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.

Spackman Heirlooms

We recently visited Grandma Spackman and asked to take some pictures of family heirlooms.  Here are a few treasures to look for next time you visit.

This glass chicken belonged to Elva Morgan Rindlisbacher (Grandma’s mother).  She had picked it out for the children and placed some Easter eggs in it to give to them on Easter.  The children found it and decided that it would be a perfect gift for their mother, and so it was hers instead.

This was Elva Rindlisbacher’s butter churner.

This is Grandmother Morgan’s (Elizabeth Bawden Morgan’s) bread mixing bowl, with an enamel bowl that Grandma Spackman put inside.

This is the sewing machine that Grandma Spackman learned to sew on.  It does a straight stitch, not a back stitch or anything like that.  It belonged to Elva Rindlisbacher.

The high chair that the Spackman children ate on, including the metal tray that Grandma recently found.

...and a silver spoon she used to feed them.  She recently found this spoon in the dirt behind the old farm, evidence left behind by would-be archeologists. 

Here is Grandma's glass case, full of little treasures picked up during the years, especially showcasing Grandma's bell collection.

Bell detail...

Little humorous play-on-words objects like this can be found throughout the house.

Here are a couple of items to remember Grandpa by.

John Scott

Information drawn from http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11241017
A native of Armagh, Ulster, Ireland, John was the son of Jacob and Sarah Warnock Scott. At the age of eight, he immigrated to Trafalgar, Canada with his parents. On April 15, 1836, he married Elizabeth Menerey. Elizabeth was born September 10, 1815 in Dublin, Ireland. After their marriage they were converted to the LDS Church; John, his wife, and all of his father's family were baptized into the Mormon religion.

The following year, they moved to Far West, Missouri and two years later to Nauvoo, Illinois, passing through great hardships and persecutions with the Saints at that time. John accepted the principle of plural marriage and took for his wives Mary Pugh on February 3, 1845, and Sarah Ann Willis on March 24, 1846.

John was chosen as one of the bodyguards to the Prophet Joseph Smith and held the position of Colonel in the First Regiment of the Nauvoo Legion. He and all three of his wives were in attendance at the meeting held after the martyrdom when the mantle of the prophet fell upon Brigham Young. They bore testimony of this many times to their family. They traveled to Winter Quarters and came west the following year, settling in Millcreek, Utah. John served a mission to England; and after his return he married his fourth wife, Esther Yeates, on February 11, 1860, later marrying Angeline Roxy Keller April 11, 1868.

John moved Esther and Angeline to Millville in 1868; and he resided there until 1876 when he returned to Millcreek. In December 1876, while visiting his family in Millville, he died of pneumonia. He is buried in the old Salt Lake City Cemetery. His wives were all honorable women who lived lives of good Latter-day Saints and set good examples for all to follow.

Elizabeth Meneray, Mary Pugh and Sarah Ann Willis are all buried at the old Salt Lake City Cemetery. Esther Yeates is buried in Millville. Angeline remarried and relocated to Union County, Oregon. Her burial information is unknown.

Birth: May 6, 1811, Ireland
Death: Dec. 16, 1876
Millville
Cache County
Utah, USA

Charles Spackman- relative?

I stumbled across this page about a certain Charles Spackman, born about 1748, who could easily be a relative.  He lived near our Spackman relatives, and this history mentions that he had a relative named Henry Spackman.  Temple work has been done for himself and his wife, but he is not linked to anybody in the LDS family search website.  I am curious to look into this line in the future.  Here is the page that I found.

http://www.coalcanal.org/history/Shareholders/Spackman.htm

Charles Spackman, left, and Thomas Barker, right.

Joseph Holbrook

THE LIFE HISTORY OF JOSEPH HOLBROOK

The following was drawn from http://www.sedgwickresearch.com/holbrook/jh_history.htm, but is also available in part at http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/JHolbrook.html

Written by his own hand.
I, being desirous of leaving on record a few of the incidents of my life and also a genealogy of my forefathers according to the record that has fallen into my hands from their hands that my children may be somewhat acquainted of the origin of their forefathers and I have written it in the English language hoping it will prove a blessing to them and be held sacred in my family from generation to generation as I shall embrace it in my expression and the knowledge I may have gained in the course of my days and I pray the Lord to direct my pen, assist my memory, correct my judgment and inspire my heart to do the will of God and preserve this history according to my desires to do good. That God may be honored. His kingdom built up and His home glorified in the hereafter in the midst of the saints I therefore dedicate these lines to be written unto the Lord God of Hosts even forever and ever, Amen

Ann Bond

 Ann was born 11 July 1820 in Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire, England which is two or three miles southeast of Burbage. She was christened there on 16 July 1820. Her mother, Maria Bond, is the only parent mentioned in the christening record. Years later, Ann stated for church records that her father was Richard Hoskins, but nothing is known of him. Three years after Ann's birth, Maria had a son, William Bond, also christened with no father mentioned.

Henry Spackman

Henry Spackman was born 13 October 1822 in Burbage, Wiltshire, England, son of Henry Spackman and Sarah Newman. He was christened there on 30 March 1823. Henry was the fifth of ten children born to this family. There were two sets of twins. His father was a shoemaker and his mother died when he was just ten years old. On 21 June 1845, Henry married Ann Bond, the stepdaughter of John Hibbard. Henry was a peddler in England and sold china, silverware, pots and pans for a living. He worked as both a hawker and a laborer. In addition to their nine children, Henry and Ann also raised their niece, Maria. Henry's sister, Jane, unwed, passed away shortly after Maria's birth.

Henry and Ann were converted to the Mormon faith in 1850. Twenty years later, they began the process of emigrating to Utah. Their son, Henry, was the first to come. He arrived in October of 1871 and worked to earn passage for his father and his brother, Brigham. They came in June of 1873 aboard the S.S. Nevada and all three of them worked to bring Ann and the girls in the fall of that year. Two married sons, Edwin and Elijah, came later with their families. A married daughter, Mary Jane Chandler, remained in England. Henry and Ann settled at Millville, Utah because there was a church farm there that provided employment. They also helped at the local store.

Henry like to preach and was known as an excellent gardener. He lived to be seventy-eight years old. He died 13 December 1900 just weeks after losing Ann, his wife of fifty-five years. They were buried together in the Millville Cemetery.

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.