Eunice Adelaide (Quick) Haskins (1853 - 1935)

Born 12 Jan 1853 in Raymond, Allegheny, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Aris R. Haskins — married 20 Jul 1870 in East Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States

Descendants

Died 1 May 1935 at age 82 in Spencer, Kent, Michigan, United States

Biography

Abraham Roosa Quick was a farmer from Allegheny Township of Potter County, Pennsylvania. His wife was Julia Ann Springer. Seeking a better situation, he moved with his family to East Saginaw by the early 1860s and worked in the lumber mills. He brought seven of his eight children with him, the oldest having taken up an apprenticeship as a blacksmith back home. Aris met, courted, and married Eunice Adelaide Quick, 5th child of Abraham on 20 Jul 1870 in East Saginaw.

Aris and Eunice had five children, three of which reached adulthood. Two daughters were born in East Saginaw and afterwards the family moved westerly to Gowen, Michigan, which lies in Montcalm Township of Montcalm County, right upon the edge of Montcalm and Kent Counties. They stay next to his son-in-law Isaac Dodge who ran a general store in Gowen. Isaac had married Julia Ann Quick, Abraham’s eldest daughter previously in Saginaw, Michigan.

Isaac was also in the lumber business, owning several tracts of timbered land across the county boundary into Spencer Township of Kent County. Another of Abraham’s daughters, Frances Eldora Quick, had been staying with Isaac and Julia and working in the store. Aris and Eunice had their 3rd and 4th children in Gowen.

The first two children, born in East Saginaw, were both girls: Nellie May and Frances M. Nellie died at age 11 at Lincoln Lake in Spencer Township. Frances met and married a local farmer’s son William Emmons. The next two children were boys: Winslow Florella and Alfred, both born in Gowen.

Winslow met and married Ruby Mae Hunt of Greenville, South Carolina and eventually settled in Mecklenburg County of North Carolina and produced a number of children. Alfred remained in Spencer Township, taking over the family farm at Lincoln Lake. He married Vera Harris and they had three children, two of which survived into adulthood. Alfred had a difficult life, leaving the farm, living in Greenville, Michigan, then Turk Lake and eventually Muskegon, Michigan. This path also created four wives and two divorces.

Sources

• Montcalm, Michigan, Libre 1935, pg. 155. Eunice Haskins died May 1, 1935 aged 85 years in Gown, Michigan. Cause of death - pneumonia. Attending physician A J Bowen of Greenville, Michigan. Father Abraham R. Quick, born in New York. Mother Julia Ann Quick. Eunice born in Allegheny Twp, Potter Co., Pensylvania, January 12, 1853. Undertaker Raymond Brown in Greenville, Michigan. Burial in Spencer Township (Kent County), Michigan. Informant - Alfred Haskins.; Montcalm County Court House, 211 West Main PO Box 368 Stanton, Michigan 48888.

Michigan, Michigan Department of Community Health Division of Vital Records, *Marriage Certificates, State File No. 3-147, record 1362, Marriage Certificates, 20 Jul 1870, Elias [Aris] Haskins and Eunice Quick. Groom Elias Haskins, aged 20 of South Saginaw [Saginaw Co.], born New York; and Eunice Quick, aged 17 of South Saginaw, born Pennsylvania. Parent's name of both not recorded. Married July 20, 1870 in Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan. Married by John H. Springer, Justice of the Peace. Filed Agust 5, 1871. Witnesses: James and Sarah McPharson.; Michigan Department of Community Health, Capitol View Building 201 Townsend Street Lansing, Michigan 48913.