Major George W. Call

 

     First Worshipful Master of Amelia Lodge # 47, F & AM
     1859, 1860, 1861, 1862

George W. Call was the son of  Dr. George W. and Lucinda L. Call. He was born in Kentucky and removed to Florida with his parents. they settled in Tallahassee, the home of  Dr. Call's brother, Richard Kieth Call.

George W. Call became a successful lawyer and businessman. He was secretary-treasurer of the Florida Railroad. He was also active in politics as an extreme States' Rights Democrat, as contrasted with his brother, Wilkinson Call, later United States Senator from Florida who was a whig in antebellum politics. George Call was a Democratic Presidential Elector in 1856 and was State Senator from Nassau County in 1858-1860.

Call married Sarah Stark Mays, daughter of Rhydon G. Mays of Orange Mills in Putnam County. They had two daughters and a son, Rhydon Mays Call who served as judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida from 1913 until his death in 1928.

George W. Call resigned from the legislator to volunteer for military service. He was elected Captain of the Davis Guards in Nassau County, which was mustered into the Second Florida Infantry at Jacksonville on July 13, 1861. The Second Florida was sent to Virginia. After the death of it's Colonel, George T. Ward, at Williamsburg, the regiment was reorganized on May 10,1862, with Edward A. Perry as Colonel and George W. Call as Major. Major Call was killed at the Battle of Seven pines, May 31,1862. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.