Brief Life History of Anson Vasco
When Anson Vasco Call was born on 9 July 1834, in Madison Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States, his father, Anson Call, was 24 and his mother, Mary Flint, was 22. He married Charlotte Holbrook on 28 January 1853, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Davis, Utah, United States in 1850 and Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1852. He died on 4 August 1867, in Rock Creek, Albany, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Arlington Cemetery, Arlington, Carbon, Wyoming, United States.
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- Anson V Call, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Anson Vasco Call - Individual or family possessions: Journal or diary: birth-name: Anson Vasco Call- son of Anson Call & Mary Flint
- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 for Anson Vasco Call and Eliza Catherine Kent
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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