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| 3601 | Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, Kentucky, 21 Jul 1996 Maggie Belle Bassett HARDINSBURG - Maggie Belle Bassett, 94, of Payneville, and formerly of Breckinridge Manor, Cloverport, died Friday, July 19, 1996, in Elizabethtown. She was born in Meade County, was a retired homemaker and was a member of St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church. She was preceded in death by her husban Henry Bassett; a son, Bennie Eugene Bassett; and a daughter, Martha Sanders Phillips. Survivors include a son, Ray Bassett of Willis Point, Texas; two daughters, Etta J. Raley of Jacksonville, Fla, and Jerri Kullman of Vine Grove; 21 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; 22 great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Elizabeth Reezor of Saint Clair Shores, Mich. Services are at 6 p.m. Monday at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in Payneville. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation is after 5 p.m. today and after 9 a.m. Monday at Trent-Dowell Funeral Home in Hardinsburg, where a prayer service will be held at 7:30 p.m. today. | Logsdon, Maggie Belle (I18088)
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| 3602 | Partial Obituary, Amsterdam Recorder Merwyn received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Boston University in 1930 and later attended Ohio State University to study accounting. In 1935 he married his wife Edyth William who died in March of 1986, and began working as a certified public accountant for the Ernest L. Luft Co. in Gloversville, NY which later became Cash and Bassett in 196 After retiring in 1971 he was an accountant for various school districts for five years with Cash and Bassett. Mr. Bassett was a member of the Association of Certified Public Accountants and a charter member and past president of the Gloversville Rotary Club, where he was named a Paul Harris Fellow in 1989. He was a third degree Mason with Johnstown Lodge 3 and a member of the Eagles Aerie, the Foresters and the Eccentric Club, all in Gloversville and the Elks and Moose lodges in Englewood, FL. Mr. Bassett served on the board of directors of the former Gloversville Glovers minor league baseball team. During WWII he served with the N.Y. State Guard. | Bassett, Merwyn Francis (I17490)
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| 3603 | Paul E. Bassett Shelby County Historical Society Paul Ernest Bassett, the son of Mildred Fox (Sept. 17, 1905-May 29, 1976) and William M. Bassett (April 2, 1906) was born on June 24, 1931. Paul attended Marion Township Elementary School and graduated from Morristown High School in 1949 where he was active in basketball, track and band. That year 1949, he planted his first crop of corn which started his farming career. He has lived all of his life on the family farm. Paul was active as a 4-H leader. He attended Farm School in Morristown. School bus driver was another of his activities. He drove a school bus for Shelbyville Central Schools for eight and one half years. Paul is serving on the board of the Agricultural Stabilization Committee and is a member of the Marion Township Trustee's Advisory Board. All of his life he had attended and is a member of the Liberty Church (now United Methodist). Paul was active in Square Dancing and this is where he met Dolores Jeanne Storer. They were married July 23, 196 Dolores Jeanne Storer is the daughter of Jeanette Agnus Eyke (Aug. 27, 1910-Dec.5 1987) and Wilson Arther Storer (Oct. 17, 1908-April4, 1981). She attended Collett Elementary School, McLean Jr. High, and graduated from Wiley High School in Terre Haute in 1949. The following year was spent in attendance at the University of New Mexico. She also attended Brown's Business College in Terre Haute then moved with her parents to Indianapolis where she worked first as a payroll clerk. After her marriage to Paul and her move to Shelbyville, she was active in the 4-H Dog Club. Jeanne attended and became a member of the Liberty Church. Paul had two sons: William Lee (June 7, 1951) and Michael Ernest (June 6, 1953), and a daughter Denise Ann (Feb. 28, 1956), by his first marriage to Betty Joan Gaines. Jeanne had two sons: Michael Ross (July 6, 1954), and Billy Edward (March 11, 1957), by her first marriage to John Ross Ratliff, who died Jan. 3, 1964. They put their two families together and became the parents of a son, Steve Gene (Feb. 15, 1966). Paul and Jeanne and their family live in the house where Paul's mother was raised. This house has seen two generations of "put together families" raised within its walls. The house sits on the Morristown Road at 600 N. Shelby County, Indiana, Obituary Paul E. Bassett Paul E. Bassett, 70, lifelong resident of Shelby County, died Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002, at Hancock Memorial Hospital in Greenfiel Born June 24, 1931, in Shelby County, he was the son of William M. and Mildred (Fox) Bassett. He married D. Jeanne Storer on July 23, 1965. She survives. Other survivors include five sons, Bill Bassett, Steve Bassett and Billy Ratliff, all of Shelbyville, Mike Bassett of Morristown, and Mike Ratliff of Waynesboro, Ga.; one daughter, Denise Rogian of New Palestine; one brother, Norman Bassett of Seymour; 11 grandchildren; and nine great- grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one brother, Robert Lee Basset Mr. Bassett was a retired bus driver for Shelbyville Central Schools and a lifetime farmer, retiring in 1994. He was a member of Liberty United Methodist Church, Shelby County ASCS committee and Bear Squares dance club. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Glenn E. George & Son Funeral Home, 437 Amos Road, with the Rev. David Bryan officiatin Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral hom Memorial contributions may be made to Liberty Methodist Church in care of Glenn E. George & Son Funeral Home, 437 Amos Road, Shelbyville, IN 46176. The Indianapolis Star, Indiana, 8 Feb 2002 Paul E. Bassett PAUL E. BASSETT, 70, Shelbyville, died Feb. 6. He was a farmer, retiring in 1994. Previously, he was a bus driver for Shelbyville Central Schools. he was a member of the Shelby County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservati Service and the Bear Squares Square Dancing Club. Memorial services: 10:30 a.m. Feb. 11 in Glenn E. George and Son Funeral Home, Shelbyville, with calling from 4 to 8 p.m. Feb. 10. Entombment Forest Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville. Memorial contributions may be made to Liberty United Methodist Church, Shelby County, of which he was a member, in care of the funeral home. Survivors: wife D. Jeanne Storer Bassett; children Denise Rogian, Bill, Mike, Steve Bassett; stepchildren Billy, Mike Ratliff; 11 grandchildren; nine great- grandchildren. | Bassett, Paul Ernest (I26169)
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| 3604 | PICTURES OF MARTIN COUNTY PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW Will Bassett is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ashley Bassett, Tenhassen homesteaders. Will grew up on the farm but figured he wasn't cut out for a soil tiller so when he came of age he left the old homestead, as so many others have done, and moved to town. Town was the country village of old Tenhassen, of which nothing remains but the cemetery and a few hollows in the ground at either side of the road, which were once cellars under houses and business places. Will was handy with tools so he engaged in the blacksmith trade, his shop standing under a spreading cottonwood tree on the south side of Tenhassen's main, and only, street. So skillful was he that he enjoyed the reputation of being able to fix anything. When bicycles were invented, Will Bassett didn't buy one. He made one in his own shop. And once he built a steam engine for use in his sho maybe it was to run a boat on Tuttle lake. He just picked up a few scraps of iron and steel here and there and forged them together into an engine that would run. There was a connecting link on the throttle or somewhere that he made from a shoe once on the foot of a mule that belonged to Sam Carver. And so with each part. Originally each had a history of its own. Gasoline engines and automobiles came along and these all interested Mr. Bassett. Evil days befell old Tenhassen because of the new, nearby railroad town of Ceylon. Mr. Bassett turned the key in his village smithy and moved to Fairmont. Here he grew into the auto repair business and could always make them run. A few years ago he ambled off to San Benito, Texas, where he is still monkeying with machinery. Other figures in the picture are Mr. Bassett's wife and son. Mr Bassett is also a Tenhassen pioneer, formerly Katie Personius, daughter of pioneers of 1862. Before her marriage she was a rural school teacher. She is quite as deserving a place in this particular hall of fame as her husband. She knows all about the peculiar problems of being an inventor's wife. The good looking young son is now a man in his own right and was christened Lyle. | Bassett, William J. (I16806)
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| 3605 | Pioneer Press 2 Apr 2006 Fanny B. Bassett Bassett, Fanny B. "Frances" Teacher Born July 9, 1946 in Quito, Ecuador. Died March 25, 2006 in St. Paul. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Hamline University. Preceded in death by her father Alfredo Coronel; husband David M. Bassett II. Survived by mother Argentina Coronel of Quito, Ecuador; sons David M. Bassett III (Katja) & Morgan K. Bassett all of St. Paul; granddaughter Ashley Lotzer; brother Alfredo Coronel of Quito, Ecuador; sister Martha S. Mettayer (David) of Eagan; nieces Tiffanie Mettayer Buck (Courtney), & Michelle Mettayer; Kathie & Maddy Delaney, and Kelly Bassett; sister-in-law Deborah Delaney (Dale); brother-in-law Richard Bassett (Heidi); and many friends and relatives. Memorial Mass Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 10 AM at Nativity of our Lord Catholic Church, 1900 Stanford Ave. St. Paul. Interment Thursday Ft. Snelling National Cemetery. Memorials preferred to St. Thomas Academy Pride Honor & Integrity Fund. Twin Cities Cremation 651-645-1233. | Coronel, Fanny (I8837)
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| 3606 | Plain Dealer, Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #092 Harry E. Bassett Harry E. Bassett, beloved husband of Dorothy (nee) Wiley, dear father of Dale, son of Ernest of Muncie, Ind., residence, 3110 Marmore Ave., Parma. Services at Lkanke Funeral Parlors, 12629 Detroit Ave., Lakewood, Monday, May 8, at 1:30 p.m. The family will receive friends from 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. Sunday. | Bassett, Harry E. (I20913)
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| 3607 | Plattsburgh Sentinel, Friday 18 Nov 1904 West Chazy Mrs. Eunice Loomis Bassett, widow of Daniel Bassett, passed away at the home of her son, Cyrus Bassett, Oct. 28th after an illness of eleven days. She was the daughter of James Loomis. She was born in Champlain, N.Y. She was married in 1853 to Daniel Bassett of Altona, and resided there until her death. She was 74 years old. Her funeral was held in the Wesleyan Methodist church, Oct. 31st, interment in the Douglass cemetary. She leaves to mourn her departure, one son, Cyrus Bassett of Altona, three sisters, Mrs. J.S. Abara, Miss E. Loomis, of Chazy, and Mrs. Charles M. Bruce of Baldwinville, Mass., and one brother, Abner Loomis of Ingraham. There were many beautiful flowers. | Loomis, Eunice (I02553)
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| 3608 | Port Chester Westmore News, Sep 2007 William Hastings Bassett III William Hastings Bassett III, 86, father of a Rye Brook man and a resident of Scarsdale, died Sept. 18, 2007 at his home. He was born in Waterbury, Conn. Dec. 14, 1920 to Helen Dean Bassett and William Hastings Bassett, Jr. He married the former Cecyl Hudson Smith in 1944. He graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1939 and attended Georgia Institute of Technology for two years before leaving to enter the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. His pilot's wings were awarded at Pensacola, Fla. After the war, he attended Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and then Pace College where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree cum laude. During World War II, he was a pilot in the Naval Air Transport Service in the Asia-Pacific Campaign and won victory medals. Mr. Bassett was assigned to Naval Air Command in Seattle, Wash. and flew transport planes to the Aleutian Islands. He was an accountant with the Anaconda Co. and C.I.T. Financial Corporation. He was manager of the Stock Transfer Department of Cities Service Co. until the company moved to Tulsa, Okla. at which time he transferred to the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Stock Transfer Department and was an officer there until his retirement in 1986. Mr. Bassett, a descendant of William Brewster, was a member of the New Hampshire Mayflower Society. He was also a member of the Scarsdale Golf Club and a 50-year member of the Manursing Island Club. Besides his wife of 63 years, he is survived by two sons, William Hastings Bassett IV and Douglas Sydney Bassett and his wife Nancy H. Bassett of Rye Brook; two granddaughters, Kristin Louise Bassett and Kimberly Ann Bassett; and a brother, Dean Winslow Bassett. A sister, Louise Bassett Rugg, predeceased him. Donations in memory of William H. Bassett III may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 785 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY 10605. | Bassett, William Hastings III (I23740)
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| 3609 | Portland Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, 19 May 2007 Maxine Ann Bassett Foster Moore, 71 FRYEBURG - Maxine Ann Bassett Foster Moore, 71, of Boynton Beac Fla., and Fryeburg, died Thursday, May 17, 2007, at the home of her daughter in Holyoke, Mass. She was born in Boston, Mass., the daughter of the late Maxwell and Agnes (Frazier) Bassett, was educated in the Westwood, Mass. Schools and the Catherine Laboure School of Nursing in Boston. She was a longtime Registered Nurse, and worked for many years as a school nurse at MSAD #72 in Fryeburg, retiring in 1996. She was a communicant of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Fryeburg and a long time member of the Maine School Nurses Associatio Ann was predeceased by her first husband, John C. Foster in 1974; and by her brother, Justin Clifford Bassett. She is survived by her husband, Wendell F. Moore of Fryeburg; a son, Paul D. Foster of Scarborough; two daughters, Julie L. Roebelen of Windsor, Conn., and Debra A. Foster of Holyoke; four grandchildren, Johann, Daniell, Kalli, and Natalie; two brothers, Brian D. Bassett of Fryeburg and E. Barry Bassett of Chapel Hill, N.C. A memorial Mass will be held at 11 a.m., Monday from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Fryeburg. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions should me made to your local chapter of the American Cancer Society (Maine). | Bassett, Maxine Ann (I20267)
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| 3610 | Portland Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, 19 May 2007 Maxine Ann Bassett Foster Moore, 71 FRYEBURG - Maxine Ann Bassett Foster Moore, 71, of Boynton Beac Fla., and Fryeburg, died Thursday, May 17, 2007, at the home of her daughter in Holyoke, Mass. She was born in Boston, Mass., the daughter of the late Maxwell and Agnes (Frazier) Bassett, was educated in the Westwood, Mass. Schools and the Catherine Laboure School of Nursing in Boston. She was a longtime Registered Nurse, and worked for many years as a school nurse at MSAD #72 in Fryeburg, retiring in 1996. She was a communicant of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Fryeburg and a long time member of the Maine School Nurses Associatio Ann was predeceased by her first husband, John C. Foster in 1974; and by her brother, Justin Clifford Bassett. She is survived by her husband, Wendell F. Moore of Fryeburg; a son, Paul D. Foster of Scarborough; two daughters, Julie L. Roebelen of Windsor, Conn., and Debra A. Foster of Holyoke; four grandchildren, Johann, Daniell, Kalli, and Natalie; two brothers, Brian D. Bassett of Fryeburg and E. Barry Bassett of Chapel Hill, N.C. A memorial Mass will be held at 11 a.m., Monday from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church, Fryeburg. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions should be made to your local chapter of the American Cancer Society (Maine). | Bassett, Maxine Ann (I20273)
