Gaius Delmar Call

Brief Life History of Gaius Delmar

When Gaius Delmar Call was born on 14 December 1902, in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, his father, Anson Bowen Call, was 39 and his mother, Mary Theresa Thompson, was 34. He married Ora Carlton on 9 September 1935, in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He immigrated to Texas, United States in 1938. He died on 27 June 1969, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States.

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Family Time Line

Gaius Delmar Call
1902–1969
Ora Carlton
1914–2008
Marriage: 9 September 1935
Gaius Delmar Call Jr
1936–1937
Mary Darlene Call
1945–1960
Sandra Marie Call
1952–2006

Sources (26)

  • Gams Delmar Call, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Gaius Call, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Lucio D Call, "México, Chihuahua, Registro Civil, 1861-1997"

World Events (8)

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

1904

Constitution changed to allow for six-year presidential term.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

Name Meaning

Irish: shortened form of McCall .

English: from Middle English calle, cale (Old English cawl) ‘container, basket, net’, commonly used of a kind of hair net, close-fitting cap, or headdress worn by women to cover tied-up hair. The name could have been given as a metonymic occupational name to a maker of women's caps or perhaps of baskets or nets.

English: alternatively, perhaps a nickname from Middle English cale (also calle), a side form of calwe ‘bald’ (from Old English calu).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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