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- OBITUARY OF MRS. HERMAN BASSETT
Permelia A. Jenkins was born in a log cabin in Victory, Cayuga County,
New York, Dec. 1, 1833. She moved with her parents to Columbia County, New
York, and in 1846 to Lee, Berkshire County, Mass. She graduated at the academy
in Lee and taught school several years. August 28,1854 she married Herm
Bassett and moved to Sterling, Illinois the same year to become a farmer's
wife.
She taught several terms of school after her marriage. She joined the
Presbyterian church with her husband in 1855. They moved to Morrison, Illinois
in 1862 and to Strawberry Point, Iowa in October 1866, and the remainder of
her life has been spent upon the farm in Fayette County, and in this city.
She leaves to mourn her loss her husband, Deacon Herman Bassett and
four children; Mrs. C.A. Platt of near Edgewood, Charles H. Bassett who
resides on the same old farm west of town. Three children died several years
ago; E.J. Bassett in 1895, Rhoda M. in 1868 and Nathan A. in 1876. She leaves
besides a number of grandchildren, one brother in Clearfield, Iowa, and one in
Beaumont, California, and a stepmother in Calumet, Iowa.
Mrs. Bassett was a lifelong, conscientious and faithful Christian, the
highest and most excellent thing that can be said of any person. She was a
charter member of the First Congregational Church of Strawberry Point, Iowa, and
her death leaves but two of the original members living. Thru all her long life on
the farm six miles away from town, it was very seldom that she and her honored
husband, Dec. Bassett were absent from the Sabbath services. She was a fine
Bible teacher and for years taught a class of boys in the Sabbath School and
many are the grown men scattered about in different places who remember her
cordial friendship and faithful instruction in sacred things.
She was made a life member of the American Bible Society in 1861 and
took a life long interest in the great work of the Society. She had good
health till about time she left the farm in 1896 and moved to this cit
Mr. and Mrs. Bassett celebrated the Golden anniversary of their
marriage August 28, 1904, having spent fifty golden years in honoring
cherishing and loving each other.
Mrs. Bassett had been ailing for some years but her serious sickness
began last fall and a complication of diseases became at length prophetic of
the end. After a long winter of suffering, weariness and pain, all of which
she bore with Christian fortitude and patience, she passed away peacefully at
3 P.M. Wed. April 5th, 1905, aged 71 years 4 months and 5 day
A look of sweet peace settled upon her face as the spirit departed and
she died with the perfect faith and trust in Him who had been her comfort and
guide all her life time. Her death comes not only as a great loss to the
church of which she was a member, but also to the entire community in which
for nearly forty years she had lived a life of noble Christian womanhoo
leaving a memory sweet to her friends and a life a benediction to all who knew
her.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1833 - 1905 (71 years)