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| 3611 | Portland Press Herald, Maine, 18 Mar 1998 Elizabeth Betty Bassett Greene Elizabeth Betty Bassett Greene, 94, died here Sunday. She had been ill a long time following a stroke. Mrs. Greene was born in New York City, daughter of Dr. Philip C. and Margaret Beaumont Thomas, graduated from the Ethical Culture School, received an A.B. from Vassar College in 1925 and an M.A. from Columbia in 1928. She began teaching at the Rye Country Day School outside of New York, then moved to The Buckley School for Boys in New York City and Milton Academy outside Boston. In 1928, she married Charles Chase Bassett of Cleveland. They moved to South Bristol in 1962 when Mr. Bassett retired. Both had vacationed at Christmas Cove there from an early age with their families. The Bassetts lived in Cambridge and Belmont, Mass. She taught at the Belmont Day School until they moved to Cleveland in 1941, where she taught at the Park and Laurel schools for 19 years. Her high standards, broad interests and respect f students gained her a reputation for fairness and excellence in the classroom. After Mr. Bassett died in 1965, she married Franklin Greene of South Bristol and Beaufort, S.C. He died in 1981. Mrs. Greene excelled in basketba college, won the Christmas Cove women's tennis championship at 16, became a skilled figure skater and passed her silver-dance and first-figure tests at age 60. In her later years, she enjoyed golf. Throughout her life, she was an enthusiastic gardener and avid reader, and continued to learn about nature, particularly about geology. She was active in all the communities in which she lived. In South Bristol, she served on the Miles Memorial Hospital board and volunteered with the hospital's Memorial League and at the Rutherford Library. At 80, she passed the the test to become a First Responder. Mrs. Greene made many trips to Europe and had visited Kenya, Egypt, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, the Caribbean and the Galapagos Islands and, at 85, visited Chile and the Falkland Islands, and Alaska. Surviving are three daughters, Linda Johnson of South Bristol and Shaker Heights, Ohio, Helen Gurland of Northport, N.Y., and Elizabeth Welles of New York City; a stepson, Alexander Greene of Brandon, Vt.; a stepdaughter, Nancy Miller of Salem, S.C.; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A private service will be held. Burial will be in Harrington Meeting House Cemetery. A gathering will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Moosewood, 298 S Road, South Bristol. Arrangements are by Strong Funeral Home. | Thomas, Elizabeth (I21376)
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| 3612 | Portland Press Herald, Maine, 28 Feb 2006 Russell E. Johnston (Picture included) BANGOR and HOLIDAY, Fla. - Russell E. Johnstone, 79, died Feb. 25, 2006, surrounded by his family, after a long illness. He was born July 2, 1926, in Alfred, the son of John E. and Ida (Lockwood) Johnstone. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of 17. Russell served time in the South Pacific and was badly wounded at Iwo Jima. He received the Purple Heart, the Americ Theatre ribbon and the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon. Russell was honorably discharged Oct. 24, 1945. He took great pride in his country and his family. Russell was a very generous and giving man all of his life to family, friends and anyone in need. He was a life member of the 4th Marine Division, Chapter 21; the BVA and the VFW of Lovell. Russell enjoyed traveling and was able to return to Iwo Jima in 1985. Surviving are his wife of 56 years, Priscilla (Bassett) Johnstone; four children, Russell E. Johnstone Jr. and his wife, Roberta B.J.; Jill Jutrus and her husband, David; Jayne Libbey and her husband Dennis; Jacalyn Fearon and her husband, Paul; four grandchildren, Jenny Murphy; Bethany Johnstone; Jessica Libbey and Justin Libbey; four step-grandchildren, Megan Fearon; Alyson Fearon; Ashley Jutrus; Lauren Jutrus; two great- grandchildren, Patrick and Jack Murphy; two brothers, Earl Johnstone and Lucien Johnstone; five sisters, Bertha Garland, Lois Fluet, Shirley LeTourneau, Ruby Johnstone and Nancy Hobbs; many nieces and nephews. The family would like to say a special thank you to the staff of NHCU73 Togus for their loving care of Russell. Those wishing to remember Russell in a special way may contribute in his memory to: The VAMROC, 1 VA Center, Augusta, Maine 04330, Att. Volunteer Services. Please make checks payable to Voluntary Services/Exclusive for NHCU73. Private services will be held at a later date. A service of Brookings-Smith, 133 Center St., Bangor | Johnstone, Russell E. (I15237)
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| 3613 | Portrait and Biographical Album Ingham & Livingston Counties, Michigan Col. John A. Shannon Col. John A. Shannon. Although of alien ancestry, our subject and the family to which he belongs have been conspicuous for the services they have rendered their country, both in the Colonial times and during the more recent strife between the North and South. Now living a quiet, bucolic life upon his farm on section 10, Vevay Township, Ingham County, he whose portrait appears on the opposite page was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, on the banks of the Tymochtee Creek, October 19, 1826. He is the son of Joseph C. and Ruth (Allgire) Shannon. The father was born in Ireland and was a son of Patrick and Elizabeth (Shepherd) Shannon, natives of County Donegal, Irelan Our subject's grandfather, Patrick Shannon, came to America a short time before the Revolutionary War, and espousing the cause of his adopt country, did good service in that war. He served under the direct command of Washington and was with him in that winter that will ever be memorab American history, which was spent in terrible suffering, at Valley Forge. He was a man of large means, but his great heart could not endure the sight of suffering that could be relieved by his pocket book, and he spent his substance in relieving the necessities of the soldiers, so that when the war was over he was left with very little. With his wife he then returned to Ireland for a short time to settle their property and convert it into money. It was while they were on that trip that our subject's father, Joseph Cresap Shannon, was born. The grandfather then came back to America and settled in Kentucky, where his son was reared, and whence he enlisted in the Black Hawk War, being a non-commissioned officer therein. After that war was over, Joseph C. Shannon apprenticed himself to a tanner in Fayette County, Ohio, and remained with him for two years. During his apprenticeship he became acquainted with our subject's mother, who was a native of Fairfield County, Ohio, and they were married before a great while. After the marriage of our subject's father he was engaged in agricultural work upon his father-in-law's farm for a few years and then located in Wyandot County, where he entered land and also built a tannery. At the time of the birth of our subject his parents' nearest neighbor lived at a distance of two miles. Joseph C. Shannon became so popular with the Wyandot tribe that they conferred upon him the unusual honor of making him a chief. He attended their council meetings, and the fact that he was so favored proved to be a great protection to him and his family. Our subject has inherited the title of chief in the Wyandot tribe, and is today entitled to that distinction. Joseph C. Shannon later removed to Ft. Findlay, Ohio, where he started a store. He was afterward County Auditor, and was serving in that capacity when he dropped dead on the ground which is now used as the cemetery in Findlay, Ohio. His decease occurred in May, 1836, and his body lies interred in that cemetery. It was a memorable and terrible occasion for our subject, who was with his father at the time of his death. His mother had died in 1828, and is interred in Wyandot County. His father was after that twice married. There were three children by the first marriage. By the second marriage there was one son, C.C. Shannon, now deceased, who was a soldier in the late war. He left several children. By the third marriage there were three children, two daughters who died in youth, and one son by name Hiram Strother Shannon, a silversmith by trade; he lives in Minerva, Ohio, where he keeps a hotel. The immediate branch of the family to which our subject belongs comprises, besides himself, a sister, Sarah E., who married David Longshore, and whose home is now in Iowa. Our subject's brother, Capt. Joseph O. Shannon, who now resides in Nebraska, was a soldier in the War of the Rebellion. As a boy between the ages of six and ten, our subject spent many days with the Wyandot Indians. He learned their customs and also became familiar with their language. Being a favorite with the braves, he was taught to use the bow and arrow with the skill and expertness of one of their own tribe. He went with them on two memorable journeys to Ft. Wayne and Detroit. He was only ten years of age or thereabouts when his father's death occurred, and w after that sad event sent to live with his mother's sister, a Mrs. Rachael Murphy, of Delaware County, Ohio. With her he made his home until he was about sixteen years of age. He remembers that, as a boy, it was far greater pleasure for him to follow the Indians about, to hunt and fish, than to go to school, but while in Delaware County he was in attendance at the little log schoolhouse for about three months each winter. The teacher that he had must have adapted himself admirably to the temperament of his little pupil, for here he became fond of his studies, and so great a reader that it was h delight to lie in front of the blazing logs in the fireplace and devour anything that came within his reach. At the age of sixteen he successfully passed an examination and received a license to teach. His career as a teacher began immediately, and for his services he received $10 per mon during the first term. He afterward attended Granville College, in Licking County, Ohio, until his senior year, managing to teach at the same time during vacations. He had, however, over-estimated the strain that his constitution could endure, for his health failed him and he was obliged to leave school. His college course up to that time had been paid for by working upon the farm connected with that institution and also by teaching, which he followed for nine years. In 1850, when about twenty-three or twenty-four years of age, M Shannon, having recently been converted, became a Methodist preacher in the North Ohio Conference. Those were days of the itinerancy, when a preach traveled about on horseback carrying with him only what he could take in his saddlebags, and when, there being comparatively few churches in the country, the schoolhouses or private residences were the places of meeting. He traveled all over Northwestern Ohio, and was stationed in Toledo for a year, although his first year was spent in Bryan, Williams County. He was at Fostoria for two years. On March 26, 1854, Mr. Shannon was married to Miss Lucy M. Bassett, of Grand Rapids, Ohio. Their marriage was celebrated in Wood County. The lady was born in Erie County, Ohio, February 15, 1832. By this marriage there have been born four children, whose names are: Anna A., Lillian E., Alpheus G. and Katie. The eldest daughter was born in Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio, June 29, 1855. She married Otto Caple and they live in Vevay Township, Ingham County. Their children are: Harry, who was born in Indiana, August 21, 1877; Lillie E., born in Indiana April 1, 1879; John A., born in Vevay Township, Ingham County, April 2, 1885, and Ruth, also born in this township, January 9, 1887. The second daughter, Lillian E., born March 4, 1860, in Fostoria, Seneca County, Ohio married Edward B. Caple January 19, 1887, and lives on section 10, of this township. Alpheus G., born in Ohio in 1862, died in Februar 1866. Katie, who was born in 1873, died in that same year. In Wood County, Ohio, our subject became connected with the military committee that made its headquarters at Perrysburg, Ohio. His talent in speech making was in requisition, as he made an appeal for volunteers throughout the State. He himself enlisted in the One Hundredth Ohio Infantry, Company A, and was made Captain of the Company. He was in the battle of Wilson's Creek, Mo., in 1861, before he had become a soldier, and his patriotism taking fire he seized a musket and entered the thick of the fight. He now says that he wanted to prove whether he was brave enough to stand under the fire of the enemy. After entering the army in 1862, he was assigned to the Army of the Ohio, and was under Burnside's command, having received his commission as Captain July 15, 1862. His services having received honorable mention, he was promoted by Gov. Tod to the rank of Major, May 13, 1863. He had studied civil engineering and was enabled to assist O.M. Poe, now living in Detroit, in laying out the fortifications at Knoxville, Tenn. Previous to this Mr. Shannon had been detached from the regiment and was on Gen. Burnside's staff, but while engaged on the work of the fortification he was transferred to the staff of Gen. Tillson. After the plans for this work were completed, he was ordered to take charge of their construction according to the specifications that had been made. To relieve the troops that were worn with excessive duty he was ordered to employ negro labor in constructing the fortifications and January 6, 1864, he received an order to organize a regiment of colored heavy artillery. The regiment was to consist of twelve companies of one hundred and fifty men each. It received the name of the First United States Colored Heavy Artillery, and our subject was appointed its Colonel. As is so frequently the case where worth and mer receive their reward and promotion, our subject was not spared the pain of jealous shafts. Gen. Tillson did all he could to belittle his work and loyalty, but our subject came out of the affair with flying colors and was promoted to the position of Lieutenant-Colonel May 11, 1864, and to the rank of Colonel November 4, 1864. On January 15, 1865, while in the line of duty, our subject's horse stumbled and fell, and rolling over him, crushed the bones of the chest, and by this catastrophe he was ruptured and otherwise disabled. Thus incapacitated for active work, he offered his resignation May 13, 1865. It was accepted, and he returned to his home. Previous to his entering the army our subject had studied law, and after his return home he was admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio, to practice before the Supreme Court of Ohio. It was a gratifying tribute to his ability as a man and an attorney that so early in his career he shou elected Prosecuting Attorney for Wood County, Ohio. There he continued in the practice of his profession until he was stricken down with sickness in 1884. His removal to his present home took place in 1885. He is now retired from active life and makes his home with his daughter. His wife still lives and is the faithful companion of his days of trials as she has been of his days of success. In his experience during the war, when there were so many incidents of oppression and wrong done by the soldiers on both sides, Mr. Shannon gave a brilliant example of the magnanimity that should ever characterize a tr soldier and a gentleman. The helpless and oppressed never turned away from him without succor or encouragement, and offenders against the weak and helpless were most summarily dealt with. The following letter is a copy of an order by our subject to one of the Southern men who had in his possession a little negro boy, whose mother was very desirous to have him: "HDQRS. FORAGING EXPEDITION, Atchleys Mill, Sevier Co., Tenn., January 3d, 1865" "Mr. Dugan: The bearer, Minnie desires to get possession of her little boy, Frank. I regard her claim as better founded than yours. She wished to send her boy to school. You, I understand, have said that no Yankees, or others, should take him. If she is not allowed peaceful possession of her own child, I shall send and take him by force of arms." (Signed) John A. Shannon, Col. Comdg. Foraging Expedition. | Shannon, Rev. James A. (I06286)
