(likely).

Notes for Francis Bassett:

General Notes:

Our family tradition has long held that Francis Bassett, our original immigrating ancestor, was one of

three brothers, who came to this country from England before the Revolutionary War, the other

brothers going to the north to settle, while Francis went first to Virginia and then on to North Carolina.

No records have been found at this point (2001) to document these facts or establish the possible

year of his arrival in America.

There are Revolutionary War records on Francis Bassett, who served as a sergeant with the South

Carolina State Militia from April 5, 1781 to March 16, 1782, in Capt. Jacob Barnett's company, Col.

Henry Hampton's Regt. of Light Dragoons, commanded by Brig. Gen. Sumter. (1) During his period of

service, this unit fought in the Battle of Thompson's Fort on the Congaree (Calhoun Co.), the Battle of

Orangeburgh on May 11, 1781, and the battle of Eutaw Springs in Nov. 1781.(2) Francis is listed in

"Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution" by Bobby Gilmer Moss.

The age span for those serving in the state militia at that time was 18-45, so it is entirely plausible that

this is our original Francis Bassett (assuming born circa 1740, immigrated circa 1760, served in

militia while in his early 40's). As South Carolina was being overrun by the British in 1781-2, it is likely

that the age limit would have been ignored and he could even have been older. This could, however,

be a son of our original Francis, and therefore a brother of William, Eli, John and Thomas Bassett

whose stories follow.

For the sake of clarity, it should be mentioned, that the area of South Carolina where the Bassetts

settled was first called the Orangeburgh District (until the late 1780's), then Winton County (until

1798), then Barnwell County and in modern times, Allendale County. The lands owned by the Bassett

family are today within the confines of the Savannah River Project, known locally as "The Bomb

Plant".

Francis Bassett RS (Revolutionary War Soldier), was a property owner and a tax payer in the

Orangeburgh District, S.C. in 1786, where he purchased 378 acres.(3)

He is listed 14 times in Brent Holcomb's book "Winton County, Minutes of County Court & Will Book 1,

1785-1791", as Deputy Clerk of Court, witness, and as a grand juror, obviously, an active and

respected citizen of his community. The last court record of Francis Bassett is in May, 1790, when he

served as a juror. The proven four Bassett brothers, William, Eli, John and Thomas, are documented

there for another 20 years or more, lending credence to the thought that they were the sons.

Source notes;

(1)National Archives, South Carolina State Militia Records, (Roll M267)

(2)Citing Revolutionary War Pension No. W-4233, "The Genie", April 1982, p. 157(published by

Ark-La-Tex Genealogical Society) of William Hodge, a private in the same unit as Francis Bassett.

and

"Orangeburgh District 1768-1868, History and Records" by Daniel Marchant Culler

Citing the military career of Lt. Col. Henry Hampton

(3)Plat Book 14, pg. 628, Barnwell Courthouse, Oct. 20, 1786

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Francis Bassett and unknown spouse married. They had the following children:

married Luranna in Barnwell, South Carolina, USA.

Notes for John Bassett:

General Notes:

Our first sighting of John Bassett in old records is when he signed as a witness to the will of Catherine

Gregory in Cumberland Co. NC in 1786. Catherine was an aunt of Mary Phillips Bassett (wife of

brother, William Bassett). Mary and her siblings were legatees. This may or may not indicate that

John, as well as his brother William, had a Cumberland Co. NC connection.

Interestingly, John Bassett is the only one of our Bassetts appearing in the first Federal Census in

1790., even though we know the others were very much around. He is listed in the Orangeburgh

district of South Carolina (South part) pg. 101, with 2 males and 1 female. (Indicating a wife and 1

son)

In the 1800 census, John is married with one son and two daughters and still living in Barnwell Co.

SC (formerly the Orangeburgh Dist.)

John's relationship to his brother, William, is mentioned in a letter written by William Bassett from

Sapelo, Ga (McIntosh Co.) to Lewis Malone Ayer in Barnwell, SC in 1803 (Ayer Collection,

Caroliniana Library, USC) promising "return of your horse to you by my brother John".

In 1807, a John Bassett of McIntosh County had a successful draw in the Georgia Land Lottery for Lot

197 of District 24, Pulaski County. It is uncertain which generation of John Bassett this may be and I

do not know if he ever claimed the land.

It could be John Bassett, brother of William, Thomas and Eli. Eli had a son John, but he would have

been a child in 1807 and is believed to have settled in Florida ultimately.

We do know that a large John Bassett family was in Houston County in the mid-1800's, believed to be

cousins of our Stephen.

A John Bassett is listed buying and selling property in Barnwell Co. through 1816.

John Bassett and Mary married. They had the following children:

Houston Co. GA.

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Notes for Thomas Bassett:

General Notes:

Thomas Bassett appears in land records of the Orangeburgh district of SC in 1787.

He, along with his brothers, was buying and selling land and is a documented resident of Barnwell

County between 1787-1809.

The following is from a 1789 medical log of Dr. Moses Newton (1765-1824) He covered the large

area of the Savannah River on both sides and he refers to "the Saltcatcher" and other names

associated with Barnwell County. I have not seen the log, only the reference to it, which coincidentally

gives this excerpt as an example of things included in the log. (spelling and punctuation irregularities

are his)

"William Bassett November 3 day he lives 2 1/2 miles below the Cyprus Williams. (Land owned by

William Bassett was adjacent to land belonging to John Williams <died 1802> and is refered to in

deeds as near the "Cypress". The "Big Cypress is also mentioned in the will of John Williams)

His brother Thomas has undertaken to take medicine for the rumatic pains the price for cure not to

exceed 4 cows and calves, he don't prosper."

(The above mentioned Moses Newton is found on the 1799 Jefferson Co. GA tax index, page 24)

In the 1800 Census, his wife Luranna is listed as head of the household, (Where was Thomas? ) and

there were 3 children living at home.

Property owned jointly by Eli, John, Thomas and William was sold in Barnwell in 1800.

(Deed Book W. pg. 94, Barnwell Courthouse)

Thomas and Eli jointly sold property together in 1804 and Thomas was brought into court twice in

1805 for owing money.

In the 1820 census fo McIntosh County, GA, we find Thomas Bassett (over 45, I feel it is our Thomas,

due the connection of the family with Sapelo Island, which is in McIntosh Co.) with a much younger

wife (under 26) and 4 daughters, 3 of them under 10 and 1 in her 20's. I believe that Mary Ann, Sarah

and Eveland Bassett of McIntosh Co., by then listed as "orphans", who won land in the 1827 Land

Lottery in Lee Co., are the 3 young daughters of Thomas listed in the 1820 census.

Thomas Bassett and Luranna were married in Barnwell, South Carolina, USA. They had the following

children:

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Thomas Bassett and Unknown married. They had the following children:

1867 in Ware Co. GA.

Notes for William Bassett:

General Notes:

William Bassett's birthplace is not known. He was one of 4 brothers, by tradition, sons of our original

Francis.

William Bassett is listed as a Volunteer in the Revolutionary War from NC, where he served as a

Private in 4 Company, Nc Regiment.. No date on this NC Archive record.

The first record of William Bassett in SC, of which I am aware, is in Winton (later Barnwell) County,

SC in Jan. 1788, when he appears in court, along with two other men, for "Affray" (fighting). After

acknowledging their error and promising future better behavior, they are fined and discharged. (

"Winton County, Minutes of County Court & Will Book 1, 1785-1791")

William married Mary Phillips of Cumberland Co. NC., with whom he had 3 sons, Stephen, Thomas

and Francis. It is believed that their marriage lasted for about 10 years. (1787-97)

Mary was the daughter of Stephen Phillips, a lawyer in the Cumberland Co. area, and his wife,

Flora McAlester. (1) Mary was also the grand-daughter of John and Ann McAlester (2), who

immigrated to the Cape Fear River area of North Carolina from the Scottish Highlands in 1739. This

group of 350 settlers established what became known as the Argyll Colony, settling along the river

near near Cross Creek in the region of present day Fayetteville, NC., about 90 miles upriver from

where they had landed at Wilmington. (3)

(Of special interest; Stephen Phillips, Mary's father, appears to be the origin of the name Stephen in

the Bassett family.)

Family oral tradition says that Mary left William in SC following the breakup of their marriage(4),

and went back to Cumberland County, NC to be near her family, taking the boys with her. We know

that she appears in the 1800 census in Cumberland Co. NC, as head of her own household with 3

young boys.(5) No record of a divorce has been found in NC, nor was it possible in SC at that time.

According to an entry in the Pineola Bible, Mary died in 1809. (6)

Great effort was put into trying to acquire land by all of the Bassett brothers. William and John

were active in at least 3 states, that we know of (NC, SC, and GA.). William and Eli tried

unsuccessfully for the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery.

In letters found recently (1999) we learned that William had married again, to a woman named

Elizabeth, and by 1803, was living on Sapelo Island, GA (McIntosh Co.), where he was a cotton

planter. (7) The mainland of the state of Georgia is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a chain of

barrier islands scattered along her coast. Sapelo is one of these, a low-lying island, consisting of

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approximately 23 square miles and lying about 40 miles south of Savannah, GA. While living on

Sapelo Island, William was also serving as a Captain in the Georgia State Militia. (8) His marriage to

Elizabeth would seem to have been of fairly short duration with no known children. (When he tried for

the Georgia Land Lottery in 1805, he was entitled to only one draw, indicating that he had neither wife

or children living with him at that time.)

