The Wheatfield Haskells
Generation 8: Henry(2) Haskell (b. 8 Apr 1815) (d. 8 Nov 1861)
++ Harriet Phoebe Carpenter (b. 24 Jan 1824) (d. 25 Jul 1912) (m.1841)
Children
Alfred Paris Haskell (b.1841) (d.1918)
Daniel David Haskell (b,1844) (d.1923)
Henry(3) Herbert Haskell (b.1846) (d.1932)
George Glen Haskell (b. 1849) (d.1913)
Mary Anna Haskell (b.1852) (d.1918)
Addie May Haskell (b.1864) (d.1935) (this is not Henry(2)'s child)
Henry(2) was a farmer and a cooper. He also made and sold charcoal. When he came to Michigan he cleared trees in order to farm. He died in 1861 at the early age of 46. His cause of death is not known but could have been from malaria which was prevalent in Ingham county at this time.
Alfred served in the Civil War in the Michigan 7th Infantry, Company B, 2nd regiment as a sharpshooter. He attained the rank of Sgt and was wounded at some point and was listed as an invalid. He most likely enlisted and served with his uncle Warren which is why they probably were so close after the war. Two of Alfred’s sons were killed in a dynamite explosion while drilling a well in Lock Township.
Daniel was a farmer who lived in Wheatfield and Leroy Township on Holt Road his entire life.
Henry(3) ran a hardware store first in Hartland, Livingston County, MIchigan and later in Sanford, Midland County, Michigan. His granddaughter Bessie Peterson wrote an unpublished book about that family line.
George lived in Lock, Michigan just north of Webberville. He probably farmed and did odd jobs.
Mary Anna married and lived as a housewife and mother in Pontiac, Michigan.
Addie May is a half sister. She was born 3 years after Henry(2)’s death and 5 years before her mother married Fredrick Davis. It may be that she is the daughter of Harriet’s second husband but no information on who her father was could be found.
Generation 9: Daniel David Haskell (b.1844) (d.1923)
++ Emily Demorest (b.1845) (d.1910) (m. 20 Dec 1865)
Children.
Mary Henrietta (Ettie) Haskell (b.1865) (d.1946)
George Britton Haskell (b.1867) (d.1933)
Rose Haskell (b.1869) (d.1880)
James Daniel Haskell (b.1873) (d.1946)
Daniel and Emily had four children and raised them in Wheatfield Township.
Mary was called Et, She married Herbert A. Smith and raised her family in Detroit Michigan.
George started out as a teacher. He taught in a one-room schoolhouse on the corner of Holt Road and Meech Road called the Meech School. The Meech, whom the road and school were named after, was the grandfather to Emily, George's mother. Later George Moved his family to Wisconsin and later to South Dakota where he preached and was a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF). He died of a cerebral aneurysm in South Dakota.
Rose died at age 11 and is buried next to Henry(2) at the Meech cemetery on Meech road not far from the Meech School.
James was 28 when he married Marion Bolton who was 31. They never had children and they divorced after ten years of marriage. He lived the rest of his life as a bachelor living in Lansing Michigan.
Generation 10: George Britton Haskell (b. 1 sep 1867) (d. 7 Dec 1933)
++ Harriet Tobias (b.29 Aug 1871) (d. 16 Apr 1953) (m. 10 Apr 1890)
Children
Viva Lee Haskell (b. 5 Jan 1891) (d. 14 Feb 1973)
Marion LilaHaskell (b. 29 Aug 1892) (d. ?)
Glenn Haskell (b. 5 Jul 1894) (d. before 1900)
Gerald Harrison Haskell (b. 19 Mar 1900) (d. 1956)
Herman Daniel Haskell (b. 30 Apr 1905) (d. ?)