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| 3614 | Portrait Biographical Album of Lake County, Illinois (1891) Henry L. Burdick Henry L. Burdick, one of the most prominent citizens of Ela Township, now engaged in farming on section 11, where he has resided for the long period of twenty-six consecutive years, was born in Kendall Township, Orleans County, N.Y., February 7, 1840. His father, Rodman S. Burdick, was a native of Rhode Island, born in 1800. He spent his early childhood days in that State and at the age of ten shipped before the mast, following the seas until eighte years of age when he went into the ship yards and learned the trade of a ship carpenter. Later he resided in Madison County, N.Y., where during the summer months he followed farming and in the winter season worked at his trade. It was during his residence in that county that he wedded Harriet Bassett on the 4th of March, 1824. She was a daughter of Deacon Bassett of the Seventh Day Baptist Church. Six children were born of their union, two daughters and four sons but only two are now living, the others having died in childhood. Joseph M. married Artamissa Talcott, and is overseer of public works in Kansas City, Mo. The other surviving member of the family is Henry L. of this sketc In 1845, with his family, Rodman Burdick came to Illinois, locating in Vernon Township, Lake County, where he resided until 1854, at which time he removed to Wheaton, Du Page County, and followed his trade at that place for four years. He then returned to his old home in Vernon Township, and on the 11th of August, 1874, his wife was called to her final rest. Subsequently he went to Kansas City, spending two years with his son Joseph, and then returned home. He died while on a visit to an older brother in Madison County, N.Y., in 1878. In early life, Mr. Burdick was a stanch Abolitionist, and when the Republican party was formed to prevent the further extension of slavery, he joined its ranks. He served as drum major for several years in the New York State Militia, and was a man of prominence in the various communities where he made his home. He and his wife were members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church for several years but afterward joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church, in the faith of which they died. The early education of our subject, acquired in the common schools, was supplemented by a two year course of study in Wheaton. At the age of twenty he began life for himself as a farm hand, working by the month for two years, when at the call of President Lincoln for more troops, he enlisted in Company F, Thirty-Seventh Illinois Infantry and went in to camp at Chicago, whence the regiment was ordered to St. Louis, and later sent to reinfor Mulligan at Lexington, but when they reached Booneville, they learned that Mulligan had already surrendered. At Otterville they went into winter quarters and in the spring proceeded to Springfield, Mo. While en route they learned that Fremont had been superceded by Hunter. This was sad news for the boys of the Thirty-Seventh Illinois for they had called their regiment the Fremont Regiment. Shortly afterward they went into camp at Sedalia, Mo., and on breaking camp entered into the campaign which resulted in the battle of Pea Ridge. Mr. Burdick was taken prisoner two days before the engagement. He had been detailed to go to a private house and take care of a sick comrade and after the retreat of the regiment he was captured and conveyed to Van Buren, Ark., where he was held as a prisoner for five weeks and then exchanged. In the meantime he had contracted a disease, from which he has never yet fully recovered. After rejoining his regiment, the troops went back to Cassville, where they remained through the summer and then proceeded to Springfield. His company was detailed as provost guard and had charge of the military prison until orders came to proceed to Wilson's Creek. Later the battle of Prairie Grove was fought and on the return to Raleigh, the Thirty-Seventh Illinois Infantry was sent to Pilot Knob, but Mr. Burdick was left in charge of the provost marshal's stores. After a short time, he received orders to collect what was left of the army and stores and report at Pilot Knob. After joining his regiment, he was left at Pilot Knob engaged in the same duty, while his command went to Cape Girardeau, and took transports for Vicksburg. Some time afterward orders came from Gen. Vandever to turn over all stores to Col. Carr, commander of the post and report at St. Louis. The next morning he took transportation and rejoined his regiment at Warrington, where the division crossed the river and took a position upon the extreme left of Logan's corps, where they remained until after the surrender of Vicksburg. They were then transported up the Yazoo River, and captured the city of Yazoo. They lost the gunboat, "DeKalb" but secured enough arms to counteract the same. During all this campaigning, Mr. Burdick was detailed as Sergeant of the Provost Guard and after spending a short time at Port Hudson, went to New Orleans and thence to Morganza's Bend. About this time he received a sixty days furlough on account of sickness and was never again with his regiment. He reported to New Orleans, where he spent the winter in the ordinance office and in the spring crossed to Ft. Brown, Texas, where he remained during the service. Those who did not re-enlist were ordered to report in Chicago, to be mustered out and in that city, on the 4th of October, 1864, he was honorably discharge On his return from the war, Mr. Burdick engaged in the operation of the old homestead, but since his marriage has resided on his present farm. On the 30th of December, 1865, he was joined in wedlock with Maggie L. Benson, who was born in Chicago, December 5, 1943, and is a daughter of John and Margaret (Bonner) Benson. They were both natives of Germany but when young people crossed the Atlantic to America, and were married in New York. Soon afterward they emigrated to Chicago, where Mr. Benson was taken with consumption. He then went to Joliet, where he had friends living, but died about two years after his marriage. Mrs. Benson afterward became the wife of Samuel Adams, and they took up their residence in Russell's Grove, Ela Township, where Mr. Adams died twenty-five years later, and the mother of Mrs. Burdick was again left a widow, since which time she has lived with her daughter. In the household are also two sons and two daughters, born of the union of our subject and his wife: Fred L., who was born July 31, 1867, and is now engaged in the butchering business in Nehawka, Neb.; Hattie, born December 2, 1869, is at home; Cora A., born May 3, 1874, is employed in the watch factory in Elgin; and Lester R., born December 6, 1876, is at hom Mr. Burdick is an enterprising farmer and has a pleasant home in Ela Township. He is a Republican in politics, having supported that party since he attained his majority with the exception of the time when he cast his first ballot for Stephen A. Douglas. He has for several years been School Director and also Commissioner of Highways. Socially, he is a Master Mason, belonging to Wauconda Lodge, No. 298, A.F.& A.M., and also holds membership with the Grand Army Post of Wauconda. His wife is a member of the Methodist Church, and for twenty-five years he has been the leader of the choir. This worthy couple are well and favorably known throughout the community, and none are more deserving of a representation in their county's history. | Burdick, Rodman S. (I07524)
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| 3615 | Portsmouth Herald, 16 May 2000 Myra K. Bassett OGUNQUIT - Myra Kenney Bassett, 92, a well-known local personality, died unexpectedly Monday, May 8, 2000 at her home in the village. Born in 1908, in Medfield, Mass., she was the first of three children born to Hiram Kenney of Tabasintac, New Brunswick, and Delia O'Brahney Kenny of Roscommon, Ireland. She attended Rumford schools and graduated from the Maine Eye & Ear Infirmary in Portland in 1930. In 1939, she became the first nursing instructor of the newly formed Women's Army Corps. After the war she became head of the special surgical unit at the John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, Texas, which provided much of the care for the burn victims of the 1948 Texas City disaste In 1932, she married Dwight Bassett of Ogunquit, whose family operated Bassett's Crystal Spring Park and Lodges on Route 1 north of town. In 1952, she and Dwight bought their guest house on Beach Street and operated it for more than 30 years. In 1928, out on a forbidden date, she flew over Ogunquit Beach in a biplane. Seventy years later, to celebrate her 90th birthday, she flew over it again, this time in a parasail. She was feisty, outspoken, adventurous, generous, and funny. To her last day, she was in charge. She leaves her son and daughter-in-law, Kenney Bassett and Claire LaVoie of North Hero, Vt.; and her sisters-in-law, Leona Kenney of Orange, Texas and Harriet Kenney of Gold Run, Calif. She was predeceased by her husband in 1986; by her brothers Walter Kenney of Orange, Texas, and Vernon Kenney of Gold Run, Calif.; and by her stepmother Blanche Lynn Kenney of Dixfield, Maine. She was a unique and colorful personality and will be missed by her extended family and a legion of friends. Funeral services will be private. | Kenney, Myra (I17777)
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| 3616 | Prescott Daily Currier, 28 Mar 2001 Edson G. Bassett Edson G. Bassett, 78, of Prescott, died Monday, March 26, 2001, in the hospice unit at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Prescott. He was born Dec. 4, 1922, in Waterville, Vt., to Edson Sr. and Marie (Bailey) Bassett. Mr. Bassett served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He worked for Sears, and retired in 1985. Surviving are his wife, Pauline; daughters, Kathleen McKinl Jenison, Mich., Marie Harmon of Edwards, Calif., and Yvette Dejarnatt of Wyoming, Mich.; sons, Michael of Chino Valley, John of Spring Valley and Mathew of Prescott Valley; stepson, Tom France of Gilbert; brother, Henry of Springfield, Vt; 19 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, a daughter and a stepson. Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Arizona National Cemetery, Cave Creek. The family suggests memorial contributions to Yavapai Regional Medical Center Hospice, P.O. Box 2656 Prescott Valley, AZ 86312. Memory Chapel Mortuary helped the family with arrangements. | Bassett, Edson George Jr. (I28276)
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| 3617 | Probably The News, Whitesville, New York (26 Jan 182 Son at Rochester S.S. White appears a trifle more spry and witty, if possible, since Sunday. The reason is a new grandson to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn C. Bassett in Rochester hospital that day. Mother and Glenn Cottrell Jr. are doing splendidly. Whitesville friends send congratulations. 1930 Federal Census of Rochester, Monroe County, New York Glenn C. Bassett 43 M NY NY NY Head Agent Advertising Co. Belea? W. 41 F NY NY NY Wife Supplykeeper Public Scho Glenn C. Jr. 8 M NY NY NY Son | Bassett, Glenn Cottrell (I19074)
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| 3618 | Prominent Men of the Great West Frank Bassett Tobey, Chicago, Illinois Frank Bassett Tobey, president of the Tobey Furniture Company of Chicago, was born at Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass., September 15, 1833. It has been remarked that many of Chicago's prominent business men came from Cape Cod. Besides the Tobey brothers, Charles and Frank, the Nickersons, the Swifts, the Underwoods, the Ryders, the Lombards, the Crosbys, the Matthews, and a host of others, claim this sandy peninsula as their birthplace. The father of Frank Tobey owned and occupied the farm that had been in the possession of the Tobey family for more than two hundred years. Tradition says that his land was deeded to Captain Thomas Tobey, about the year 1674, for services rendered in organizing a company and assisting Plymouth Colony in King Phillip's wa Frank's mother was Rachel Bassett, whose ancestors came to America in t next ship following the Mayflower. Young Tobey worked on the farm summers and attended school winters until he was eighteen. For the next five years he held a position as clerk in the village store and post-office. The proprietor, Howes Chapman, was a man of superior intelligence, and was singularly upright in character and motives, and had great influence in molding the character of his young assistant, to whom he gave up largely the management of the business. At an early age Frank took great interest in philosophical and political subjects, always reasoning from the humanitarian stand-point. When only twelve years old, he took issue with his father on the question of the Mexican War, claiming that its object was the extension of slave territory and therefore unjust. He soon became identified with the anti-slavery movement. He wrote the call and served as secretary for the first Republican convention ever held in his native town. At that time the Republicans were represented by a small minority, but nine years later every vote in the town was cast for Abraham Lincoln. When barely twenty-one, he was nominated as delegate to the first Republican State convention but declined the honor because he could not afford the expense. In 1857 he came to Chicago, where, a year before, his brother Charles had started a furniture business on State street, south of Van Buren, in a small store, twenty by sixty feet. The first year Frank worked on a salary. The next year the co-partnership of Charles Tobey & Brother was formed, and their room doubled by the addition of the adjoining store. At this time the young men did all their work, and by close attention made the business prosperous. Their conservative and economical methods enabled them to weather the panic of 1857 to 1860, when so many older concerns went down. The large increase of business in 1859 required larger accommodations, which they found at 72 State street. They afterward removed to Lake street, and in 1866 to a new building erected specially for them at 77-79 State street, being business pioneers on that thoroughfare. In 1870, the Tobey Brothers, in connection with F. Porter Thayer, organized the Thayer & Tobey Furniture Company. The great fire of 1871 destroyed their building and stock, and in common with most Chicago firms, they suffered severe loss. With characteristic energy th improvised a salesroom at their West Side factory, which had escaped, a before the fire had ceased it ravages, they had taken an order to furnish the Sherman House, now the Gault, which order was completed in seven days. In 1873 they occupied the Clark building, corner of State and Adams streets. In 1875, the Tobey Brothers bought out Mr. Thayer's interest, and the name of the company was changed to the Tobey Furniture Company, Charles being president, and Frank vice-president and manager. In March, 1888, the company occupied the Drake building, corner Wabash avenue and Washington street. The same year they started a factory for the manufacture of high-class furniture for their own trade. This feature of the business has grown beyond anticipation, the quality of the goods produced being equal to anything in the world. In Septembe 1886, Chas. Tobey died, and Frank became president. In 1890, they doubled the capacity of their warerooms by renting the adjoining building known as "My Block". Mr. Tobey has thus seen the firm, beginning in a little store of 1,220 square feet in 1957, grow to the present proportions of the Tobey Furniture Company, requiring for its business more than four acres of floor space, its trade extending to every State and Territory in the Union, with occasional foreign shipments. In fact, it is without doubt the largest and most widely known retail furniture house in the country, if not in the worl Outside his business, Mr. Tobey has taken lively interest in and has contributed liberally to philanthropic and charitable movements. In religion he might be called a disciple of Theodore Parker, believing in the deed, rather than the creed. He helped organize the Society for Ethical Culture in Chicago, and has generously devoted time and money to its suppor His politics may perhaps be best described by quoting his own remark that, "Statesmanship found its highest ideal in Charles Sumner, who labored always for righteousness and absolute justice." He has been an active promoter of the economic conferences in Chicago, which brought the laborer and capitalist together and led to a better understanding between them. The distinguishing qualities in Mr. Tobey's character, and with which his name is always associated, are integrity, charitableness and a high sense of justice. | Tobey, Frank Bassett (I05692)