The southern coast of the United States experienced a powerful hurricane on Sept. 8, 1804, that

caused great damage (9) and might have been a catalyst for William and his brothers Eli, and John to

temporarily leave Sapelo Island. The barrier islands suffered great damage and loss of life in the

storm. One could even wonder if Elizabeth survived the storm, as she apparently met her demise

somewhere between 1803 and 1805.

There is an interesting entry in the Barnwell Common Pleas Journal 1800-18, pg. 85.

It reads; Nancy Johnson vs. William Bassett decree for plaintiff for $64+costs.

This was for child care.....a child or children that she'd cared for and not been paid!

(what child or children, one has to wonder! Did William and Elizabeth have a child?)

This was in 1804.

Again, in 1804, William, then a resident of McIntosh Co. Georgia, purchased 150 acres in Barnwell

Co. SC and it would seem, moved back to Barnwell permanently.

To give an idea of life in this era, the following is included;

WILLIAM BASSETT vs THOMAS RILEY

Declaration on note filed 11 February 1805. (Barnwell Court of Common Pleas)

Rule to plead posted the same date. Thomas Riley was attached to answer to William Bassett in a

plea----wherefore the said Thomas Riley at Barnwell in the district & State of SC, with force and arms

and, to wit, with sticks and swords, made an assault on the said William and him did beat, wound and

ill treat, whereby the said William was in great danger of losing his life. Whereupon, the said William

by Richard Gannt, his attorney, complains that said Thomas on (date not legible) with force and arms,

to wit, with sword, staves, and knives on the said William, did then and there beat, wound and ill treat,

and other outrages there did to the great damage of Said William and against the peace and dignity of

the State of South Carolina. whereby he says that he is prejudiced and has damage to the value of

$2000, and therefore, he brings suit and so forth. Order for judgement 11 March 1806. This case is

settled by the parties, the costs are not paid. 28 Sept. 1806

April 1805-Owen Riley vs William Bassett decree for plaintiff $155 (Barnwell Common Pleas Journal

1800-11, pg. 99)

(Not everyone liked our William!)

At the time of his death in 1810, William was a resident of Barnwell, SC and his widow was Michal

Moye Bassett.(10) William would not have been elderly, probably about 45. His widow, who died two

years later, in 1812, was no more than 28 at the time of her death. (11) Her estate probate mentions

a child, "Gilford Bassett" (12) and she provides quite generously for his future education and care with

her sister, Martha (approximately $25,000 in today's money). Her only two heirs are her brother

Matthew Moye and John Brabham, in right of his wife, Martha Moye Brabham. The probate records

for her estate show that funds for his education were still being withdrawn as late as 1825 by the

Moye family. This leaves vague whether Gilford was a child of William Bassett, perhaps born after his

death, or an earlier, or later, child of Michal's. He is not mentioned in William's 1810 will. To Stephen,

Thomas and Francis Bassett, his sons by Mary, he left 2 slaves each. His home and 150 acres were

left to his widow with instructions for the sale of most else to satisfy his debts. His will would indicate

that he was fairly well off for his day, owning land, livestock, books and household items indicating

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comfortable means. The slaves left to his sons, however, would have been his single most valuable

asset.

Will of William Bassett, Barnwell County, SC 1810

In the name of God amen, I William Bassett of Barnwell District in South Carolina, Planter, being

weak of body, but of perfect sound mind and memory, thanks be to God for the same, calling to mind

the mortality of my body, knowing that it is appointed once for all to die, I do make and ordain this, my

Last Will and Testament, principally and first of all I do give up my soul to God who gave it to me at

first, my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors, never doubting but

at the General Resurrection, I shall receive the same again, by the Mighty Power of God. And in

touching what worldly goods it hath pleased God to endow me with in this life, I do give and bequeath

in manner and form following, that is to say, First, I do give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife,

Michal Bassett one Negro fellow called Jim, Ditto one feather bed and the furniture belonging to the

said bed. Ditto 1 trunk, ditto one bedstead. Ditto one cow and calf, one two year old steer. I do

likewise give and bequeath unto her, the place where I now reside containing one hundred and fifty

acres granted unto Robert Gordon, one note of hand for one hundred and thirty seven dollars and fifty

cents. Secondly, I do give and bequeath unto Stephen Bassett, one Negro fellow called Will, one

Negro girl named Ester. Thirdly, I do give and bequeath unto Francis Bassett one Negro wench

named Frank, one Negro girl named Hannah. Fourthly, I give and bequeath unto Thomas Bassett,

Junior, one Negro wench called Harriet, one Negro child called Fanny. Fifthly, I do give and bequeath

unto William Bassett, son of my brother, Eli Bassett, one cow and calf. Sixthly, I do give and

bequeath unto my well beloved Brother, Eli Bassett, the sum of ninety dollars, in case so much should

remain on hand after defraying of my legal debts and in case there should be any over_____(?) To be

equally divided between my said wife Michal and the said Stephen Bassett and the said Francis

Bassett and Thomas Bassett, Junior. The remaining part of my effects, not herein bequeathed to be

sold to defray my legal debts at the discretion of my Executors. I do likewise appoint, constitute and

ordain my brother Eli Bassett, Matthew Moye, and Stephen Bassett to be my whole sole executors to

this my last will and testament.

In witness, whereof I have hereby set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of February, one

thousand eight hundred and ten. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the within mentioned

William Bassett to be his last Will and Testament, in the presence of who, at his request and in his

presence have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses to the same.

William Bassett

George (X) Ward

Selah (X) Ward

Thomas (X) Ward Will probated March 30, 1810

Footnotes on William Bassett;

(1) Will of Stephen Phillips, Cumberland Co. NC 1782

(Cumberland Co. original Estates, 1759-1930, CR.029.508.60)

(2) Will of John McAlester, Cumberland Co. NC 1758

(3) "Carolina Scots" by Douglas F. Kelly

(4) Records of Lucy Cornelia Bassett, circa 1930

(5) US Federal Census, Cumberland Co. NC

(6) References to the "Pineola Bible" loose pages. See Index

(7) Lewis Malone Ayer Collection, Caroliniana Library, Columbia, SC

(Contrary to earlier family reports that William "owned" an island off the coast,

Sapelo Island was owned by Thomas Spalding of Georgia.)

(8) Collection of the Georgia Historical Society, Vol. XV

The Reuben King Journal, 1800-1806, pg. 40, 48

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(This explains an officer's uniform that was among his belongings during probate

of his estate in 1810).

(9) See Frances Leigh: "Ten years On A Georgia Plantation Since the War" (London: 1883, 183-5)

(10) Will of William Bassett (1810)

Will Book A, pg. 23, Barnwell, SC Court House

(11) US Federal Census, 1810, Barnwell Co. SC

(12)Probate Bundle 18, Pk. 9, Michal Moye Bassett, Barnwell Co. SC 1812

William Bassett and Mary Phillips were married about 1786. They had the following children:

Notes for Elizabeth Erwin:

General Notes:

Elizabeth is presumed to be Elizabeth Erwin, sister of Rebecca Erwin Ayer and Jane Erwin Player.

This is based on the Sapelo Island letters.

William Bassett and Elizabeth Erwin were married about 1800. They had no children.

William Bassett and Michal Moye were married about 1805. They had the following children:

Notes for Eli Bassett:

General Notes:

Eli Bassett is listed as purchasing 380 acres in the Orangeburgh District in April, 1786. (*)

He was in and out of the area of Barnwell, SC, along with other family members, during the period

from 1786, until after his brother William's death in 1810. One of his children was born in McIntosh

Co. GA. in 1803 during the period when we know that his brother, William, was living there. One

wonders if all of the brothers may have been on Sapelo Island, GA (McIntosh Co.) for awhile and then

returned to Barnwell. Eli and his family are listed as residents of Barnwell Co. again in the 1810

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returned to Barnwell. Eli and his family are listed as residents of Barnwell Co. again in the 1810

Federal Census. He is listed as a tax insolvent in McIntosh Co. in 1813-4, indicating he has left that

county. He is again recorded as a land holder in McIntosh Co. in 1818.(#)

He is listed as receiving a Headright and Bounty Grant in 1818 in McIntosh County for 450 acres,

indicating himself, a wife, and 4 children. They did not stay there for long however. By the 1820

Census, Eli and his family are in Appling Co. GA. There is some indication that Eli eventually went to

Florida (son William went there in 1830) An Eli Bassett is listed as a volunteer veteran in the FL

Indian Wars between 1815-1858; He is listed in 3 engagements; (1) McRae's and Smith's Co. of the

2nd E. FL Mtd Vols in FL, (2) Ross' Co. of Warren's 1st FL Mil. in the FL War of 1837, (3) Law's Co. of

the 13th Regt. in the 1st Brig. of FL Mtd. Mil. He is not listed in the Pension Index for that service.

(This last information is from descendents of Eli's son, William)

In the 1821 Georgia Land Lottery, Eli was a "fortunate drawer of land in Monroe County (Dist. 11, Lot

265), but I do not know if he ever claimed the land.

Land represented wealth, and the search for it, and attempt to acquire it, was a big part of their lives.

