Lora Bell Haskell

(15 December 1881 - 16 June 1912)
Lora Bell Haskell|b. 15 Dec 1881\nd. 16 Jun 1912|p42.htm|Edward Crowney|b. s 1855|p1937.htm|Sarah Mooney|b. ca 1863\nd. 1 Feb 1882|p1708.htm|||||||William Mooney|b. s 1835|p2753.htm|? (--?--)|b. s 1840\nd. pre 1881|p2754.htm|

Great-grandmother of Darrell Allen Martin.
Lora about 1904
As of her birth, Lora Bell Haskell was named Catherine Mooney. Catherine was born in the State Almshouse Hospital in Tewksbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on 15 December 1881.1 She was the daughter of Edward Crowney and Sarah Mooney. Her birth was illegitimate, but the family tradition -- that she was left in a basket, with the name "Kathleen Mooney" on a slip of paper pinned to the blanket -- is apparently a "standard explanation" given to adoptive parents of foundlings.2 She was discharged from the hospital where she was born a week after her mother died, probably into the care of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum.3 Some evidence suggests Lora was born in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, on 24 September 1883. This date and place are apparently "official," taken from the birth certificate created when adoption proceedings were begun in 1885. Although Lora used this birth date throughout her life, she was aware she was born in Tewksbury, Mass.4 At age 3 Lora was adopted by William Walter Haskell and Ada Annette (--?--) in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on 20 November 1885. She married Guy Emmett Williams on 2 September 1903.5,6 Lora Bell Haskell resided with Guy Emmett Williams at the King farm in Gassetts, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, on 2 May 1908.7 She was a resident in the household of Guy Emmett Williams in the 4 May 1910 census taken in Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, as "Lora B. Williams", mother of two children (both living), age 26, his wife.5 Lora died of pneumonia on 16 June 1912 in Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, at age 30. I have been told that her death was the result of "ether pneumonia" following an appendectomy. My mother heard stories from my grandmother, who had been only four at the time, about Lora being put on the train to Rutland to get medical care.8 She was buried probably 20 June 1912 in Oakland Cemetery in Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont.9,10

A photograph was taken of her and her husband Guy Emmett Williams in September 1904. The occasion was probably their first wedding anniversary.
Appears on these charts
Pedigree of Darrell Allen Martin

Children of Lora Bell Haskell and Guy Emmett Williams

Cited documentation

  1. [S232] Tewksbury Almshouse Inmate Case Histories, Patient numbers 63810 and 63854. "Mooney Sarah ... father of child Edw. Crowney ... Mooney Catherine b. Dec. 15. 1881."
  2. [S232] Tewksbury Almshouse, Patient numbers 63810 and 63854.
  3. [S232] Tewksbury Almshouse, Patient numbers 63810 and 63854., "810 dis. Feb. 8. 1882 / 857 Died Feb. 1. 1882" with patient numbers transposed.
  4. [S19] Laura Haskall Williams [sic]: a permit, issued by the State Board of Health of Vermont, for the transportation of her corpse from Rutland, Vermont to Springfield, Vermont, The age of "Laura Haskall Williams" at death "June 16, 1912" is stated as "28 Years 8 Months 23 Days" which yields a birth date of 24 September 1883.
  5. [S7] Williams, Guy E., 1910 US Census, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont; NARA x Roll 1617, a film of very poor quality.
  6. [S19] Laura Haskall Williams [sic]: a permit, issued by the State Board of Health of Vermont, for the transportation of her corpse from Rutland, Vermont to Springfield, Vermont, "Guy E. Williams is hereby authorized to accompany said remains."
  7. [S167] According to my mother in 1995.
  8. [S19] Laura Haskall Williams [sic]: a permit, issued by the State Board of Health of Vermont, for the transportation of her corpse from Rutland, Vermont to Springfield, Vermont, place "Rutland" cause "Pneumonia."
  9. [S20] Guy Williams, Purchase Deed of Cemetery Lot 69, Tier 7, Ward D, Oakland Cemetery, Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont; dated 19 June 1912.
  10. [S19] Laura Haskall Williams [sic]: a permit, issued by the State Board of Health of Vermont, for the transportation of her corpse from Rutland, Vermont to Springfield, Vermont, "to remove for burial at Springfield in the County of _____ State of Vermont."
 
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