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| 3619 | Providence Rhode Island Journal, Wednesday 21 Jul 2004) BASSETT (MAGNER) - Warwick - Catherine E. Bassett, 77, of Pitman Road, a retired switchboard operator, died yesterday at Health Haven Nursing Home, in Coventry. She was the wife of the late Theodore R. Bassett. Born in West Warwick, a daughter of the late John T. Magner Sr. and Mildred (Duffy) Magner, she had lived in West Warwick and Warwick for most of her life. Mrs. Bassett had been a switchboard operator for the former New England Telephone Co., now Verizon, for eight years, and for the former Kent County Memorial Hospital, now Kent Hospital, for eight years before retiring. She was a member of the Warwick Jaycees. Mrs. Bassett was a communicant of St. Kevin Church. She enjoyed arts and crafts, dancing, acting and the theater. She leaves a son, Paul M. Bassett Sr., a daughter, Nancy J. Haibon, and two brothers, James T. Magner Jr. and Francis Magner, all of Warwick; seven grandchildren; a great-granddaughter. She was the mother of the late James E. Bassett, and the sister of the late Mary Douglas and Maureen Hollis. The funeral will be held Friday at 8:30 a.m. from the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Home, 2435 Warwick Ave., with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 in St. Kevin Church, Sandy Lane. Burial will be in the Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery, Exeter. | Magner, Catherine E. (I23498)
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| 3620 | Raleigh/Durham/Cary/Chapel Hill News Observer (includes picture) Commander (CDR) Charles A. Bassett, U.S. Navy, Ret., 89, of Chapel Hill, died on October 12, 2004 at the home of his son. CDR Bassett was born November 20, 1914 on a ranch in Las Vegas, New Mexico, two years after the territory became a state. He was one of eig children, born to Guy Bassett and Helen Olsen Bassett. He was the last surviving sibling. After attending the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, he enlisted in the Navy and entered flight school. He was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy, November 1, 1941. A career officer and naval aviator, he retired as a Commander. CDR Bassett was a World War II veteran. He served at sea and on numerous Naval Air Stations. He had two tours of duty in the South Pacific. His first tour of Duty began when he reported to a seaplane squadron on Christmas Day 1941, at Pearl Harbor. During his first tour he flew search and destroy, and rescue missions near Pearl Harbor and at Midway. Following the Midway battle he rescued a downed B-17 crew. On his second tour, he flew B- 24's based at Guadalcanal, where the squadron provided scouting and bombing support. After the South Pacific, CDR Bassett was assigned to an anti-submarine squadron, based in England. He completed 45 missions on that assignment, including D-Day patrol over the English Channel. Later, he was assigned to the U.S. Naval Forces France and served as the staff pilot. He was in Paris on V-E Day. The remainder of his career consisted of various duties both on shore and at sea. The two assignments he remembered most fondly were his duty on the carrier, USS Yorktown, while it was ported in Japan. The other, when he was stationed at the U.S. Naval Station on Kwajalein Island, the gateway to atomic testing in the South Pacific. His family was privileged to accompany him there. CDR Bassett made a few footsteps in history. CDR Bassett is survived by his son, Charles R. Bassett of Chapel Hill and wife, Maryann; five grandchildren, Crista Lantz of Charlotte and her husband, Jim, Sarah Phillips of Raleigh and her husband, Todd; Laura Bassett of New York, Andrew Bassett of Chapel Hill, and Carrie Bassett of Buffalo, NY. He is also survived by three great-grandchildren, Catie and Maddie Lantz and Joshua Phillips. He was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Catherine McBirnie Bassett and his son, William Jay Bassett. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Burial will ta place at St. Matthew Catholic Cemetery, Durham, North Carolin In lieu of flowers, contributions in Mr. Bassett's memory may be made to UNC Hospice, Pittsboro, NC. | Bassett, Charles Albert (I18136)
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| 3621 | REPORTER, VACAVILLE, CALIFORNIA, WED., SEPT. 20, 1978 Donald Bassett Dies at 75 Donald Clark Bassett, 75, a native of Elmira, died Friday in a Tulare hospital after an illness of several months. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bassett of the Elmira area. He was a graduate of the Cooper Elementary School, east of Vacaville, and was a 1922 graduate of Vacaville High School. He later attended the University Farm, (UC Davis). He was a frequent visitor to this area after he had moved away, and had attended annual reunions of his Vaca High clas He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Knights Templar and Royal Arch Masons of Tulare and the Scottish Rite of Fresno. For a number of years he was a milk inspector for Los Angeles a Tulare Counties. Later he was a laboratory technician with the Challenge Creamery in Lemore. Following his retirement he resided in Tular Surviving are his widow, Bernice of Tulare; a son, Dale of Sunland, and a twin sister, Dorothy Wride of Kenwood. There are three grandchildren. | Bassett, Donald Clark (I20615)
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| 3622 | Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts Volume I, 1912 BASSETT (Fall River family). The family bearing this name in Fa River, to which belonged the late Hon. Rufus W. Bassett, long prominent in business and public affairs, for years a member of the board of police and much of the time its chairman, is a branch of the earlier Taunton family, it of the still earlier Rochester branch of the distinguished Bassetts of the Cape Cod towns of the Old Colony. (I) William Bassett, the emigrant ancestor in this country, was born about 1590. It is of record that he married (first) Cecil Licht and (second), in 1611, in Leyden, Holland, Margaret Oldham. As there is no further mention of the second wife it is supposed that she died soon after. William Bassett left Delft Haven in the ship "Speedwell" July 22, 1620, and went to Southampton, England, with other Pilgrims. There the "Mayflower" was waiting for them, and after the company was divided between the two vessels they set sail for America Aug. 5, 1620. The "Speedwell" was found to be leaking, and both ships put into Dartmouth for repairs, and again set sail Aug. 21st. The "Speedwell" again commenced to leak, and, with such emigrants as could not be accommodated on the "Mayflower", Robert Cushman and family, William Bassett and others - about twenty in all, returned to London. Early in November, 1621, the ship "Fortune", a vessel of about fifty-five tons burden, and a new boa arrived at Plymouth, Mass., from England, with thirty-five passengers, among whom were William Bassett and Robert Cushman. It is not positive that William Bassett's third wife, Elizabeth (Tilden), came with him or not, as she is not mentioned until 1627, when William and his wife, Elizabeth, and children William, Jr., and Elizabeth Jr., were included in the record of the division of cattle at Plymouth, Mass. William Bassett was elected deputy assistant to the governor in 1640, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1648, from Duxbury, Mass., where he had gone in 1637 and made a settlement with others. About 1650 he settled in Bridgewater, Mass., he being one of the original proprietors of that town, which was incorporated in 1656. He was comparatively wealthy, being a large landholder, only four in Plymouth paying a higher tax in 1633. He had a large library, from which it is to be inferred that he was an educated man. In 1633 he had become a freeman of the Colony, and in 1637 he was a volunteer in the company raised to assist Massachusetts and Connecticut in the Pequot war; he was a member of the committee of the town of Duxbury to lay out bounds and to decide on the fitness of persons applying to become residents. He was representative to the Old Colony Court six years. His children were: William, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Joseph, Sarah, Jane, Ruth (born in 1632, married first John Sprague, 1655), and perhaps others. He died in Bridgewater in May, 1667. Of his children, William settled in Sandwich; Nathaniel first settled in Marshfield, and in 1684 in Yarmouth; Joseph remained on the parental homestead at Bridgewater, Mass., Sarah married Peregrine White, of Marshfield, the first child born of English parents at Cape Cod Harbor, in November, 1620; and Elizabeth married Thomas Burgess, of Sandwich. William Bassett (2) is t ancestor of the Bassetts of Sandwich, and some of those in Barnstable and the town of Dennis. (II) William Bassett (2), son of William and Elizabeth (Tilden) Bassett, born in 1624, married Mary Burt, and died in 1670. (III) William Bassett (3), born in 1656, son of William (2) and Mary (Burt) Bassett, married in 1675 Rachel Willison. He died in 172 (IV) William Bassett (4), son of William (3) and Rachel (Willison) Bassett, married in 1709 Abigail Bourne. (V) John Bassett, son of William (4) and Abigail (Bourne) Bassett, lived in Rochester, Mass., and there by his wife Mary had a family of twelve children. His death occurred May 17, 1781. His children were: Aurelia, born in 1743; Bethsheba, 1744; Benjamin, 1746; Mary, 1747; Emma, 1749, Peter, 1752; Desire, 1754; Sarah, 1756; Newcomb, 1757; Thomas, 1759; Meltiah, 1761; and Abigail, 1763. (VI) Thomas Bassett, son of John and Mary Bassett, was born in Rochester, Mass., June 19, 1759, and died there Feb. 24, 1833. On Ja 1781, he married Lydia Mendall, of that town, who was born March 19, 1760. His children were: Newcomb, born in 1781; Anselm, born in 1874; Samuel, born in 1786; Abner, born in 1788, who married Harriet B. Spaulding, of Norwich, Ocnn.; Thomas Jr., and Lydia (twins), born in 1790; John, born in 1793, who married Laura Wing, of Marion, Mass.; Stephen, born in 1798, who married Abigail Mendall; and Ezra, born in 1800, who married Keziah Russel (VII) Anselm Bassett, son of Thomas and Lydia (Mendall) Bassett, was born April 29, 1784 in the town of Rochester, Mass. He prepared for college under the tuition of Hon. Tristam Burges, who was then preceptor of the Rochester Academy, entered Brown University in 1799, and is said to have been the youngest member of his class, graduating in 1803. After receiving h degree he taught school in his native town, and also studied law in the office of Abraham Holmes. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1808, and immediately settled in Narraguagus, in what was then called the district of Maine. After a year he removed to Columbus, Maine, where he practiced successfully for three years, when, business being prostrated by the war with England, he returned to Rochester. Here he married Rosalinda, daught Abraham Holmes, with whom he had studied law, and soon afterward settled at Head of Westport, Mass., where for twenty years he continued the practice of his profession with a high degree of success. In 1849 was formed what was long the well-known firm of Bassett & Reed. On June 1, 1863, he withdrew from this partnership and determined to relinquish his profession. He had been in practice fifty-five years, and was the oldest practitioner in Bristol county, and one of the oldest in the State. But though he closed his office and withdrew from the bar, he was constantly sought by his former clients, who were unwilling to rely on other advice until his could no longer be obtained. In 1831 Mr. Bassett represented his town in the Legislature, and in 1832, having been appointed registrar of Probate for the county of Bristol, he was required to fix his residence in Taunton. This office he continued to hold for nineteen years, and discharged its duties with distinguished promptness and faithfulness. He appears also to have kept up his practice during this official period, and to have been very much relied upon as a counselor by a large number of clients. Both as a public official and as a lawyer he w greatly respected for the uprightness of his conduct and his great kindness of heart. Mr. Bassett died Sept. 9, 1863, when in the eightieth year of his age, and apparently from the natural decay of old age, without diseas After the death of Mrs. Rosalinda (Holmes) Bassett Mr. Bassett married (second) Mrs. Lucy Smith, of Troy, N.Y. His children, all born to the first marriage were: Thomas, born in 1811, who died in 1835; Charles J.H., born in 1814; George F.H., born in 1817, who died in 1820; Cynthia C.H., born in 1821; and Elizabeth M., born in 1824. Mrs. Rosalinda (Holmes) Bassett was a descendant in the sixth generation from William Holmes (who was an inhabitant of Scituate, Mass., as early as 1646, and a freeman of that Colony in 1658, later removing to Marshfield, where he died in 1678), from whom her lineage is through Abraham Holmes and his wife Elizabeth (Arnold), of Rochester, he dying there in 1722; Experience Holmes, who died in 1715, aged thirty-three years; Experience Holmes (2); and Hon. Abraham Holmes, a distinguished lawyer of Rocheste Massachusetts. (VIII) Charles Jarvis Holmes Bassett, son of Anselm and Rosalin (Holmes) Bassett, was born in Westport, Mass., July 10, 1814, and began his education there. For a time he lived with his uncle, Charles Jarvis Holmes, in Rochester, Mass., and there also attended school. He studied law and was admitted to the Bristol county bar, but did not practice. He was cashier of the Taunton National Bank, and later of the Hanover National Bank of New York City, and was recalled to the Taunton Bank, of which he became president. He was a member of the Congregational Church. He married, Jan. 20, 1840, Emeline Deane Seabury, who was born in Taunton, Mass., Oct. 2, 1817, daughter of John Westgate Seabury, and died April 1, 1842. On Aug. 14, 1845, Mr. Bassett married (second) Nancy L. Gibbs, who was born in Sandwick, Mass., Feb 2 1823, and who at the time of her marriage was living in Bridgewater, Mass. She died May 12, 1848, and Mr. Bassett married (third) Dec. 25, 1850, Martha B. French, of Pawtucket, R.I., who was born June 2, 1825. Mr. Bassett died Sept. 3, 1891. His children were: Sarah S., born in 1840, who married Erastus Morse, of Taunton; John S. and Charles A. (twins), born in 1842, the former of whom married Marianna C. Perry, of Taunton; Louisa L., born in 1846, who married George H. Rhodes, of Taunton, Mass.; Isabel, born in 1848; Henry F., born in 1851, who married Emma C. Jackson, of Taunton, Mass., Rufus W., born in 1853; Martha E., born in 1855, who died in 1881; Mary R., born in 1858, who married Col. Henry Pierce, of Pawtucket, R.I.; George F.H., born in 1862; and Susie A., born in 1864. (IX) Charles A. Bassett, son of Charles J.H. Bassett, received his education in the schools of Taunton, attending high school in that city. At the age of seventeen he started out to earn his own living, for a year clerking in a dry goods store, and for four years he was the youngest clerk in the Taunton National Bank. Through the influence of the late Hon. Jo Brayton, at the age of twenty-one he came to Fall River and for thirteen years was connected with the First National Bank of that city. In February, 1877, he was made treasurer of the Fall River Savings Bank, in which position he still remains. Of the nineteen trustees of that bank in 1877 only two survive. Mr. Bassett is Royal Arch Mason. (IX) Rufus W. Bassett, son of the late Charles J.H. and Mart (French) Bassett, of Taunton, was born in that city July 22, 1853. After receiving a high school education he entered the office of the Eagle Cotton Company, at