot Smith as President. When Lot Smith was shot by some indians north of their settlement, that broke up the company. Since Mother had lost her eyesight, they were released to come back home. So with their six children they ca~e back to Utah to their previous home in Bountiful near grandfather Call's place (Anson Call). Mother was pregnant, but father had to go back and settle things in Arizona, so that left Mother alone. Grandfather White came and took her to his home in Farmington and that is where I was born, on the third of June, 1886. Grandfather's home, where I was born, is still standing. Most of my childhood was Grandmother White was fat and handy for her to rare a little It was lonesome for me, for I spent in Farmington helping my Grandmother. it was hard for her to get around. It was girl around to run and do things for her. loved my little brothers. I was living in Farmington when I became eight years old. It had been a custom for the children to be baptized on their eighth birthday. I was feeling quite bad and left out when I didn't get to have this done. However, on the 1st of July, Father came to get me and he said, "I am taking you home to be baptized. We couldn't do it on your birthday, so we will do it on my birthday, and you can always remember that you were baptized on my birthday". I felt highly honored. So, on July 2, 1894, David Mabey and I were taken down to Baskins pond (which Baskins had made to water his stock), and were baptized. Uncle David Call baptized us and Father confirmed me. Father had a oneseated, one horse cart. Mother had a large Navajo blanket, which Father wrapped around David and me and brought us home. I never did care for David Mabey; we went in different crowds; he wasn't a good dancer and that was my main fun. I used to stay at Grandmother White's a lot in the summertime. I was a "tom-boy" when I was a little girl.. Mother had an older brother who had a large corn on his toe, and every time I got near him, without exactly meaning to, I would bump his corn. This caused him a lot of pain. One morning, after we had had prayers, as he turned his chair around to the table, he put his chair leg on my toe and sat down. Of course, I was barefooted, so I let out a holler. Then he began to laugh and said, "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He planks a chair leg on Hettie's toe, for stepping on Uncle Schuyler's corn." Grandfather White had a large apple orchard. A big wind came up one day and blew the apples off. Grandma said that if I would peel them and dry them, I could have them. So I dried a big seamless sack full, and took them home when Father came for me. I asked Mother to take them to the store and get me a dress, a pair of shoes, a hat and stockings. She brought them all home with her for me. We all loved dried apple pie and ate lots of pie and dried apples all winter long. One day I said, "Mother, where did you get all of those dried apples we've been eating all winter?" She said, ");'ou gave them to us. I hope you don't think I would sell those lovely dried apples. They were too good." I didn't care, but I wondered about all the clothes she had bought me. When I was a young girl at home, I used to think I could do everything my brothers would do. I used to hitch up a horse or buggy as fast as anyone could. My brother John and I had a race one day and Chet timed us. I beat John bridling up Black Bess by onehalf second. One summer our Mutual had an outing at Lagoon. Our Stake took in all the people from Roy to Bountiful. They had a contest to see which ladr could harness a horse, hitch it to the buggy, an~ drive it over a line first. I won the race and Aunt Ethelyn White came in second. So, they made us trade horses and try again. Aunt Ethelyn's horse was bigger and harder to harness, but I beat her and won a pair of patent leather shoes. We had a game called "Tippy", which was very popular . and played more than marbles and ball. Since I was a "tom-boy", I could play that as well as any one, only I couldn't jump as far as the boys. I could jump farther than Ambrose, but Chester and Schuyler had longer legs and could jump farther, but I could knock that tippy as far as they could. When I was a young girl, we used to spend Sundays after church visiting our friends and wouldn't think anything of walking to a girl friend's place in South Bountiful or Chase Park in Centerville. Father was very .~trict. He never would let me use any kind of pawder on my face. One day a girl friend came and had SUf>per with us then we would go to the dance that night. She brought some new kind' of face powder with her, so after supper and the disher were over, I cook a lamp and went into the bedroom to .get re·ady. I had on a new dress and used some of my friend's new face powder. I thought I looked quite nice. When I_came out of the bedroom and Father saw me, he took me to where he had Just emptied flour in the flour bin that day and took those empty flour sacks and rubb ed them in my face, my hair, and all over my new dress. I cried like my heart would break, but my friends urged me to put on another dress. I fixed myself up as good as I could but I didn't have a good time that night. ' In going out, I was always sure of a partner,for my brother Chester was just old er t han I was, and would always take me to the parties dances and entertainment. If ever I danced with a boy who wasn't just ri~ht, ' Chester would always have the next dance with me, and he would tell me not to dance with that boy again. All my brothers were protective of me and some times it was too much of a good thing. But I love them and now forgive· them for it. I had a lot of boyfriends. I was going with one that Father and Mother didn't like at all. My cousin, Alice Hess, from Fielding, came down on a little trip. She was always very nervous and when she wanted to go home, she didn't want to go alone. So, she a;ked me to go home with her _and told Mother she would introduce me to some real nice boya. So, she introduced me · to Ezra Leroy Sainsbury. There were fifteen boys there that I could have gone with, but I liked him best. He had a team · of dar~ brown horses and a one-seated buggy and I felt so good being with him. He took me to Lewiston to Addie's place and Joe and Addie liked him ri ght away, We sure did have a nice time. I had planned on staying to Fielding one week, but I stayed two. Roy came down that fall for October Conference. Mother and Father liked him well---in fact, everybody did. We went together for 1\ yea~s ~don November 21, 1906, we were married in the Salt Lake Temple. We lived the first year in a rented house near Bear River and moved the · next year to a little house on the farm he was buying in Fielding, Utah. He was very good to me . We worked together like partners. He did all he could for me , and I did all I could for him. He was a very honest man; didn't smoke or drink or swear. I loved him very much, and he was a father to be proud of. While we were living by the Bear River once led our only cow over to the river to get a drink. The cow de~ided · it wan~ ed to go_out ferther in the river and lost it's footing and was swept into a whirlpool, Since we were depending on that cow for food, from the house and sure prayed hard I could get her; And my prayer must have been heard, because ·when I threw the rope, it lander around the cows' horns, But the cow wasn't able to help, because the whirlpool kept her from touching bottom and pulled hard. But, I held on crying and praying • . A man came along the road and heard the crying and helped get the cow out. I threw my arms around that wet · cow's neck and hugged and patted it and of course, _cried. I had to get it out, so I ran and got a rope We had three lovely children born to us: Dora, Leroy, and Arland. During the winter, Roy would go away and find work. The winter Arland was born, Roy got a job as night watchman on a dam on the Bear River. It was on March 15, 1911 he was trying to raise a headgate, that he was struck by the force of it being raised and fell into the river. They found his body two days later. When they came and told me he was missing, I cannot express ' the grief I felt. After the funeral, Father asked met~ ~ome home with him. He gave me a pie~e of land and with Roy's insu~ance money built a little home, where I am still living. · To support my little family, I took in washing i"°d worked one year at the salt factory near Saltair. I took a "'nurse course" offered by the Relief Society and became an obstetrical nurse, helping a doctor or midwife and taking care of the mother, new baby and their family for 10 days or two weeks. Of course, I had to ask someone to tend my children. Arny, Vince's· wife, tended them some of the time. I was a widow for ten years. I met Peter Adshead Wilson in 1919, when he cmne down from Cowley, Wyoming, where he had lived neighbors with Vasco and Schyler. He had been called to go on a mission. I wrote to him some during this time, and when he came home from his mission two years later, we were married on April 4, 1921. We had four children, Israel, · · Willis, Amelia, and Irene. The year we got married, we moved to Goodling, Idaho, where Pete raised sheep, but it was hot and quite dry there, so we came back to my home in Bountiful. Pete worked as a butcher at Cudahay's, but couldn't stand the inhu~ane way they handled their animals, so he worked with his team and wagon wherever he could. And, also, as a laborer on construction jobs. · Pete always had a good garden and planted lots of fruit trees on the place, which helped with the family food • . He worked very hard, and was one of the most honest men I have ever met. I was very sad . when he died of a stroke on February 9, 1942, at . the age of 65. Hill This was the time of World War II, . and I got a job workin g at Then war. the during all did I which s office Field, sweepi ng and.cl eaning City. Lake I went to work at the church canner y on Welfar e Square in Salt their only and there, down g workin ers widow and widows There were lots of man who was pay was in foods produc ed, stored and 4andle d there. I met a Knigh t. LeRoy very sweet to me and on Octobe r 15, 1948, I marrie d Charle s and attack heart We lived togeth er for three happy years, ~en he had a died. a Since· that time, I have gone out and tended people 's childr en the and on vacati a on go lot, usuall y when both Father and Mother lovely childr en need to stay home and go to school . I've been in some ma." "Grand me call whom _ of many en, childr homes, and cared for some lovely great I am very proud of my childr en; they have all accom plished a marnever deal in their lives. Arland died when he was 22, and he had I es. ried. All my other childr en are living , well, and have famili have 23 grandc hildre n and 22 greatg randch ildren . the I am thankf ul my parent s taught me to work and taught me to love us religio called church in t Gospe l. When I was young, we had a projec ntende nt class, which was held right after school . Father was the superi down. I closed it when it ng teachi was and I taught for a long time, and I now, Even much. very it loved and also taught Primar y for 25 years have I it. about me tell will and taught I that someti mes meet a person been a visiti ng Relief Societ y teache r for over fifty years. than Since I first marrie d, I have been a widow much more in my life let won't I happy. I have been marrie d. I live alone now, and I am I love to go myself be otherw ise. I go to the Temple as often as I can. try hard to I earth. on there, becaus e I am with some of the best people , and Temple the in work proxie be like them. I was called to do specia l rs' brothe and father my of proud am so proud and happy to do it. I'm so them. with one record of temple work, and w~nt to be C!-I::J.DR:S:::; OF I-lETII:::i: JfJ,:E CALL !.2-I ' EZRA LEROY SAINSBURY: I::ora :.'.l.lcn Sainsb ury Turley ::e1,;oll Leroy Sainsb ury Al:land CD.11 SainsbUl''Y 8].l.l,CR ::: O~ :LSTIIE JJ\l:E Cl'J..L !'i.::D PETER ADSHEAD Isn:i.ol Cnll '>lilton ~;i.llis I..cgran dp :;ilson . 1\ddie !:..'nclia. ~li.lson P.omer Irene '. .' i.lson Johnso n ~.m,sor:: HISTORY OF AMBHWE l:A.Ll. J.00~- Ambnse Cail, the sixth sen and e1gb.tn child or .lsrae.L in the o.1.d and Medora Wtlite Call, was born Feb. 29, a .rorty acres Call' Anson •1" end north reek h•ua• .lecated at the at that children all as spent in S.unt:itu.l. . My ear..13' tif• was milk er nerd town the driving and ram the timo, werk1ng on pasture. s 1·athor' to cews OUr scheel h9us_o was the eld north schoe.l heuse on west reurth north. The bu.ilding is being used 1'•r a residence new. Ef!1e Porter {later Mrs. DaVid Smith} was '1113' .rirst toacher. l'he next school _was the eld brick bail acr.ss the street fNII the Bountiful Tabemac..1.o to the south. The next schocJ. w s tho o.Ld CentrQ..l SchoeJ., which was located whore the Stoker aohooJ. n,.,,, stands. I gnduated trom the eighth ·grade at that schc»ol in .1~04, Joe.1 Parish being the principal . 'fhe next twe years I attendee, the scheol called the L. D. S. Un1vorsit y. It was very enj yabJ.e. Many men att.entt&d who .Later became d1st1ngUiahacL Adam S. Bennion , M rvin Benn1on , Howard Bennion, Frank Asper, CeciJ. .e. Gates, SpencGr Cormrass, A. Wm. Luna, and mr.,y . "th0rs, 'J.'he Hn d or the Scho .I. was J. H. Paul, W1 th John M. Mil.la, anel Br.ran s. Hink.Ley as ceunselor s. Whi.Le at,t.enciing th.at school., John came down nth smallpox and .ror .rwr veoks the !amizy was quarant.in ed 1n, while I was quarantin ed out. I quit schco..1. to d tha chcrea and auring these rour weeks I 11vcd in a coveroa •~en. Tnat :ummer I spent 1n B1g Hom ano re Vaaoe, Schuyler, ana Nwe.ll s benefit I have t.nat unique picture which would etop any tourist bua on the read. That sum r ot l9U9 a partn rship was rormGd t17 Oliver Beyson and JV'SGaU' to sell vegatabJ.e s in Sa.Lt Lake City. When the summer was wor we both got joba at Dinweoey• 8 Fu.rniture Ce11Span;y until Novu.lber, when I w • called te ge to the Eastern Stato3 Mi:sn,m, Whl.Ch presiCIGd OV@r by Bon E:. Rich. I .Left November J.b, J.9V9 aft.er being set apart by E.Lder Hooor J .Grant, t.hcn an ApHtlo, Unpon arriv:ing 1n Now Yor~. I was assigned to J.ao.r 1n Phila~eJ.p hia. Deo~er 25, J.909. I vaa invited t• attlllld the J.aunohing of the battlG8h1 p Utah. IT. was christene d b,Y .Al.ice Spey, daught.er of Gov. Wm. Spry or Utah. Triero I met ssvera.l. grM.t men, 1. e .