The Calls of Ainsworth

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John and Lillian (Buchfuehrer) Call. Undated.
Image courtesy of Norma Buchfuehrer Collins.

Just two years had passed since Lillian Buchfuehrer left her Ainsworth-area home with her parents; now, in the autumn of 1919, she left her Hobart home with her new husband, John Call.

According to the Gazette, the groom's parents, residents of South Bend, Indiana, "had at one time lived at Ainsworth." That's news to me! I never heard of them before. Their Ainsworth residence may have been pre-1899, or perhaps they slipped in and out so quietly and briefly that they escaped newspaper attention.

Lillian, now about 26, had spent most of 1919 working as a clerk at Scheidt & Keilman's store (the Bee Hive) in Hobart. As for the 24-year-old groom, he had spent the past 16 months in the Army, which had taken him to France and Germany, and brought him back only about a week before the wedding.

The quiet ceremony took place on the afternoon of Saturday, October 18, at the home of the Rev. E.R. Schuelke, witnessed by the bride's brother and sister, William and Augusta. Afterwards, the Buchfuehrers hosted a small reception and dinner at their home.

On Sunday, the young couple left for Harvey, Illinois, where they intended to live, as John held a position with the "car works" there. I do not know how long that lasted, but by January 1920 they had come back to Hobart to live, and John was working in a steel mill.


Sources:
♦ 1920 Census.
♦ "Call-Buchfuehrer." Hobart Gazette 24 Oct. 1919.
♦ "Call-Buchfuehrer." Hobart News 23 Oct. 1919.