Callie became engaged to a fine young man, Edwin Ellis Swain Squires, who went by Ellis. He worked as a clerk and carpenter at ZCMI. Ellis gave Callie a diamond ring, but they decided to wait until he returned home from his service in the Great War to be married.
Ellis enlisted June 11, 1917 and was sent to France. He was assigned to Battery B of the 119th Field Artillery, 32nd Division and eventually sent to the Battle of the Argonne Forest, known as the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. On the second day of the battle, Ellis reportedly received a severe shrapnel wound in his leg and bled to death before medical help could arrive. Ellis was one of an estimated 117,000 American and 70,000 French soldiers who lost their lives in the offensive. The 47-day push was of major significance, and continued until the end of the war on November 11, 1918. Ellis's body was initially buried in France.
Ellis's mother, Grandma Emily Squires, received the news of Ellis's death and, along with her own grief, had the sad duty of informing Callie when she came home from work at Linen Supply Company that evening. Callie wouldn't believe it at first, but when she realized it was true, she turned red, then white, and retreated into her bedroom and didn't come out for weeks.
While Callie was grieving for Ellis, she became ill with the deadly influenza that was sweeping the world that year (1918) and she nearly died. Grandma Casey felt that Callie wanted to die, but gradually she began to recover.
Everyone knew that Ellis had received a Patriarchal blessing, in which he was promised that he would return with the "highest honors of war." No one expected that the "highest honors of war" would be to die for his country. His body was "returned" to Salt Lake City and Ellis received the honors of a military funeral September 8, 1921.
Ellis's mother, Emily, treated Callie like a daughter, and every Friday night until Emily died in 1934, Callie was invited to have supper with the entire Squires family. She remained unmarried the remainder of her life, a testament of her enduring love for Ellis.
In May 1946, she was diagnosed with cancer, but continued to work at Linen Supply Company until later in 1948, then she died at home on January 5, 1949. Her family remembered Callie for her beauty and her kind nature.
Callie died in her little house at 360 Kensington Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, the same house her mother died in just seven years earlier, the house that remains there today. (A photo is included here.)
The Squires family had the Temple work done for Callie and Ellis, where they were sealed (married for time and eternity, by proxy.) Callie and Ellis became husband and wife in the Salt Lake Temple on January 29, 1951, two years after her death.
That is the quiet "love story" of Callie and Ellis, which is what they should be remembered for.
Ellis enlisted June 11, 1917 and was sent to France. He was assigned to Battery B of the 119th Field Artillery, 32nd Division and eventually sent to the Battle of the Argonne Forest, known as the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. On the second day of the battle, Ellis reportedly received a severe shrapnel wound in his leg and bled to death before medical help could arrive. Ellis was one of an estimated 117,000 American and 70,000 French soldiers who lost their lives in the offensive. The 47-day push was of major significance, and continued until the end of the war on November 11, 1918. Ellis's body was initially buried in France.
Ellis's mother, Grandma Emily Squires, received the news of Ellis's death and, along with her own grief, had the sad duty of informing Callie when she came home from work at Linen Supply Company that evening. Callie wouldn't believe it at first, but when she realized it was true, she turned red, then white, and retreated into her bedroom and didn't come out for weeks.
While Callie was grieving for Ellis, she became ill with the deadly influenza that was sweeping the world that year (1918) and she nearly died. Grandma Casey felt that Callie wanted to die, but gradually she began to recover.
Everyone knew that Ellis had received a Patriarchal blessing, in which he was promised that he would return with the "highest honors of war." No one expected that the "highest honors of war" would be to die for his country. His body was "returned" to Salt Lake City and Ellis received the honors of a military funeral September 8, 1921.
Ellis's mother, Emily, treated Callie like a daughter, and every Friday night until Emily died in 1934, Callie was invited to have supper with the entire Squires family. She remained unmarried the remainder of her life, a testament of her enduring love for Ellis.
In May 1946, she was diagnosed with cancer, but continued to work at Linen Supply Company until later in 1948, then she died at home on January 5, 1949. Her family remembered Callie for her beauty and her kind nature.
Callie died in her little house at 360 Kensington Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, the same house her mother died in just seven years earlier, the house that remains there today. (A photo is included here.)
The Squires family had the Temple work done for Callie and Ellis, where they were sealed (married for time and eternity, by proxy.) Callie and Ellis became husband and wife in the Salt Lake Temple on January 29, 1951, two years after her death.
That is the quiet "love story" of Callie and Ellis, which is what they should be remembered for.