It would be another generation, at least, before we would see them actually settling and staying for

long.

(*) State Land Grant VII, pg. 33)

(#)Index to Headright and Bounty Grants of Georgia 1756-1909

Grant Book L. 5, pg. 936

Notes for Rhoda Kersh:

General Notes:

According to Eli Bassett researchers I have corresponded with, Rhoda is believed to be Eli's second

wife. The older children, at least, are thought to be from his first marriage. She is believed to be the

widow of John Kersh of Barnwell. She appears to have raised Eli's children, and was well loved, as

the name Rhoda was continued on in the family.

Rhoda Kersh is listed in the 1800 Census in Barnwell Co. SC as head of household;

1 male under 10

1 female under 10

1 femal 16-26

1 female 26-45 (herself)

Eli Bassett and Rhoda Kersh married. They had the following children:

Marion Co. Fla..

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after 1850 in Houston Co. GA.

Notes for John Bassett Jr.:

General Notes:

I believe it highly likely that the John Bassett of McIntosh Co. GA that was a "lucky drawer" in Pulaski

Co. in the 1805 Land Lottery was this John, son of John Bassett of the Barnwell 4 brothers. I also

think it possible that the "other Bassetts" in the Houston Co. area in the mid-1800's are his

descendents. This would mean that he settled in the area, followed in the 1820's by his cousin

Stephen, each of them being sons of the Barnwell 4 brothers.

John Bassett Jr. and Mary married. They had the following children:

died on 24 Sep 1867 in Ware Co. GA.

Notes for Sarah Ann Bassett:

General Notes:

In 1835, John O'Berry sold 1/3 share of Lot 161, Dist. 14 of Lee County, GA, adding credance to

Sarah Ann and her sisters being the "orphans" who won in the 1827 Land Lottery while living in

McIntosh Co. GA. It is important to know that Thomas Bassett and a much younger wife and 3 small

daughters are listed in the 1820 census.

Georgia, McIntosh County Indenture made the 13th day of April, 1835, between John J. O'Berry of

aforementioned county and state of Georgia, and Levin Argoe of County Sumter, GA. Consideration

$66.66, sells his 1/3 intrest in Lot 161, 14th District of Lee Co.

s/John J. O'Berry, in presence of Thomas Martin, Sam'l Owengs, JP

in Ware. Co. GA.

John Jordan O'Berry and Sarah Ann Bassett married. They had the following children:

Notes for Reubin B. O'Berry:

General Notes:

Never married.

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Notes for Stephen Bassett:

General Notes:

Stephen Bassett was born in NC, the eldest of the 3 sons of William and Mary Bassett. It is believed

that the family lived for a number of years in SC, however, as later census records indicate the

younger 2 sons, Thomas and Francis, were born there. Sometime prior to 1800, his parents

separated and Mary and her sons returned to NC., where the boys grew up.

Stephen was a resident of Cumberland Co. NC in 1810, as shown in the Federal Census. At age 22,

he is listed as head of the household with his younger brothers, Thomas and Francis, their mother,

Mary Phillips Bassett, having died in 1809. (2)

When his father, William Bassett, died in Barnwell, South Carolina in 1810, Stephen and his uncle, Eli

Bassett, were named as executors of the estate, requiring his attendance in Barnwell Co. It would

seem that Stephen was back and forth between Cumberland Co. and Barnwell Co. for a few years.

He would have had many relatives in both places. In 1814, he purchased 740 acres in Barnwell,

which would seem to indicate he planned to stay in South Carolina. He and his wife, Jane Morris,

met there and were married in 1815, when she was 16. Their first child, Mary, however, was born in

North Carolina in Oct. 1819. Whatever their ties to their home areas, Stephen and Jane relocated to

Georgia soon thereafter.

This was a period of extremely heavy migration into Georgia, especially from the Carolinas, as

settlers tried for the land offered in the Georgia Land Lotteries. Only Georgia residents of three years

or more could participate in the lotteries, although many of the winners sold their winnings to newly

arriving settlers or to land brokers who sold them to the settlers.

Family tradition says that the young family settled first near old Ft. Hawkins, close to Macon, when

that part of the state was still on the frontier and the Cherokee Indians were still inhabiting the area.

By the 1820 Census, they had moved to Jones Co., near Clinton.

In 1828, Stephen purchased 202 1/2 acres from Alexander B. Kennedy for Lot 33, District 5 of

Houston Co. for $250.(1) This was land originally drawn by Mr. Kennedy in the 1821 Georgia Land

Lottery. The property was approximately a mile and a half southeast of Byron, Ga. This is where the

Bassetts settled permanently.

There would be years of hard work ahead, but people who managed to obtain the land that was

offered in the Lotteries, considered themselves fortunate, indeed. The land in Houston County was

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offered in the Lotteries, considered themselves fortunate, indeed. The land in Houston County was

rich. It was also forested and needed to be cleared and fenced in order to plant their crops and

orchards. At this point, roads were few and primitive. Railroads would not arrive in the area until the

1840's.

Their church, assumed to have been the Shiloh Methodist Church, near their farm, was undoubtedly

the mainstay of both their spiritual and social lives. Notations in the Pineola Bible (2) list the dates that

each of the Bassett sons and daughters joined the Church, indicating its great importance to them.

Stephen and Jane farmed, raised their family of 5 children and lived long and productive lives,

accumulating a considerable amount of land in the process.

The Civil War brought great personal tragedy to the family with the loss of 3 grandsons in service,

Stephen and Will Clark (sons of daughter Mary) and Walter Pattishall, (daughter Harriet's son) as

well as the death of a son-in-law, Wiley Clark, (Mary's husband). Two of their young Melvin

grandchildren (children of daughter, Georgia) also died of illness during this time. (1863)

Stephen Bassett died in 1867 (age 78) and Jane in 1870 (age 71). Family tradition says that they are

buried in the Shiloh Methodist Churchyard near Byron, GA. While there are no markers for them in

evidence, there are estimated to be as many as 150 unmarked graves within the cemetery. They

were married for 52 years.

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The will of Stephen Bassett;

Book B, Pages 201 & 202, Minute Book pg. 415

Houston Co. GA.

"In the name of God, Amen.

I, Stephen Bassett, of the State of Georgia and County of Houston, being of sound mind and

perfect memory, taking into consideration the frailty of human nature and knowing it is appointed unto

man once to die & and being of advanced age and knowing by the course of nature I must soon

depart this life

I wish to dispose of by will of what earthly property it has pleased God to bless me within this world

to make, ordain, promulgate and establish this my will and testament.

1st My soul I commit to God who gave it and my body to the earth, hoping my friends will give it a

decent burial.

2nd My debts I wish paid with the least possible delay by my executors as I do not wish that my

condition should be kept from their dues when there is no occasion for delay.

3rd I give my whole estate, real and personal, to my beloved wife Jane Bassett during her natural life

or widowhood and until her death or marriage the property that I herein give my said wife is to be

used by her and kept together for her support and maintenance, and at her death or marriage I give

devise and bequeath to my two sons, William F. Bassett and Stephen E. Bassett, one half of my

whole estate, real and personal, to be equally divided between them, and to my three daughters,

Mary A. A. Clark, Harriet J. A. Pattishall and Georgia A. Melvin, I give, devise and bequeath the other

half of my whole estate, real and personal, to be equally divided between them.

4th And it is my further will and desire that the property herein given to my daughters above named

shall vest in each of them as a separate estate, free from the debts, contracts and liabilities of any

husband or husbands that either of them may ever marry.

5th I herein nominate and appoint my two sons, William F. Bassett and Stephen E. Bassett, Executors

of this, my last will and testament, in witness whereof, I have herein set my hand and seal February

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of this, my last will and testament, in witness whereof, I have herein set my hand and seal February

7th, 1867.

Witnesses;

D. F. Gunn

F. M. Trell (Probated Sept. 1867)

M. H. Thomson

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(1) Deed Book C, Superior Court Deeds 1826-1829, Houston Co. GA

(2)Pineola Bible reference, see Index

Notes for Jane Morris:

General Notes:

The Parents of Jane Morris Bassett are identified in her obituary, listed in the Sept. 25, 1872 issue of

the Southern Christian Advocate 1867-1878 as follows;

"Mrs. Jane Bassett, daughter of Elisha and Rachel Morris, was born in Barnwell District, SC, April 17,

1799, and died at her residence in Houston County. GA, April 4th, 1870."

Her Morris family in Barnwell, SC, is a very large group, many of whom remained in the area through

the mid-1900's. There are hundreds of them buried in the Friendship Baptist Churchyard in Olar, SC.

Jane's father, Elisha Morris, would seem to be the origin if the name Elisha, used through several

generations of the Bassett family.

had the following children:

Houston Co. GA.

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Notes for Francis Bassett:

General Notes:

Francis, later to be called Frank, was born in SC, but grew up in Cumberland Co. NC,. He moved to

the Barnwell, SC area a young man, living there for a number of years, marrying, and moving on to

Bibb Co. GA prior to 1830. Two of his daughters (Nancy & Catherine) were married in Bibb Co.

(1844 & 1846). He and his wife, Elizabeth, eventually moved on to Barbour Co. AL and would seem

to have lived out their lives there. They are listed living next to two of their daughters, Elizabeth (John

M. Futch) and Catherine (Hezakiah Nash) and their families in Barbour Co., AL. in the 1850 and 1860

census.

