Haddock Family

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Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/27/2010 at 20:32:46

History of Woodbury County, Iowa 1984

Haddock Family

Ronald ‘Keith’ Haddock was born August 21, 1911, at Rock Branch, Iowa. He was the third chld of Jesse Baker Haddock, 1883-1969, and Marie Ellen Hawkins, 1882-1925. The Haddock heritage was that of Scotch Quakers who had migrated to Ireland. John and Agnes (Boyd) Haddock, were descendants of Scotch nobility and never came to America. Their son, John Haddock, and his wife, Helen McBride, along with five boys and two girls came to America from Belfast, Ireland, in 1846 and settled in Philadephia, Pennsylvania. Keith’s grandfather, Robert, was the youngest of these children being nine years old when he cme to America. Haddocks were linen and cabinet makers by trade.

In 1856, one of the older Haddocks brothers, William John, was ‘not content to settle for city living and factory working in Philadelphia’ and was given the chance to come west with the McBrides, an aunt and uncle who shared high hopes for a future in the ‘Great West’. Their railway tickets for the trip, as far west as Rock Island, Illinois, on the ‘Emmigrants Cars’ were $12.50 each. William borrowed $15.00 and went gaily on his adventure which ended in Iowa City, Iowa, where he later became Judge William John Haddock and also served thirty-eight years as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Iowa. Robert Haddock, Keith’s grandfather, came later with the family to Johnson County where his father farmed and young Robert sold vegetables to the Wilwaukee Railroad crews as they were building the railroad through Iowa.

Robert Married Minerva Baker, daughter of Samuel Baker and Eliza Adaline Lewis, at Springdale, Cedar County, Iowa, in 1862. In 1863, when the Civil War broke out, Robert enlisted in the Twenty-second Iowa Infantry Regiment wehre he served under General Sherman on their famous ‘march to the sea’. Following the war he located in Dallas County, Iowa. Their children born at this time were: Ella, Robert, Eliza ‘Ida’, Harve, Sam, Minerva. Daisy and two girls who died in infancy.

In 1876, Haddocks came to Woodbury County with the belongings and family in two wagons pulled by a team of horses and a span of mules. The cattle were driven along beside the wagons. They followed the United States Government Des Moines-Smithland wagon trail to a log cabin on the Lem Burns farm where they lived until spring when a house was built on the one hundred acres of prairie farm land south of Holly Springs. This farm is till in Haddock ownership. Here, in 1883, Jesse Baker Haddock was born and grew up. He was married to Marie Ellen Hawkins in 1905.

Marie’s father, Joseph Hawkins, and his twin brother, Benjamin, age two, and their parents, William and Sarah Morgan Hawkins from Somersetshire, England, sailed form Bristol, England, on the ship, Java, April 1846 to New York. The cost of their family passenger ticket was twelve English pounds and ten shillings. They lived in New York for two years then came by railroad to Chicago, and later by wagon to Cascade, Iowa. In 1874, Joseph married Elizabeth Mercer, whose family had migrated from Selkershire, Scotland, in 1833 to Waterloo, Galt, Canada. Their children were: Effie Maude (Mrs Frank Burns); Ada (Mrs Frederick H Bond); Myrtle Hawkins; and Marie Ellen (Mrs Jesse Haddock).

Marie Ellen, a schoolteacher in Cedar County, Nebraska, and Jesse Haddock were marreied at Center, Nebraska, March 8, 1905. Their children were four sons: George Lyndon, deceased 1918; Jesse Bruce, deceased 1983; Roanld Keirth; and Julian Clair, deceased 1918; one daughter, Ninon Blanche, Mrs Arthur Netley; and one adopted daughter, Madge Juanita, Mrs Reuben Turner. George and Julian died in a diptheria epidemic in 1918 which also took the life of Grandmother Minerva Haddock. In 1909, the Haddocks moved to a rented (Sadler) farm near Rock Branch, Iowa. It was thre that Keith was born and lived for only four months before the family moved back to the farm at Holly Springs. Marie Haddock died in 1925; Jesse married Martha Award on June 21, 1927.

On February 14, 1939, R Keith Haddock married Fanchon Rebecca Miller, daugher of Clayton Ernest and Zula Lorene Means-Miller. Their chidlren are: Lyndon Keith, born February 8, 1941, married to Roslyn Cutting Royal (chidlren: Lynelle Kay, 1966, and Lynodn Keith, Jr, 1969); Manon Fanchon, born May 15, 1945, was marrieed to Alan Dale Church (children: Tonya Lorelle, 1964; Heather Christine, 1970; Nathan Alan, 1974; and Danyelle Erin, 1976; Rochelle Kathleen, born June 2, 1949, married to Roger Lynn Wilson, (children: Waneta Lorene, 1974; Natalie Noell, 1977; and Wesley Floyd, 1979).

In 1940, Keith purchased the family farm from his father and lived there with his family for five years. This farm is a century farm in the ownership of Lyndon Keith Haddock. In 1943, they moved to a farm one-half mile south of Holly Springs where they lived until 1955 when they moved to their farm four miles east of Moville. They tore down the old house and built a new one. Here, Keith grain farmed, raised livestock, ponies, Apppaloosa and Belgian draft horses.

In 1976, Keith fulfilled a long-time desire – that of driving a ‘red-white-and blue six pony hitch. The ‘Bicentennial Year’ was the one to do this – with all the scheduled celebrations and parades. With a lot of planning and help from family and friends, he drove in parades at surrounding towns and the Woodbury County Fair. He had been retired from farming sinc 1977, renting the land, but he and his wife continue to live on the farm. He and his family have been active in community activites, music, Farm Bureau, and the United Methodist Church.