Callie became engaged to a fine young man, Edwin Ellis Swain Squires, who went by Ellis. He worked as a clerk and carpenter at ZCMI. Ellis gave Callie a diamond ring, but they decided to wait until he returned home from his service in the Great War to be married.
Ellis enlisted June 11, 1917 and was sent to France. He was assigned to Battery B of the 119th Field Artillery, 32nd Division and eventually sent to the Battle of the Argonne Forest, known as the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. On the second day of the battle, Ellis reportedly received a severe shrapnel wound in his leg and bled to death before medical help could arrive. Ellis was one of an estimated 117,000 American and 70,000 French soldiers who lost their lives in the offensive. The 47-day push was of major significance, and continued until the end of the war on November 11, 1918. Ellis's body was initially buried in France.
Ellis's mother, Grandma Emily Squires, received the news of Ellis's death and, along with her own grief, had the sad duty of informing Callie when she came home from work at Linen Supply Company that evening. Callie wouldn't believe it at first, but when she realized it was true, she turned red, then white, and retreated into her bedroom and didn't come out for weeks.
While Callie was grieving for Ellis, she became ill with the deadly influenza that was sweeping the world that year (1918) and she nearly died. Grandma Casey felt that Callie wanted to die, but gradually she began to recover.
Everyone knew that Ellis had received a Patriarchal blessing, in which he was promised that he would return with the "highest honors of war." No one expected that the "highest honors of war" would be to die for his country. His body was "returned" to Salt Lake City and Ellis received the honors of a military funeral September 8, 1921.
Ellis's mother, Emily, treated Callie like a daughter, and every Friday night until Emily died in 1934, Callie was invited to have supper with the entire Squires family. She remained unmarried the remainder of her life, a testament of her enduring love for Ellis.
In May 1946, she was diagnosed with cancer, but continued to work at Linen Supply Company until later in 1948, then she died at home on January 5, 1949. Her family remembered Callie for her beauty and her kind nature.
Callie died in her little house at 360 Kensington Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, the same house her mother died in just seven years earlier, the house that remains there today. (A photo is included here.)
The Squires family had the Temple work done for Callie and Ellis, where they were sealed (married for time and eternity, by proxy.) Callie and Ellis became husband and wife in the Salt Lake Temple on January 29, 1951, two years after her death.
That is the quiet "love story" of Callie and Ellis, which is what they should be remembered for.
Ellis enlisted June 11, 1917 and was sent to France. He was assigned to Battery B of the 119th Field Artillery, 32nd Division and eventually sent to the Battle of the Argonne Forest, known as the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. On the second day of the battle, Ellis reportedly received a severe shrapnel wound in his leg and bled to death before medical help could arrive. Ellis was one of an estimated 117,000 American and 70,000 French soldiers who lost their lives in the offensive. The 47-day push was of major significance, and continued until the end of the war on November 11, 1918. Ellis's body was initially buried in France.
Ellis's mother, Grandma Emily Squires, received the news of Ellis's death and, along with her own grief, had the sad duty of informing Callie when she came home from work at Linen Supply Company that evening. Callie wouldn't believe it at first, but when she realized it was true, she turned red, then white, and retreated into her bedroom and didn't come out for weeks.
While Callie was grieving for Ellis, she became ill with the deadly influenza that was sweeping the world that year (1918) and she nearly died. Grandma Casey felt that Callie wanted to die, but gradually she began to recover.
Everyone knew that Ellis had received a Patriarchal blessing, in which he was promised that he would return with the "highest honors of war." No one expected that the "highest honors of war" would be to die for his country. His body was "returned" to Salt Lake City and Ellis received the honors of a military funeral September 8, 1921.
Ellis's mother, Emily, treated Callie like a daughter, and every Friday night until Emily died in 1934, Callie was invited to have supper with the entire Squires family. She remained unmarried the remainder of her life, a testament of her enduring love for Ellis.
In May 1946, she was diagnosed with cancer, but continued to work at Linen Supply Company until later in 1948, then she died at home on January 5, 1949. Her family remembered Callie for her beauty and her kind nature.
Callie died in her little house at 360 Kensington Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah, the same house her mother died in just seven years earlier, the house that remains there today. (A photo is included here.)
The Squires family had the Temple work done for Callie and Ellis, where they were sealed (married for time and eternity, by proxy.) Callie and Ellis became husband and wife in the Salt Lake Temple on January 29, 1951, two years after her death.
That is the quiet "love story" of Callie and Ellis, which is what they should be remembered for.
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