Francis Bassett and Elizabeth married. They had the following children:

in Georgia.

1868 in Fulton Co. GA. He died about 1907 in Augusta, GA.

Notes for Francis L. Bassett:

General Notes:

Civil War Service;

Mustered in to Kolb's Light Artillery Feb. 26 1862

Transferred to Eufaula, Alabama Light Infantry Oct. 17, 1863 and last appeared Sept. 1,

1864 as a 5th sergeant, having been promoted through the ranks.

Eufaula Lt. Art'y, Al. Compiled service records, series 133, roll 70, Fl. State Archives. He

claimed no pension in AL.

Francis and his wife appear to have been childless. At age 30, he is listed in the 1870

federal census in Augusta, GA. He was a photographer by trade and resided there for the

rest of his life, last listed in 1907.

Notes for Thomas Bassett Jr.:

General Notes:

Following the the breakup of his parent's marriage, when he was a child, Thomas grew up in

Cumberland Co. NC around his mother's family (Phillips and McAlesters). Later, as a young man, he

joined his Bassett uncles and cousins in SC where he married and spent his life, while his brother

Stephen moved on to Georgia and Francis (later called Frank) removed to Alabama after living in

Barnwell Co. for a while as a young man. Thomas and his descendents represent the South Carolina

branch of our family

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branch of our family

children:

the following children:

children.

1886 in Marion Co. Fla..

Notes for William Bassett:

General Notes:

This William Bassett, son of Eli Bassett, moved as a child, from Barnwell SC to Appling Co. GA.

where he grew up. As a young man of about 30 years, he moved to Jasper, Hamilton Co. FL, and he

is considered a pioneer of that area.

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is considered a pioneer of that area.

Co. Fla..

William Bassett and Aurora Towler met. They had the following children:

Notes for William Lewis Bassett:

General Notes:

Never married.

Notes for John W. Bassett:

General Notes:

Never married. Served with the Confederacy and died during the War in VA.

Pinellas, FL.

F. Rumph on 09 May 1872. She died on 17 Nov 1925 in Colombia Co. FL.

Virginia Jennie Lindsey in 1871 in Hamilton Co. FL.

Clinch Co. GA.

Notes for Nancy B Bassett:

General Notes:

Nancy Bassett married James Daugherty in Appling Co. GA. 1825, following the death of his first wife,

raising the infant of the first marriage, Sarah, as her own. She and James then had seven more

children. They moved to Hamilton Co. FL (note, both of her brothers had immigrated to that area

also). In 1840, the family moved to Clinch Co. GA, below the present town of DuPont, where they

farmed for several years. Nancy died there in 1845, leaving 8 children, ages 2-20.

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Notes for James Robert Daugharty:

General Notes:

James Daugherty served in the Indian War from June 16, 1837 to Dec. 18, 1837, in Capt. John J.

Johnson's Company of the Second Regt. of the East Florida Militia. Until 1840, he served in many

county militias. (The Crypt, History and Genealogy of Camden and Charlotte Co. GA)

They had the following children:

on 26 Jul 1843. She died on 26 Oct 1894.

Jul 1883 in Clinch Co. GA.

Notes for James Daugharty:

General Notes:

Never married. Died for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

John Marion O'Berry and Mary Francis Jones married. They had the following children:

Notes for Mary Ann Angeline Bassett:

General Notes:

Mary was the firstborn child of Stephen and Jane Bassett, born in North Carolina, likely Cumberland

Co. She would have been an infant when they first came to Georgia, and was 11 when her parents

settled in Houston Co., near Byron.

More than most, we can look at the old records of Mary's life and marvel at the story they tell and the

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More than most, we can look at the old records of Mary's life and marvel at the story they tell and the

history this family lived through. Following the death of her husband of over 25 years during the Civil

War, she homesteaded the Clark farm near Powersville and raised her 3 remaining children there

(Victoria, Sarah and Drew), with 2 of her older boys living nearby. She did not remarry.. She outlived

all but one of her siblings and died in Monroe Co. in 1905 at age 85.

Mary's obituary reads;

"Mrs. Mary A. Clark, daughter of the late Stephen and Jane Bassett was born Oct. 15, 1819 and died

in Monroe Co. Ga. on June 23, 1905. She was buried at Shiloh Methodist Churchyard, Houston Co.

Ga. She married Mr. Wiley Clark. She had 2 sons to die in the War (1). Her husband joined the

State Troups and was taken sick and sent home. When he reached Powersville, Ga. his daughter (2)

had died that day. In a few days, he passed away also. She leaves 2 sons and 1 daughter, Mrs. V.A.

(3) Maynard of Forsyth, Ga., Rev. J.F. Clark of Texas, and Mr. D.E. Clark of Monroe Co. Ga."

From "Monroe Co. GA. Published Obituaries"

Washington Library, Macon, GA

(1) Will and Stephen

(2) Mary

(3) Mrs. Elisha Thomas Maynard

had the following children:

Notes for Will Clark:

General Notes:

William Clark served with Co. K of the 45th Georgia Infantry. He is last listed in the 1st

Mississippi C.S.A Hospital, Jackson, MS July 13, 1863. He did not survive the War.

Notes for Stephen Clark:

General Notes:

Died in Civil War.

In old family records that I have seen, Stephen Clark is listed as Sid Clark, but Stephen

Clark seems to be right according to both the 1860 census on the Wiley Clark family and

the Pineola Bible.

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Notes for John Clark:

General Notes:

John Clark served during the Civil War.

In his mother's obituary in 1905, he is listed as "Rev. J.F. Clark of Texas".

Notes for Mary Clark:

General Notes:

It would seem that Mary was the Clark daughter that died during the Civil War, as

mentioned in her Mother's obituary.

Notes for Drew Clark:

General Notes:

Listed as a resident of Monroe Co. in his mother's 1905 obituary.

Notes for William Francis Bassett:

General Notes:

William served with the Georgia 20th Infantry, Co. A, during the Civil War.

This family lived in the Powersville area throughout their lives and were large landowners. He was a

County Officer in 1866 (Tax Receiver)

Will of William F. Bassett

Will Book B-280-281

Mar. 12, 1875

Filed: July 24, 1875

To wife Sarah A. Bassett, my entire estate....

Following her death;

2 daughters: Angelina H. Bassett and Mary Ann Bassett, my homeplace consisting of about 700 acres

formed by lots: 5/33 (original Stephen Bassett lot in Houston Co.), 5/34, 5/19, half of 5/20

2 sons: Stephen M. Bassett and William F. Bassett, Jr., my Everett Lands, about 600 acres consisting

of 9/240, portion of 9/239, 6/226, 6/255, portion of 6/256

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Executors: Wife Sarah A. Bassett and brother Stephen E. Bassett

William and his wife Sarah are both buried in Shiloh Churchyard. Byron, GA. as are all four of their

children.

They had the following children:

Notes for Angie Bassett:

General Notes:

Angie never married and died a young woman.

Buried in Shiloh Methodist Churchyard, Byron, GA

Notes for Stephen Bassett:

General Notes:

May have been a twin of Angie Bassett. Died in Jan 1854, per the Pineola Bible.

Notes for William F. Bassett Jr.:

General Notes:

In "Cemeteries and Obituaries of Houston County" by Addie P. Howell, we find;

William F. Bassett, Jr., son of the late William F. Bassett, died at his home in Powersville,

Ga. Nov. 11, 1904 at the age of 39 years. Death was caused by blood poisoning in his

swollen tonsils when they burst. Of a family of 6, only one remains, Mr. S. M. Bassett.

(Stephen Morris)

(Would indicate that he didn't marry.)

Notes for Molly Bassett:

General Notes:

Molly did not marry and died in her late 20's.

Buried near her parents at Shiloh Churchyard.

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Notes for Harriet Jane America Bassett:

General Notes:

Harriet and her husband Jack, had 13 children, 7 surviving to adulthood.

Below is the text of a letter, written by Harriet to her sister Mary during the Civil War;

At home August 9th, 1863

Mrs. Mary A. A. Clark

My dear sister, I received your kind letter this morning. I was more than glad to hear from you all.

This leaves me with a sick family. Jack and Lish and Eugenia all have the fever and has been down a

week today. Jack has missed his ague five days, but is very weak for he liked to of died. I have been

sick myself. It was caused from fatigue and wanting to sleep. I hope this may reach you all well and

doing well. Dear sister, trouble is common over here, more so among the common people than the

rich. the rich is as high minded as ever and is dodging the war and the troubles of it. dear, it seems

like everything in the way of trouble is come on me at once. it seems insupportable and no friend

near to relate my troubles to nor to sympathize with me it seems like I had rather die than live if it was

not for my helpless little children that would suffer for my attention. I have not heard from my husband

and my son in nearly 3 weeks. I can't tell why they don't write to me I am in a distressed condition

with my sick family and not well myself. this is a very sickly place. I want to get away from here bad.

tell Daniel to get off at buzzard roost station we live two miles from the station. Inquire for the widow

Bryans place or for where we live either. Rebecca Bryans if Jack does not meet him. Jack will meet

him if he knew what day he would come. tell him to come soon. I want you to come with him if you

can. If you cant Mary might the children all want to see Aunt Mary. I dreamed of you last night I must

close so nothing more from your loving and affectionate sister this time.

