Posts

Showing posts with the label Zillah Haskins
Image
Zillah Haskins and her son Joel Haskins , from an Ebay seller from Glendale, New York. I normally buy my photos at thrift stores or antique stores. This one was taken by the Feiger & Platt studio in Pomeroy, Ohio. Ernest Feiger (1832-1900) was my great-great grandfather's brother. The photo, originally from an album, is of Zillah Haskins and her son Joel. Zillah Haskins & Son Joel. Photographed by Feiger & Platt, Pomeroy, O. I searched on Ancestry Public Trees for a Joel Haskins with a mother Zillah and immediately found them. Zillah (Reynolds) Haskins was born on 24 May 1824 at Neversink, Sullivan County, New York, the daughter of Reuben Reynolds and Abigail Groo. She was married on 3 June 1852 in Meigs County, Ohio to Joel Haskins (1817-1856).   The couple had three children- Maria (1853-1933, m. William Gardner Russell), Ellen (1854-?), and Joel (1856-1921).  Zillah died from "angina pectoris" on 23 February 1912 at Trimble, Athens County, Ohio and is burie...