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August Socall's Celebrate 56th Wedding anniversary at Home

Four Generations Gather to Enjoy Family Conclave , Memories of Half a Century in Old Detroit; Claim Amos a School for All Socall Youngsters.

Echoes of wedding bells pealed through the home of Mr. and Mrs. August M. Socall, 781 Dragoon, Friday evening, March 2, as the seven children, 22 grand-children and six great- grand children along with a very dear friend Mrs. Pearl Anderson, also of west Detroit, gathered to celebrate their 56th wedding anniversary.

There were memories of half of century ago when Detroit was nothing but fields and woods and farmland....plank roads and horses and buggies. There were memories of years and years ago when Mr. Socall and the little girl who later became his bride went to the Amos school on Military street to learn their three R's. Today their great-grandchildren still go to Amos school to learn many other modern studies along with the three R's. In fact, there is a teacher there who still can remember wagging the hickory stick threateningly before at least two generations of Socalls.

Mr. Socall was born in old Germany and came here when he was 18 months old. for 42 years he worked for the Michigan Central railroad. In fact for several years there was quite a family combine at the Michigan Central...beside August Socall, there were three brothers and one son-in-law also employed as conductors there. Mr. Socall has been retired for the past eight years.

The Socall children, all born and reared in southwest Detroit, are Edward, Earl, and Alfred Socall, and Mrs Bertha Westfall, Mrs. Emma Martin, Mrs. Irene Doherty and Mrs. Ella Linn. A fifth daughter, Mrs. Gladys Rhoades, died at the age of 20, and her boy, Jimmy, then a baby only a month old, is now a student at Western high school.