• Adllll.ral Dowoy, who was with' the American Fleet , sailed inte Manila Bay and te~k over the Phi.ii .. ppino Islands; the then Vice President of the Unitod States, Fairbanks, and others. ~hey -vrcrc short of ~dcrs in :Caltimoro !Iarylru:d and it foll to my lot to lnbor there. ?or throe months the going wns hn.rd for rr.o. guess my stubborn nnture stopped mofrom doing what I should. ~;hon I final]~ GOt rid of Satan everythin g was fine. The next year and a half was spent in !Iaryland and \lost Virginia. There I met with some success and baptised a few fine people. I In October of 1911, President :\ich cal.led me back to r-,;ew York. The Tnbernacl e Choir was thoro to sing for the Irrigatio n Congress, and also for tho presontnt ion of the silver service purchased by school children of Utah for tho Battle Ship Utah. The guns were all mounted; it was ready for soa. Tho coir snnc several time including the Utah State Song ( Utah We Lovo Thoe), or, Utah tho Star of tho ';lost. They also gave several concerts at the Hadison Squnro Gardon, where I was askod to col.lect tickets at the door. After fivo days in l:et-! York, . President P.ich said, "You have been o·ut two years. L'o you want to go home7" I told him I didn't ask to come out and I wo·Qldn' t as.1< to go home. He said, 11 ::<'ino, I want you to go to Now IIai:npshire and preside over tho Conferenc e for six r.1oriths." It was nico in tho :rew :::ng.lnnd states, cold but boauti.f'u1 . · 1:oirever, people wore not as nice and sociable as those in Harylar:d. I arrived home tho . middle of :-Iey 1912 and prompt.ly started to work: for tho Ln:ribert Paper Co. July of 1912 I mot a lady from Lohi. Hiss Ann Fox, and it took over t1-ro years to persuade her to be my i:ifo. Oliver Er,1son, L. o. Holbrook, and I plannccl a big hay ride, and watormelo n bust. ::mrcl:L nnd :-:arold Call were lonesome, so ::: askcc them if tho~• wanted me to get them a date. l~ewell wanted to know what kind of 6irls thoy wore and I, of course, assured him th0y were fine girls, so they agreed to go along ui th 1i1s. Tho girls were z-: :iss ?ox, :•:iss Ruby ThorstI'UI' l, and Uiss I;elia Peterson. · !·:ewell and Ruby seemed to bo satisfied because two years later they ~-rorer married. tJovember 16, 1914 1~nn Fox and I wore married in the Salt r;ake Ter,iple by President Anthon r:. Lund, thon Councilor to President Joseoh F. &riith. ~·/h1in we i:rorc married, · I though no man could love a lady 1.Ji th ;_ greator love · thun I loved her, but after fifty yoars it seems like puppy love when compared to my love for hor no.r. To that union six beautif'ul children uei•o born: Tholla, no1-1 Hrs. I'.obo1·t L. ·, lintors: -Barbara, now Hrs. Frank Flntcher; Itlcharcl ,'lmbroso, now Dr. Richard A.: Helba, now }:rs. Roger J. BuJ~ton; Lois, nou ~Irs. Paul 3. Cazier: F.obort I, now l•lajor Robert I. Call, D• . ;.s. ·lo have not given our children as much money as other children had bucn.uso 'we co'l1.ldn't do it, but we did try to touch thom to work and to nsive to study and masreali ze that ther e i:3 no field too hard or too expe ter. havo had an influ ence on Two state ment s given mo by diffo ront peop le ren. O,ne by fath er, uho want ed to im'lfr:/ lifo and tho lives _of rriy child 11 work for what you get, press hone sty and tho need to work said , Son, h cari, ying homo. 11 The wort beca use that whic h you get free often is n~t 11 :Sudd ie, when you pray , dig in your othe r by ~:ev:oll in a lotte r he wrot e: now 1:owe ll I run takin g this toEnj '. I have thank ed fath er many time s, and has been a gi·oa t cont ribu tion oppo rtuni ty to thank you and let all know it to our live s. t do, no heig hts they I stil l say there is noth ing a boy or girl can' ys remem ber to 11~ ./IJ.wa • can' t roach if they are .dlli ng to pay the price ". you pray for what you get"a nd "Dis in your toes when Hay God bles s all of you with joy and happ iyour fcllo~ :anen . ness whic h comes throg h servi ng tho Lord and 1-le love all of your . Ambrose CAf..L: CHil..DRS! OF AllBROSE CJ\LL A.!;D i:·;.'\.P..TnA MIN FOX Thol la CaJl T.linte rs Barb ara c~u F1.ot chor Rich.a.rd 1\nbro so Cill Eelb a Ctll 3urto n Lois Cal.1 Cazi er Robe rt Isra el Cill VINSON ORO CALL (1893 - 1962) ..... J' Born January 22, 1893 in Bountiful, Utah, the tenth chi Id and the seventh son of Israel and Medora lt!hite Call, He spent his early childhood there and attended school through the eighth grade. He I ived In Bountiful untl I he enlisted in the Army, November 16, 1911. About his early childhood and early manhood I have heard many stories, nearly al I amusing, indicating that he was extremely spunky. Arley George related to me again the story about the swim the two of them took to the Island In the Great Salt Lake, For the benefit of those who haven't heard it, I wi I I take the I iberty of repeating it here. At the time (by Arley's estimation) Dad was about seven or eight and Arley was about a year older. Their chore \vas to take the cows to the pasture in the morning, watch them al I day and return them in the evening for ml I king. Grandpa Cal I I ived at that time on the corner of Page's Lane and Second \</est in t!.e house occupied by the Youngberg family later. Dad gathered the cows in that vicinity and drove them south on Second West, meeting Arley on the corner of Second West and Thomas Lane with a herd that he had accumulated in his area. Together, then, they drove the collective herd South to the corner of Fourth North (Stoker Crossing) and thence ~·Jest to the very end of the road where Grandpa owned severa I acres of pasture land. On this particular day, after the cows had grazed and were contentedly lying dovm, the two boys, minus their clothes, wandered down to the marshes and bogs of fresh water, After wandering about for some time, they arrived at the salt water and began paddl Ing around, gradually getting further from the shore. Arley doesn't remember \•1ho made the· dare to swim to the island, but both Immediately began paddl Ing toward it. In Arley's words, "It didn't seem far at al I but after hours of paddl Ing It didn't seem any closer. When we got to the Island the sun had sunk so low that we climbed out of the water In the shadow of the island. Of course we had to explore a little and by the time we were through, we both knew that we couldn't pssslbly make It back that night so there was nothing to do but spend the night. With no clothes and no way to bul Id a fire, we (cussed) near froze. We huddled together for · warmth and spent the night. The next morning we were in the water headed back just after daybreak." In the meantime, when the b qs weren't home at mi I king tiMe, one of n.ad's brothers (Uncle Chester, I believe) Jumoed ori a horse and rose down to the pasture to investigate. Upon finding the boys gone and their clothes lying where they had l~ft them, he turned in the alarm and roused the town to hunt for them. They hunted throughout the night and al I the next morning unti I about noon when the boys reappeared Ii ke Tom Sav,yer and Huckleberry Finn. However their reception was slightly different. As Arley said, "l'le knew ' we'd catch '1vhat-for'." Another story of his early I ife concerns his first automobile ride. Dr. Kesler owned the first car in Bountiful and had made a cal r on a patient who I ived on "Onion Street," He was turning by v,ay of Page's Lane when he came to the Union Pacific tracks. Understand that in those days the roads were quite different from ~ven the worst roads of today. At that time there was a very sharp incline up to the tracks and other decline beyond, For the Doctor's car of I imited horsepower (one, or possibly tv10 cylinders) this was an lnsurmounta~le ob:tacle. On the first try, the front wheels barely m~de t~e fr1st ra1 I, and not much better on the succeeding five or six tries, The Doctor v1ould back do •:m the hi 11, get out and crank up, back down the road a number of rods and make a ,,.Ji de-open run for the top of the hi I I, only to have it stal I out right at the top. Dad and Arley George, working in a field