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- 1850 Federal Census of District No. 2, Harrison County, Kentucky
Jonathan Bassett - 48 - M - Kentucky - Farmer 3800
Elizabeth - 47 - F - Kentucky
Elizabeth - 25 - F - Kentucky
Ellen - 20 - F - Kentucky
William - 18 - M - Kentucky
Thomas D. - 13 - M - Kentucky
Americus A. - 11 - M - Kentucky
Vrginia B. - 6 - F - Kentucky
Thomas Dudley and Sarah Bassett had seven children, two of whom were still living in 1922.
History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (1882)
by William Henry Perrin's
THOMAS D. BASSETT, farmer; P.O., Cynthiana; is a native of Bracken County, having been born there in the year 1837; the son of Jonathan S. Bassett, who was a native of Harrison County, who emigrated to Bracken and died in the year 1862. His grandfather was Amos Bassett, who came from New Jersey to Harrison County at an early day. His mother was Elizabeth Disher, who was of German ancestry. He married Miss Sallie Stockton, daughter of Preston and Mary (Hardin) Stockton, of Franklin County, Ky. By this marriage they have four children living, named Bessie, Harry P., Katie L., and an infant unnamed. He is owner of 133 acres of fine land, five miles from Cynthiana, along the Turnpike that leads from Cynthiana to Connersville, and in this Pike Mr. Bassett holds stock and is one of its directors. He votes the straight Democratic ticket, and his wife is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church.
Thomas Dudley Bassett
A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians Volume III
1912
Thomas Dudley Bassett - The subject of this sketch was a man of such strong character, such intellect and intelligence, and who brought to bear upon all his transactions such energy and farsightedness that to succeed was inevitable, and his widow and children are justly proud of his memory. This commemoration of the principal events in his life will be read with appreciation by all who were acquainted with him.
Thomas Dudley Bassett was born in Bracken county, Kentucky, March 10, 1837, and died July 28, 1901. He was the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Disher) Bassett, the father a native of Bracken county, Kentucky, born in 1801, and died in 1862, and the mother, born in Bracken county, in 1802, died in 1884. They were the parents of seven children, two of whom are living: William Bassett, for sixteen years circuit judge at Tuscola, Illinois, his present home, and he was also a captain in the Union army, and Louisa, widow of Wesley Ammercman, of Cynthiana, Kentucky.
Mr. Bassett, our subject, when with years old removed with his parents to Bourbon county, Kentucky, and here attended the district and private schools and received a good common-school education. On April 23, 1874, he married Miss Sarah M. Stockton, who was born at Frankfort, Kentucky, a daughter of Preston and Mary (Hardin) Stockton. The father, born in Pennsylvania, was brought as a child to Kentucky, where he was reared in Shelby county. When a small boy he was taken by his uncle, James Middleton, and reared. Mr. Stockton died in 1876, at the age of seventy-seven years. His wife was born and reared at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and died in June, 1902, aged eighty-seven years. She was a daughter of Judge Hardin, a native of Kentucky. He was a lawyer and a circuit judge. Mrs. Bassett's father was a master mechanic, and worked at his trade while young, married and began farming near Frankfort, where he died. He and his wife were the parents of five children: Mary, widow of Captain James Settles, who was an officer in the Union army, and she is now a resident of Frankfort, Kentucky; Hardin, James and George, all residents of Frankfort, Kentucky, and Mrs. Bassett, our subject's wife.
Mr. Bassett began farming for himself on the farm where his widow now lives, on Comersville pike, shortly before he married, but later removed to the farm where he died. He was an extensive stock breeder and for several years was breeding the famous Abadallah horses, one of which he sold for ten thousand dollars. At his death he left a farm of four hundred and seventy acres. Mr. Bassett was a great reader all his life, a successful man, a member of Plymouth Baptist church and a strong Democrat.
Since Mr. Bassett's death his widow has carried on the farm and has demonstrated that she is a fine business woman. To Mr. and Mrs. Bassett were born two children: Kate, wife of John Fuller, now in Florida, and Harry, born September 7, 1878, attended the schools of his native county and Smith's Classical school at Cynthiana. He entered the Kentucky State College at Lexington and graduated in 1901 with the degree B.S., and received his M.S. degree from the same school in 1902. He then entered the John Hopkins school and was the first native Kentuckian to graduate and the third person who ever took the course in three years. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1904. He was engaged in research work in physical chemistry at Carnegie Institute at Baltimore in 1905 and was afterward research chemist for the Geneva Electrical Company of Schenectady, New York. Mr. Harry Bassett was research chemist for the Dupont Powder Company at Chester, Pennsylvania, then assistant chemist of the North Dakota Agricultural College for eighteen months and was then ill for ten months, during which time he was at home, but after which he returned to North Dakota for one year and then resigned and is now engaged in research work in Newark, New Jersey, Baltimore and Philadelphia. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a shriner.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1837 - 1901 (64 years)