Bassett Family Association Database
Edward Henry Bassett
1841 - 1897 (55 years)-
Name Edward Henry Bassett Birth 20 Dec 1841 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut 
Gender Male _UID E0868E619891774F96CBEE8493177ACB0608 Death 9 Mar 1897 Rushmore, , Minnesota Notes - 3B3236251. Edward Henry Bassett, son of Henry and Minverva (Lines) Bassett, was born 20 Dec 1841 in New Haven, Connecticut. He died 9 Mar 1897 in Rushmore, Minnesota (CR). He married Hattie Amanda King, daughter of Benjamin Frank and Sylvia (Norton) King, on 22 Mar 1871 in Fairbault, Minnesota. She was born 14 Nov 1837 in Glover, Orleans County, Vermont. She died 17 Nov 1931 in Rushmore, Minnesota.
He was a stock farmer. He settled in Rushmore, Minnesota in 1873.
(CR - Cemetery Record)
1880 Federal Census of Dewald, Nobles County, Minnesota
Edward Bassett 38 M CT CT CT Head Farmer
Hattie 28 F VT VT VT Wife Keeping House
Carry 9 F MN CT VT Daughter
Louis 7 M MN CT VT Son
Elmar 5 M MN CT VT Son
Henry 3 M MN CT VT Son
Roy V. 11/12 M MN CT VT Son
1900 Federal Census of Dewald Township, Nobles County, MN (7 Jun 1900)
Hattie Bassett (Wd) 48 F Nov 1851 VT VT VT Head Farmer
Louis B. 27 M Feb 1873 MN CT VT Son Farm Laborer
Elmer 25 M Dec 1874 MN CT VT Son Farmer
Edward 19 M Sep 1880 MN CT VT Son Farm Laborer
Lelia 17 F Sep 1882 MN CT VT Daughter At School
Bernice A. 13 F Sep 1886 MN CT VT Daughter At School
Morton H. 11 M Jan 1889 MN CT VT Son At School
Margarite E. 8 F Jun 1891 MN CT VT Daughter
(11 children, 9 living)
1920 Federal Census of Dewald Township, Nobles County, MN (10 Jan 1920)
Hattie A. Bassett (Wd) 68 F VT VT VT Head
Bernice A. 33 F MN CT VT Daughter
Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars (St. Paul, 1891)
Edward H. Bassett was born in New Haven, Connecticut, December 21, 1847, the son of Henry and Minerva (Linds) Bassett. The Bassett family moved to Morristown, Minnesota in 1855. On April 29, 1861, Edward H. Bassett enlisted in Company G of the First Regiment of Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, served for three years, and re-enlisted in Battalion L of the First Minnesota Heavy Artillery. He was mustered out of service in September of 1865. After the Civil War, he lived in Redwood County, in Faribault, where he married Hattie A. King in 1871, and Lesueuv County. In
1875 he moved to Nobles County, when he lived as a farmer until his death on April 9, 1897.
George S. Bassett [brother to Edward H. Bassett] was mustered into service in Company H of the Third Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, on September 30, 1861, at age eighteen, and died at Nashville, Tennessee, May 16, 1862.
Person ID I7939 3B Thomas Bassett of Connecticut Last Modified 7 Nov 2014
Father Henry Bassett, b. 23 Dec 1815 d. 7 Jan 1878, Fairbault, Rice, Minnesota (Age 62 years) Mother Minerva Lines, b. 1 Sep 1817, , , Connecticut d. 31 May 1901, Fairbault, Rice, Minnesota (Age 83 years) Marriage 4 May 1840 , New Haven, Connecticut Family ID F2349 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Hattie Amanda King, b. 14 Nov 1837, Glover, Orleans, Vermont d. 17 Nov 1931, Rushmore, , Minnesota (Age 94 years) Marriage 22 Mar 1871 Fairbault, Rice, Minnesota Children 1. Carrie May Bassett, b. 4 Jan 1872, Fairbault, Rice, Minnesota d. 29 May 1956, Adams, , Wisconsin (Age 84 years)+ 2. Louis Benjamin Bassett, b. 24 Feb 1873, Fairbault, Rice, Minnesota d. 4 Oct 1947, St Paul, , Minnesota (Age 74 years)+ 3. Elmer Howard Bassett, b. 12 Dec 1874, Fairbault, Rice, Minnesota d. Jul 1937, Stewartsville, , Minnesota (Age 62 years)4. Henry George Bassett, b. 30 Jul 1877, Fairbault, Rice, Minnesota d. 11 Mar 1911, Rushmore, , Minnesota (Age 33 years)5. Roy Verne Bassett, b. 8 Jun 1878, Rushmore, , Minnesota d. 13 Jul 1883, Rushmore, , Minnesota (Age 5 years)+ 6. Edward Napier Bassett, b. 28 Sep 1880, Rushmore, , Minnesota d. 16 Dec 1966, Eugene, , Oregon (Age 86 years)7. Lelia Adell Bassett, b. 11 Sep 1882, Rushmore, , Minnesota d. 1 Feb 1979, St Paul, , Minnesota (Age 96 years)8. Georgia Sylvia Bassett, b. 3 Aug 1884, Rushmore, , Minnesota d. 26 Oct 1894, Neutral (Columbus), , Kansas (Age 10 years)9. Bernice Alda Bassett, b. 29 Sep 1886, Rushmore, , Minnesota d. 10 Jul 1939, St Paul, , Minnesota (Age 52 years)+ 10. Morton Harrison Bassett, b. 31 Jan 1889, Rushmore, , Minnesota d. 21 Dec 1961, Adrian, , Michigan (Age 72 years)11. Marguerite Ethelwyn Bassett, b. 26 Jun 1891, Rushmore, , Minnesota d. 19 Jan 1969, Santa Ana, , California (Age 77 years)Family ID F2838 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 May 2015
- 3B3236251. Edward Henry Bassett, son of Henry and Minverva (Lines) Bassett, was born 20 Dec 1841 in New Haven, Connecticut. He died 9 Mar 1897 in Rushmore, Minnesota (CR). He married Hattie Amanda King, daughter of Benjamin Frank and Sylvia (Norton) King, on 22 Mar 1871 in Fairbault, Minnesota. She was born 14 Nov 1837 in Glover, Orleans County, Vermont. She died 17 Nov 1931 in Rushmore, Minnesota.