Taunton, where he remained for several years, later removing from Taunton to Fall River to become bookkeeper for the Troy Cotton & Woolen Manufactory. After some years in this position he opened an office as a cotton and cloth broker, later associating himself with Nathan Durfee under the firm name of Bassett & Durfee, in a partnership which was continued to the time of his death. The firm did a large business and were the recognized representatives of the American Printing Company in the purchase of goods in this market. In this capacity they frequently took very large quantities of goods. Mr. Bassett was also a director in the Metacomet National Bank, the Fall River Electric Light Company and the Richard Borden Manufacturing Company. In young manhood Mr. Bassett was fond of athletics, and as an amateur played right field and first base for the Fall River nine, a semi-professional organization. He served for some time, when he first came to Fall River, in Company M (of which he was a charter member), Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. He had a genial, obliging disposition, which made him very popular with those who came in contact with him, and he was everywhere recognized as a man of ability and a useful and valuable citizen, whose death was a loss to the city. He was a member of the First Congregational Church. Mr. Bassett was prominent in political life, in which he exerted a considerable influence up to the time of his death. He was a member of the old common council in 1887 and 1889, and of the board of aldermen from Ward 8 in 1990-91. On June 4, 1902, Gov. W. Murray Crane appointed him to the board of police commissioners, for a three years' term, and on June 19, 1903, he was named by Gov. John L. Bates to be chairman of the board. When his term expired, Governor Douglas, a Democrat, was in office, and James Tansey was appointed to succeed him. On May 22, 1907, Mr. Bassett was again appointed to the board by Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr., and in June, 1908, was designat chairman, his term to expire the first Monday in June, 1910. Mr. Bassett also served as a trustee of the public library from 1891 to Feb. 4, 1901, when he resigned to take the police commissionership. He was again appointed March 31, 1906, resigning June 19, 1908. He was a member of the Old Colony Historical Society. He died July 26, 19109, at his home on High street, Fall Rive On Sept. 13, 1882, Mr. Bassett was married to Harriet Minerva Borden, born June 15, 1856, daughter of the late Col. Thomas J. and Mary E. (Hill) Borden, of Fall River, Mass., and a direct descendant of Richard Borden, of Borden, in the County of Kent, England, who came to America in 1635 and settled at Portsmouth, R.I., from whom her descent is through John Borden and his wife Mary (Earle), Richard Borden (2) and his wife Innocent (Wardell), Thomas Borden and his wife Mary (Gifford), Richard Borden (3) and his wife Hope (Cook), Thomas Borden and his wife Mary (Hathaway), Col. Richard Borden and his wife Abby W. (Durfee) and Col. Thomas J. Borden and his wife Mary E. (Hill). Mrs. Bassett died Oct. 16, 1904. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bassett: Thomas Borden, born Aug. 24, 1883; Frederick Waterman, born April 23, 1885, who died Sept. 26, 1904; Margaret, born Jan. 26, 1888; Charles French, born April 5, 1891, who died Dec. 26, 1891; and Constance, born Jan. 19, 1896. | Bassett, George Fitz Henry (I05777)
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| 3623 | Reuben Coffin 2/22/1787 - 2/21/1868 Part 48: Origins of Lysander, Plainville, and Jacksonville a Described Reuben Coffin and his bride of two years arrived in Lysander, Onondaga County with their clumsy covered wagon in 1810. It gave a final lurch and came to a creaking stop before the Palmer's log cabin one May day in that year. The trek from Washington county had been long and tedious, with the homespun lin cover to the heavy wagon their only shelter from the noonday sun. One of the last nights on the trail had been spent in camp in what is now the heart of Syracuse, the present site of the Lincoln store. A few days were spent in the Palmer cabin while the men fashioned a similar one farther east, on the bank of a swift stream. Here on Lot 37 lay the 600 acres of land claimed by Reuben and Sarah Bassett Coffin. Here beneath the tall pines that grew along t stream, the women of the settlement gathered on wash day to make use of the excellent spring water, and exchange bits of news, and assist each other in daily tasks. Not far from the spring and near the cabin, Reuben hung an iron kettle on a tripod for cooking and general purposes. Last Will and Testament of Reuben Coffin County Book #34, Vol. #M, Page #90 In the matter of proving the last will and testament of Reuben Coffin, deceased, Onondaga County, NY. Be it remembered that heretofore upon the petition of Edward Bently and Robert Coffin, the executors named in the last will and testament of Reuben Coffin, late of the town of Lysander in sa county, deceased, in said county for that purpose, to the Surrogate of said county, a citation was duly issued in this matter which citation with t proofs of service thereof was thereafter duly returned to said Surrogate, and which said petition and citation, with the proofs of service thereof, are now on file in the office of said Surrogate. And thereupon the last will and testament of the said Reuben Coffin, deceased, with the proofs thereof were produced and are as follows to wit: I, Reuben Coffin, of the town of Lysander in the County of Onondaga and State of New York of the age of seventy five years and being of sound mind and memory do make publish and declare this my last will and testament in manner following that is to say after paying all my debts and funeral charges I give and devise to my wife Sarah Coffin all my personal and real estate lying and being in the town of Lysander, county of Onondaga, State of New York during her natural life excepting, what I hereby set apart to my son E.B. Coffin. To my son E.B. Coffin I give thirty acres of land lying and being in the state of Iowa, county of Tama, being the same deeded to be by E.B. Coffin and Almira his wife bearing date Sept. 22nd 1857 and also a Judgement obtained in said State of Iowa for the sum of about two hundred and twenty dollars the same as he has a power of attorney to collect. And after the decease of my said wife my property is to be divided between my children as follows, first to my son Robert Coffin five hundred dollars and to my son Alexander M. Coffin fi hundred dollars. The remainder of all that may be left to be divided in equal shares with my sons Jacob Coffin, Robert Coffin, and Alexander M. Coffin and my daughters Harriet Borgardus, Elizabeth Chaffee, Sally Ann Harrington, Hepsibah Woodruffe, Susan Fuller, and Mary Bentley and to their heirs after them. I hereby appoint Edward Bently and Robert Coffin Executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirtieth day of August A.D. 1862. Reuben Coffin L.S. | Coffin, Reuben (I03215)
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| 3624 | Richmond Times-Dispatch, 9 Jan 2006 Ruby Batten "Aunt Ruby" Bassett Ruby Batten Bassett "Aunt Ruby", 97, a resident of Highland Springs for over 60 years, passed away peacefully at her home Saturday, January 7, 2006. She was preceded in death by her husband of 73 years, Wilber Bassett. She will be deeply missed by her sister and her many nieces and nephews, who along with all of her family and friends, have loved and appreciated her gentle, caring and creative ways. Her life was an inspiration to everyone who knew her. Friends may call at the Nelsen Funeral Home, 4650 S. Laburnum Ave., 2 to 8 p.m. Monday, January 9, and Tuesday, January 10, where funeral services will be conducted Wednesday, January 11, at 1 p.m. Interment Washington Memorial Park. Memorial donations may be made to Henrico Volunteer Rescue Squad. | Batten, Ruby (I21552)
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| 3625 | Robert Inglis Bassett of Lowell, MA Mr. Robert Inglis Bassett of Lowell, MA died early Tuesday morning, June 29, 2004 at his son's home in Hampton Beach, NH. Born in Lowell, MA on October 4, 1927, the son of Cyrus W. and Mabel (Inglis) Bassett. He was the husband of Margaret M. (Scanlon) Bassett with whom he had celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on June 18, 2004. He was a graduate of Keith Academy with the class of 1946, and attended Merrimack College. He was a Coast Guard veteran of WWII, and a Navy Veteran of the Korean War serving on the USS Kleinsmith APD-134. Mr. Bassett wintered in Marathon, Florida where he was a parishioner of the San Pablo Church in Marathon, as well as a parishioner and member of the Holy Name Society at Sacred Heart Church in Lowell, MA. He was a member of t American Legion in Denver, CO, the Lowell Elks, and a member of the Greater Lowell Roadrunners. Mr. Bassett was an avid runner and finished the Boston and New York Marathons. He was employed in his earlier years with Courier Citizen in Lowell, and most recently at Simon & Schuster Publishing Co. in Needham, MA until his retirement in 1996. Besides his loving wife he is survived by two sons and their spouses, D Robert and Marilyn (Ray) Bassett of Hayes, KS, Thomas and Carol (Spinde Bassett of Urbana, IL, three daughters and their husbands, Martha and Thomas Dufresne of Hollis, NH, Mary Bassett-Stanford and Daniel Stanford of Acton, MA, Ann and Richard Bienvenue of Lowell, MA, two brothers and a sister-in-law, LTC Cyrus W. Bassett, US Army, Ret. and Mary Bassett of Jericho, VT, Re Joseph Bassett USAF of Corpus Christi, TX, nine grandchildren, Sarah Bassett and Timothy Bassett both of Hayes, KS, Caitlin Dufresne and Margaret Dufresne both of Hollis, NH, Nicholas Bassett and Rebecca Bassett both of Urbana, IL, William Stanford, Robert Stanford, and Elizabeth Stanford all of Acton, MA, as well as numerous close family friends. FUNERAL NOTICE Robert I. Bassett, of Lowell, MA died June 29, 2004. - Visiting hours Thurs. 2 to 7 and 7 to 9PM. - Funeral Fri at 8:30 from the Dolan Funeral Home 106 Middlesex St. Chelmsford - Funeral Mass at 9:30 at Sacred Heart Church in Lowell - Burial in St. Patrick Cemetery, Lowell, MA - Memorial may be made in Robert's name to the Portsmouth Home Health a Hospice, 95 Brewery Ln. Unit 11, Portsmouth, NH 03801. Arrangements by Dolan Funeral Home 978-251-4041. | Bassett, Robert Inglis (I24480)
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| 3626 | Rockford Register Star, Illinois, 12 Nov 1999 Carol Bassett Smith, 77 KENTS STORE, Va. - Carol Bassett Smith of Kents Store died Saturday, Nov. 6, 1999, one week before her 78th birthday. She was born Nov. 13, 1921, in Philadelphia, the daughter of Edward Sebring and Alice (Ross) Bassett. She grew up in Rockford and graduated from Central High School, class of 1939. Also graduated from Duke University and was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. While there, she was one of the beauty queens, and also met her future husband, U.S. Marine Richard B. Smith. While Richard served in the Mari Corps, the family moved frequently, stationed at several bases in the United States and overseas. Richard attained the rank of colonel before retiring. Carol was a member of DAR, Fluvanna Historical Society and Fluvanna Gardens Club. Their home was built in 1720 and was beautifully restored by their sons. She especially loved her dogs and feeding the birds on their acreage. Survivors include husband, Richard, six sons and seven grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, in St. John Episcopal Church, Kents Store, with arrangements by Sheridan Funeral Home. 11-11-2 | Bassett, Carol Sebring (I24215)
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| 3627 | Rockford Register Star, Illinois, 20 Sep 2001 Mary Sue Bassett, 74 ROCKFORD - Mary Sue Bassett, 74, of Rockford died Monday, Sept. 17, 2001, in Rockford Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Born Aug. 15, 1927, in Rockford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Compton. Married Barton B. Bassett in Rockford on Feb. 14, 1952. He predeceased her on Aug. 18, 1988. She was employed in the classified ad department at the Rockford Register Star for more than 20 years. Member of Second Congregational Church, Junior League of Rockford and a volunteer for Rockford Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. Graduated from West High School and Lake Forest College. Survivors include daughter, Elizabeth, sons, Edward Sebring Bassett II of Lebanon, Ohio, and David Barton Bassett grandchildren, Katherine, Amy, Daniel and Audrena. Graveside service at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 21, in Greenwood Cemetery, with the Rev. R. Haines Moffat, minister of pastoral care at Second Congregational Church, officiating. No visitation. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts to American Cancer Society. Burpee-Wood Funeral Home, 420 N. Main St., is assisting the family. 9-19-2. | Compton, Mary Sue (I24218)
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| 3628 | Ross-Bassett Story (An account of pioneer days in Dakota) By Mrs. L.V. (Mary E. Ross) Coulter My father, William Cashes Ross, and my mother, Clara Bassett, were married in the year 1872 at Kirksville, Missouri. They then came with father's father and mother, namely William Ross and Nancy Jane Molineaux Ross, to Minnesota, where father's folks settled on land near the city of Minneapolis. To father and mother, who were both courageous and ambitious, came word of alluring opportunities out in the new land of the Dakotas. So father ventured west to Dakota Territory, squatting on land where the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota now stands. This was the year of 1878. There father built a claim shanty 12' by 14', near the Great Northern right-of-way, for James J. Hill was then making a survey for his railroad. It was there on June 2nd, 1879 that the writer of this story, Mary Edna Ross, was born and spent her earliest childhood. Some memories of those early days remain; how, as the work on the railroad progressed, mother allowed us children to stand on a table and look through our one small window to watch our father as he worked along the railroad as section boss. Another time he was running an engine, perhaps of a work-train or switch-engine, I cannot be sure. He was mechanic and a blacksmith, having learned his trade in Missouri. Mother and father were now blessed with three children, their second child, Emilie, having been called by our Heavenly Father, and she was laid to rest at Grand Forks, Dakota Territory. Mother was a Christian and would say, "Thy will be done." She taught us to sing the songs she loved by the firelight of our stove, or the light of the moon which shone through our unblinded windows. Father soon moved to Turtle River and on March 15, 1886, another son, Clarence was born. From there we moved by team to Manvel, North Dakota, where father worked for some time in a sawmill. By now the railroad was building west. Father did not want to lose out letting too many go ahead of him. Again he loaded the family possession Among these was a sort of cupboard with screened doors known as a milk safe, which mother felt could just as well be left behind, as she did not thi there would be cows in the region where they were going. Father argued the safe might come in handy and he had his way. Father had heard of Devils Lake and had received a newspaper printed at Villard, Dakota Territory, so thither he was bound. We arrived at Villard after days and days of travel. While the horses drank from a creek, father walked up the hill where a man stood in the door of a shanty. Seeing him he called, "Hi, sir, how far to Villard?" The man smiled and said, "This is Villard." He continued, "It belongs to me. Bring your family and come over." So father called back to mother and she climbed down, and with all the little flock walked up to the cabin, there to meet the editor of "The Villard Leader", whose name was R.H. Copeland. He advised father to continue on to Minot, so we camped there that night and moved on the next day. It was very hot weather, and trouble was forthcoming for one of our horses took sick and died. Very well I remember that mother shed a few tears. Father asked her if she wanted to go back home, but she only shook her head and said, "Let's rest here awhile." So a small