Call, Israel

File — Box: 7, Folder: 4

Identifier: VI

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Scope and Contents

Family stories, one volume. 51 pages. Contains the biographies and autobiographies of Israel Call, his wives Medora White Call and Jane Lucinda Judd Call, and their children. Included are short biographies of the following children of Israel Call: Israel Bowen Call (1875-1961), John Anson Call (1876-1958), Medora Adelaide Call Bergeson (1878-1968), Vasco Call (1880-), Lydia Call Hancock (1881-), Schuyler Call (1882-), Newell Call (1883-1968), Chester Monroe Call (1884-1934), Hettie Jane Call Sainsbury Wilson Knight (1886-1969), Ambrose Call (1888-), Vinson Oro Call (1893-1962), and Willard W. Call (1895-).

Call, Israel Bowen 1875-1961: Compiled by Mildred Call Sauer. Israel Bowen Call was born October 10, 1875, in Bountiful to Israel and Medora White Call. In February 1876 the Call family with thirty other families left for Arizona to colonize on the Little Colorado. They settled at Sunset, Arizona. There were thirty families in the United Order but by 1883 only about eight families were left. At this time Israel Call was called to go with George Teasdale and Francis M. Lyman to Mexico to look for another place to colonize. While he was gone Medora lost her eyesight from blowing sand and the Calls returned to Utah. Young Israel was ten years old when they returned to Utah. He grew up in Bountiful and in 1900 fulfilled a mission to Australia.
In 1904 Israel B. Call married Martha Balfour; 1905 he homesteaded in Chesterfield, Idaho; 1909, his wife died; 1913 he married Charlotte Vienna Davids and continued to farm and raise sheep and dairy cows. In 1927 Israel B. served a six month mission in Council Bluffs; moved to Osgood, Idaho, in 1933; and moved again to Grant, Idaho, in 1941.
Call, John Anson 1876-1958: John Anson Call was the first child born in the United Order in Sunset, December 14, 1876. When his family moved back to Utah he attended school in Bountiful and went to the L.D.S. Business College.
From 1897 to 1899, John A. Call belonged to the Utah National Guard. In 1899 he served a mission to Texas for his church. He was a school teacher, barber, postmaster at Bountiful, city employee of Bountiful, and an active church member.
Bergeson, Medora Adelaide Call 1878-1968: The third child of Israel and Medora White Call, Medora Adelaide was born December 21, 1878, while the family was living at Sunset in the United Order under Lot Smith. She remembered her life as a child in Sunset. She writes that the women did the work at the dairy. They had apples only at Christmas, and they gathered wild gooseberries. She tells of her mother's blindness from the sand storms which resulted in their return to Utah in 1885. Her father and mother had six children and a team and wagon when they returned from Arizona. (Israel's second wife remained in Arizona.) Medora Adelaide describes the return trip--the sandy roads; the mountain, Lee's Backbone; and the ride across the Colorado on Lee's Ferry. The first winter in Bountiful was very hard. Medora had one dress and one pair of shoes for winter. In the summer she went barefoot. She was taught to tithe. Medora A. married Joseph Bergeson in 1901. The children of Joseph and Medora Adelaide Call Bergeson are Joseph Devon Bergeson, Eldred Clifford Bergeson, Arita Bergeson Doney, Israel Sheldon Bergeson, Rulon Call Bergeson, Thora Bergeson Watson, Arnold Verne Bergeson, Horace Bowen Bergeson, Nell Bergeson, Phillip Eugene Bergeson, June Bergeson Swallow, and Lorene Bergeson.
Call, Vasco 1880-: Vasco Call was born in 1880 at Sunset, Apache County, Arizona. There is a description of the fort. They lived in a fort which accommodated thirty-six families. The fort was built of logs that stood perpendicular. Each family occupied a room with a door and a window. The rooms were built together to form a rectangle with two driveways open into the square. Heavy gates to these openings were kept closed against Indian attack. The office, council house, dining hall, and kitchen were all built within the square. The carpenter shop, chicken coop, calf and pig pens, blacksmith shop, and vegetable garden were immediately outside the fort. Vasco returned to Bountiful when he was four years old. In 1900 he went to the Big Horn country in Wyoming to homestead, then to Idaho, and finally to California. His wife Maude Dobie Call died in 1948. He remarried and in 1959 he and his wife Esta Sarager Call became missionaries at the Liberty Jail in Missouri. The children of Vasco and Mina Maude Dobie Call are: Ruby Medora Call Davenport, Lester Dobie Call, Mattie Ruth Call Naylor Tarancon, Max Dobie Call, Carma Call Prydl, and Douglas Helen Call Doering.