Harriet J Pattishall *

(There are early Houston County records referring to the Buzzard's Roost Ferry on the Ocmulgee

River in the 11th land district of the county. Another researcher tells me it was near the present day

town of Kathleen, Ga.)

Harriet and Jackson Pattishall are buried at Shiloh Churchyard.

Notes for Jackson C. Pattishall:

General Notes:

Jackson Pattishall is listed as being buried in Shiloh Methodist Churchyard

"Cemeteries & Obituaries of Houston County", by Addie Powell, Recorded in 12 May, 1993

Jackson C. Pattishall and Harriet Jane America Bassett were married on 17 Dec 1844 in Houston Co.

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Notes for William (Walter) Jackson Pattishall:

General Notes:

Served with the Georgia 5th, Co. D and E, during the Civil War. Did not survive.

Notes for Joshua Franklin Pattishall:

General Notes:

Died in infancy.

Notes for William Daniel Pattishall:

General Notes:

Died in infancy

Notes for Elizabeth J. Pattishall:

General Notes:

Died in childhood.

Valley, GA.

1887. She died on 04 Nov 1928.

31 May 1880. He died on 04 Feb 1937 in De Kalb Co. GA.

Notes for Claudius Jerome Pattishall:

General Notes:

Known as Rome Pattishall

Notes for Harriett Elizabeth Pattishall:

General Notes:

Died in childhood.

Mar 1889. He died on 20 Aug 1898.

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Notes for Matilda E. Pattishall:

General Notes:

Died in childhood.

She died on 14 Feb 1910.

Notes for Stephen Elisha Bassett:

General Notes:

Stephen Elisha was born near Byron, GA. in 1833 and grew up as the second from the youngest child

of Stephen and Jane Bassett. According to the old Pineola Bible pages, he joined the church

(presumed Shiloh Methodist Church) as a young man of 18, and was a practicing Christian for the rest

of his life, devoting much of it to spreading God's word.

He married Frances Hicks (daughter of Elijah H. Hicks and Martha Fudge), on Feb. 18, 1855 in her

father's home in Crawford County. (3) He was 22. She was 20. Early in their marriage, the couple

settled near Fort Valley on the Hardison Place, north of town on Taylor's Mill Road. In 1865, he

purchased the property and built the "Bassett homeplace" (also on Taylor's Mill Road), known later as

Pineola. Here they raised their family and spent many years. The Bassett homeplace remained in

the family for over 100 years, occupied by sons and grandsons and their families.

Stephen Elisha and Frances were married for nearly 35 years and were the parents of 9 children, 7 of

whom lived to adulthood. From an old Diary/Ledger, we know that his pet name for her was "Puss"

(1)

In his early years, the Rev. S. E. Bassett (as Stephen Elisha was listed in later records) was a

Methodist minister and Circuit Rider, traveling and preaching, performing marriages and burying the

departed, around the surrounding counties. These ministers were known as "Saddlebag Saints" for

their efforts at carrying the Word on horseback. (2) Stephen Elisha also farmed and was a highly

successful businessman. He ginned the cotton of his neighbors, sold cotton gins, and acquired

extensive property in both Georgia and Alabama. He was also one of the incorporators of the Dow

Land Bank of Fort Valley as well as one of the founders of the Fort Valley College, the first college for

blacks in the state.

In a disagreement with the Methodist church in 1882, he was granted a letter of removal (a form of

resignation). He thereafter donated the land for and built and established his own church, the

Congregational Methodist Church on Persons Street in Fort Valley. He preached there for 12

years.(2) He also organized the Crawford County Wesleyan Congregational Church. At the time of

his death in 1897, he was superintendent of the Congregational churches of Alabama for the

Congregational Home Missionary Society.

In 1884, the Bassett homeplace was being managed by a Mr. Lonie Taylor (3), which sounds as if

Stephen Elisha and Frances may have moved to town when he built the new church. This is also the

year that Stephen Hicks Bassett purchased the homeplace from his father and his own family moved

there.

For all of the successes and good works during his lifetime, and there were a remarkable number of

them, the Rev. Bassett was also remembered as an excessively harsh father and was greatly

resented for that. We know this from surviving family letters and stories. His will, however, was

based on trust in his family, and no one contested his wishes. He would seem to have been a many

faceted man; a farmer with very large holdings, a successful businessman, and a man dedicated to

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faceted man; a farmer with very large holdings, a successful businessman, and a man dedicated to

his religious calling for all of his adult life, paradoxical, but much admired.

Following the death of Frances in 1889, he married "Miss Tommie" Young, who had been the

governess for his daughter Fannie.

When he died, in 1897, his funeral service was preached by the Rev. S.E. McDaniel on the words;

"I have fought a good fight,

I have kept the faith,

I have finished the course.

Servant of God well done,

Rest in thy loved employ." (4)

Stephen Elisha is buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Ft. Valley, with a wife on either side.

Source notes;

(1)Diary/ledger of S.E, Bassett 1868 and 1872 (found at Pinelola-2000)

(2) Information from "Methodist Church 1847-1905". Thomas Public Library, Fort Valley

(3) "Near-by Orchards, farms and farmers. Business Directory of Fort Valley and Many Other Items"

page 17, printed in 1884, speaks of the farm's "splendid orchards".

(Found in the Fort Valley Library, reported by Paul and Delise Knight)

(4) Pineola Bible

Notes for Frances Emmoline Hicks:

General Notes:

(Frances Hicks Bassett is descended from Jacob D. Fudge, Jr., her maternal grandfather, listed in the

DAR Patriot Index:Centennial Edition Part I, p. 1099)

Stephen Elisha Bassett and Frances Emmoline Hicks were married on 18 Feb 1855 in Houston Co.

Artemisia Brown on 16 Dec 1884. He died on 23 Feb 1925 in Fort Valley GA.

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Notes for Ida Jane Bassett:

General Notes:

Died in infancy. From the old family Bible (at Pineola) is the notation that she was buried

at Shiloh Church, Houston Co.

Notes for Francis Asbury Bassett:

General Notes:

Death is listed in the Sept. 25, 1872 issue of the Southern Christian Advocate.

"Francis Asbury, son of Rev. S.E. and F. E. Bassett, died near Fort Valley, GA. Aug. 3d,

1872, aged four years and six months.

Julia Frances Maynard on 30 Dec 1890. He died on 13 Apr 1935 in Crawford Co.,

1931 in Ft. Valley, GA.

Notes for Martha Frances Bassett:

General Notes:

Fannie was Stephen Elisha's only daughter and never married. Indeed, family lore has it

that her father and brothers discouraged any romance that might have occurred. She did

go away to prep-school in Alabama, but otherwise, spent her lifetime in Fort Valley.

Stephen Elisha requested in his will that Aunt Fannie was to take care of Miss Tommie, her

step-mother, for as long as Miss Tommie lived, and this Aunt Fannie did. Miss Tommie

died in 1927 and Fannie in 1931. Miss Tommie had been Fannie's governess when she

was a child, and was Stephen Elisha's second wife.

Fannie was an accomplished water colorist and her work is owned today by family

members.

Ft. Valley, GA.

Notes for Elizabeth Thomas Young:

General Notes:

Buried next to her husband in Ft. Valley's Oaklawn Cemetery.

Stephen Elisha Bassett and Elizabeth Thomas Young were married on 04 May 1890. They had no

children.

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Notes for Georgia Ann Bassett:

General Notes:

Georgia and her family remained in the Ft. Valley area throughout their lives.

Georgia is buried next to her husband in Oaklawn Cemetery, Ft. Valley GA.

In a message dated 02/04/2003 12:49:05 PM Pacific Standard Time, monaplowe@yahoo.com writes:

<< Thank you for posting your Bassett family groupsheet. I was

especially interested in your information on Georgia Bassett since a

cousin of mine has recently transcribed a poignant letter from her to

my great-great grandmother Martha Burnett Hatcher (later Ellis).

According to the letter, they were cousins. Martha's mother was

Patience Mahalia Morris. Patience's father (from work of other

researchers) was Benjamin Morris.

(It's possible that Benjamin Morris was another of the unidentified siblings of Jane Morris Bassett,

Georgia's mother...SBF)

April 9th 1863

Mrs Martha L Hatcher

My Dear Old Friend

I seat myself this evening to write you a few lines to inform you

that I am yet in the land of the living and although some years have

elapsed since I have seen you I assure you you are not forgotten by

me. This leaves me in very good health and I trust you enjoying the

like blessing. Brother Elishas wife received a letter from you last

year which was intended for us both. I recon you thought I did not

intend to reply ***obscured by scotch tape***I think you will only

wonder ***obscured by scotch tape*** with a kind loving husband who

always treated me very kind and was all to me that I could ask or

wish we live in peace and pleasure without any thing to mar our

happiness eight years to a day. I can look back upon my past life I

never knew what trouble was until the 14th of last July he joined the

Southern Rights Artillery oh what a sad day it was to me when I

looked after him perhaps for the last time. I never shall be able to

express the feelings I ***** not more than two minutes after he was

gone. I thought if the whole world was at my command I would give it

all just only to have him with me again but that pleasure was denied

me and I have never seen him since nor did my troubles end here. I

had two lovely children the oldest was nearly three years old her

name was Anna Valetta the baby was nearly 3 months old her name was

Georgia Melissa. I never saw more promising children in my life. They

both and especially Anna was a favorite with everyone that saw them.

