Tracy Sheafe Haskell

1885 - 1918  (33 years)

• Name	Tracy Sheafe Haskell  [1]
  Birth	14 Jun 1885	Derby Line, Orleans, Vermont   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Jul 1918	Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont   [1, 2]
  Burial	Derby Line Cemetery, Derby Line, Orleans, Vermont   [1]
  Person ID	I3068	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

  Father	Horace Stewart Haskell,   b. 9 Aug 1860, Derby Line, Orleans, Vermont d. 29 Sep 1940, Ocean Park, Los Angeles, California (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Margaret Sheafe,   b. 19 Jul 1869, Vermont d. 28 Feb 1950, Newport, Orleans, Vermont (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	5 Sep 1882  [3]
  Divorced	1899
  Family ID	F461	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gertrude Morse, M.D.,   b. 14 Aug 1872, Indiana d. 21 Nov 1944, Tucson, Pima, Arizona (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	1 Dec 1914  [3]
  Children	1. Horace Stewart Haskell,   b. 12 Oct 1915, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania d. 5 Feb 1959, Cottonwood, Yavapai, Arizona (Age 43 years)
  Family ID	F2598	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Tracy Sheafe Haskell was injured at the Plattsburg Training Camp and subsequently died. Plattsburg, New York was the site of the National Army's Officer Candidate School in 1917. This camp was established in 1911 and held courses for prospective officers intermittently until the entry of the United States in the war in Europe. The Regular U.S. Army at the time was very small, and totally insufficient for the prospects of fighting in Europe. The National Guard augmented the Regular Army, but still the totals were insufficient. The United States Government decided upon a course of conscription of men for a "National Army." These draftees would need officers to train and lead them, thus the reason for the facility at Plattsburg, New York.

  
  

• Sources

  [S27360] Genealogy of the descendants of Roger Haskell and Elizabeth Hardy, (compiled by Marion S. Anderson for the Haskell Family Association). [S27485] Haskell Journal, Issue 66, 2004, Register of former cadets VMI, (Journal of the Haskell Family Association). [S35509] Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society, Vol 8 No 3, (September 1999).