tent was pitched on a lake shore. It was while we were there that some discouraged folks who were headed east came upon us and, as father always said, we "struck up an acquaintance." While they had no horses to trade, they did have an old ox, well broke to work with a horse. Then and there did the milk safe prove its worth. These folks wanted the milk safe and father wanted the ox, so the trade was made, and we were on our way again. A day or two farther on we came upon some settlers with some ponies. They were not "broke" to drive, but they wanted father's ox, and so another trade was made. In those days a good many teams were freighting between Minot a Bismarck. One of them met us, and in talking to the driver, father learned that they were badly in need of a blacksmith at Minot. So then and there he left mother with the covered wagon and family, and rode one of the horses to Minot, telling us he would send someone to bring us in. This, of course, took a day or two. As if it were yesterday, I recall just how the man looked as he rode up to our wagon and said, "Mrs. Ross, you must be a brave woman Mother smiled and agreed with him, and in a day or two we arrived at Minot late at night. I was awakened by mother saying, "Wake up, dear, and see your father. He is shoeing horses." Just at the same moment I got the sme food, for someone was cooking supper for us, using the same fire at whi father worked while he was shoeing horses. A lean-to had already been built on the side of this shop. It was of boards, inch thick lumber, and covered with tar paper. The next morning a floor was laid and we moved in. No sooner was this accomplished than mother was called on by some railroad overseer w came to ask her if she would bake bread to help feed the men then at work on the railroad. So two large sheet iron stoves were moved in, and mother began the task of baking night and day. I remember she used the bottom half of two flour barrels for mixing pans. This she continued to do until one May morning in 1887 when a little daughter was born to her. While mother was still confined to her bed, Minot had its first fire. It was a serious one, for it burned almost every small business house along the street. By this time father had been appointed to the office of sheriff, and had moved the family into a more substantial frame building. A heavy post had been put through the floor into the ground in the center of this one-ro building. It served a double purpose, for while it supported the roof, at the same time it was used as a hitching post for such prisoners as were of a desperate type. Here they would be chained both hand and foot. At night father went to bed with them chained to himself; for as yet, Minot had no jail. When friends asked mother if she weren't afraid, she would say, "Oh, no, men have lots of respect for little children." The Indians at that time were not to be trusted. And, while they were the cause of many anxious days and nights, no harm ever came to us from them. Mother felt the Indians were quite considerate because they took only about one-half of whatever food they found. For instance if there were two loaves of bread, they took one, and with gestures, explained, "One for you, and one for me." Father soon tired of Minot as a home. The stockmen were now gaining way, and he was induced to take charge of a large band of sheep some thirty-five miles southeast of Minot, out yonder in the region of what is now Velva. So again we were off in our covered wagon, bound for a new home, this time in a log cabin on the Mitchell Ranch. It was a bitter cold winter, and feed and water were scarce. The sheep died by the hundreds, and by spring father had had enough of the sheep business. However, some stockmen living along t Mouse River persuaded him to take some five hundred head of cattle to a summer camp at some distance, in order to save the hay and feed along the river for the winter time. So again we were on our way. This time a wagon load of lumber with which to build a house accompanied us. Father and my brothers drove the cattle. It was only a two-day trip to the new location known as Cottonwood Lake, about seven miles north of Dogden (now known as Butte). In the lake there was quite a large island. Thus we would have protection from the cattle in case there should be a stampede. It proved to be a beautiful home spot, and mother and we children were extremely happy there. On the island there was quite a variety of wild fruits, and the wild songbirds and game. We caught some young wild geese, clipped their wings and tamed them. We had a rowboat which we used to cross the lake to a spring for all our drinking water. On our way we could catch fish for dinner. We made pets of the sand hill cranes which followed us about like pet dogs, and usually called us early in the mornings. We were up at daybreak and to bed at dark. A lamp was never lit unless someone became ill during the night; which was seldom indeed. Summer, as mother said, passed all too soon. The bleak cold weather of fall came on. It was time to go the twenty-five miles to winter range at a place known as Pendroy, which, by the way, was the post office at which we had gotten our mail through the summer months. We lived that winter on the bank of the Mouse River in a large one- room house, and we children walked about two miles to school. In 1890, along with the March winds, came another little sister. Times were very hard and father decided he better head back to Minot, where he might get wor When we were settled again in Minot, father became ill from a wound he received when shoeing horses, and was unable to work until late in the summer. He then went east to earn what he could in the harvest fields for the winter. When harvest was over, he came home suffering great pain all the time. Mother persuaded him to go to Grand Forks, North Dakota (North Dakota had become a state in 1889) for medical aid. There Dr. H. M. Wheeler operated on his limb, and after a time he came home, only to suffer much the same as befor In July, 1891, we had the added happiness of another little sister who came to live with us. That autumn father decided we could not live in Minot where there was rent to pay and other expenses of living in town. So he moved us twenty-five miles east of Minot to a log cabin on the bank of the Mouse River. This cabin was large and had two windows, but only a dirt floor. But that made little difference, for there was plenty of wood to burn, water to use and fish and wild game a-plenty. Again father took care of sheep belonging to the First National Bank of Minot, and so we lived on. There was a school about one mile from our home, which we attended. In this school there was a teacher and about fifteen scholars, with five little Rosses making up the number. During the summer of 1892, the Soo Railroad came up the valley past our home. This brought with it lots of excitement and made life more interesting for mother and all of us. About one and a half miles from us a town was started which was named Velva. That fall, an epidemic of typhoid fever broke out at Minot, and father went here to help nurse county patients. Mother and we children, with a sheep herder were left to care for home and the sheep. Nothing very exciting ever happened in our little household. Mother received lots of letters from her home back east, and sometimes a package would come with some little treat for us all. We children would look forward to those packages so much that we would walk day after day to the post office, only to come home disappointed and some days almost frozen. On one of those occasions mother comforted us by telling us not to give up, for there would be a package for us in a few days. Full well she knew, for on December 5th, 1892, she gave birth to a son who was named Henry Ernest. Oh, wh package of joy, for we were tiring of baby sisters. Our much loved baby brother was about a month old before father ever saw him. Father was very fond of his little ones, but inclined to be gruff in his speech. Looking at the new baby boy, he said, "Hey, there, soldier, how did you get here?". This of course amused us all. Little did mother or father know then or even dream that in time this son would grow to manhood, and then one day he would enlist in the World War as a soldier with the United States Marine Corps, there to serve and finally on August 28th, 1919, give his life by drowning in the Artibonite River in Haiti, where troops had been retained to keep order even after the Armistice was signed. Henry Ernest Ross enlisted at Billings, Montana and at the time of his tragic death was with the 36th Company, 2nd Regiment, U.S. Marine Corps. His last address was Port au Prince, Haiti. Mother was spared this great sorrow as she was called to her Heavenly home when he was but five years of age. In the mean time, two more little sisters had come, and when the youngest was ten days old, mother was called from her earthly home, On October 14th, 1897. Clara Bassett Ross was the daughter of Robert Bassett and Mary Elizabeth Farlin Bassett. They were of New England stock. Tradition has it that there was a Bassett on the "Mayflower", and afterwards large numbers of that name came to America on the good ship "Fortune". Robert Bassett lost his mother in his infancy, and his father when a boy of seven. He grew to manhood in Granger and Lincoln County, Ohio. Then he went to Athens County where he met and married Mary Farlin. Both were of Scotch ancestry, and of strong Christian faith. They raised a large family and are resting now in a cemetery at Kirksville, Missouri. William Ross was the oldest son of William Ross and Nancy Jane Ross. The Ross family originally came from Scotland, and settled in Ireland where Grandfather William Ross was born and grew to manhood. He then came to America and, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the 27th day of October, 1840, in accordance with the law, he became a citizen of the United States. William Ross and Nancy Jane Ross reared a large family. They were of the Presbyterian Church, lived for many years at Minneapolis, Minnesota, and are buried there in Lakewood Cemetery. My mother, Clara Bassett Ross, died October 14th, 1897 at Williston, North Dakota, and is buried at Williston in the Riverview Cemetery. On her tombstone there has been inscribed the name of her soldier son, Henry Ernest Ross, whose body was never recovered from the water. Father had moved his family to Williston, North Dakota in 1895. After mother's death he went west to Montana, then on to Washington, where he spent the last twenty years of his life in the employ of McCleary Brothers Lumber Company. There he married again, and in 1920, at about the age of eighty-two passed away and is buried in McCleary, Washingto Twelve children were born to my parents. Six of them are now living. I am the oldest of these, and have written out this record of their lives as a tribute to my parents who suffered many hardships along with other pioneers. Through it all they did not complain but carried on with the fine courage that urged them always to do their best. I have also had in mind to honor my brother, Henry Ernest, as a son of early pioneers of the Dakotas, a devoted soldier, who, in the end, gave his life in the service of his country. In his memory I was included on the Gold Star Mother's pilgrimage to the battlefields of France and scenes of the World War, sailing on the "Roosevelt" on August 19, 1931, and returning in October on the "George Washington". Because of my brother's service, I am a member of the Auxiliary of the Edgar M. Boyd Post of the American Legion at Williston, North Dakota. | Ross, Mary Edna (I15463)
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| 3629 | Rushville Republican, 12 Apr 2005 Alford obit Clara Bassett Alford, 102, of Greensburg, died Monday, April 11, 200 Morning Breeze Nursing Home in Greensburg. Born Aug. 11, 1902, in Shelby County, she was the daughter of George and Rose (Gray) Bassett, both deceased. She married George Henry Alford in 1927; he preceded her in death in 1979. Mrs. Alford lived on farms in Rush and Shelby counties most of her life. She was a 1920 graduate of Shelbyville High School and also attended Purdue Homemaker's School. She had been active in Farm Bureau and the B.P. Club. She was a member of Milroy United Methodist Church for more than 70 year Survivors include three daughters, Sarah (Mrs. Fred) Deiwert of Greensburg, Mary (Mrs. Herb) Richey of Lexington, Ky., and Ruth Stevens of Glenwood; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Besides her parents and husband she was preceded in death by two sisters. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Carmony-Ewing Harrison Street Funeral Home in Shelbyville. Burial will follow in Forest Hill Cemetery in Shelbyville. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Milroy United Methodist Church or the Hospice of Shelby or Decatur County. | Bassett, Clara (I20823)
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| 3630 | Rutland Herald, 19 Dec 2005 Ruth A. Taylor BRIDGEWATER CORNERS - Ruth Abbie Badger Taylor, 89, died Dec. 16, 2005, at her home. She was born Dec. 3, 1916, in Pomfret, the daughter of George W. Badger and Bertha A. (Bassett) Badger. She graduated from Woodstoock High School in 1934 and from Northampton Commercial College in 1935. She married Vaughan Taylor on Oct. 8, 1939, in South Pomfret. Earlier, Mrs. Taylor had worked for C.C. Frost for six and half years. Later, she was a bookkeeper for Bridgewater Woolen Mill for 21 years. She was a member of Bridgewater Congregational Church, the woman's club at the church and The New England Club and the Vermont Club, both in Florid Survivors include her husband of Bridgewater Corners; a son, Sargent of New Hartford, Conn.; three granddaughters; a great-grandson and two great- granddaughters; and a number of nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by two brothers, Everett Badger and George Badger; and two sisters, Rachael Badger and Reba Badger. Calling hours will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 19, 2005, at the Cabot Funeral Home, 1 Rose Hill in Woodstock. The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005, at Bridgewater Congregational Church in Bridgewater. Burial will be in Reverside Cemetery in Woodstock. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Norris Cotton Cancer Center, 1 Medical Drive, Lebanon, NH 03766. | Badger, Ruth Abbie (I14851)
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| 3631 | Sacramento Bee, 30 Nov 2007 Francis "Eileen" Covey (Picture included) Born March 26, 1923 to Clifford & Helen Bassett (deceased) in Rochester, NY. She passed away on November 24, 2007 in Sacramento, CA. She graduated from Our Lady of Mercy High School in 1941. In her early 20's she was a professional singer, but retired to marry and raise a family. The family moved to CA in 1953. She always managed to be working part-time while raising her children. Moved to Sacramento in 1974 where she and her husband, Claude Covey (deceased) started their business, B&W Security Services. At the age of 64, Eileen became a Private Investigator after her husband of 40 years passed away. She was an active member of CALI until she retired. Eileen was a cherished Daughter, Mom, Grandmother & Great-Grandmother. She is survived by her 5 children, Dianne Mastright, Cheryl Duke, Colin Covey, Casey Covey and Kelly Robinson - 13 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren - family in NY - and many wonderful friends. Services will be held at Lind Brothers in Carmichael, 4: Friday, November 30, 2007 with a celebration of her life following at t Eastern Gardens Co-op. | Tiffany, Frances Eileen (I17256)
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| 3632 | Salem Evening News, August 28, 1973 Mrs. Ruth M. White SALEM - Ruth M. (Bassett) White, widow of Ernest H. White of 65 Dunlap St., died Monday morning at Salem Hospital following a lengthy illnes She was retired from Daniel Low and Co. after 22 year Born in Athol, Mass., she was the daughter of the late Harry and Emily (Preble) Bassett. She was a member of the First Universalist Church of Salem and a member of the Gamma Sigma Chi of the church. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Virgina Killeen of Salem, ? grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren, a brother, Carl Bassett of Florida; a sister, Mrs. Gladys Smith of Arizona, also several nieces and nephew Funeral services Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Full Memorial, 84 Washington Sq., Salem. | Bassett, Ruth Marjorie (I24078)
