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Irene Azula Haskell

Irene H. Pomeroy

1 November 1825—13 June 1860

Born 1 Nov. 1825 in New Salem, Franklin Co., Massachusetts.1 Daughter of Ashebel Green Haskell and Azula (Ursulia) Hastings.2 Childhood friend and schoolmate of EBW.3 Along with EBW, baptized as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1 Mar. 1842, at New Salem.4 Married Francis Martin Pomeroy, 13 July 1844; eight children.5 Moved to Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, before Feb. 1846.6 Migrated to the Salt Lake Valley with the Abraham O. Smoot and George B. Wallace pioneer company, arriving 29 Sept. 1847.7 Died 13 June 1860 in the home of EBW of complications from a hand amputation resulting from an injury.8 

Footnotes

  1. 1 EBW, Diary, 1 Nov. 1889. Temple Records Index Bureau, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974), 291, Irene Pomeroy (restricted access). “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 20 Aug. 2019), Irene Ursula Haskell (KWJR-4SB).

  2. 2 Vital Records of New Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1927), 80. Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017, 31–32.

  3. 3 EBW, Diary, 1 Nov. 1889; 14 June 1896; 13 June 1897. Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 22, 24, 31–32, 60–61.

  4. 4 EBW, Diary, 1 Mar. 1892. Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2017), 31–32.

  5. 5 Zula Rich Cole, “How Firm a Foundation: History of Pomeroy-Haskell,” in “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 27 May 2020), Irene Ursula Haskell (KWJR-45B), Memories. “Descendants to Place Monument on Pioneer Ancestor’s Unmarked Grave,” Deseret News, 10 June 2015.

  6. 6 Temple Records Index Bureau, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nauvoo Temple Endowment Register, 10 December 1845 to 8 February 1846 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974), 291, Irene Pomeroy (restricted access).

  7. 7 Camp of Israel Schedules and Reports, 1845–1849, Spring 1847 Emigration Camp, Schedules, MS 14290, box 1, folder 45, image 1/12, CHL. “Irene Ursulia Haskell,” Pioneer Database (https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/, accessed 30 Apr. 2020). 

  8. 8 EBW, Diary, 13 June 1897. “Died,” Deseret News, 18 July 1860, 160. “Descendants to Place Monument on Pioneer Ancestor’s Unmarked Grave,” Deseret News, 10 June 2015.