Two of Adam and Natalie's children are reported to have been adoptions.
Christie Benet practiced law in Columbia, S.C. He was appointed in 1918 to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Senator Tillman of S.C., and he served in the United States Senate from July 16, 1918 to Nov. 15, 1918.
Source
The Alexander Letters
2002 Carolyn B. Timmann
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BENET, Christie, a Senator from South Carolina; born in Abbeville, Abbeville County, S.C., December 26, 1879; attended the common schools, the College of Charleston, the University of South Carolina at Columbia, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Columbia, Richland County, S.C., in 1903; solicitor of the fifth judicial circuit in 1908; attorney for the city of Columbia 1910-1912; three times secretary of the Democratic State committee; appointed on July 6, 1918, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Benjamin R. Tillman and served from July 6 to November 5, 1918, when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the Senate to fill the vacancy; chairman, Committee on National Banks (Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of law; member and later chairman of the board of regents of South Carolina State Hospital 1915-1946; during the Second World War served as chairman of the War Finance Committee for South Carolina and was serving as chairman of the Alien Enemy Hearing Board for the eastern district of South Carolina at time of death; died in Columbia, S.C., March 30, 1951; interment in Elmwood Cemetery.
18510. Suzanne Courtonne Haskell
State
January 2, 1919News received in Columbia yesterday announcing the death in Cambridge Tuesday night of Mrs. Suzanne Haskell Davis, wife of Harvey N. Davis, professor of mathematics at Harvard University, came as a shock to a wide circle of friends here and cast a shadow of sorrow over New Years Day. She was a sister of Mrs. Christie Benet and of Porter Haskell of this city.
Having been taken sick with influenza on Christmas day she was unable to resist the pneumonia which developed and she passed away just as the New Year came in. The occurrence is made doubly sad by the coincident death of an infant son.
She is survived by her husband, who for the last year has been primarily engaged in war work in Washington, and the two little daughters, aged 5 and 3 years.
Mrs. Davis, who was 32 years of age, was the youngest of the ten children of the late Col. Alexander Cheves Haskell and her death brings the first break among brothers and sisters. Having lived all her life in Columbia until her marriage, she was widely beloved and appreciated for gentle womanliness and for the strength of her character and her intellect.
18513. Preston Hampton Haskell
Preston Hampton Haskell was born in 1870 in Abbeville County, South Carolina. Named Thomas Preston Hampton Haskell at birth, he later dropped the name Thomas. He was educated in South Carolina, in Germany, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his career as a mining engineer. In addition to his keen interest in his career, he was a horseman, a hunter, a gardener, a deep sea fisherman, and loved music. A devout churchman, he was responsible for the Parish Hall at St. Peter's Church in Columbia, Tennessee.
According to an oral account given by his daughter Susan Haskell Harrel
My father came to Birmingham as a mining engineer, successfully courted and married the beautiful and popular Susie Howze. They went immediately to Honduras where his father, Col. Haskell, had an interest in a gold mine. They stayed a year, found the mine unproductive, and came home. He worked in Birmingham for a time, and then moved to southwest Virginia; then to Mineral, Virginia; from there to Columbia, Tennessee where he died in 1931.
Source
Family records and notes courtesy of Preston Hampton Haskell III
According to an oral account given by Susan Haskell Harrell:
My grandmother, Valeria Serena Long Howze, from Athens was revered as a saint by my mother. She died when Susie, my mother was thirteen. From her letters, she was selfish and self-dramatizing.
Susie, my mother took over the young family with her usual efficiency. Her three brothers adored her. The young family had hard times for a while when mother was growing up but she, an exquisite needle woman, achieved lovely clothes, was beautiful, and got along fine.
Those were the days when the young gentlemen "called" on the ladies especially on Sunday afternoons. Susie's highest tab was fifty. She rode well, and she and my father started being interested in each other on horse-back. His first gift - serious - to her was a crop.
Source
Family records and notes courtesy of Preston Hampton Haskell III
Obituary
Frank H. Haskell, civil engineer of Columbia, died Sunday at a rest home in Aiken where he had been a patient since 1946.
Funeral services were held at All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church at noon Tuesday, The Rev. H. D. Bull, rector, officiating. Burial was in the churchyard under the direction of the Mayer funeral home,
Mr. . Haskell was born near Columbia, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John C. Haskell. He was graduated from the University of South Carolina. He served as a civil engineer on numerous construction works throughout the United States, among which was the Lake Murray construction and the Santee-Cooper authority.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering. He retired in 1942, due to ill health.
Mr. Haskell resided at 518 Woodrow Street in Columbia, until he moved to Aiken. His wife, the former Miss Emmie Ward, a native of Waccamaw Neck, in Georgetown County, died August 16, 1949.
Surviving are three sons, Frank H. Haskell, Jr., of Columbia, and formerly of Georgetown, John C. Haskell, of Birmingham, Ala., and George Haskell of Orem, Utah; and two grandsons.
Georgetown Times
August 23, 1940Mrs. Emmie Ward Haskell, 58, of Columbia, died at the Providence hospital there at 12:30 Friday afternoon after a prolonged illness. Funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon at All Saints church, Waccamaw, conducted by the Rev. H. D. Bull, rector. Interment was made in the churchyard.
Mrs. Haskell was born February 19, 1882, and was the former Miss Emmie Ward, daughter of Captain Benjamin Hugh Ward and Janie McCrady Sparkman Ward. She was a member of one of the most prominent families in Georgetown County.
The body was brought from Columbia Friday afternoon and remained at the Mayer Funeral Home until the hour of the services.
She is survived by her husband, Frank Hampton Haskell, of Columbia and three sons, Frank H. Haskell, Jr., Charleston; John C. Haskell, Savannah, and George W. Haskell, Columbia. Also surviving are three brothers, J. J. Ward, Pawley's Island; B. D. Ward, Mt. Pleasant and G. S. Ward, Chapel Hill, N.C.; and four sisters, Mrs. W. C. White, Mrs. R. L. Allston, and Mrs. W. F. Lachicotte, all of Pawley's Island, and Mrs. A. W. Letherman, Macon, Ga.
Per FBI case file 8000-149114
re application for position with the National American Red Cross
Prior to 1912, assistant professor in laboratory at the Medical College of Virginia
professor of Pharmacelogy at Medical College of Virginia
Graduate of University of Virginia and Harvard Medical School
36544. Margaret Graham Haskell
Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
January 23, 1996Haskell, Miss Margaret Graham, 85, of Richmond.
Joseph Cheves Haskell, was co-pilot of a Patriot bomber lost in the North Atlantic
PBY-5 airplane No. 2347
Approximate location Lat. 52 48, No.; Long. 46 24 West.
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Joseph applied for Seaman's Protection Certificate on November 21, 1935. He was listed as a cadet on S/S American Farmer.
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U.S., Navy Casualties Books, 1776-1941
Name: Joseph Cheves Haskell
Death Date: 3 Jul 1941
Death Place: Atlantic Ocean
Ship Name: VP SQUADRON 52
Branch of Service: US Navy
Volume Title: Navy Casualties: Accidents, 1817-1941