Herbert Donald Haskell (b. 30 Apr 1905) (d. 23 Jul 1992)
Laurence Claire Haskell (b. 8 Jun 1909) (d. 6 Mar 1981)
Sometime between 1900 after Gerald was born and 1905 when Herman and Herbert were born, George moved his family from Wheatfield Township, Michigan to Wisconsin. The reason for this move may have been that he was offered a position with a church. He was initiated into the Order of Odd Fellows in December 1904; probably in Wisconsin. By 1920 George moved the family from Wisconsin to South Dakota; probably in 1919. February 2, 1920 he became affiliated with the Wagner Lodge of the Order of Odd Fellows. By 1926 he was elected as Grand Master and in 1927 he was elected Grand Representative to Sovereign Grand Lodge. By 1929 his health broke down and it was necessary for him to give up his work as a minister of the Methodist Church. By 1930 George was in poor health and he could not work so the family returned to Michigan to take care of Harriet’s brother, Charles Tobias, who was a cripple from scoliosis. In 1933 George left Michigan alone to return to South Dakota. He resided at the International Order of Odd Fellows’ home in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. on June 16, 1933. On December 6,1933 he suffered a stroke and died the next day on December 7,1933.
Viva had married in 1918 and moved to Crookston, Minnesota. Viva never had children but according to the 1930 census they had adopted a son, Harry, who at that time was 7 years old. Nothing more was found about Harry.
Lilas went to South Dakota with the family but returned to Wisconsin to marry Lilas raised two daughters and taught school. She eventually became a school principal.
Glen died when he was very young, probably under two years of age.
Gerald had to marry in 1916 at 16 years of age. He returned to Michigan and farmed in Wheatfield township until his house burnt down. He then moved his family to Harrison, Michigan and ran a dairy business.
Herman and Herbert were twins. Herman was born first and the doctor did not know that he was a twin and Herbert was not born until hours later. The story goes that the doctor left after Herman was born and had to be called back. By this time Harriet was so tired that the doctor had to use forceps to help with the delivery and had caused some brain damage to Herbert. Therefore, Herbert was “slow” all his life. Herman developed a kidney disease and died when a child near the age of 11.
Laurence was the youngest of the siblings. He had grown up in Wisconsin to age 11 and then in South Dakota to adulthood. After high school he stayed with his sister Viva and attended a semester of college in Wisconsin. When his parents moved back to Michigan, he came back with them. They lived on a small farm with two houses on the curves on Meridian Road near Howell Road in Wheatfield Township. He cut lumber with Clare Showerman and through him met Clare’s sister, Ila. Laurence and Ila were married in February of 1935 in Hastings Michigan. They had gone there to pick up chicks from the hatchery. During World War II, Laurence worked at the Nash Kelvinator factory in Lansing making parts for aircraft used in the war. Ila was a housewife raising 3 children at the start of the war, adding 1 more before the war was over and 3 more before 1950. It was here on this farm on Meridian Road that Laurence started to raise Jersey cows. By 1950 Laurence and Ila had found an eighty acre farm to buy at 3290 West Olds Road in Leslie Michigan and moved there in that April. During the 1950’s their last 4 more children were added to the family for a total of eleven. On this farm Laurence Initially had his jersey cows but changed over to the holstein breed to increase the milk production. To supplement the farm income he tested milk for the Dairy Herd Improvement Association (DHIA) for a period of time. All of the children who were old enough had chores looking after each other and the animals and milking cows, collecting milk samples from area farms, testing milk or doing the DHIA books and doing field work. All learned at an early age about hard work and responsibility. The fields were not very productive nor were they managed well. In the late 1950’s there was a recession. These were lean times for the whole family. (As my siblings read this they probably are all thinking what a whitewash! We were as poor as church mice and ate pancakes and drank milk for every meal.) In 1960 Laurence abandoned the Olds Road farm and rented a farm in Fitchburg, Michigan. In 1962 Laurence and Ila separated and later divorced. Neither remarried. Ila moved the family to Stockbridge, Michigan and later back to Leslie. Laurence stayed on the farm in Fitchburg for a short while and later auctioned off the livestock and machinery and took a job for the Michigan Highway Department testing laboratory in Ann Arbor Michigan. He moved to an apartment in Ann Arbor and later moved to Chelsea, Michigan then to Lansing for two years and then back to Ann Arbor. Laurence died March 6, 1981 from Septicemia. He was in surgery and died during the operation. Ila died July 12 2008 from Alzheimer's Disease.
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