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- The News-Palladium, Benton Harbor, Michigan, Saturday, June 3, 1944
Carrie Bassett, 79, Prominent Woman, Fennville, Dies
FENNVILLE, June 3 ? Mrs. Carrie Bassett, 79, prominent in Fennville activities for fifty years, died at the Community hospital in Douglas this morning, 10:30 a.m. She had been confined to the hospital for three weeks with a broken hip.
She was born July 14, 1864, in the vicinity of Allegan, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Kingsley, who are both deceased. The deceased was married to Charles E. Bassett, of Allegan, soon after he established the Fennville Herald Newspaper in 1892. About 1915, they and their daughter, Marcia and Mrs. and Mrs. Kingsley, moved to Washington, D.C. and Chicago, where Mr. Bassett held a position in the Department of Agriculture for five years.
They then returned to Fennville where they built up the Kingsley-Bassett farm. Mr. Bassett died about eight years ago.
The deceased was postmaster of Fennville; life member of Bethel chapter of Eastern Stat, of which she held the office of worthy matron; past president of Allegan association of OES; president two years of Fennville Womans club; and president of the Allegan County Federation.
She lived on the farm with her son-in-law Clare A. Arnold prior to her death, whose wife, Marcia died three years ago. Beside her son-in-law she leaves a cousin, Fred Kingsley of Millgrove and other distant relatives.
Funeral services are to be held at the home, Monday, 2 p.m. and interment will be in Fennville Cemetery.
The News-Palladium, Benton Harbor, Michigan, Wednesday, June 7, 1944
Bassett Funeral Held in Fennville Home
FENNVILLE, June 7 ? Funeral services for Mrs. Charles E. Bassett who died early Saturday morning at Community hospital, Douglas, were held from her home Monday at 2 p.m.
Mrs. Bassett was active all of her adult life in many social, church, and fraternal activities of the community. She was married Sept. 2, 1892, to Charles E. Bassett who came here from Allegan and founded the Fennville Herald just six months prior to their marriage and in publication of which she assisted as associated editor.
Officiating at the services were the Rev. Fr. J. Ethan Allen of All Saints Episcopal church in Saugatuck, former pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd of Allegan, of which Mrs. Bassett was a member, assisted by the Rev. O.W. Carr of the Fennville Methodist church.
Casket bearers were brothers of Bethel chapter, O.E.S, Charles Green, William Van Hartesveldt, Sr., Robert Keag, Nelson Warren, E.J. Meles, and Henry Johnson.
Those from away attending the services included Mrs. Franc Chaddock, Mr. and Mrs. Ned Killian, Mrs. Claud Firestone of Allegan, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Arnlod of Plainwell, Miss Nina Bassett and Miss Bertha Billings of Grand Rapids; also Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kingsley of Millgrove.
The History of Western Allegan County, Kit Lane, Project Director
Kingsley - Bassett Family F476
Eliza J. and Harvey J. Kingsley came to Allegan from Ohio and later to
Fennville. They owned a large farm which extended from 58th Street on the west
to what is now the LaSalle bank property.
They had one daughter, Carrie, who married Charlie Bassett in 1892.
Charlie and Carrie started the Fennville Herald. They had one daughter,
Marcia, who married my father, Clare Arnold, who was a widower, my mother,
Nina V. (Bale Arnold having died in 1932).
When the fires raged across southwest Michigan in 1871, the same time
as the Chicago fire, the Kingsleys buried their possessions in a pit on this
farm. Marcia's grandfather built what is now known as the "Kingsley House" in
1886. Harvey J. Kingsley died in 1925 and Eliza died in 1929.......
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