next to the road and \'/Ondering hov, long the Doctor's patience would last, finally stopped work and helped push his car over the too. As a re1vard , the Doctor gave each of them a ride in his car. Of course this was a thri I I for them as they were orobably two of the ver~ few persons in Bountiful who had ridden in a car at that time. · Although his childhood was filled with a lot of hard work he sti I I had time to indulge in al I the normal mischief of his ti~ and I· believe, he even managed to invent some special kinds of his o:n. That is w~y it was so difficult for his own sons to put anything over on him, as he had used all the tricks and his memory was always exc~ptional ly keen. He began school in the old "~lorth School" on Fourth North which was later the home of Haven Barlow for many years. The teacher at that time was Edith Hunter. From there he went to the "Brick School" located directly South of the 9ountiful Stake House and in the l\lorth\vest corner of the playground is now the David R. Tolman School, or, as so many remember it, Stoker School. I think a word or two about school Ing should be In order now.. As near as I can understan d, graduatio n from the ei,ehth ~rade ln 1909 was pretty much the e~uivalen t of a high school diploma at present. A very SMall percentag e of the children continued past that grade, particula rly the children of the less wel I-to-do families where their muscles and hands were required for the ever-pres ent chores and odd Jobs on the farm • . A high school education was for the particula rly dedicated , and college .was .main!~ for the wel I-do-do or rich. Educators in those times were nearly always very strict as was the trend even in the family life. However, they Implanted the seed of knowledge more efficient ly than ls the custom today. By making a game of learning they left lasting lmrresslo ns upon the children. I particula rly remember some pet arithmeti c problems of Dad and others of his generatio n which ,.-.,ere on the algebra level. They delighted in springing these problems and trying to solve those of others. This leads me to believe that they absorbed more actual education In their eight years of school than students of my generation accumulat ed ln twelve. As one friend of Dad's said, they had more incentive before the days of switches were abolished , As a compariso n of education of fifty years ago and of now, at the graduatio n exercises at Clearfiel d High School recently there were 227 seniors graduatin g, 909 graduates in Davis C,eunty. Two of the soeakers, both raised In Davis County, made mention that theirs was the largest class to graduate In their respectiv e high schools. One class was numbered at 37 and the other was 23. After he comnleted his formal education , Dad began to work for SI Iver Broth~rs, a r.,achine· shop In Salt Lake City, He worked there for about a year and a half and it ls probably there he got the basis for the mechanica l ski II he always displayed , At the end of that year and a half, he enlisted In the Army on He was sent to Fort Stevens, Oregon where he l\1ovember 16, 1911, served three years, being discharge d on November 15, 1914, Whl le serving in the Ar~y he became proficien t In wrest I ing but was den i ect' the chance to wrest Ie for the \I/est Coast Champ i onsh Ip because of an i I lness. Fol lowing his discharge , he returned to Bountiful where he stayed the winter. The next spring he went to Chesterf ield, Idaho to live with and assist Uncle Israel. In July he returned to Utah and on July 6, 1915, married Amy L. ~hlnplc, daughter of Edson and Mary neck Whipnle In Provo. The fol lo~ing is a chronolog ical accoun· of the Ir Ii fe together as re Iated by ~.:other and with comr:ients hy myse If. July 6 1 1915 - Married in Provo, Utah. went back to Chesterf ield, >lother lived at home and Dad September 1915 - Mother rode the train to Bancroft, being mer there by Dad and they rode to Chesterf ield in a wagon, They returned to Bountiful for the wl.nter and moved to Chesterf ield again In the spring. Septembe r 1, 1916 - Their first son, \'lilllam Oro, was born in Ch·e sterf: 9 Id. May 29, 1916 - They applied for and received initial papers for a homestead In Chesterf ield, Octoher 1916 - ~-Aoved to !=31ackfoot where Dad \•1orked fn the Sugar Factory during the beet run. Februarv 1917 - Returned to 8ountifu l. Grandpa and Grand~a had never seen Bi 11, so Dad and !1other thought it wou Id be a hi g joke to leave him on the doorstep llke an orphan. This they did, knocked on the door and hid whore they could watch. ~randpa ~nswered the door and, accordin9 to Aunt Hettie, was absolute ·ly speechles s and more than a I lttle shocked. In the meantime , nora Salnshur yi who was visltinq thAre, oicked the baby up and hegan to rock him back and forth. I suppose 8i I 11 s head came too clo se to the door and Dad couldn't stand it any longer. He stood up and roared, "Good hell, watch that kid's head." After this outburst there fol lowed a welcome reunion. During the next sum~er Dad drove a delivery truck for the Union Furniture . That fa! I he worked the beet run at the Layton Sugar Factory w 1th Haro Id I-lardy. Fal I 1918 - ~1oved to Burley and worked the beet run In the Suqar Factory there. After the run was over in early 1919, they MOved to Oountlful again and I ived with Aunt Hettie who was a- widow • . That was the year ·of the flu epidemic and Aunt Hettie worked as a nurse helping the afflicted . Dad worked that fall in the Layton Sugar Factory. January 6, 1920 - Their second son, Vinson Bee~, was ' born in Aunt Hettie's home. Dad told me that there was a terrible storm that day and he had to walk up to Dr. Kesler's home to get him. On the return trip they could get only as far as the Bamberger tracks in the Doctor's s Ie i gh and both ha.d to wa I k the remainder of the way. Spring 1921 - They moved to Gooding, Idaho along with Aunt Hettie, Uncle Pete, Uncle Vasco and Aunt Maud. Uncle Pete and Aunt Hettie bought some land and I 1 m not sure just what Uncle Vasco and Aunt Maud d·id. Dad and Mother leased some alphalfa land to raise seed. They were supposed to have made a fortune but, Mother recal Is, that after a summer of back-brea king labor, they ended up w!th Just what they started with -- nothing. Fa 11 1921 - Moved to'\'fl l n Fa 11 s, Idaho and worked the beet run there. After the run, Dad worked for a feed company called Kinney Wholesale where he drove a team of black horses. Mother recal Is that they were named Nig and Blackie and that Dad was as proud as a king as they were a beautiful matched team. It was dur.lng this period that I became lost and caused a minor furor. Perhaps it Is because I have heard the story so many times, but It seems that I can sti II remember the incident. Spring 1925 - Moved to Bountiful and lived with Grandpa and Grandma. r-1 other worked In the ~valker Deoartment Store in Salt Lake City and I'm not sure exactly what bad did but I am sure that he wa~ busy. Fa I I 1925 - Moved to Sa It Lake City and Dad began to v1ork for Ryberg Brothers Construct ion Co. For the next ten years he worked for various construct ion firms but generally returred to Rybergs. Summer 1926 - Worked on SI Iver Zone Pass in Nevada for a man named Harkin. The faml ly lived that summer in a tent. Summer 1929 - Dad worked in \'Jyoming for Utah Sand and Grave I loudIng ballast for the U.P. Railroad. This summer the family lived In an outfit car, which is a box car converted to living quarters. Fal I 1929 - Moved