Confederate pension file
Approved Luly 15, 1903
Enlisted June 1862
Discharched May 1865
21st Texas Volunteers, Infantry, Griffins regiment
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Compiled Service Records: Confederate
Enlisted June 20, Columbus
Artificer, Company B, 1st Engineer Troops
Parole of prisoner of war at Columbus, Texas, June 26,
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Newsletter of the International Haskell Family Society
Volume 16, No. 1, March 2007Horace Homer Haskell, born 30 Sep 1829, was mustered into Confederate service in Co. D, Griffins Battalion of the Texas Infantry at Houston on 24 June 1862, but soon reassigned as artificer in the 4th Confederate Engineers. He was listed as absent on detached engineer duties by order of General Slaughter on 30 June 1863, and detached and reassigned by transfer to Co D, 20th Infantry Regiment by order of General Haws on 30 October 1863. He was captured in Columbus, Colorado County, Texas, and paroled 26 June 1865.
On 23 October 1854, Horace had married Elmira W. Puryear, b. 1836, Virginia. Following the end of the war, they settled in Columbus, Colorado County, Texas, where Horace had served part of his military service and was now a wheelwright and a postmaster until 1868.
Texas Confederate Pensions
Widows' Application for PensionName: Horace Homer Haskell
Application Date: 13 Apr 1912
Application Place:Colorado, Texas
Spouse:Mrs E W Haskell
Marriage Date: 23 Oct 1853
Marriage Place: Graves, Kentucky
Death Date: 6 Jul 1912
Death Place: Colorado, Texas
Pension File Number: 20918
Application Type: WidowElmina Williams Puryear Haskell testimony
She was 75 years old, born in Halifax county, Virginia.
Married Ocrober 23, 1853 in Graves county, Kentucky
H. H. Haskell seved from 1862 to close of the war.
R. V. Cooks Co., Griffins battalionHer daughter Mrs. S. V. Wesson reported that Elmina died on February 17, 1919
William Turner Haskell was unmarried.
10087. Rev. Charles Albert Haskell
Newsletter of the International Haskell Family Society
Volume 16, No. 1, March 2007Charles Albert Haskell, b. 1 January 1839, Graves County, Kentucky, was mustered into Co. D, 2 (Confederate) Kentucky Mounted Infantry at Camp Boone, Tennessee, 1 July 1861, having travelled 150 miles to enlist. He was appointed 1st Sergeant on 10 Jan 1863 and promoted to Brevet 2nd Lieutenant on 15 Jan 1864, captured on 16 Feb 1862 and exchanged at Vicksburg, 20 Sep 1862, via the steamer Jno H. Done [sic] by order of Major General William T. Sherman. He surrendered with his unit at Washington, Georgia, 6 May 1865, and subscribed to the Oath of Allegiance, 17 May 1865, for release and return home. He was awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor, conferred by General Order 131/3 dated 3 October 1863 for gallantry at the Battle of Murfreesboro, 31 December - 3January 1863. (Confederate losses: 1,294 killed; 7,945 wounded; Union losses: 1,677 killed; 7,543 wounded.)
After the war, Charles became a Methodist minister of some note in Mayfield, Kentucky. In 1880 he was living at Panther Creek, by 1900 at Brinkley, Kentucky. Kate Travis Haskell applied for her Confederate Widow's Pension on 9 January 1913, then residing in Hickman County, Kentucky.
Find-a-GraveHer date of birth is often listed as 1890, but she was actually born in 1889. Her birth name was Ethel MARTHA Black, but for some reason, she changed her middle name to Mildred as a teen.
She was M�tis, being 1/4 Native American, a fact that she hid from her family. Where she grew up, "Half-Breeds", as anyone with any native ancestry were known, were discriminated against is virtually every aspect of their lives.
Her first husband was Peter Norman Stewart, they had 4 children together. Ethel hated the winters in Manitoba, so her husband sent her to Vancouver, BC for the winters. She had affair after affair there, fell madly in love with a man in 1924, and filed for a legal separation. Once she had obtained that, the man walked out of her life.
She refused to grant her husband a divorce. He supported her, until the mid 1940's, when she met a man and fell in love. He wanted to marry her, so she finally allowed the divorce.
She married Richard Landis Fry in January 1946, and he died in July 1949, leaving her a destitute widow. She had to work as a maid at the YMCA, to earn her keep (the first job she had ever had).
She was my paternal grandmother. She was a VERY bitter woman, hating virtually everyone, including her 3 surviving children.
Her two daughters looted her estate, even selling the coffin she had purchased to be buried in.
Asa Haskell was a cordwainer ("shoe maker" in the 1880 census, of Gloucester, MA).
Ellen Victoria Haskell (or Helen Y. Haskell) was unmarried. She was a school teacher.
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William Henry Haskell was born in Newburyport, MA, 21 September 1810, son of Humphrey Bray and Mrs. Elizabeth (Rogers) Fennimore Haskell. He died 8 October 1899 in Merrimac, Essex, Massachusetts. William married first Clarissa Whittier on 18 December 1833 in Amesbury. MA. She was born circa 1810 in Amesbury and died there 24 September 1850. He married second, 4 June 1851, Mary P. Whittier, daughter of Edmund and Anna (Patton) Whittier. Mary was born March 1822 in Amesbury and died 30 August 1897 in Merrimac. William had two children by his first wife and six by his second.
Williams early education was in the Newbury public schools. In 1824 at the age of fourteen, he went to West Amesbury where he apprenticed in the trade of silver plating, an important part of the manufacture of carriages. In 1831 he began work as a carriage manufacturer and continued silver plating. In 1850 he entered into a co-partnership with William P. Sargent and William Gunnison under the firm name of Sargent Gunnison Company. The firm had a place in Boston and a store in West Amesbury where William had charge of the sale of carriage fittings. He remained with the firm until 1860 when it was dissolved.
He apparently had a talent for finance and he established the First National Bank of Amesbury which was chartered in 1864. He served as the banks first cashier until 1869 when he was chosen president.
In 1871 the Merrimac Savings Bank was chartered and Mr. Haskell was its first treasurer, and on the death of the president, he assumed that office. He was connected with the building of the West Amesbury Branch Railroad and owned stock in the company. Haskell was also interested in the division of Amesbury and in the incorporation of the town of Merrimac. He was one of the contributors for the purchase of and presentation to the town of Merrimac the land on which the town hall stands. He was elected chairman of the first Board of Selectmen of the town.
He also served on the Board of Selectmen of Amesbury and represented the town in the state Legislature of 1869 as a member of the House of Representatives and as a member of the committee on banks and banking. His name was later proposed as a candidate for senator. In 1847 he received a commission as Justice of the Peace, a post he held for twenty-eight years. At his death in 1899 of mitral heart disease, he was referred to as gentleman.
(Adapted from "William Henry Haskell" by Marion S. Anderson, Haskell Journal, Issue 56, 2001, pg 12.)