Margaretta Unwin Call

She sailed to America in 1856 on the ship Horizon.

Edward Martin Company (1856) Age at Departure: 28

Daughter of John and Mary Unwin Clark. Wife of Anson Call. Mrs. Margretta Call passed away early Sunday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Waddoups in Bountiful, after less than a months illness.

Mrs. Call was an old resident of Bountiful and widow of the late Anson Call, one of the three first settlers of Bountiful.

She was born in Nottingham, England, eighty years ago, the 26th of last May. Came to Utah in 1856. She was a member of Martin's ill fated hand cart company of which so many members perished in the snow while crossing the plains.

She was married to the late Anson Call in February, 1857, and lived in Bountiful from that time to her death.

Six children were born to them, all of whom except Mrs. Cynthia Waddoups, survive her. The children are, Mary and Cylista Waddoups, Samantha Mann, Willard and Aaron Call. Willard lives in Mexico.

Funeral services were held Tuesday in the East Ward Tabernacle. The speakers were, Elders J. T. Mabey, Alfred Burningham, Apostle John Henry Smith and Bishop stoker.

(Davis County Clipper 1-1-1909)

Spouse:

Anson Call (1810 - 1890)

Children:

Mary Call Waddoups (1858 - 1915)

Cylista Call Waddoups (1860 - 1907)

Samantha Evoline Call Mann (1861 - 1948)

Cynthia Call Waddoups (1864 - 1946)

Willard Call (1866 - 1945)

Aaron Call (1868 - 1954)

Created by: Jason Hatch

Record added: Jul 15, 2007

Find A Grave Memorial# 20466084

Wife of Anson Call.

Mrs. Margretta Call passed away early Sunday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Waddoups in Bountiful, after less than a months illness.

Mrs. Call was an old resident of Bountiful and widow of the late Anson Call, one of the three first settlers of Bountiful.

She was born in Nottingham, England, eighty years ago, the 26th of last May. Came to Utah in 1856. She was a member of Martin's ill fated hand cart company of which so many members perished in the snow while crossing the plains.

She was married to the late Anson Call in February, 1857, and lived in Bountiful from that time to her death.

Six children were born to them, all of whom except Mrs. Cynthia Waddoups, survive her. The children are, Mary and Cylista Waddoups, Samantha Mann, Willard and Aaron Call. Willard lives in Mexico.

Funeral services were held Tuesday in the East Ward Tabernacle. The speakers were, Elders J. T. Mabey, Alfred Burningham, Apostle John Henry Smith and Bishop stoker.

(Davis County Clipper 1-1-1909)