to Aountlful and lived in the old rock house Just south of Grandpa. Dad worked off and on for the Utah Sand and Gravel and various others, among them, Dick Knowlton. l22.i - Spent the summer working on the road beh1een Victor and s~1an Valley, Idaho. This summer vie I ived in a one-roorri tourist cabin. Dad v1orked summers in San Pass, ~!evada for Utah Sand and Gravel, and winters in the shop in Salt Lake. Bi I I and Chet spent several summers in San Pass and worked under Dad who was plant foreman on the night shift, Bi I I recalls that Dad was anxious to prove that his relatives got no special favors so that every dirty, undesirab le Job fel I to him and Chet, For al I of that he was fair with everyone, 1936 - 1940 - Bi 11 recalls that Sand Pass was very uncomfor table, fi lied with lizards, scorpions and rattlesna kes. The water in the water tank would get so hot that it was uncomfor table to shower in it. With no trees for shade and only sand to look at, it was pretty miserable . Needless to say, everyone was glad to get back to the comforts of ho~e. - In the summer of this year, he 1'/ent to Evanston, Wyoming to set up a gravel plant and to act as plant foreman. This Job he held unti I he left the employment of Utah Sand and Gravel in September of 1944. This was a sur.imer operation and he returned to the Salt Lake Plant In the winters, September 1944 - This month he and Mother moved from the old rock house into the one on Second North Just east of Uncle John. Also this \•las the month he began work for the Clearfiel d ~lava I Supply Depot as a packer and crater. He realized one of his smal I ambitions during the succeedin g years, that of having a smal I orchard which he could tend and exoerimen t with. Since he was not dependent on this as an income he could lavish a qreat deal of attention on It and he was extremely proud of the re;ults. He insisted that friends and relatives take a sample home with them whenever they visited. Ap ri I I, 1958 - On this date he retired from the Nava I Base and lived quietly in Bountifu l. His health at this time was poor and any activity brought on a speel of panting and gasping but he did enjoy visiting his faml ly and many friends. It was during this period mostly that he told me of many mer.iories he had and of several things he had done, too many to be included here. ~Aa rch I , 1962 - He entered the Bount i fu I r.1emor i a I Hosp I ta I for an ailment of his lungs. During his stay there, he won the respect and admiration of al I the hospital personnel due to , Is c~eerfulness and uncomplaining attitude. He grew steadily weaker during his stay in the hospital and on the evening of March 31, 1962, passed away in his sleep. In summation may I say that despite his short stature, his heart was as big as the moon. Of al I the friends and relatives I talked to, this was invariably the comment that they al I made. He was always wl I I Ing, even eager, to help the I lttle fellow who had less than himself. Although his formal education terminated after the eighth grade, he never stopped learnln~, and during his varied jobs, he became proficient In many trades. He traveled to many places and made lasting friends .,.,herever he .,.,as. His credo "A day's 1,ork for a day's pay" and alwavs gave his best, regardless of the pay. He 1·ias honest and truthfu I, if he sa Id something you could believe it. His dependabl llty was wel I known t6 his family and those who knew him best. He .,.,ore his b.ig grin I ike a badge of honor and is best remembered for it. Ile never concea Ied his faults and rarely advertised his virtues. My wife, Elaine, said that with al I the kindness and thoughtfulness that was in his heart he was the best Christian she had ever knmrn, I'm sure that the Lord, in His Heaven, must have a place for such as VINSON ORO CALL. Vinson Beck Ca 11 CH I LOREN OF VINSOM ORO CALL AND Mff LOU I SA 1~H I PPLE \~ I I I I am Oro Ca I I Vinson Beck Ca 11 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLARD W. CALL "ll I am the e Ieven th chi l d of . ls rae l and t 1edora \•lh i te c·a I l • I was born in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah on January 9, 1895, while my parents were I iving in the old rock house on Grandfather Cal l's farm in Bountiful. My birth must have meant to mother that here was another pair of feet to track mulberries and I itter into the I ittle two-room house that she cal led home. As I remember, there was a white mulberry tree on one side of the front door and a black mulberry tree on the other side and It was customary for al I kids to go barefoot in the summerand, as kids, we Just could not wait for spring to come so we could shed our shoes and socks and feel the good earth with our feet. It was also great to feel the ·ripe mulberries squash between our toes and then to carry them in the house. I think mother spent as much time s\-1eeping mulberries and cleaning after kids as she did at her other work. About the first th Ing I remember in my chi Idhood was the ti me Vinson cut off my finger with an axe. We were playing with the axe at the chopping block when ince raised the axe and I saw something on the block I wanted and I reached out to get it just as Vince let the axe fal I on the block and off came my index finger on my right hand. My sister, Addle, was working near where we were and she, having seen what had happened, came and took my hand and held it in her hand unti I father could come out of the field and take me to the doctor. There were no telephones then, at least we didn't have one, so Father v1rapped my hand In a towel and put me on a horse behind him and we went to Dr. Stringham 1 s home where his office was and he set the finger, sewed it up, put it in splints and we came back home. Due to my pulling the splints loose, my finger has a crook in it but it is sti I I intact though I can't bend It. Another memory was the moving of the Ii tt Ie house that Father bought and moved from Salt Lake City and set on the one acre lot down by John Waites. It was just a smal I four-room house, but what a mansion to the side of the old rock house with the mulberry trees. What a palace that house looked to me as they put four teams of horses to pul I It as it was placed on two wagons and pulled al I the way from North Sa It Lake. I was happy In the new home and as I grew up, the world became brighter by the day. I was proud of my I ittle brother after he came. He was some four years younger than I but he brought lots of happiness in the thought that I was not the baby of the family. I did not I Ike being the baby and when people asked me if I was the baby, my answer was, "I am the youngest I iving but there is one younger than me v1ho died." I also dis I iked t~ be cal led Cotton Top, Cotting, and many other handles that were given me. I have a picture of myself taken when I was about two shades whiter than snow, which displeased me ver~ much. I look back now and laugh about these things, but at the time I re a I I y had a p rob Iem. When I became twelve, I was ordained a Deacon and really enjoyed going with the other boys to Priesthood meetings on Monday nights. We used to have a lot of fun on these nights and when they finally changed them to Sunday morning, it v,as not nearly as enticing to go to Priesthood meetings though I guess I had a good start and kept going. Two things in my childhood vexed me no end. As I said, it was bare feet for everyone (kids, that is) and every night I found myself with my poor chapped and cracked