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- The Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland
J. Dorsey Bassett
Sharptown - J. Dorsey Bassett, 66, of Sharptown and Washington, D.C., died Tuesday in Peninsula General Hospital after a long illness. He retired in 1951 from employment as a printer for the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Born in Salem, Maryland, he was a son of the late John W. and Emma May McKnett Bassett. Mr. Bassett belonged to Asbury Methodist Church here and to Lebanon Lodge No. 7, AF and AM, Albert Pike Consistory, the Eureka Naval Chapter, all in Washington, and the International Typographers Union.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Arcadia Russell Bassett; a sister, Mrs. Theodore Boston, Woolford, Maryland; and three brothers, Guy W. Bassett, Philadelphia; Robert Bassett, Baltimore; and Vincent Basset, Hurlock.
Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Asbury Methodist Church with the pastor, the Reverend R. Gordon Given, officiating. Interment will be in Fireman's Cemetery here.
Friends may call at the Newnam Funeral home here tonight from 7 to 9. A Masonic memorial service will be conducted at the funeral home Saturday at 1 p.m. by Lebanon Lodge No. 7.
1910 Federal Census of Salem, Dorchester County, Maryland (23 Apr 1910)
John W. Bassett - 38 - M - MD-MD-MD - Head - Farmer General Farm
May - 36 - F - MD-MD-MD - Wife
Guy W. - 12 - M - MD-MD-MD - Son
J. Pardy - 7 - M - MD-MD-MD - Son
Rosalie N. - 6 - F - MD-MD-MD - Daughter
Robert - 3 - M - MD-MD-MD - Son
(Married 15 years, 4 children, 4 living)
1920 Federal Census of Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland (2 Jan 1920)
May Bassett (Wd) - 46 - F - MD-MD-MD - Head
Pardy - 18 - M - MD-MD-MD - Son - Laborer - wire worker
Rosalie - 16 - F - MD-MD-MD - Daughter
Robert - 13 - M - MD-MD-MD - Son
Sarah - 8 - F - MD-MD-MD - Daughter
Vincent - 6-9/12 - M - MD-MD-MD - Son
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Bassett Family Association Database
1901 - 1967 (66 years)