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Jason Franklin Haskell

Birth	:	8 Jan 1844 Garland, Penobscot County, Maine, USA
Death	:	25 May 1919 Conde, Spink County, South Dakota, USA
Burial	:	Conde Cemetery, Conde, Spink County, USA
Coordinate	:	45.1617370, -98.0854110
Description	:	* US Veteran - U. S. Civil War ** Service Record: Enlisted in Company I, Maine 2nd Cavalry Regiment on 22 Dec 1863. Mustered out on 01 Jun 1865. Civil War Pension File Invalid pension application # 73997, cert # 273886 Widow pension application # 1142450, cert # 876809 Enlisted October 26, 1863, age 19, 5' 11", light complexion, dark eyes, brown hair Company I. 2nd Maine Infantry Company H. 22nd Maine Infantry Discharged June 1, 1865 for chronic diarhea. Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society Volume 10, No. 4, December 2001 Yankees Going West By... Read More	* US Veteran - U. S. Civil War ** Service Record: Enlisted in Company I, Maine 2nd Cavalry Regiment on 22 Dec 1863. Mustered out on 01 Jun 1865. Civil War Pension File Invalid pension application # 73997, cert # 273886 Widow pension application # 1142450, cert # 876809 Enlisted October 26, 1863, age 19, 5' 11", light complexion, dark eyes, brown hair Company I. 2nd Maine Infantry Company H. 22nd Maine Infantry Discharged June 1, 1865 for chronic diarhea. Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society Volume 10, No. 4, December 2001 Yankees Going West By Edward H. Haskell Jason Haskell was in one of the almost unseaworthy ships carrying Union soldiers, including the 22nd Maine Infantry, from the Carolina coast to Louisiana in December of 1862. The ships sailed by New Orleans, with bands playing, on or about Christmas Day and went into winter camp at Baton Roug The Union's plan to conquer the South was to slice it like a pie, and the Mississippi River was the first slice. New Orleans had fallen easily the year before, and Union troops had taken Baton Rouge, but the Confederates still controlled the river between them. They had since fallen back to a sleepy little town on the river called Port Hudson and fortified it. Port Hudson lay on high bluffs on a bend in the Mississippi. Cannon controlled the river and a trench the land side. Trees had been chopped down and allowed to fall like match sticks. They were now covered with heavy vines. To take Port Hudson would prove a hard and bloody ordeal for the Union. An exceptionally cold winter in Louisiana made life even more difficult for these Union troops. The cold, exposure, poor diet, and a variety of diseases took their toll. As with almost every regiment on both sides, the greater loss of life was not from the foe's rifle and cannon, but from disease. Most of the New England regiments, including the 22nd, were nine month regiments, and their days of service were rapidly coming to an end. Action had to be taken soon or the entire campaign would be a loss. The army in Baton Rouge was to march up to Port Hudson and decoy Confederate troops so the Navy could run a small fleet of ships under the guns of Port Hudson. Anxious troops waiting for their first taste of battle were awakened by the sound of cannon and glare of rockets. The Admiral had decided to pass under Port Hudson without their aid. The disgruntled troops marched back to Baton Rouge. In its next involvement the 22nd marched from Baton Rouge to Brashear, sailed up Grand Lake to land behind the Confederate troops, with orders to hold them in a narrow neck of land along the Bayou Teche, thus forcing their surrender. Landing a division some 10,000 men strong, plus artillery, horses and wagons, proved difficult. By late afternoon, the zz-, one of the first regiments to land, was ordered to destroy Porter's bridge, which they burned and returned to camp. Night had fallen and an exhausted Union army tried to rest in a field of young cane. At the first rays of the sun, they were called into position and without coffee, much less warm food or sleep, were marched along the road towards the woods. In the ensuing battle the enemy slipped away. Jason told a story about spearing a pig while on a march. According to the story, he and his mess mates prepared the pig over their fire only to have it confiscated by their officers. Later that night, they raided the officer's mess and took back their pig. This may well have happened. On July 4th 1863 Vicksburg (Mississippi) fell to Union forces, and on July 9th at nine in the morning at least one defiant Confederate Army surrendered. Even though Jason wrote in his pension application that he was suffering from a variety of problems including "disease of stomach, liver, spleen ... rheumatism", he enlisted in the 2nd Maine Cavalry in December 1863 to finish the "work" in Louisiana. Of the nine Garland men who enlisted with the regiment, only three would be mustered out. Five would die of disease during the Fall and Winter of 1864, among them Bennet, Captain Isaac and Charles, all sons of Bildad Haskell. Jason was sent to New Orleans, then home to Maine in October 1864 for two months, suffering from scurvy and constant diarrhea. In March 1865 he was admitted to Cony Army Hospital, Portland, and discharged home to Garland on June 1st, 1865. He returned to the work he had left three years earlier, as a farmhand for Thomas Oliver, a neighbor. Mr. Oliver wrote in a pension affidavit that Jason was not "worth more than half pay". The years after the war were difficult for New England and, like many young New Englanders, Jason and Frederick had to leave. They did so in 1868, probably in the Spring, and arrived in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The most important thing that would happen to Jason in Sturgeon Bay was his marriage to Zedora Persons, daughter of Levi and Betsey (Moore) Persons. Jason and Zedora ("Dora") were married on January 30th, 1869, by the Rev. Jess D. Cole. Zedora gave birth to her first son, George, in Fort Atkinson on November 22, 1869. The circumstances of their meeting is unclear. Levi Persons, Zedora's father, took his family from Vermont to Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin in 1858 and moved to Sturgeon Bay about the time the Haskells arrived. Levi was a carpenter and probably worked with the two brothers. There seemed to have been a deep and abiding friendship between Levi and the Haskells. In the Spring of 1870 the entire Persons-Haskell clan left Wisconsin and moved to Waveland Township in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Levi started with 10 acres. In 1885 Dora Haskell owned 80 acres, and the 1880 Iowa census suggests that Jason and Levi may have lived on the same farm. Two tragedies were to mar the Iowa years: the death of Frederick Persons, age 30, in 1873, and the death of Herbert, Jason and Zedora's infant son in 1877. The two families left Iowa by train in 1883 for Dakota. Levi was 61 years old, and Jason and Dora had five children with them. George, the oldest, was not quite 13 and Etta, the youngest, not quite 3 years old. From Ashton Station they took wagons some twenty miles across nearly untouched prairie and homesteaded land northwest of Conde in Spink County, Dakota. Dakota remained home for Jason and Zedora. Etta would die in a school accident in 1891, and seven children would grow to adulthood. In 1892 the family would leave the farm in Beotia Township to move into Conde. Jason died May 25th 1919; Zedora after a train trip to Iowa on October 14th, 1921. They are buried in the Conde, South Dakota, Cemetery. When son George N. (1869·1945) moved to California in 1915, he completed the crossing of the continent that began with William in 1635. Jason married 2, 3 Zedora Louise Persons 1 daughter of Levi Persons and Betsy D. Moore on 30 Jan 1869 in Sturgeon Bay, Door, Wisconsin. Zedora was born 4 on 23 Jun 1852 in Warren, Washington, Vermont. She died 5 on 14 Oct 1921 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa.