feet in warm water soaking them before I could go to bed. After a good soaking and a lot of pain and tears, I would dry my poor feet and rub mutton tallow into them for repairs; but the next day the same process would ta ke place. ~1ex1 was the Old Dobey Yard Pasture--it w~s cal led the Dobey Yard because Grandfather dug a large hole in the clay bank and made dobbies to bui Id with, leav ing the hole to fl 11 with 1-1ater which becar.1e about the most talked about swimminc hole in the countrv. As I became old enough, I had to take my turn - driving cows which ~e gathered al I over Bountiful to take to this pasture to feed them. The worst part of this was having to herd these cows to keep them out of the hay field; also the neighbor's hay fields as wel I. If you don't know "'hat lonesoM9ness is, you should try herding cm1s for ahout eight hours a day al I summer. The cows would e~t unti I about noon; then they would I le down in th e shade, if they could find any, and rest unti I about two or two thirty , then they would hunt for water and feed unti I time to go home. After the cows were al I bedded d01•m, then is the time we used to s1-1im and hunt bird oests; our main object was wi Id duck's nests. After my sister Hettie was married and left the little home I it fell my lot to be Mother's helper and so when I was not herding cows, I w~uld have to hel~ Mother in the house which consisted of washing dishes and scrubbing floors. As soon as the breakfast dishes were done, It would be time to go to the pasture for the cows. Then aft er the mi I king was done, there was supper dishes; these are just a few of the routines we had to do. of ente rta lnment as [ven thou:;ih \ve worked hard, there 1·1ere some means skati ng parti es whic h, ~c often had part ies, hav rides , sleig h rides and of a cow herd er. in a •.-:ay, was some cor;p ensat ion for the drab 11 fe r rente d the pas tu re t·!hen Vt nson Ief t home and 1-1ent In the Army, Fathe Being the only one to Fred 9ang erter \•thich was a grea t relie f to me. ran it. Fath er at home, I took over the rest of Fath er's farm and _t block house sold the pastu re to r1rs. rHtch el .and buil t the cemen which he I ived in untl I he passe d on. of age and, of \•/hen 1-1e moved up to the new home, I was s I xteen years as I was long take not cour se, had to find new frien ds. This did in ~Ii I ley, Marv with tet quar acce; ,ted into that group and .,,as soon in ts on limen comp of lots Ralph Rampton and Dan Smed ley. We used to get to es Invit few a and ers our singi ng but it was most ly on stree t corn diffe rent ward s. boys and he taugh t ''.y broth er John be~an work Ing wl th a group of us In ward s and times us a lot, after which we were quite in demand at r. confe rence s and even in the Boun tiful 1st ':lard Choi Brigg s, formed a About twen ty-fi ve boys abou t my age, led by Lorin Leagu e. We rente d club cal led the Y.r.i. D.L., Young Hen's Deve lopm ent four year s. Durin g the onlv dance hal I In town and had It tied up for help to devel op -this ti~e, we buil t a libra ry of books which would a book each month char acter and make for bette r men. \ve were to read asso ciati on with the and r leade and throu qh this club , the book s, the r man of me. Lorin boys throu gh this club and othe rs, It made a bette a long way to gone have I al 9ri~g s was a real boy's man and we would help him as he helpe d us. · It was given to \·ihen the Boy Scou t rrovement was start ed in Utah , as we have some of our churc h to take care of. The reaso n Is obvio us, Osca r A. Kirkham the grea test leade rs in the .worl d. John Tayl or and Utah . Both of In 1•1ere given the job of putti ng the scou t ,..,ork over the worl d's best of some Into oped devel and these men were boy's men y&ars later , but leade rs In scou ting. John Tayl or died just a few leade r. Rroth er Kirkham went on for many years as a scou t our group In Goun tlA trio over the old Pion eer Trai I was start ed and Woods Cross at ful was invit ed to make the trip with them . \1e left d with scou ts loade cars 8 A~ on Sunday on the train which had three n, then on east from Salt Lake City and 8oun tlful . We came to Ogde to Echo Rock up ed to Echo , Utah where we left the train and march very Inspi ring thrP.e "ll les. \•Je held a meet ing and I lsten ed to some the town of Echo ,,mrds from some of the Apost Ies. \·le came back to ed on over to march we where a lunch was serve d us at noon and then t Josep h F. iden Pres Hene fer v1here 1-1e atten ded Sacra ment !1eet tna. unab le to and II i was Smith was to have been at this meet ing but he and spoke ··: place his atten d so his coun selor , Antone Lund was there in es which '• stori er to us. These talks were all abou t pione ers and ~ione ed march we fer, were very Inter estin g. Afte r the meet ing at Hene ing· we : morn m. Next abou t four miles out of town and camped on a strea a made camp v1E: got start ed on our journ ey ahou t 9:00 N1. At each the d there and mark er stand ing stati ng that the hoy scou ts campe ing the first mark e,~ plant of r hono the date. The Boun tiful group had site on a strea ~ The secon d nigh t out we camped at a beau tiful camp churc h supe rinte nde n~ and Pres iden t Sran t, who was in charg e as he was .. resid e nt Josep h F •. of H.I.A ., asked Apos tle Hyrum r·~. Smith (a son of voice and then one barit Smith ) to sing. He sang a song In beau tiful and make it him with sin~ asked If there was not some one who would told him I s, Rrlgg Lorin a duet. Nobody volu nteer ed so our leade r, think o f to d elate very could help him which I tried to do and was leade rs The . voice singi ng with an Apos tle with such a marv elous t. nigh next the seemed to I ike It becau se they cal led for more there is where The last nigh t we were camped at Moun tain Del I and boys , one from two Salt Lake City as \'le had to leave two group s from a sorry loo k i ng group each group , came down with Smal I Pox. They \'lere from Boun tiful when we al I pulle d out and left them . vie fel 1.ows I ittle bol der, but were olde r and large r than the rest and perha ps a on had ma de us the ml les of trave l and the hard groun d to sleep r impa tient and rathe r restl ess and some of us were grouc hy and ratheglvAn to those was I lttle swea ring was heard so the cold wate r cure he was pounc ed r, swea to h13ard who indul ged. If a boy or man was e or his tro us e r · sleev his down d upon and a cup of cold wate r was poure acco rding to his pena lty requi reme nts. Immi gratio n Ca nyon One \'Jendesd;,y we march ed over Littl e 1-f ounta tn Into taken to Li ber ty be to us where elec tric stree t cars were waiti ng for Park where we joine d a Pion eer Days Parad e. years at Boun t iI atten ded elem entar y scho ols in Boun tiful and three scho ols an d the ed ful High Scho ol. In 1914, Oavl ·s Coun ty cent raliz hono r of bein g bul It a senio r high schoo l at Kaysvi lie. I had the High . At ·Dav is gradu ated in the first gradu ation class from Davis took to most we I had one of the Iead p'arts in an oper etta wh I ch ation could do. raliz cent what every town In the coun ty just to shm-1 The next winter I attended Utah State Agricultural College. Thi-£ was the extent of my schooling. The rest I got from kn~cks ahd bumps. \•/hen Addie came down to Bount if u I at one ti me, she to Id me if t would come up and help them in the beets she would find me a girt. That sounded good to me so I got the work done on the farm so I could leave and