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| 3633 | Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Dec 2007 Beulah Marie Petersen Bassett (Picture included) 3/3/1919 - 12/23/2007 Beulah Marie Petersen Bassett was born March 3, 1919 in Deseret, Utah, the seventh child of Nels L. and Edith Bennett Petersen. She died Dec. 23, 2007 at her home in Delta, Utah of causes incident to age. Beulah grew up in Hinckley, Utah, attending Hinckley Elementary and graduating from Hinckley High School in 1936. She attended LDS Business College, Brigham Young University and the Holy Cross School of Nursing. She married Ralph Henry "Bud" Bassett in Hinckley, Utah on March 8, 1939. Beulah and Bud lived with Grandpa Bassett until 1943 when they purchased a farm in Sutherland, Utah where they ma their home for the next thirty years. Bud passed away on March 25, 1973. Shortly thereafter, Beulah moved to Delta. Prior to her marriage, Beulah worked for the Commercial Bank of Nephi. Beulah was a stay-at-home wife and mother until her youngest was old enough to go to school. She then embarked upon a 23 year career with Farmer's Home Administration, first as a County Office Clerk and finally as an Office Management Assistant for the states of Utah and Nevada. Beulah was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serving in each of the auxiliaries. She was Coordinator of the Jr. Sunday School and coached the girl's softball team. She enjoyed golfing, bowling and spending time in her garden. Beulah enjoyed traveling throughout the world with family and friends. She especially enjoyed Florida and N York, but found that nowhere could compare to Delta, Hinckley and Sutherland. Beulah is survived by four children: Jacquelyn (Doug) Turner, Paige (Jerry) Hawley, Howard (Syd) and Scott (Claudia). She leaves behind 19 grandchildren, 49 great grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren, as well as siblings: Grethe Shipp, Margaret Jensen, Ward (NaRae) Petersen and Barbra (Dell) Ashby. She was preceded in death by parents: Nels and Edith; husband: Bud, son-in- law: Judd Hardy; grandson-in-law: Kenneth Shumway; great grand-daughter: Anna Bassett; brothers: Lowell, Wayne and Homer Petersen; sisters: Nelda Memmott and Dorathy Damron. Funeral services: Saturday, Dec. 29, 2007 at the Sunderland 2nd Ward Chapel (3120 West 2600 North Delta) at 11 a.m. Friends call at Nickle Mortuary (190 South Center Delta) Friday, 7-8 p.m. and on Saturday at the church, 9:30-10:40 a.m. Burial Sutherland Cemetery. | Petersen, Beulah Marie (I20561)
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| 3634 | Samuel Smith Bassett, son of Gilbert Bingham Oscar and Mary (Smith) Bassett, was born 31 Jan 1853 in Delhi, Iowa. He married Katharina Hopp, daughter of Michael Hopp, on 23 Jun 1883 in Preston, Minnesot After attending the public schools of Minnesota and Washington, Samuel continued his education in Northfield College in Minnesota. He had accompanied his parents on their removal to the northwest, crossing the plains in 1866 to Montana and in 1871 to the site of Spokane. Later they went to Walla Walla, where Samuel went to school before going to Northfield. He completed his studies at Northfield College in June 1878. During the succeeding winter he engaged in teaching school in Iowa after which he accepted a position as clerk of the probate court under his brother, H. S. Bassett, who was then probate judge in Fillmore County, Minnesota. He continued in that position until 1883. During his stay here, he bought 400 acres of land with his brother. He disposed of his property in 1883 and went to South Dakota where with eight others, he scripped forty acres and established the town of LaGrace, in what is now Campbell County. This was a pioneer district in which the work of development had scarcely begun and it was not until 1887 that the county was organized, at which time Samuel became the first registrar of deeds. He was also admitted to the bar, 25 Sep 1888, and was elected prosecuting attorney of Campbell County in the same year. The duties of his position were discharged so acceptably that at the end of the first term, he was re-elected in 1890, but resigned in 1891 and again established his home in the west. Going to Moscow, Idaho, he there practiced law until he came to Spokane in 1900. He was admitted to practice before the bars of both Washington and Idaho in 1891, and has since been successfully following his profession. He first formed a partnership with George M. Nethercutt, with whom he was associated for a year, and later entered into partnership relations with W. W. Saunders, with whom he continued for a brief period. Since that time he practiced alone. He represented several corporations, among them Lorenzo Mining and Mill Company of Idaho; the Patent Holding Manufacturing Company; the Diamond Carriage Company; the International Crayon Company and others, owning a large interest in each. He had a wide knowledge of corporation law, yet he is well-versed in all departments of the profession. Samuel S. Bassett, Spokane and the Inland Empi Of English descent the family was founded in New England at a period ante-dating the Revolutionary war as he is a descendant of William Bassett who came over on the ship Fortune in 1621. He traces his ancestry from him down through Nathaniel Bassett I, Nathaniel Bassett II, Elnathan Bassett and Gilbert Bingham Oscar Bassett, father of our subject. After attending t public schools of Minnesota and Washington Samuel S. Bassett continued his education in Northfield College, completing his studies there in June, 1878. During the succeeding winter he engaged in teaching school in Iowa, aft which he accepted a position as clerk of the probate court under his brother, H.S. Bassett, who was then probate judge in Fillmore county, Minnesota. Samuel S. Bassett continued in that position until 1883 and went to South Dako where, with eight others, he scripped forty acres and established the town of LaGrace, in what is now Campbell county. This was a pioneer district in which the work of development had scarcely begun and it was not until 1887 that the county was organized, at which time Mr. Bassett became the first registrar of deeds. He was also admitted to the bar, September 25, 1888, and was elected prosecuting attorney of Campbell county in this same year. The duties of his position were discharged so acceptably that at the end of the first term he was re-elected in 1890, but resigned in 1891 and again established his home in the west. Going to Moscow, Idaho, he there practiced law until he ca Spokane, in 1900. He was admitted to practice before the bars of both Washington and Idaho in 1891 and has since been successfully following his profession. He first formed a partnership with George M. Nethercutt, with whom he was associated for a year, and later entered into partnership relations with W.W. Saunders, with whom he continued for a brief period. Since that time he has practiced alone and his ability is manifest in the large clienta accorded him. He represents several corporations, among them the Lorenzo Mining and Mill Company of Idaho; the Patent Holding Manufacturing Company; the Diamond Carriage Company; the International Crayon Company and others, owning a large interest in each. He has a wide knowledge of corporation law, yet he is well-versed in all departments of the profession. With the countless opportunities for profitable investment that are to be found in the northwest it is unusual for a man to concentrate his energies upon a single line and Mr. Bassett, in keeping with the tendance of the times, has extended his activities into other fields and beyond the strict path of his profession. He has interest in Oregon and is a trustee of several companies besides those which he represents as an attorney. In his vocabulary "there is no such word as fail." His plans are carefully formed and executed and bring to him the measure of success which crowns unfaltering effort, intelligently directed. Mr. Bassett's study of the political questions and issues of the day has led him to give active and earnest support to the republican party. While residing in La Grace, South Dakota, he represented his party on the central committee, served as delegate to county conventions in Fillmore county, Minnesota, and was also a delegate to both county and state conventions in La Grace, South Dakota. He is in thorough sympathy with the beneficent and benevolent spirit of the Masonic fraternity and is an exemplary member of the blue lodge. He also has membership relations with the Independent Order of Foresters and with the Royal Highlanders. During much of his life he has lived in frontier districts and has taken an active part in the upbuilding of the sections in which he has made his home. In all of his public work he has looked beyond the exigencies of the moment to the opportunities and needs of the future and has labored for later progress as well as for present prosperity. Spokane has no more enthusiastic champion of her interests or one whose efforts in her behalf are of a more practical and resultant character. | Bassett, Samuel Smith (I07346)
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| 3635 | Santa Maria Times, 30 Oct 2007 James Michael Bassett Mr. James Michael Bassett, 56, of Santa Maria, passed away October 27, 2007. Arrangements pending at Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary and Crematory. Santa Maria Times, 31 Oct 2007 James Michael Bassett, 1951-2007 Mike passed away October 27, 2007 at Marian Extended Care following a lengthy illness. Mike was born July 27, 1951 in Santa Maria, California to Clyde and Louise (Moody) Bassett. Mike graduated from Righetti High School in 1969. He was employed with Williams Brothers Marker prior to entering the U.S. Army. He then was employed as a cable installer for several years in North Carolina and Santa Maria. Mike loved riding his Harley Motorcycle and of late he enjoyed gardening. Mike is survived by his son, Michael William Bassett, granddaughter, Heidi Bassett, sister and her husband, Patsy and Mike Merchant, Nipomo, brother and his wife, Steve and Taffy Bassett, Santa Maria, four nieces, one nephew as well as numerous cousins, great nieces and nephews and one great-great niece as well as his special friend, Madeline Figueroa. Mike was preceded in death by his parents, Clyde and Louise Bassett and step- father, C.T. "Tom" Brown. A graveside memorial service will be held Friday November 2, 2007 at 11:00 am at the Santa Maria Cemetery with Reverend Elmer Moody officiating. Friends may make memorial contributions in Mike's memory to a charity of choice. Arrangements are entrusted to Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary and Crematory. (805) 922-8463. | Bassett, James Michael (I25125)
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| 3636 | Sea Coast Today, 15 Feb 2001 Dorothy B. Burrows CHARLTON - Dorothy B. (Bassett) Burrows, 88, of Fairhaven died Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2001, at the Masonic Nursing Home after a long illness. She was the widow of Frank Burrows. The daughter of the late George A. and Eleanor C. (York) Bassett, she was born in Fairhaven, where she lived most of her life. She graduated from the Swain School of Design after studying fashion illustratio Mrs. Burrows formerly was a photographic illustrator at Cherry's department store. She was a member of Centre Methodist Church in Fairhaven. She enjoyed reading and sewing. Survivors include a son, Donald E. Burrows of Grafton; two nieces, Barbara Gaspar of Mattapoisett and Margaret Rose of Canton, Conn.; several other nieces and nephews; and three stepgrandchildren. She was the sister of the late George A. Bassett Jr. Her funeral will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Fairhaven Funeral Home, 117 Main St., Fairhaven. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven. | Bassett, Dorothy C. (I23763)
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| 3637 | Seacoast Online, Friday 20 May 2005 Raymond L. Bassett NEWMARKET - Raymond L. Bassett, 90, of North Main Street, died Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at Kirkwood Corner's, Lee, after a period of failing healt He was born April 27, 1915, in Newmarket, the son of Harry and Nora Mae (Williams) Bassett. Mr. Bassett worked in the local shoe industry at Sam Smith Shoe and Rockingham Shoe and also worked as a lumberjack. He is survived by a sister-in-law, Margaret Bassett of Newmarket. A graveside service will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in Riverside Cemeter Newmarket. The Kent & Pelczar Funeral Home, Newmarket, is assisting with arrangements. | Bassett, Raymond L. (I15186)
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| 3638 | Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington, 16 May 1987 Kenneth Bassett Kenneth Bassett, beloved husband of Cecile Bassett, Seattle. Father of Stanley Bassett, Ellensburg, Wash.; Joanne Kreg, Bothell, Wash.; Barbara Goodwi Kent, Wash.; Dianne Olson, Leavenworth, Wash. and Michael Bassett, Spokane. Brother of James Bassett, Tacoma. Also, survived by eight grandchildren. Service Monday, 1 p.m. at Bonney-Watson Company 322-0013. Interment, Auburn City Cemetery. | Bassett, Kenneth Mortimer (I17428)
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| 3639 | Sentinel & Enterprise, Fichburg, Mass. Sunday, December 8, 1991, p. A6 LEOMINSTER -- Elsie E. Sears, 76, of 18 Eden Glen, died Friday, De Leominster Hospital following a brief illness. She was born in Brewster, on Aug. 5, 1915, the daughter of the late Benjamin and Emma (Bassett) Sears. She attended schools in Brewster and moved to the Leominster area from the Cape Cod area 36 years ago. She was formerly employed by City Cleaners, of 655 Water St. of Fitchburg, retiring in 1971. She is survived by one sister, Alice Kaustinen of Leominster, with whom she lived; three nephews; two nieces; and several great nephews and niece The funeral will be on Monday at 1 p.m. in the Fitchburg Chapel of the Sawyer- Miller Funeral Home, 129 Elm St., Fitchburg, with the Rev. Kenneth B. Duerr officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Leominster. Calling hours at the funeral home are Monday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. | Sears, Elsie E. (I23557)
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| 3640 | Sentinel County, Tuesday, March 4, 2002 Funeral services for Susan D. Bassett, 48, of 913 Armstrong Roa Carlisle, will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Brethren in Christ Church, 1155 Walnut Bottom Road, Carlisle. She died Sunday, March 3, 2002, at hom Born April 25, 1953, in Carlisle, the daughter of Peggy L. Brown Cornman of Carlisle and the late G. Richard Cornman, she was a 1971 graduate of Carlisle High School and a 1973 graduate of Hagerstown Medical College with an associate's degree as a medical secretary. Employed in accounts payable with Lear Corp., Carlisle, she was a member of Brethren in Christ Churc Carlisle. Besides her mother, Mrs. Bassett is survived by her husba years, William A. Bassett; a daughter, Megan D. Bassett at home; and an aunt, Betty Myers of Mt. Holly Springs. The Rev. Jerry Beers will officiate at Wednesday's service. Burial will be in Westminster Cemetery, North Middleton Township. A memorial service will also be held today at 7 p.m. in the church. Friends may visit immediately following the service. Hoffman-Roth Funeral Home, Carlisle, is in charge of the arrangements. Memorial contributions can be made to her church. | Cornman, Susan D. (I28074)
