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- 1850 Federal Census of Lewis County, Kentucky
Luke A. Bassett - 26 - M - Farmer - 1000 - Kentucky
Laura J. - 22 - F - Virginia
Francis A. - 22 - F - Kentucky
1860 Federal Census of Mercer County, Illinois
Luke A. Bassett - 37 - M - New York
Laura J. - 22 - F - Virginia
Helen V. - 6 - F - Ohio
1870 Federal Census of 9th ward, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky (8 Jul 1870)
Luke Basset - 48 - M - Kentucky - Agent for sewing machines ---- 300
Laura - 42 - F - West Virginia - Keeping House
Jennie - 15 - F - West Virginia - Clerk in store
John Park - 8 - M - Kentucky - Domestic servant
Excerpt from Autobiography of Isaac Newton Bassett
In the meantime, I had bought a half interest in the little store with my brother L.A. in the fall of 1846 and I conducted the business under the name of L.A. and I.N. Bassett until sometime in 1850.
When I was married my sisters Sabrina and Frances were keeping house for Brother L.A. and I in a house adjoining our store building, so I brought my wife to our home and we remained there until December 1847 when a great rise in the Ohio R. carried our dwelling house away.
My Brother L.A. and I continued in the mercantile business until sometime in 1850. We met serious losses in 1849 and 50 and closed out the business. My brother L.A. was married in the spring of 1852 to Laura S. Copen who lived at Cincinnati, but her parents lived at Parkersburg, VA. After their marriage, in the fall of 1850 he moved to Cincinnati and engaged in the lumber trade, principally staves and hoop poles. He remained there until the spring of 1858 having made and saved some money. He then moved to Aledo, Ill, where he engaged in general merchandise and remained until the fall of 1860 when he returned to Cincinnati and engaged in Mercantile business until 1867, then bought a farm at Oxford Ohio and lived there one year. From there went to Monticello, Indiana and engaged in mercantile pursuits and until the spring of 1869 when he went to Louisville, KY afterwards to Cincinnati, then back to Louisville where he was for two years or more General Agent of the Victor Sewing Machine Co. In 1873 he moved to St. Louis, Mo. and lived there five or six years. After that he lived at various places in the South for a number of years until about 1890 when he settled near Deland Florida where he had started a fruit farm and he is still living there at this writing, Jan 13th 1901. His wife died in the latter part of the year 1896. They did not have any children but took a girl to raise and practically adopted her in 1856 or 1857. Jennie Bassett as she was named was married about 1875 to a Dr. Nixon who was then living in Louisville, KY, but moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas and died there about 1895. This adopted daughter is now living at Little Rock, Arkansas, a widow without children and teaches music. She has been very kind to her adopted father in his old age.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1823 - 1909 (85 years)