But alas their time on earth was short the destroying Angel entered

my sweet little home and took my sweet little children from me.

Georgia died just nine days before Anna both scarlet fever in the

worst form. I never saw anything suffer like they did in my life.

Georgia was not able to make any noise at all in about ten days

before she died. She lived fourteen days after she was taken and Anna

live twenty three days after she was taken. Oh how desolate is my

once sweet little home striped of all that was lovely and pleasant in

my eyes. No one but God and myself know what trouble deep I waded

through in the past ten months. I was first taken sick in ****scotch

tape**** bed a week to both my little darlings was took sick

***scotch tape*** to get off my bed to wait on them **** a good

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nights rest in thirty nights. It only seems a wonder that I was

spaired.

I have now only one consolation left and that is I know the Lord does

all things well. I cannot see now why he should thus afflict me but I

know it is all right for God cannot err. I have the blessed

consolation of knowing my little darlings is in Heaven free from the

cares, troubles and snaresof this world and by the grace of God I

intend to meet them where parting will be no more.

I am blessed with a Christian husband if he should be spaired to me I

will try and be content with my lot but the dreadful thought of

losing him nearly distracts me. Dear Martha I recon you are tired of

my tale of woe. I recon you scarcely recognize the once light hearted

Georgia Bassett in these lines. I would be very glad to see you and

have a long talk with you.

Close for the present hopeing to hear from you very soon.

Your truly devoted friend

Georgia A Melvin

[Written upside down in the upper margin of the 2nd page]:

Direct your letters to Fort Valley Ga please write to me soon

Mrs Georgia A Melvin

Fort Valley Ga

May 1900 in Fort Valley, Ga.

Notes for Wiley M. Melvin:

General Notes:

Info on Wiley Melvin from "Cemeteries and Obituaries of Houston Co. GA" by Addie Howell:

"Mr. Wiley Melvin died at his home in Ft. Valley, GA. on May 18, 1900. He was 68 years. old. Burial

was in the cemetery in Ft. Valley. He leaves a wife and 2 sons. He was born in Bladen Co. SC on

May 30, 1831. His father was George Melvin. He married on Jul. 13, 1854 to Miss Georgia Bassett.

They had 4 children. Two of them, Anna V. and George M. both died in Feb. 1863. He leaves his

wife and 2 sons, Willie A. and Wiley M. Jr. to mourn him."

Served in the Civil War.

following children:

Notes for Anna V. Melvin:

General Notes:

Died in childhood.

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Notes for George M Melvin:

General Notes:

Died in childhood.

John M. Futch and Nancy A. Bassett were married in 1844 in Georgia. They had the following

children:

William Jones and Nancy A. Bassett were married on 03 Oct 1859 in Barbour Co. Ala.. They had no

children.

the following children:

1915 in Barnwell Co. SC.

Notes for Michael Powell Bassett:

General Notes:

South Carolina branch. Michael Powell and his siblings were first cousins to Stephen Elisha and

siblings.

Bassett, Michael P. Calvary 3rd Reg, F. Col, 25 years old, Pvt, Barnwell

Co. F, 3 S.C. Cav. (Also known as 2 S.C. Cav) formerly 6th (also called 2

and Calcock's)

Pvt., Co. F, #d Regt., S.C. Cav. Appears on Co., Muster Roll for Sept and

Oct 1863

Enlisted Apr 4 1862 at Hardeeville by Capt Young

Pvt., Capt Henry C. Smart's Co., S.C. Volunteers

Age 24 years, appears on Co. Muster in roll dated Hardeeville, Apr 4

1862 No. of miles to Rendevous 70 value of horse $150 and equipment $30

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1862 No. of miles to Rendevous 70 value of horse $150 and equipment $30

Apr 4 to 5 1862

For use of Horse $10

Mileage 10 cents per mile to rendevous $5.50

Co. Muster roll for Nov and Dec 1864

Last paid to what time Oct 31 186?

Absent without leave since Dec 30 1864

M. P. Basssett appears on roll of Prisoners of War, belonging to the

Confederate Army, paroled in compliance with the terms of a military

Convention made on Apr 26 1865 at Bennetts House near Durham's Station, NC

between Gen. J.E. Johnston of the Confederate Armies and the Major General

W.T. Sherman, USA, and approved by Lieut Gen U. S. Grant USA

roll not dated

Parolled at Augusta, GA May 19 1865

Where - surrendered - Augusta, GA

When - May 19 1865

Michael Powell Bassett and Laura Googe married. They had the following children:

Notes for Morgan J. Bassett:

General Notes:

Lost in the jungles of the Phillipines during the Spanish American War.

Michael Powell Bassett and Anna Googe married. They had the following children:

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died on 17 Jul 1906 in Florida.

Notes for Nancy M. Bassett:

General Notes:

Buried Providence Baptist Church Cemetery, Union Co. FL.

children:

John Padgett and Sarah Ann Bassett married. They had the following children:

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on 07 Jul 1918 in Safety Harbor, Pinellas, FL.

18 Feb 1853. She died on 24 Aug 1883.

Andrew Jackson Devers Bassett and Mary Cornelia Fletcher were married on 12 Jun 1871 in Marion

married Adolphus Bain Kibler on 19 Apr 1896. She died on 18 Mar 1901.

Fannie Catherine Penland on 04 Sep 1912 in Swannanoa, NC. He died on 10 Mar 1963 in

Jacksonville, FL.

Jun 1893 in Anthony, FL. She died on 24 May 1956.

05 Sep 1967.

Andrew Jackson Devers Bassett and Sarah Elizabeth Lovell were married on 26 Apr 1896 in Marion

died on 17 Nov 1925 in Colombia Co. FL.

Adolphus F. Rumph and Rhoda Ann Bassett were married on 09 May 1872. They had the following

children:

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Richard Joseph Bassett and Virginia Jennie Lindsey were married in 1871 in Hamilton Co. FL. They

had the following children:

26 Oct 1894.

Notes for Sarah Penelope Daugharty:

General Notes:

Sarah's mother, Sarah Spivey Daugherty, died at the time of her birth in Appling Co. GA in 1825. Her

father married Nancy Bassett later that same year. In 1829, the family moved to Hamilton Co. FL.

James and Nancy had seven children of their own.

Levin T. Tomlinson and Sarah Penelope Daugharty were married on 26 Jul 1843. They had the

following children:

the following children:

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Clinch Co. GA.

Francis Daugharty and Emily Roberts were married in 1856. They had the following children:

Solomon H. O'Berry and Sarah Elizabeth "Lizzie" Howell married. They had the following children:

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Notes for Daniel Clark:

General Notes:

Dan served with the Southern Rights Battery, 14th Battalion, Georgia Light Artilliary and also with the

8th Georgia Cavalry, Co. G during the Civil War.

Daniel Clark and Maggie married. They had the following children:

She died on 23 Dec 1937.

Notes for Victoria Clark:

General Notes:

Of special interest;

This was the first of three Bassett/Maynard marriages;

Victoria, daughter of Mary Bassett Clark married Elijah Maynard, son of William Tansell Maynard and

Martha Dewberry of Forsyth.

Later, two of Stephen Elisha Bassett's sons married two of Elijah's sisters.

Victoria Clark/Elijah Maynard in 1875,

Gus Bassett/Candace Maynard in 1879,

Charlie Bassett/Julia Maynard in 1890

28 Jun 1851. He died on 01 Sep 1923.

children:

Notes for Martha Malinda Maynard:

General Notes:

Never married

Notes for Elijah William Maynard:

General Notes:

Never married. Was judge of Recorder's Court, City of Macon, GA for about 20 years. For

many years he operated Maynard Law School. Served in the State Senate and also as a

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many years he operated Maynard Law School. Served in the State Senate and also as a

member of the Board of Bar Examiners.

Notes for Stephen Morris Bassett:

General Notes:

Spent his life in the Powersville area.

His obituary reads;

"Mr. S.M. Bassett of Powersville, Ga. died in April, 1912.

Burial was at Shiloh Church in Houston Co. GA. He was 52 years old and was one of the most

successful farmers in Houston Co. He leaves one son and his wife to mourn him."

Notes for Neita Allen:

General Notes:

Buried in the Cliett Cemetery, Peach Co. GA.

Stephen Morris Bassett and Neita Allen married. They had the following children:

Aug 1845. He died on 16 Mar 1929.

Notes for Stephen C. Pattishall:

General Notes:

Served a total of 3 years, first with Co. A, 14th Georgia Regiment and later with Capt. Havis Battery of

the Light Artillery, known as "Southern Rights Battery", CSA, during the Civil War. He was in the

battle of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga and Atlanta. Prisoner of War records

show that he was paroled April 27, 1865 at Greensboro, NC

children:

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1905.

Mar 1857. He died on 04 Feb 1937 in De Kalb Co. GA.

Elisha Wayne Pattishall and Mattie Lorraine Lewis were married on 31 May 1880. They had the

following children:

Hyattsville, MD.