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Jason Franklin Haskell's memorial is located at: Conde Cemetery, Conde, Spink County, USA.
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Jason Franklin Haskell death on 25 May 1919 in Conde, Spink County, South Dakota, USA
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Latitude: 45.1617370
Longitude: -98.0854110

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Zedora Louise “Dora” Persons Haskell

(1852 - 1921)

Siblings

Children

Charles Allen “Charley” Haskell

(1873 - 1942)

Herman Newell Haskell

(1878 - 1931)

Clair Persons Haskell

(1894 - 1981)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Conde Cemetery
Conde, Spink County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1617370, -98.0854110

2. Saint Johns Cemetery
Conde, Spink County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1538860, -98.0888600

3. Verdon Cemetery
Spink County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2332993, -98.0843964

4. Crandall Cemetery
Clark County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1528015, -97.9630966

5. Verdon Cemetery
Verdon, Brown County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2551100, -98.1037410

6. Witt Crandall Cemetery
Crandall, Day County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1752870, -97.9517410

7. Saint Josephs Cemetery
Turton, Spink County, USA
Coordinate: 45.0479660, -98.0899500

8. Sunnyside Cemetery
Turton, Spink County, USA
Coordinate: 45.0472600, -98.0849800

9. Scotland Cemetery
Day County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2580986, -97.9606018

10. Hutterville Colony Cemetery
Stratford, Brown County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2639000, -98.2139500

11. Saint Pauls Cemetery
Ferney, Brown County, USA
Coordinate: 45.3269005, -98.0927963

12. Baldwin Cemetery
Brentford, Spink County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1130981, -98.3392029

13. Plainview Cemetery
Brentford, Spink County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1782990, -98.3486023

14. East Rondell Cemetery
Stratford, Brown County, USA
Coordinate: 45.3053017, -98.2675018

15. Saint Ansgar Cemetery
Lily, Day County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1733017, -97.7994003

16. Saint Thomas Cemetery
Crocker, Clark County, USA
Coordinate: 45.0964012, -97.8088989

17. West Hanson Cemetery
Groton, Brown County, USA
Coordinate: 45.3570320, -98.1845470

18. Oakwood Cemetery
Stratford, Brown County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2599983, -98.3516998

19. Bethany Cemetery
Mellette, Spink County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2149086, -98.3806381

20. Clifton Cemetery
Clifton Township, Spink County, USA
Coordinate: 45.0106010, -98.3197021

21. Bethany Cemetery
Day County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2831001, -97.8174973

22. Sjurson Cemetery
Butler, Day County, USA
Coordinate: 45.2692990, -97.7768610

23. Our Saviors Lutheran West Cemetery
Clark County, USA
Coordinate: 45.1381000, -97.7372000

24. Scandinavia Lutheran Cemetery
Gem Township, Brown County, USA
Coordinate: 45.3569104, -98.3307271