Mary Flint Call

Picture of Anson Call and his wife, Mary Flint Call.


Mary Flint was the daughter of Rufus Frederick Flint and Hannah Haus, born 27 March 1812 at Braintree, Orange County, Vermont.

When Mary was a young woman, her father moved westward and took up a homestead in Ohio. With himself and his two daughters Mary and Hannah, they started a new home. However, it soon became necessary for him to go away and lave the responsibility of the homestead to the two girls. They hired a man to come and help on the farm by the name of Anson Call. Mary fell in love with Anson and a courtship resulted.
On the third of October, 1833, they were married. Hannah continued to make her home with them, as the farm belonged to their father.

A Town at the Bottom- Anson Call Marker

See more about this marker on this page.  Inscription. About two miles in front of you, the remains of the town of Callville lie buried in silt on the bottom of Lake Mead. Originally developed as a port on the Colorado River to supply goods to Mormon settlements, Callville had long been a desolate ruin by the time Lake Mead's rising water swallowed it up.

In December of 1864, Anson Call traveled overland past this point to the north bank of the Colorado, where he selected a town site along a horseshoe bend of the river. Call built a landing and a large warehouse for cargo that was to come up the Colorado by steamboat.

Callville never really got going. Isolation, competition, tough upstream navigation, and a transcontinental railroad dogged the town's progress. A steamboat finally landed at Callville in 1866, but two years later the town was abandoned.

Anson Call, Man of action

Here is an Ensign article about Anson Call from the July 2001 issue. This pioneer’s story represents the experiences of thousands of early Latter-day Saints who helped the Church take root in the American West.  The article is by Thaya Eggleston Gilmore.