04 Jul 1866. He died on 20 Aug 1898.

Leonard Glenn Pattishall and Lillie Christmas were married on 21 Mar 1889. They had the following

children:

Notes for William Augustus Bassett:

General Notes:

Gus inherited substantial property in the Fort Valley area from his father. He had peach orchards, his

grandson William E. Bassett Jr. of Juliette believes. He also reports being present when his

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grandson William E. Bassett Jr. of Juliette believes. He also reports being present when his

grandfather died and watching his father place pennies over his eyes. This was in Fort Valley.

born on 24 Sep 1854. She died on 24 Sep 1921.

William Augustus Bassett and Martha Candace Maynard were married on 08 Feb 1879. They had the

following children:

De Kalb, Georgia, USA.

Notes for Walter Leonard Bassett:

General Notes:

Walter was one of the Bassett sons to leave the area. He spent his adult life in Alabama.

Walter Leonard Bassett and Fannie Baxter married. They had the following children:

Notes for Richard Gladstone Bassett:

General Notes:

Removed to Eggertsville, NY as an adult.

Notes for Mattie Bassett:

General Notes:

Mattie lived in Birmingham, Ala. as an adult. Her married name was Curtis.

Jun 1893 in Anthony, FL. She died on 24 May 1956.

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Notes for Claudia Bassett:

General Notes:

Became Claudia Campbell and lived in Chattanooga, TN. as an adult

Walter Leonard Bassett and Nannie Bryson married. They had no children.

1860 in Fort Valley, Ga. He died on 23 Feb 1925 in Fort Valley GA.

Notes for Stephen Hicks Bassett:

General Notes:

Stephen Hicks Bassett was a graduate of Emory College, Oxford, GA. He met his wife Maud there

during their college days. Following their marriage in 1884, they spent their lives in the Ft. Valley

area. They had a large family, with 9 children, 4 of whom died in childhood.

Stephen and Maud lived at "the Claxton place" early in their marriage. In 1891, he purchased the

"Bassett Homeplace" from his father, Stephen Elisha, and a second generation of Bassett children

grew up there as their father farmed the large property. In their later years, they owned and operated

the Bassett Hotel in downtown Fort Valley (formerly known as the Watson House). The purchase of

the hotel occurred in 1918 and according to old letters, (*) was run as a boarding house.

(*)Letters from Maud to her son, Ralphiel Phillips Bassett, while he was in France during WWI.

was born on 29 Dec 1862 in Morgan Co. GA. She died on 17 Jul 1920.

Notes for Maud Artemisia Brown:

General Notes:

Maud Brown was a charter member of the Governor Treutlen chapter of the DAR of Fort Valley, being

eligible for membership through descent from Joseph Catchings, born 1762 in Maryland, died 1806 in

Green Co. Georgia, having served in the Revolution as a private soldier, for which service he was

given government bounty land. (This info from early Bassett family records of Lucy Cornelia Bassett,

her daughter).

Stephen Hicks Bassett and Maud Artemisia Brown were married on 16 Dec 1884. They had the

following children:

Notes for Stephen Elisha Bassett:

General Notes:

According to old family letters,(*) Stephen farmed the family holdings during the time that

his brothers, Noble and Ralphiel were away in service during WWI, but he later left the

area. He never married.

He is buried in Fort Valley.

(*) Letters from Maud Artemisia to her son Ralphiel during the War.

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1919 in Georgia.

Notes for Bessie Bassett:

General Notes:

Bessie and her twin, Maud, died in infancy.

Alphonsine Bourdier on 28 Feb 1919 in Paris, France. He died on 16 Apr 1951 in Ft.

Valley, GA.

died on 05 Jun 1961.

Ft. Valley, GA.

Notes for Frances Bassett:

General Notes:

Frances died in infancy.

Notes for Elisha Gordon Bassett:

General Notes:

Elisha Gordon Bassett was born in Ft. Valley, attended local schools and graduated from Mercer

University(*), returning home to farm. He met his wife-to-be, Lena Ezell, at the County fair in

Macon.(*) They were married in Byron in 1889.

Elisha died of pneumonia at age 27, just months following his marriage to Lena, and before the birth

of their only child, Nellie. His death was a great loss to the family and his community, as he was a

greatly admired young man. He is buried in Shiloh Methodist Churchyard, Byron, GA.

His obituary read, in part;

"Lish" Bassett. as he was familiarly known by his many friends, was a young man of many noble

traits; a warm-hearted friend, a true Christian, a most genial companion; he made friends of all with

whom he came in contact. He was a young farmer with a bright future before him, having inherited an

unusual amount of pluck and energy from his father. He was a tireless worker and gave promise of

being one of the largest landed estate owners in this section."

Following Lish's death, Lena moved back to Byron to live with her parents and for a while, Lena was

the postmistress of the tiny Byron Post Office(*). Lena married a second time, to William Wallace

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the postmistress of the tiny Byron Post Office(*). Lena married a second time, to William Wallace

Peavy and had two more children and a happy marriage, according to her grand-daughter, Penny

Almon.

(*) From Remembrances of Nellie Bassett Lamar"

Recorded by Nellie Lamar

Elisha Gordon Bassett and Lena Ezell were married on 20 Feb 1889 in Byron, GA. They had the

following children:

Notes for Charles Dunwody Bassett:

General Notes:

Charlie grew up on the Bassett homeplace in Fort Valley, one of the nine children of the Rev. Stephen

Elisha Bassett and his wife Frances. From old family letters, family tales and his obituary, we know

that the Rev. Bassett was both pious and a shrewd businessman. We also know that Charlie was no

saint.

He married Julia Frances Maynard of Forsyth at age 20. The Bassetts and Maynards had been

connected by marriage twice before when Julia's older sister Candace married Charlie's older brother

Gus and earlier when another Maynard brother (Elijah) married a Bassett grand-daughter. Charlie

apparently always earned his living as a salesman, and, by reputation, was a good one, according to

his Brown grandchildren.

He and Julia lived in Fort Valley and started their family, Malinda Frances "Lenna", born in 1892 and

Hugh, born in 1895. Julia died in 1897, 3 months after the birth of their third child, Bessie, as did her

baby. For whatever reason, there was considerable ill will on the part of the Maynards as to the

circumstances of her death and Julia and baby Bessie are buried in the Maynard plot in Forsyth.

Following the death of Julia, Charlie left Houston County. His two small children, Lenna and Hugh,

were farmed out and raised by others in the family. Lenna was raised in both Forsyth and Fort Valley

and Hugh was raised in Americus.

There is an interesting family story about Charlie Bassett returning to Georgia from his home in

Minneapolis many years later for a visit. While staying with his daughter, Lenna Bassett Brown, and

her family, he suffered a stroke, and the daughter he had abandoned as a small child became his

caretaker for the next 4 years, until his death in 1935. This Lenna managed while caring for her

husband and 11 children! The only bright side of the story is that upon his death, Lenna and Hugh,

her brother, inherited acreage from Charlie in Peach county, GA., land that he had inherited from his

father,* Stephen Elisha Bassett. There was a specific clause in Rev. Bassett's will, stipulating that

Charlie could not sell the land, although he had drawn the income from it for years, and that it could

be inherited only by a blood relative (which would have excluded Charlie's second wife and their

adopted son). This windfall meant a great deal to both Lenna and Hugh. Lenna inherited 218 acres,

which her family farmed for years, and Hugh, then living in California, sold his share and the money

meant a new start after the Depression years and the death of his wife.

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*Charlie inherited the property called "the Claxton place".

(It was not until I got into family research that I found that Grandfather Charlie had been alive during

Daddy's adult life, having died in 1935. I'm under the impression that they had no relationship. SF)

Notes for Julia Frances Maynard:

General Notes:

Here follows, what I know of Julia;

She was the 11th child (of 12) in the large Maynard family and apparently much loved as the little

sister of the clan. The Maynards were from Forsyth. She married Charlie Dunwody Bassett of Ft.

Valley in 1890 when she was 21 and he was 20. Her older sister, Candy, had married Charlie's older

brother, Gus, and another older brother (Elijah Thomas Maynard) was married to a Bassett cousin.

Charlie and Julia lived in Fort Valley after their marriage and their first 2 children (Lenna and Hugh)

were born there. Julia died at age 28, shortly after the birth of her third child in 1897, followed shortly

by the death of her baby daughter, Bessie.

Charlie had apparently turned out as a less than stellar husband and there was ill will over Julia's

death. The Maynards insisted that she be returned to her own family for burial.

Julia and her baby Bessie Mae are buried in the Maynard plot in the Forsyth City Cemetery, Forsyth,

GA. Listed in the index as follows;

Julia Frances Bassett

Born July 25, 1869

Died June 23, 1897

Bessie Mae Bassett

Born May 15, 1897

Died Aug. 2, 1897

daughter of Mrs. C. D. Bassett

Charles Dunwody Bassett and Julia Frances Maynard were married on 30 Dec 1890. They had the

following children:

Bertrand Brown on 15 Nov 1910. She died on 01 Feb 1979.

1897 in Fort Valley, Ga.

Notes for Agnes Krogg Anderson:

General Notes:

Was originally from Denmark.

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Charles Dunwody Bassett and Agnes Krogg Anderson were married about 1905. They had the

following children:

Valley, GA. He died on 02 Jan 1928 in Fort Valley, Ga.