I went to Lewiston to help Joe get his beets out. Addie · I lved up to her agreement and made me acquainted with a girl cal led Sadie Kent. She looked good to me and so began a friendship which ended in my chasing her for four years before she caught me. I have loved every minute of my association with her, vie were married on October 10, 1917 In the Logan Temple by \'Ii 11 iam A. Noble who cal led us to one side after the ceremony and gave us some real good advice which has helped us along I ife~ way. The first year of our married I ife v1as spent in Gooding, Idaho where we found some most wonderful friends. Outside of our own families , we deem these people some of the greatest friends we know. They are Edwin and Ri Ids Sessions Vii 11 iams and Orvi I le and Annie Merri 11 Ellsworth. WE learned to love these people very much. Our first child, a boy, Gordon Kent, born May 16, 1919 was a beautiful healthy chi Id In every way. When he was only nineteen months old he was stricken with Meningitis and only I ived four days. This was one of the great disappointments of our I Ives, to see a perfect chi Id taken with only .a short notice, This just about shattered our faith but we found great consolation in blessings which my father gave us and which we sti II cherish as sound wisdom and advice. Our second chi Id, Norine, was born the next March 8th, She was a perfect chi Id and f i I Ied the vacant spot which tv10 months of bereavement had left. We had learned a great lesson from this exrerience and after we had brought ourse Ives to rea Ii ze the words of the Prophet 1vho said, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, b Iessed be the name of the Lord," then 1,ie could see that vie are subject to the Almighty Father who Is our creator and that we must abide by his Holy Wi I I. Norine married Walter Edward Peterson in the Temple, a registered nurse, has taken time for three children, Vicki Anne, Walter Ralph and Janice -- three beautiful children who are bringing joy and happiness to their parents as wel I as to us. \'le 1>1ere very proud this spring to learn that Vicki had been I isted .as one of a group who were cal led Golden Key Scholars. They were a group of students In her schoo I v1ho had earned "A" average in a I I subjects for three years straight. This is a distinct honor and I am as proud as can be to have her as my granrldaughter. Steven Lamar, our third chi Id, was born August 16, 1922. When Ste ve came we felt that he was more answer to our prayers becau se he was like Gordon -- left handed. Gordon 1•1as dark 1•iith brown eyes vihile Steve was more my own complexion with blue eyes. We loved each in his turn. Steve married Jeanne Gibbons and to them has come one bo y and four girls: Steven Kent and Kathleen (twins), Susan, Joa n, and Marjean. Kent is at present serving a mission for the churc h in Cherokee, North Carolina and judging fron his letters, he is doing a great work v/ith the Indian youth in seminary 1-1ork. He and his companion have graduated several this spring. Kathleen is married to Lynn Heinze and they have a very wonderful son who is our first great grandchi Id. Susan, a senior in high school next year, is sti Ii unattached but if looks has anything to do with it, she wi 11 have her share of dates. Joan and Mar jean are prospective heart smas hers. At present, Steve is Bishop of the Sixty-eighth Ward, Lorin Farr Stake and also manager of the State Tuherculosis Hospital. Ralph Kent was born July 23, 1924 in Bountiful. He married Lois Je an Se1•1el I and to them has come two boys and three gir .ls. They were al so married In the Temple and they, with their family, are heapin g hon o r s on themselves and us. Ralph is employed at Marquardt and does a lot of traveling for the company. Their children, Nancy, ~ary J ane, Daniel, Julie, and Timothy, al I beautiful children \'/ho are gro wing so fast it is hard to keep track of them. Ralph ls Sunday School Superintendent and Lois President of the Y.W.M. I.A. and they are plenty busy. We were invited to attend a concert at Davis High in which Nanc y played the viol in and sang in the chorus--a concert given bv Junior High students and believe me, it was a credit to have been~ participant therein. I am not speaking as a former Davis High Grad either. Dee Kent was born September 5, 1926 in Bountiful. He married Be ve rie Cozzens in- the Temple. They have four boys, Michael, Jeffrey, Kel le y and Todd. These boys are plessed with a lot of their Dad's wit and it is fun being around them. Dee sti I I 111orks at<' Hi 11 Air Force Base where he Is a key man in his field, Dee Is also Sunday School Superintendent in his ward and Bev is teaching a class of girls in M.I.A. and Is a Sunday School teacher. Mike helps his Grandpa Cozzens make and repair radio and television stations. He is aett ing a lot of good learning from it. l" .. Gwen was born August 3, 1928 in Ogden. She is mar ied to Parley \,/ayne Hansen. They have five boys and one girl, Kevin, Scott, Kenney, Shaunn a, Craig and Paul. This family seems to be the athlete s in our c-lan. If there is anythin g athlet ic going on, some of them are usual ty In on It. Kevin and Kenney are the bal t pitche rs and Scott is the footbal I star. They are a happy bunch and do a tot of living in their new home and with their horses . Gwen has worked in the Primary and choir for some ti me. is in the ~1.1.A. and choir. Kevin ls trying for his Duty to God award which he wi I I probab ly get. He also is getting pretty good on thi 'cornet . This clan are singer s; each of the childre n has a very fine voice and at some time we hope they wi I I make their marks In music. Lawrence White, the only boy we gave my name to, was born May It, 1933 in Ogden. He was a beautif ul chi Id and ls now a handsome young man. He married Beverly Rowden and a girt and boy was born to them. Carl Michel le and Barton White are both beautiful childre n. Beverly had three childre n by a previou s marriage; Christ ine, David and qichard . Christi ne is married and has a baby girl, .Minnon. Larry is working at Hi I I Air Force Base in t.B.M. where he ts going very wel I and is ad~anc ing steadil y. \ ,: Most of our t Ives have been spent . 1n 0gden where.', we have made and have many friends . Our home Is at 600 Cross Street where we have I ived since 1928 when we purchas ed the place. Aftec. some few change s, we had It so we could raise our faml ly In it. When we first came to Oaden we I ived at 364West J7th Street and I ived in the 10th ~ard.- When we bought our presen t home we I ived in the 8th Ward, Ogden Stake. We were later separa ted from Ogden Stake and put into [3en Lomond Stake. Later we were divi ded again and found ourselv es in the Lorin Farr Stake, so since '.