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- The Rockford Morning Star
October 27, 1920
Mrs. Harriet Thompson Haskell, widow of Calvin Haskell and resident of this section for eighty-two years, died Wednesday afternoon at 1:50 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Christopher Lander, in Owen Township. She fell about a week ago and although no bones were broken the burden of her ninety-nine years was too heavy to allow her to survive the shock.
Deceased was born in Twinsburg, Ohio on March 4, 1821, and therefore lacked bt five months and 6 days of being one hundred years of age. Mrs. Haskell came to Rockford from Twinsburg, O., when she was seventeen years old. The trip was made overland in two big prairie schooners. Her father, Joel Thompson, purchased 160 acres of land at Petatonica, erected a saw mill and log cabin, and the family settled there. He brother A. W. Thompson was captain of Company B, 74th volunteer infantry, during the Civil War. Another brother, Joel, still lives at Petaonica and a sister Mrs. Mary Stickney, resides at Potsdam, N.Y. Her father served in the War of 1812.
Her husband, Calvin Haskell, was a nephew of Dr. George Haskell, after whom Haskell park was named. For many years the family home was at the northwest corner and Peach and Horsman streets and was noted for its rose garden. Mrs. Haskell was a charter member of the Church of the Christion Union, whose founder and first pastor was the late Dr. Thomas Kerr.
Besides her daughter at whose home her last days were spent, she is survived by one son, Charles W. Haskell, of Denver, Colorado and the brother and sister previously mentioned.
Mrs. Haskell was a woman of culture and refinement, with a high appreciation of the beautiful in flowers and music. She was one of the splendid women developed by the trying ordeals of pioneer days in this section, helpful, generous, sincere and kindly, radiating cheer to all who came within her circle of her genial influence. Her remarkable span of years failed to diminish her interest in current affairs or cause her to lose the charming courtesy which endeared her to a wide acquaintance.
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