Brief Life History of Vasco
When Vasco Call was born on 24 July 1880, in Sunset, Apache, Arizona, United States, his father, Israel Call, was 26 and his mother, Medora White, was 25. He married Mina Maude Dobie on 8 June 1904, in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He immigrated to World in 1945 and lived in Gridley, Butte, California, United States in 1930 and Gridley Judicial Township, Butte, California, United States in 1940. He died on 13 May 1977, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Gridley-Biggs Cemetery, Gridley, Butte, California, United States.
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- Vasco Call, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Legacy NFS Source: Vasco Call - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Vasco Call
- Vosco Call, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1894 · The Genealogical Society of Utah is formed.
The Genealogical Society of Utah is formed. - A precursor society to FamilySearch, the GSU was organized on November 13,1894, in the Church Historian's Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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The Story of My Life, by Esta Ensign Sarager Call, written 1970
CHAPTER 1 "O shucks! I have to get this hay in. Can't you see it's going to rain?" As Martin came into the yard with a load of hay, Martha came out of the house to tell him that she was having pain …
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