Amherst CALL

Birth: 24 Feb 1804, Newport, Orleans County, Vermont [S60]
Christening: farmer
Death: 15 Feb 1869, Lake County, Ohio [S60]
Burial: Perry Center Cemetery, Lake Co., Ohio

Marriage: 15 Sep 1833, Lake County, Ohio

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Line in Record @I4872@ (RIN 63) from GEDCOM file not recognized: CONF From the history of Geauga Biographical sketches: Amherst Call was born February 24, 1804, i n Newport, Orleans County, Vermont, where he resised till September, 1815, when his parents , Rugus and Lydia Call, with their family of eight children-- seven boys and one girl, remove d to this State, and settled in the town of Perry, then Geauga County, Ohio. Coming as the y did to this county, which was then a wild wilderness, they would hardly expect to see harde r times or endure greater privations than they had already passed through in Vermont during t he famine of 1810. The young Amherst was battling with the mighty forests and the daily strengthening his nerve s and muscles by using the axe and helping to prepare this almost unbroken wilderness for th e plow. On the 12th of November, 1822, while he and his brother Benjamin F. were chopping d own a tree, a limb fell, striking Benjamin on the head, killing him instantly. Amherst continued working for and with his parents till about the year 1825, when he began bu siness for himself, and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of heavily timbered land on wha t is now known as the "Call Farm," in Perry township. The consideration paid for this land a t that time was six hundred and thirty-eight dollars. This same land after his death, forty- four years later, was sold for sixteen thousand dollars. Shortly after he purchased this far m his parents decided to make their home and spend the remainder of their lives with their so n Amherst. Accordingly they sold out their place and moved into the house with him, where th ey found an ever-welcome home. His mother died October 15, 1856, at the age of ninety-one, a nd his father, who survived him twenty-one days, died March 6, 1869, aged ninety-nine years , seven months, and twenty -three days. On Sunday, Sekptember 15, 1833, he married Miss Olive Sinclair, and the next day they began h ousekeeping. In the year 1838 Amherst built the house in which he lived till the time of hi s death. In his domestic relations he was everything that could be desired, a tender and aff ectionate husband, a loving and devoted father, a kind and faithful friend. As a citizen h e was generous and public-spirited. His influence was ever on the side of Christian moralit y and good order, and anything designed to increase the happiness or promote the prosperity o f his fellow-citizens was sure to receive his patronage and encouragement. He was a sound and careful thinker, clear-headed, practical, and discreet. His mind was even ly balanced and well disciplined. Success was not followed by a lack of caution, and dange r did not intimidate him.


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