·le moved in 1928, we have I ived In three differe nt wards (8th, 21st and 42nd) and three differe nt stakes and have not moved. \~e have witness ed a . lot of growth since \>Je came to Ogden. I have heard it said it Is .hard to raise a family in a city, but I find it no harder to give them the right trainin g if the childre n will take the advice and respon sibilit ies that are given them. Environ ment has a great deal to do with a chi Id, but so does exampl e. After we were marrie d, we decided that my wife should carry her I: right name which Is Sarah Ellen. So to my relativ es and our friends wherA we have I tved, she has been Sarah, and Aunt Sarah to many. Earlie r In llfe, we both loved to dance and attende d most of the dances that came along In the wards we I lved In. \fo also attende d many dances In Ogden. In 1945 when square dancing became so popula r, we joined a dance club and had lots of fun untl I I became stricke n with arthri tis In my leg and was forced to quit. · For amny years we went to Yellow stone Park every year and sometimes as much as three times in a year, but lately we have . turned our attenti ons elsewh ere and have gone many places of great Interes t to us. Our trips have Include d a trip to Liberty and Carth~g e J~I Is, Nauvoo, I II lnols; Detroi t and Chicag o a~d one Worlds Fair In Seattle . We have made a trip to Hesa and over i~to Mexico; severa l trips to Los Angele s, Oakland and San Francisco. We love to travel and I think I have the best traveli ng pc,rtne r go! ng. My church work has been very Interes ting. I have worked twice in the Preside ncy of Elders . I spent twelve years as a presi"."' · · dent in the 239th Quorum of Seventy~ eight years of which as senior presid ent. I was cal led to serve a stake mission for three years --two years of which I was Mission Preside nt • . These years were very profita ble ones as we brough t thirty four souls Into a knowledge of truth. On Octobe r 27, 1957, as I was pbout to go through the Logan Temple, I was cal led In and set apart as a ' vel I worker in the Logan Temple which has meant much to me and which 1 am proud to do. I worked for about fourtee n years as \ford Teache r Superv isor in the 21st and 42nd Wards and most of these months we got a hundred percen t. began my I lfe as a farmer but later changed and went to work in a flour ml I I where I worked for eightee n years. Durlno this time I worked my way up to relief miller to take over durln~ vacatio ns: I stayed there too long as I breathe d so much f Iour dust that -t .. got asthma and hay fever. I left the ml I I and went to work for the Rai I road as a clerk. I wanted to get work where I would be outsid e most of the time and I sure got it at the 11ai I road. I worked for the Ogden Uni on Ra I 11·,ay and Depot Co. for twenty -one years from which I retired on June 16, 1964. I did not want to • years retire so soon. I would much rathe r have worked ·~ few l~ore do. could I else much not but my healt h broke and there was at the rai I road I have many frien ds whom I met both at the mil I and memory forone's In remain and I deem them the kind of peopl e who wages I the on y ever. It was a real strug gle to raise a famil g our gettin in nate receiv ed at times , but we have been very fortu a n gotte have y, home clear and with the help of our fine famil for s friend our with summer home or cabin which we can al I enjoy my to ful thank am many good times for a long time to come. I . It faml ly for the way they accep t our wishe s about the cabin ds go frien our has been a sourc e of Joy to have our famil ies and canyo n. to the cabin on warm night s and spend a few hours in the High The More than a thous and peopl e enjoy ed the cabin in 1963. the to Pries ts Group from our ward has a stand ing date to go cabin and enjoy the eveni ng and have a fine suppe r. have tried and they were made welcome. This is the kind of home we it. from ness happi and joy to maint ain and we have found much She Sarah is every thing I had hoped for in a I ife's companion. time one At d. groun ovm has been able to _meet any perso n on their ern South the over Ogden to when we were trave ling from San Franc isco the on car ial offic Pacif ic Rai I road, we learne d there was an d that train ; so just prior to going into Carl in, Nevada, v-:e learne train , our of rear the Presi dent Truman was in the offic ial car on d to wante Sarah es, As the train stopp ed at Carl In for twent y minut Presi the of get off the train and see if she could get a gt impse was He him. dent. This we did, and she made conve rsatio n with hat pol lte and graci ous to her, which broug ht stare s and somew among queen a envio us looks from onloo kers. She is in very deed women. Ju I y IO, 1964 · over the Among our very dear f rt ends v,ho have been so close to us Alma D, years are Mi Iton and Vera Cawley, Ross and Leona Rampton,I I ie Emma Mil fer, Berni e and Lula Richa rds, lanthu s L. and Li whom we Richa rds; Percy and Li II Ian Whett en, and many other s withThese men have gone on trips and partie d with for so many years . whose are ex-Bi shops , Bisho p's Coun selors and High Counci Imen to do the wives have stood by them and made it possi ble for them work they have done. Golden fo Octob er, 1967, Mother and Dad were honored on their ren. The Wedding Anniv ersary with a recep tion given by their ·child ves relati love and respe ct shown them by the overf lowin g crowd oftheir and frien ds who came to greet them was a testim ony to a beauchild ren and grand child ren. I know that it wi 11 always be tiful memory for al I of us. f am proud of my famil y and my grand child ren and great grand their ing train of job good a child ren. My child ren are doing them, child ren and with the help of the grand paren ts in spoi I ing ot of. I a h~d not have We they are a 11 norma I, hea Ithy chi I dren. a wife and rat1~n coope money to spend on our chi ldren ,_but by close have we g, sewin of lot a do who has been able to pinch penni es and did. ever I than now gotte n by. As for my wife, I love her more Her Her keen wit has kept me on my toes to even fol low her. among her kept has e abili ty to sew cook and mix with other peopl many on e advic for leade rs In al f 1circ les. She is sough t after for me, f Ines and ls always prepa red to give of what she has. As I am but ve; I feel that I am bless ed perha ps more than I deser which I thank ful for that which I have and for the fine poste rity have. ts were ·sarah and t have had a wonderfu I Ii fe toget her. Our paren ves of about the same mind as both had many frien ds and relati ight who I Jked to come to their homes for a meal and to stay overn I i ved Our be Ioved Mother, Sa rah, passe d away June I, 1969. She to -life fully and joyou sly to the end, and died as she wanted y. easil quick ly and a II As I Iook back over our Ii ves with Mother and Dad, the over- s where alway were Dad and r Mothe feelin g I get is one of SFCURITY. sed to · they were supposed to be, and at the time they were supoo in a I I us d behin y I id I so were be there , Ive a Iways knew that they made our endea vors. There was no gener ation gap, eithe r. They . plain very what they expec ted of us we We didn't have al I the luxur ies of I ife, but I feel that what lives our ng shapi in us did have has been far more impor tant to and in helpin g us to raise our own famil ies. Rogers As a famil y, we were delig hted when Dad marri ed Hazel Hess ciate aDore and love all in the Salt Lake Temple June 11, 1970, \ve proud are we and , wornan "Grandma Hazel ," She ls a very outsta nding to learn that she has accep ted al I of us. It can be diffi cult to .... love a ready-rvide family of 57 children, grandchildren7 gr~a~-grandchi ldron, and in-laws. Even when th~y are as lovable as we al I are! Reading the histories of the children of Israel Cal I forcibly reminds ~e that we, as their children, have a great heritage. pray that we may emulate the qualities of honor, steadfastness, and spirituality of our parents, aunts and uncles. Norine Call Peterson June 1971 CH I LOREN OF \IJ I LLARD \·/HI TE CALL AMO SAR/\H ELLEN KENT CALL Gordon Kent Ca I I ~lorine Call Peterson Steven Laf!ar Ca I I Ralph Kent Cal I Dee Kent Ca I I G\ven Ca I I Hansen Lawrence \·/hi te Ca I I