Hancock, Lydia Call 1881-: Lydia was born in Sunset in 1881 to Israel and Jane Lucinda Judd Knight Call. (Jane was Israel's second wife.) When the United Order in Sunset was abandoned, they moved to the fort at Allen's camp near the present town of Joseph City. In 1888 Israel Call bought the Standifird Ranch near Taylor, Arizona, and moved his wife Jane and nine children there. He then returned to Bountiful. Jane later sold the ranch and moved to Taylor where most of her children grew up. Lydia married Joseph Clarence Hancock in 1900. She was active in the church and a dedicated temple worker. The children of Joseph Clarence and Lydia Call Hancock are Clarence Reginald Hancock, Lydia Jane Hancock McClellan, Roy Judd Hancock, Perry Russell Hancock, and Emily La Preel Hancock Goodman.
Call, Schuyler 1882-: Schuyler Call was born in the Sunset Fort, Apache County, Arizona. When three years old his family returned to Bountiful. Here he grew up and attended school. He went to the L.D.S. University. In 1903 he went to the Big Horn Basin to work on canals, ranches, and any type of work he could find. He spent six years pioneering in Wyoming and Montana. In 1909 he moved back to Salt Lake and enrolled in an extension course on play production at the University of Utah, under the direction of Maud May Babcock and Moroni Olsen. They formed a theatrical company in Taylorsville. Schuyler worked for Bennion Brothers and Carpenter Paper Company, and served as chief of police of Murray City. His church work was varied--the choir, Mutual Improvement Association, teacher, recreation director, and missionary.
Call, Newell 1883-1968: A son of Israel and Jane Lucinda Judd Knight Call, Newell was born in Sunset in 1883, on the ranch purchased by his father from John Standifird and now known as the Solomon Ranch. Because his mother was afraid of Indian attacks, she sold the property to Edwin Solomon and moved to Taylor about seven miles north of the ranch. It was in Taylor that Newell grew up and went to school. He attended the church academy (finished high school) at Snowflake, three miles from Taylor. After his mission he entered L.D.S. Business College in 1912. He held positions in the business field in Utah and California.
Call, Chester Monroe 1884-1934: Chester was born April 11, 1884, in Wilford, Apache County, Arizona, to Israel and Medora White Call. While still a baby the family returned to Bountiful. Here he grew up and attended school. Except for a year in Kemmerer, Wyoming, his working years were spent in Bountiful and Salt Lake City. He was an active church member. The children of Chester Monroe Call are: Otis Monroe Call, Chester Parkin Call, Virginia Call, Blaine Parkin Call, Beth Call Woodard, Madge Leora Call Bradley, Verne Parkin Call, and Frank Parkin Call.
Knight, Hettie Jane Call Sainsbury Wilson 1886-1969: Hettie was born after the family returned to Bountiful. Here she grew up and in 1906 married Ezra LeRoy Sainsbury who died in 1911. They had three children. To support her family she worked at the salt factory near Saltair. She later took a course in practical nursing. In 1919 she married Peter Adshead Wilson. He died in 1942. During her widowhood of the next six years she worked at Hill Field during World War II. In 1948 she married Charles LeRoy Knight, who died in 1957. The children of Ezra LeRoy and Hettie Jane Call Sainsbury are: Dora Ellen Sainsbury Turley, Newell LeRoy Sainsbury, and Arland Call Sainsbury. The children of Peter Adshead and Hettie Jane Call Sainsbury Wilson are: Israel Call Wilson, Willis Legrand Wilson, Addie Amelia Wilson Homer, and Irene Wilson Johnson.
Call, Ambrose 1888-: Ambrose was born in Bountiful where he attended school to the eighth grade and spent the next two years at the L.D.S. University. In 1909 he began a mission to the Eastern States. While on his mission he was invited to attend the launching of the Battleship Utah, which was christened by Alice Spry. In 1911 he was in New York when the Tabernacle Choir sang for the Irrigation Congress and for the presentation of the silver service purchased by school children of Utah for the Battleship Utah. He arrived home in May 1912 and began working for Lambert Paper Company. In 1912 he married Ann Fox.
Call, Vinson Oro 1893-1962: Vinson was born in Bountiful where he spent his life except for a short period in Idaho and Nevada. He home-steaded in Chesterfield, Idaho. He worked in the sand and gravel business, in construction, and in sugar factories. He married Amy L. Whipple in 1912. The children of Vinson Oro and Amy L. Whipple Call are: William Oro Call and Vinson Beck Call.
Call, Willard W. 1895-: Willard was born in Bountiful where he received his education. He married Sarah Ellen Kent in 1917. Most of their lives were spent in Ogden. He was a farmer, a flour mill worker, and railroad clerk. He was an active church member. Sarah died in 1969. Willard married Hazel Hess Rogers in 1971. The children of Willard W. and Sarah Ellen Kent Call are: Gordon Kent Call, Norine Call Peterson, Steven LaMar Call, Ralph Kent Call, Dee Kent Call, Gwen Call Hansen, and Lawrence White Call.

Dates

1857-1986

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