Alta Holland Haskins

Brief Life History of Alta Holland

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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Family Time Line

George Washington Wasson
1859–1932
Alta Holland Haskins
1870–1923
Marriage: 9 December 1888
Frank Ninnis Wasson
1892–1962
Roy G. Wasson
1893–1915
Floyd Eldon Wasson
1896–1969
Lawrence L. Wasson
1897–1913
Leslie Loren Wasson
1897–1918
Mae Slyvia Wasson
1899–1992
Joseph Nelvin Wasson
1901–1976
Florence Lela Wasson
1903–1987
Earl Kenneth Wasson
1904–1963
John Merle Wasson
1907–1933
Mary R Wasson
1907–

Sources (19)

  • Alte Haskins, "United States, Census, 1880"
  • Alta Haskins Wasson, "Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1948"
  • Altie Haskins, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

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1871

Historical Boundaries: 1871: Pike, Illinois, United States

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Name Meaning

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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