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<p>MARGARETTA UNWIN CLARK & ANSON CALLSubmitted By: Ariel Knowles (more stories by this author </stories/search2.asp?subname=Ariel_Knowles>)In 1847, Margaretta Unwin Clark, a nineteen-year-old young woman employed in a Nottingham England stocking factory, was hurrying home after work when she came to a scene on a street corner where a young man, probably a little older than herself, was street preaching to a small but quickly gathering group. The songs being sung were not like the chanting she was used to hearing. She paused for a few minutes to listen. To her delight, what was being said struck the chords of her imagination like the strings of a harpsichord. She was fascinated and soon sought out additional opportunities to hear more, also gaining the confidence of her sisters and mother to join with her. Margaretta was baptized on 25 September 1848. The Church leaders and missionaries were putting out the word to "come to Zion, come to Zion." She immediately began saving almost penuriously for immigration. Eight years later she had accumulated enough to Press On, so, with several other young women acquaintances, she purchased passage to America and on 27 May 1856, they sailed down the Mersey River on the sailing ship Horizon into the Irish Sea and soon onto the open Atlantic Ocean for five weeks and three days. After landing in New York, the immigrants took a train trip westward by way of Albany, Buffalo and Chicago, reaching the end of the western rail terminal in Iowa City on 8 July 1856. A group of 764 immigrants had arrived on the sailing ship Thornton from liverpool, England. They were in Iowa City 26 June. The 856 immigrants on the Horizon arrived in Iowa City just twelve days later. Church agents at Iowa City, who had worked hard and successfully to send off the first three handcart companies, now had to struggle frantically to provide for an unexpectedly large body of late arrivals. Most of these 1620 emigrants were poor Saints who had elected to travel by handcarts; some were to go by ox train. The immigrants in the Willie Company, 500 total, were equipped and left 15 July, while the Martin Company with 575, had to wait two weeks longer to complete outfitting. All had to be equiped and supplied. Two precious weeks!! How could Margaretta 'Press On' when the obstacles were out of her control? The Church leaders and experienced travelers having crossed the plains numerous times in the past nine years advised against starting so late in July. They knew the possibility of early winter in Wyoming was real indeed. But after years of planning and having eagerly been on the immigration trail by sea and by rail for over eight weeks, Margaretta signed up with the Martin Handcart Company to continue on to the Territorial Zion of Deseret. They werethe fifth Handcart Company in that first year of handcart crossing. She joined with 575 other immigrants voting unanimously to 'Press On'. So Captain Martin had told the immigrants if they were to continue on to Zion now, they would not be without their Captain. Consequently the Martin Company comprised of 146 handcarts and 7 wagons finally began their journey through the unsettled West on 28 July, 1856. Starting the trek in mid-summer, they were not well stocked with winter clothing, and as their journey bore on in that hot, clammy summer, they were tired continuously, and they began shedding some of their belongings in the handcarts in order to lighten their loads. They had to ford the rivers and tributaries at risk, and having no dry clothing, had to sleep often in wet clothes. Also, the food had been eaten generously in order to try to maintain their waning strength and to enable them to pull the handcarts up the ever present hilly terrain-nor did they recover their energy while guiding the handcarts downhill. They began their journey at Iowa City, elevation 660 feet, and conquering unimaginable trials and obstacles, were to climb westward to the highest point of their journey-South Pass-elevation 7550 feet. Tired at the end of each day? You bet. Dead tired. Some died-the rest were determined to 'Press On'. They even paused to offer assistance to each other whenever possible. Margaretta was a trained nurse and she frequently went around the Handcart Company, offering assistance and comfort to the sick and injured. When she could, she even helped the ill and weak pulltheir own handcarts. Well over halfway, they had entered the Wyoming Territory and the going got tougher as they climbed to higher elevations. Then, as feared, an early winter struck. But they Pressed On. Now additional food was necessary to try to maintain the needed body heat in addition to the greater expenditure of energy for climbing ever higher in deepening snows. Food rations were reducedas supplies rapidly decreased. Most had finished consuming their supplies as they finally reached the breaking point, the final crossing of the Sweetwater River in bitter cold with ice blocks floating downstream. Even strong men shed tears at the need to cross the river again in those terrible conditions. But cross they must, so most of the immigrants moved across. Others delayed or simply gave up at that time. A horrific blizzard hit just as they reached the far bank of the river. They struggled on to Martin's Cove for respite. But there was little respite awaiting them. For three days at Martins Cove, the bitterest of winter storms raged. The falling snow pelted into the strongest of blizzards. This brought the actual temperature recording of eleven degrees below zero. Not below freezing -- below zero! The wind chill probably made it feel equal to seventy or eighty degrees below zero. How much of that was below their conscious sensibility we could only guess. To them it mattered not. The light of hope for survival was rapidly losing its glow. Earlier, the first rescue party sent by Brigham Young had arrived to rescue the Willie Company. Three young men of the rescue party had waded that river numerous times carrying the ill and weakest across in their arms. They crossed twice for each person they carried over. The rescue party had food, and the Willie Company had been givensupplies, loaded into wagons and moved on toward the valley. But now, the Martin Company decided to move on, because they saw no relief at the Cove. Many of the Company were now in the starvation mode and freezing to death. They finally crossed Rocky Ridge and while camping in a cottonwood grove, the rescue party of wagons headed by Anson Call arrived on 16 November. On the 4th of October, 1856, Brigham Young was making final preparations for General Conference to commence the next day. But later that day, 4 October, Apostle Richards arrived from the trail with news that many European Converts were floundering, freezing, starving, and dying along the trail. As General Conference commenced, Brigham bore down heavily on the congregation to rally to help the faltering immigrants back on the trail, calling for sixty good mule teams, 12 to 15 wagons, forty teamsters, two tons of flour, blankets, skirts, stockings, shoes, hoods, bonnets, etc. for the men, women, and children. Two days later, 7 October, sixteen heavily laden wagons of flour, clothing, and bedding, lumbered out of Salt Lake Valley. Anson Call, returning from a mission to Nevada, arrived back in Salt Lake City on 13 October. By 28 October, Anson headed another rescue company of 13 wagon teams. On the trail Anson met some of the earlier teams, laden with Willie Company survivors, returning to Salt Lake City. Some of Anson's teamsters wanted to return to the Salt Lake Valley with them. But Anson emphatically insisted, those rescue wagons"--will reach the Valley, those following never can. We must push on. My teamsstart now." At the Green River, they were bogged down by weather, unable to travel for a week. When they finally arrived at Rocky Ridge, Anson saw people starving, freezing, and dying, the worst suffering he had ever witnessed. Quickly getting some rations passed out while loading survivors into their wagons, Margaretta was put into Anson Call's wagon as the rescuers continued loading survivorsinto the various wagons to begin the immediate departure toward the Salt Lake Valley by wagon. All handcarts were abandoned at this time. As the return trek was about to begin, Anson peered into his wagon, saw Margaretta gnawing on a piece of frozen squash brought as cattle feed, and recognized she was on deaths doorstep by freezing. Anson told Margaretta she was freezing to death. She replied "Oh, no Sir, I 'ave been quite cold, but I'm comfortable now." Anson clasped her hand to pull her from the wagon. She replied, " 'old on sir, my 'and is a bit sore, and you 'urt it." Anson said, "I calculate to hold on," as he pulled her from the rear of the wagon into the snow. Then Anson and another rescuer supported her while marching her along the wagon trail, back and forth until her heart was circulating life blood back into her limbs. Margaretta's life was saved by this act of Ansons to Press On with a more immediate requirement rather than to ignore her and simply roll on! After they arrived back into the valley, Margaretta became employed making shirts for a retailer of clothing. Anson bought some of her handiwork and, having been instructed before the rescue by Brigham Young to marry two of the women who would be brought into the Valley, Anson Call Pressed On. He told Margaretta he would like to bring her into his home as his wife (the third). She agreed and they were married on the 7th day of February, 1857. Ninety-six years later, Ariel Knowles was blessed to marry JoAnn Paul, one of the fairest of their descendants, a Great Great Granddaughter of Margaretta Unwin ClarkCall and Anson Call. Their blood flows in the veins of their children and progeny ..</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Sources:1 My Mother-Margaretta Unwin Clark Call (date unknown) Willard Call, 1866-1945 2Handcarts To Zion (1981) LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hagen 3 Anson Call and The Rocky Mountain Prophesy (2002) Gwen Mahler Barney 4 Tragedy and Triumph (2004) Howard K. and Cory W. BangerterVirtues: Courage, Faith, Hardship, Difficulty, Trials</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>!</p></p><p>!I have a xeroxed copy of a photo of Margaretta Clark Call given to me by Al Lundberg.</p>