The Unsung Toll of the Snohomish Frontier

At Snohomish City, W.T. on Thursday, Jan. 31st, 1878; Julia E. Haskell, wife of Judge H. Haskell, of this place, aged 36 years, 8 months and 13 days. She was a native of Brighton, Iowa; was married Jan. 7, 1858, in Mahaska county, Iowa, where they lived until 1871, when they and their family removed to this place, purchased a valuable ranch adjoining town, and have since been among the most useful citizens. Her maiden name was Julia E. Kinsman. She leaves a family of six children beside her husband, who keenly mourn her loss. She was a woman of much more than ordinary excellence in all the relations of life, and was looked up to with respect and regard by a very large circle of friends. In sickness and trouble she was especially a kind and faithful friend, a tender and intelligent nurse, who seemed always to know what should be done, and did it at the proper time. The numerous obligations she has at various times placed the family of the publisher of this paper under, in this respect, causes this statement to be made, as a personal tribute to her worth in this community. For several years past her constitution has been weakened by severe illness. Her last sickness was of less than ten days duration. She had caught a severe cold, which, with the state of her constitution and matters in the community that worried her, became rapidly worse, and finally assumed the form of typhoid fever, of which she died after lying very low for about one week. Her loss can never be replaced in this community.