When Alta Holland Haskins was born on 23 September 1870, in Pike, Illinois, United States, her father, Nelson Harvey Haskins, was 34 and her mother, Mary Ann Holton, was 34. She married George Washington Wasson on 9 December 1888, in Hull, Pike, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Kinderhook, Pike, Illinois, United States for about 30 years and Hull, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1920. She died on 27 April 1923, in Adams, Burton Township, Adams, Illinois, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Akers Chapel Cemetery, Hull, Pike, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1871: Pike, Illinois, United States
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English: variant of Haskin , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Ó hUiscín; see Haskin . More probably, however, it is an altered form of a diminutive of Fuarghus, a personal name meaning ‘cold vigor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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