Arvilla Delight Smith
Held hostage with her daughter Josephine after husband Nathan Meeker was killed in a Colorado Indian uprising
Held hostage with her daughter Josephine after husband Nathan Meeker was killed in a Colorado Indian uprising
The twice-widowed Ohioan set off for a new adventure in Iowa
Early settler in Bloomfield Township, Trumbull County, in the Ohio Western Reserve
Daughter of Captain Haskell born in Chautauqua who married Josiah T. Smith in Trumbull County, Ohio. Their fifth child was Hattie Smith Stetson
We have learned that the elderly lady who was looked after by Herbert and Hattie Stetson was the older half-sister of Hattie's mother. She had been born in 1800 as Ruth Putnam Haskell but was known now as Ruth P. Brooks. But we didn't know who Brooks was or the circumstances of her remarriage.
Martha Haskell was Harriet Smith's mother, thus Isetta's grandmother. It is wonderful to find this photograph of her on a Find-a-Grave page, along with a headstone image and data about her burial.
She died at age 50 in 1872. She is buried with other Haskell family members at Brownwood Cemetery in North Bloomfield, Trumbull County, Ohio.
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Here is a biography of Thomas Nelson Haskell from Find-a-Grave.