Sarah Payson Call

Brief Life History of Sarah Payson

When Sarah Payson Call was born on 10 July 1829, in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jonathan Call, was 43 and her mother, Caroline Greenleaf, was 33. She died on 10 January 1830, at the age of 0.

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Family Time Line

Jonathan Call
1786–1853
Caroline Greenleaf
1795–1830
Caroline Greenleaf Call
1820–1864
Phillippa Call
1822–1858
Sarah Payson Call
1826–1826
Sarah Payson Call
1829–1830

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  • Sarah Payson Call, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"

World Events (2)

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

1830 · The Oregon Trail

Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.

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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