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| 3641 | September 30, 1945 Floyd L. Harrell Dies at Hospital Services Wednesday for County Educator One of Shelby county's most widely known schoolmen has died at the Major hospital here following an extended illness. He is Floyd L. Harrell, aged 42, whose death occurred Sunday at 11:55 p.m. Mr. Harrell was a resident of Brandywine township and was bo Moral township on October 2, 1902, the son of the late Silas H. and Emma D. Lee Harrell. On July 26, 1928, he was united in marriage to Mildred L. Bassett, who survives with two children, Linda Lee, age five, and James Jackson, age three. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Paul Robinson, of VanBuren township, and Mrs. Ernest Bush, of Brandywine township, and a brother, O.C. Harrell, of Moral township. Mr. Harrell had been a school teacher for 24 years, 23 of which were spent in the Moral, Boggstown and Fairland schools. He was principal of the Fairland school at the time he was granted a leave of absence because of ill health. He also had taught at Argus. He was a graduate of the Fairland high school. He received his B.A. degree from Ball State Teachers College and his M.S. degree from Indiana University. He had served on the local war price and rationing board. He was active in Boy Scout activities of the Fairland community, having served as an advisory committee member. Mr. Harrell was a past master of Sugar Creek Lodge No. 279 of the Masonic order and was the first past master president of the lodge. He also was a member of the Fairland Order of Eastern Star and of the Fairland Methodist Church. Funeral services will be conducted at the late home on Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, with the Rev. James Cox, pastor of the Fairland Methodist Church, and Dr. Charles A. Bowler, pastor of the local First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial in charge of Charles M. Ewing will be made in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the late home after 7:00 o'clock tonight. Honorary pallbearers will be city and county school principals and Thomas Fogarty, superintendent of county schools, and W. F. Loper, Shelbyville school superintendent. Active pallbearers are George Lee, Earl Tolen, Fred Tucke Guild, Floyd Bradley, Roy Tucker, Edgar Barger and Arthur Tucker. | Harrell, Floyd Lee (I21136)
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| 3642 | SERVICES TO BE FOR A.B. OLIVER Funeral services will be held this Friday, Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. at the Community Church, Walker, for A.B. Oliver, 74, retired Cass County Judge of Probate. Rev. H.A. Mercier will officiate. Interment will be in the Walker cemetery. Mr. Oliver died Sunday about 5:30 p.m. at the IOOF Hall at Northfield where he had been residing. A.B. "Ben" Oliver, was born June 23, 1893 at Esterdy, Minn. He retired Jan. 6, 1963, after serving about 32 years as Cass County's Judge of Probate and Juvenile Judge. A complete obituary will be given next week. JUDGE OLIVER FUNERAL RITES HELD DEC. 2 Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 2 at 2 p.m. at the Community church in Walker for A.B. Oliver, 74, retired Cass County Judge of Probate who died Nov. 27 in Northfield. Rev. H.A. Mercier officiated, assisted by Rev. O.R. Swenson. Mrs. Beulah Hendricks was soloist and sang two numbers, accompanied on the organ by Mrs. Arville Luehr. The honors of the Odd Fellows ritual were given at the close of the service. Pallbearers were Leonard Peterson, Gerald Eveland, Gil Sabin, William Merrill, Henry Hagen and Edward Dorsey. Honorary bearers were Judge Arthur Daniels, Clifford Swenson, B Greenside, Bill Brownley, Car Steadland, and Faye Harrington. Interment was in the Walker Cemetery. A.B. Oliver was born June 23, 1892 at Esterdy, Minnesota, to Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Oliver. In his early childhood he came with his parents to the Walker area and lived in Cass County ever since. Ben graduated from the Walker High School in 1913. On August 23, 1914, he married Hazel Southwick at Call Lake. Ten children were born to this union. Two of these children preceded Judge Oliver in death: Capt. Earl F. Oliver was killed in a plane crash Sept. 9, 1958, and Evelyn Oliver Olson passed away Jan. 12, 1964. Ben owned a edited the Remer Record from 1917 to 1923 when with his family he moved back to Walker and was partner in the Cass County Pioneer until 1941. In December of that year he was appointed Judge of Probate for Cass County. He retired as Judge of Probate and Juvenile Judge in January 1963 after some 31 years of service. Shortly afterwards his health began to fail and in August of 1964 he entered the IOOF Home at Northfield. The members left to mourn are his wife Hazel and eight children: Malcolm Oliver, his wife and family of Brown City, Mich., Raymond Oliver, wife and family of Nashua, Montana, Roland Oliver, wife and family of Columbia Heights, Dean Oliver, wife and family of Circle Pines, June Gallmeier, husband and family of Lexington, Minn., Claramae Humphrey, husband and family of Carnation, WWash., Catherine Gill, husband and family of Seattle, Wash., Patricia Oliver of Minneapolis; sisters, Mrs. Luthera Bowman of Cohasette, Mrs. Emma Bowman of Bend, Oregon, and Mrs. Ann Bloomquist of Spokane, Wash., brother E.L. Oliver of Washington, D.C. and a host of friends and other relatives. Those who knew him in his long years of service to the county and community will remember him as a kindly man, always considerate of people. He was an outdoorsman and sportsman all his life. He played baseball many years and supported baseball interests always, loved to fish, and was an ardent duck and deer hunter. The Thomas Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. | Oliver, Arthur Bennett (I18214)
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| 3643 | Serving Albany, Oregon and the surrounding communities in Linn County Lewis M. Swikert, Sept. 19, 1915 - Feb. 15, 1999 LEBANON - Lewis M. Swikert, 83, of Lebanon died Monday at Quail Run Assisted Living Center in Albany. He was born in Lookingglass, to Jacob and Bertha (Blake) Swikert, and grew up in Washougal and Camas, Wash. He married Hazel Bassett Oct. 28, 1939, in Camas, and they moved to Lebanon in 1947. Hazel died in 1997, and Mr. Swikert moved to Quail Run. Mr. Swikert worked for Crown Zellerbach in Lebanon before retiring in 1975. He was a longtime member of the First Assembly of God. Surviving are son Melvin of Roseburg; daughter Mary Hannon of Sebastopo Calif. sister Edna Hert of Longview, Wash.; half-brother Ronald Cory of Granite Falls, Wash.; and four granddaughters and eight great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Firday at the Lebanon First Assembly of God, with Pastor Garland Rogers officiating. A private, family graveside service will be at the Lebanon IOOF Cemetery. Contributions in Mr. Swikert's memory may be made to the Lebanon First Assembly of God, in care of Huston-Jost Funeral Home, 86 W. Grant St., Lebanon, Ore. 97355. | Swikert, Lewis Melvin (I17687)
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| 3644 | Seventh-Day Baptist Sabbath Recorder, 17 Jul 1856 (Volume 13, issue 6, page 23) MARRIED. In West Edmeston, N.Y., July 2d, by Eld. L.M. Cottrell, Mr. Samuel C. Bassett, of Brookfield, to Miss Phebe L. Coon, of West Edmeston, Otsego Co., N.Y. | Family: Samuel Clark Bassett / Phebe L. Coon (F03293)
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| 3645 | Shaw Funeral Home, Battle Creek, 7 Oct 2006 Lester M. Johnson Lester Merle "Let" Johnson, 88, of Battle Creek, died October 5, 2006 at Good Samaritan Hospice Residence. He was born February 25, 1918, the son of Clyde L. and Mary M. (Johnson) Johnson in Battle Creek. Let graduated from Battle Creek Central High School in 1938 and from Michigan State University in 1949 with degrees in agriculture and engineering. Let served in the U.S. Army during World War II. When he returned from the war he worked for the Oliver Corporation and then worked for Eaton Manufacturing Corporation as a packaging engineer and tooling expediter. He retired in 1978. He played minor league baseball and spent two years with the Detroit Tigers as a catcher. As a basketball player he played against the Boston Celtics and the Harlem Globetrotters. Let married Marcia R. Keith on March 9, 1946 in Eaton Rapids. She survives. Also surviving are daughers, Nancy (Mark) Bassett of Bellevue, Cinda Johnson of Tucson, Arizona; six grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by brother, Burton Johnson and sisters, Maxine Fredrick, Katherine Doane and Josephine DeBie. Let was a member of the American Legion, Post #54, the Disabled American Veterans and served as an usher at St. Thomas Episcopal Church. He was also a long time member of the Kiwanis Club and the Battle Creek Athletic Club. Let was inducted into the Battle Creek Central Hall of Fame in 2004, their charter year and the Wall of Fame at C.O. Brown Stadium. He volunteered at the Binder Park Zoo, the Discovery Theatre, the American Red Cross and for Battle Creek Amateur Sports. He was the co-founder and president of the Old Timers Baseball Association. Friends may call from 5 until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at Shaw Funeral Home, Battle Creek. A memorial service will take place 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, The Revs. Joy E. Rogers and Chris Yaw, officiating. Interment of ashes at Fort Custer National Cemetery, Augusta. In lieu of flowers memorials may go to St. Thomas Episcopal Church. The family is being served by Shaw Funeral Home. | Johnson, Lester Merle (I577)
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| 3646 | Shelby City Democrat, Thursday, 6 Jun 1895 Coroner Knapp was called to Brandywine township, last Wednesday (May 31, 1895) to hold an inquest on the remains of Mortimer Bassett, who had committed suicide by shooting himself with a gun. About two o'clock that afternoon, Bassett took down his shotgun and informed his wife and her sister who was there for a visit that he intended going out and killing a few squirrels, in order to give them something to do. Shortly afterward the report of the gun was heard, and on going out behind the house, Mrs. Bassett found the lifeless body of her husband. He had placed the gun on a bench pulled the trigger and ended his life, the load taking effect near the mouth, almo blowing his head off. There are several reasons given for his having taken his life, among them being the fact that his wife had threatened to leave h that morning upon his return from Fairland, and return to her home among the Brown County hills. The thought of this no doubt, drove him to commit t deed. Bassetts' first wife died about a year ago and four months ago he went to Brown county and married "Miss Collins". He was a poor man, aged forty five years. Funeral services were held at Brandywine at 10 a.m. Thursday, Re Sedgwick officiating. Interment in Brandywine cemetery. Marshall G. Tindall in charge of remains and cortege. | Bassett, Mortimer (I10468)
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| 3647 | Shelbyville Daily Democrat Thursday, Jan. 11, 1894 Sarah A., wife of Mortimer Bassett, died at their residence in Marion township, at 5:30 a.m. January 11, 1894 of cancer, aged forty three years, five months, and 10 days. Funeral services will take place at the Brandywine M.E. Church, Pinhook, at two o'clock p.m. Friday. Rev. Cohagen officiating. M.G. Tindall had charge of the remains. Dr. J.K. Stewart, of Fairland, will hold a postmortem on the remains this evening. | Johnson, Anna (I10469)
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| 3648 | Shelbyville News 21 April 1999 James F. Taggart, 71, Waldron, died this morning at his home. He was born Dec. 1, 1927, in Shelby County to Franklin and Thena (Stevens) Taggart. He married Mary C. (Poole) Taggart on June 8, 1998, and she survives. He had previously been married to Betty (Bassett) Taggart on Aug. 26, 1947, and she preceded him in death on Sept. 14, 1994. Mr. Taggart retired in 1993 fr Knauf Fiber Glass BmbH, where he had worked as a furnace tender. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. Mr. Taggart was a member of Waldron Bapti Church, Moose Lodge No. 2118 and a leader in the Boy Scouts of Americ Survivors include four sons, James Taggart Jr., Vevay, Andrew L. Taggart, St. Paul, and Timothy Taggart and Michael Taggart, both of Shelbyville; seven daughters, Betty Shook, Milroy, Bonnie J. Sipes and Elizabeth D. Redd, both of Shelbyville, Jennie Daugherty, North Vernon, Sherri L. Prine, Waldron, Tina M. Foster, Winfield, Tenn., and Kristy L. Ristuccia, Clarksville, Tenn.; three stepsons, William La Fever, George La Fever and Paul La Fever, all of Arizona; a stepdaughter, Rhonda F. Lee, New Mexico; fo sisters, Kate Lozser, North Vernon, and Virginia Jackson, Norma Stanley and Deloris McClain, all of Shelbyville; a brother, Robert Taggart, Greenwood; 33 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; and one step- great-grandchild. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Glenn E. George Funeral Home, St. Paul, with the Rev. L.J. Poe officiating. Burial will be in Bennett Cemetery in Shelby County. Friends may call from 4 p.m. to 8 p. Friday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Shelby County Cancer Society. | Taggart, James Franklin (I21038)
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| 3649 | Shelbyville News 26 Aug 1987 (Picture) Taggarts to mark 40th Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. James F. Taggart Sr., R.R.1 Waldron, will be honored Saturday at a surprise open house for friends and relatives, in celebration of their 40th wedding anniversary. The couple's children and their families will host the affair from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Taggart residence on Middletown road. For information call 525-4829 or 525-6380. Mr. Taggart and the former Betty L. Bassett were married Aug. 26 1947 at the Calvary Baptist Church by the Rev. Clarence Hager. Mr. Taggart is employed at Knauf Fiber Glass. The Taggarts are the parents of Jim Taggart, Mrs. Larry (Betty) Shook, Mrs. Russell (Bonnie) Sipes, Mrs. Cecil (Jennie) Daugherty, Tim Taggart, Mike Taggart, Mrs. David (Sherrie) Thompson, Mrs. Tom (Tina) Fisher, and Kristi, Elizabeth and Andy Taggart. They also have 23 grandchildren and 3 great- grandchildren. OBITUARY Shelbyville News 14 Sep 1994 Betty L. Taggart, 65, 713 E. Middletown Road, Waldron, died at 9 a.m. Wednesday at her home. Born Aug. 25, 1929 in Shelbyville, she was the daughter of Edward and Lettie Baker Bassett. On Aug. 26, 1947 she married James F. Taggart Sr., who survives. Mrs. Taggart was a homemaker. She had lived in Waldron for 22 years moving there from St. Paul. She was a member of the Waldron Baptist church where she belonged to the Baptist Women's Missionary Class. Other survivors are sons, Mike Taggart, Shelbyville, James F. Taggart Jr., Vevay, Andy and Tim Taggart, St. Paul; daughters Elizabeth Brown, Shelbyville, Betty Ann Shook, Milroy, Bonnie Sipes, Indianapolis, Sherr Prine, Anderson, Jennie Daugherty, North Vernon, Tina Foster, Oneida, Tenn., Kristi Ristuccia, Hawaii; Sisters, Marily Wilson, Lucy Saunders, and Ru Landwerlen, all of Shelbyville, Mary Henderson, Hope; a brother, Jack Bassett, Shelbyville; 29 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Taggart was preceded in death by four sisters and a brother. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Glenn E. George Funeral Home, St. Paul, with the Rev. Ed Dorsey officiating. Burial will be in Bennett Cemetery, Shelbyville. Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorial may be sent to the Shelby County Cancer fund. | Bassett, Betty Louise (I21037)
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| 3650 | Shelbyville News, 24 Jun 1998 Hepza I. Burkett, 78, Shelbyville, died Sunday at Major Hospital. Born Oct. 15, 1919, in Shelbyville, she was the daughter of Sanford and Arzora (Branyan) McColley. She married John Clifford Burkett on June 30, 1973, and he died in August 1985. Mrs. Burkett was a homemaker. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, American Legion Auxiliary, Shelby County Salon No. 281, Women's Relief Corps, and a former member of Shelbyville's Rebekah Lodge. Survivors include a son, Phillip Bassett, Shelbyville; a daught Debbie Morgan, Texas; a brother, James McColley, Shelbyville; three sisters, Isabelle Jeffries, Goldie Hungerford and Dorothy Brooks, Shelbyville; t grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by seven brothers and one siste Friends may call from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at Murphy-Parks Funeral Service, and from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at Trinity United Methodi Church. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Trinity United Methodist Church, with Rev. Corlis Dees II officiating. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Shelby County Cancer Association. | McColley, Hepza (I21024)
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