• Donations
    • Leader and Clerk Resources
    • Directory and Map
    • Calendar
    • Missionary Portal
    • Find a Church
    All Tools
        • Church History
        • Publications
          • Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days
          • Prophets of the Restoration
          • Global Histories
          • Revelations in Context
          • Women of Conviction
          • Joseph Smith Papers
          • Church Historian's Press
          • More
        • Visit
          • Church History Museum
          • Historic Sites
          • Church History Library
        • Research
          • Church History Catalog
          • Missionary Database
          • Pioneer Database
          • Treasures of the Collection
          • Pioneer Resources
        • Quick Links
          • Church History Library
          • Church History Museum
          • Church Historic Sites
          • Church History Catalog
          • Church Historian’s Press
          • Joseph Smith Papers
          • Missionary Database
          • Pioneer Database

        Pioneer Database

        1847–1868

        Home Companies Switch to Keyword Search
        Date Unknown

        Date Unknown

        Birth Date
        13 May 1810
        Death Date
        31 August 1890
        Gender
        Male
        Family Search logo

        View this Person on FamilySearch

        Anson Call

        Facebook Twitter Print Mail
        Search for this pioneer on Early Mormon Missionaries Find this person in FamilySearch
        • Anson initially traveled to the Salt Lake Valley as a Captain of Ten in the Brigham Young Company in 1848.  He later received a mission call to Carson Valley returning from there with the Naegle Company in 1856 and arriving in Salt Lake City in time to participate as one of the rescuers sent out to assist the members of the Church stranded in Wyoming. 

          Anson was rebaptized in Salt Lake City on 26 November 1848,

        Brigham Young Company (1848)

        • Age at Departure: 38
        • Head of Household

        Traveled with

        • Mary Call (Age: 36)
        • Anson Vasco Call (Age: 13)
        • Mary Vashti Call (Age: 12)
        • Chester Rufus Call (Age: 7)

        Rescue Companies (1856)

        • Age at Departure: 46
        • Head of Household

        Sources

        • 1850 Utah Census, Davis County.
        • “Anson Call Family 2nd Bountiful Settler Observe His Birth Day,” Davis County Clipper, 14 May 1943, 8.
        • Anson Call autobiography and journal, circa 1856-1889.
        • Bountiful Ward, Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1849-1925.
        • Burton, Robert Taylor, Diaries 1856-1907, Record book, circa 1856 October-November.
        • Call, Anson, The Journal of Anson Call, 1810-1890, 56.
        • Find a Grave (Website)
        • "First 100, report, 1848 June" in Camp of Israel schedules and reports 1845-1849, Brigham Young's 1848 emigration division.
        • Hosea Stout reminiscences and journals, 1845-1869, Volume 3, 376-79, and, Volume 4, 1-41.
        • Joseph Holbrook autobiography and journal, circa 1860-1871, 145-47.
        • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1848, 2.
        • Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
        • Nauvoo Community Project
        • Salt Lake Stake Record of Members, 1848-1917.
        • Smith, Silas Sanford, Journal, 17 September 1856.
        • Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.
        • Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908.