Notes for Sidney Green Bassett:

General Notes:

Sid stayed in his home area and, according to his obituary, was a retired farmer. He also had worked

for a number of years soliciting subscriptions for the Macon Telegraph throughout South Georgia.. He

died suddenly in Fort Valley, age 55. His grand-daughter, Carol Donahoe, is of the opinion that

farming was not his main occupation.

had the following children:

17 Jun 1989 in St. Petersburg, FL.

in Atlanta, GA. She died in Nov 1961 in Atlanta, GA.

Notes for William A. Melvin:

General Notes:

Buried at Oaklawn Cemetery, Fort Valley

William A. Melvin and Minnie E married. They had the following children:

William A. Melvin and Lucy Wright married. They had no children.

1872. She died in 1947.

Jacob Wilson Brown and Sarah Azilee Bassett married. They had the following children:

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Unknown Brunson and Anna Bassett married. They had the following children:

John W. Bassett and Helen Gould Ambrose married. They had the following children:

Wade Dowling and Laura A. Bassett married. They had the following children:

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Paul Crapse and Mahala Bassett married. They had the following children:

1893.

Henry Googe Bassett and Blanche Dixon married. They had the following children:

died on 19 Feb 1972.

died in 1974.

Raymond Anderson Kinard and Martha Bassett married. They had the following children:

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Paul J. Allen and Sally Bassett married. They had the following children:

died in 1929.

Notes for Marion Bassett:

General Notes:

Marion chose her own name, according to tradition. Instead of naming the last child, her father is said

to have written "Plenty"-Mar. 14, 1901. After 17, he couldn't have said it better.

James Claude Vernon and Marion Bassett married. They had the following children:

They had the following children:

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Charles Barker on 16 Jan 1905 in Marion Co. FL. She died on 27 Aug 1962 in Palm

Beach, FL.

Jun 1878 in Ft. McCoy, Marion Co. FL. She died on 18 Mar 1901.

Lakeland, FL.

Adolphus Bain Kibler and Louise Aurora Bassett were married on 19 Apr 1896. They had the following

children:

1872 in Ft. McCoy, Marion Co. FL. He died on 05 Sep 1967.

Alabama.

Henry Devers Bassett and Mary Illinois Gammon married. They had the following children:

David Elmer O'Berry and Thelma Potter married. They had the following children:

Notes for Stephen Allen Bassett:

General Notes:

Served as a seaman in the US Navy during the First World War.

Stephen Allen Bassett and Carolyn Miller married. They had the following children:

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Notes for Steve Bassett Jr.:

General Notes:

Died in England during WWII

born on 14 Aug 1879.

Alonzo Pattishall and Georgia Pearl Cole were married on 17 Dec 1905. They had the following

children:

born on 04 Apr 1883.

Mr. Edwards and Alma Jane Pattishall married. They had the following children:

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John Clyde "J.C." Pattishall and Helen Lawrence Gardner were married on 24 Sep 1924 in

Francis-1) was born on 05 Jan 1898.

Leonard Jerome Pattishall and Dorothy Maud Appleby married. They had the following children:

was born in 1890. She died in 1982.

Duff Gordon Bembry and Annie Lee Pattishall married. They had the following children:

Francis-1). He died before 1930.

Francis Augustus Bassett and Era Joyner were married in 1904. They had the following children:

born on 30 Sep 1884. He died on 24 Jan 1948.

children:

in Mansfield, Ohio.

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was born in 1889 in Fort Valley, GA. He died on 30 Aug 1947 in De Kalb, Georgia, USA.

Notes for Elisha Tansell Bassett:

General Notes:

Served as an electrician in the US Navy in the First World War.

Elisha Tansell Bassett and unknown spouse married. They had the following children:

born on 01 Mar 1875. She died on 24 May 1956.

Dunnellon, FL.

John Allen Grumbles and Mary Susan Bassett were married on 01 Jun 1893 in Anthony, FL. They

had the following children:

Sossaman on 01 Jun 1927 in Jacksonville, FL.

1966 in Memphis, TN.

born on 26 Aug 1887 in Ft. Valley, GA. He died on 10 Apr 1919 in Georgia.

Notes for Neville Brown Bassett:

General Notes:

Neville and his family lived in Chicago. He died at age 32, leaving his wife and 4 year old daughter.

He was a claims adjuster for Montgomery Wards at the time of his death. It is believed that he

actually died in Fort Valley, however. He is buried in Oaklawn Cemetery.

Neville Brown Bassett and Hazel Amelia Smith married. They had the following children:

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was born in Sep 1891. He died on 16 Apr 1951 in Ft. Valley, GA.

Notes for Ralphiel Phillips Bassett:

General Notes:

Ralph was a graduate of the University of Georgia in 1915, and a member of Chi Phi fraternity and

Phi Beta Kappa. He served with the American Expeditionary Forces during the First World War from

May 1917-Sept. 1919, and attained the rank of Captain. He went to Europe with the Second Division,

saw service with the Ninth Marines, was wounded at Chateau Thierry and hospitalized for 3 months at

the base hospital at Chateau Roux, while recovering from severe wounds.

Perhaps the most life changing experience he had in France, however, was meeting Henriette

Bourdier, the lovely Parisian girl who became his wife in 1919. Ralph and his bride returned from

France, following the end of WWI, and lived, for a while, with his parents at the Bassett Hotel in Fort

Valley.

The transition from life in Paris to a small, rural Georgia town was not easy for Henriette. She was fun

loving and happy by nature and admired for her beauty and her fashionable wardrobe. War brides

were not that common in WWI and she was accorded a certain status in the region. However, her

welcome by her husband's parents was less than warm. Ralph's mother Maud, in particular, had

opposed the marriage. As for Ralph's father Stephen, he said "Two of my sons married foreigners",

referring to both Henriette and to his son Neville's wife Hazel, who came from Chicago.

After living with Stephen Hicks and Maud in the Bassett Hotel during the first few years of their

marriage, Ralph and Henriette moved to the Bassett homeplace and here they raised their family.. It

was, in fact, Henriette who named the homeplace Pineola.

Ralph became a Vice President of Atlanta Trust Co. and later worked for Metropolitan Life Insurance

where he was in charge of the farm loan division during the Depression. He retired at age 46, due to

a serious heart condition and spent the intervening years (until his death at 59) "raising" his 5

daughters and cherishing a reputation among their local swains as a much-feared, very strict father.

He was known forever to his children and grandchildren as "Daddy Bill". He had been dubbed "Billy"

by Henriette in their courting days.

Bloomington, Indiana.

Notes for Henriette Blanche Alphonsine Bourdier:

General Notes:

Henriette was born to parents of modest means in the tiny village of Marmagne near Bourges,

France. She and her sister Marguerite were raised by wealthy relatives in Paris and she attended

boarding schools in Bourges, Paris, and Leicester, England.

During the First World War, she worked in Paris for the American Expeditionary Forces in the office of

then Col. Charles G. Dawes, as a secretary and interpreter in the office of the General Purchasing

Board. Dawes became General Dawes, serving as Pershing's right hand man and later was the vice

President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. He also served as the US Ambassador to

England. Documents bearing his signature on commendations and permits to Henriette Bourdier are

treasured by her family today.

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Ralphiel Phillips Bassett and Henriette Blanche Alphonsine Bourdier were married on 28 Feb 1919 in

Paris, France. They had the following children:

29 Nov 2000.

in Chapel Hill, NC.

Russell Hilliard on 09 Sep 1951 in The Presbyterian Church of Ft. Valley, GA.

born on 21 Jan 1893. He died on 05 Jun 1961.

Notes for Noble Paul Bassett:

General Notes:

Noble Paul Bassett was a graduate of the University of Georgia and the State College of Agriculture.

He served in the U. S. Navy in World War I and later was the joint owner (with Ralph Phillips Bassett)

of the Bassett homeplace, which he farmed. It is Noble Paul, who built the house across the road

from Pineola, officially named "Broadacres". His letterhead of that era says he dealt in Real Estate as

well as being a Planter.

According to his family, his true interests lay in the civic and political arena. He was head of the

Democratic party in central Georgia, during the Roosevelt and Landon years. His personal political

connections enabled him to help the Blue Bird Bus Co., a major Fort Valley business, stay open

during WWII by obtaining a steel quota for them. His other civic activities included the Peach County

School Board and the Fort Valley Public Library.

His son, Ralph, describes "Boble" as he was fondly called, as a shy man, who did not like the

spotlight. He was, however, an extremely opinionated man and a voracious writer. In 1944, he

published a book, "A Constitution of the United Nations of the World". His motive, like others of his

generation who had seen two world wars, was to offer his vision of world peace and order. Likewise,

he wrote a plan to eliminate farm surpluses and sent it to Richard Nixon, who wrote him that it was an

excellent plan, but not politically viable.

Notes for Edith Melton:

General Notes:

Edith was a graduate of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta.

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Notes for Evelyn Bassett:

General Notes:

Evelyn and her brother, Ralph, grew up at the Bassett homeplace, and later across the

road at Broadacres. She has fond memories of her childhood. She tells stories of

swimming in the old fishpond in the side yard with her cousin Patsy and also how the two

of them caught the house on fire with matches in a closet. Claims she ran and got under a

bed while Patsy reported the fire. A bucket brigade saved the day, but the charred wood

still shows in the closet at Pineola!

She also speaks of the pride she had in her father (she called him Boble) and the great

love she had for both him and her Uncle Ralph. Also how being a Bassett was a

responsibility taken very seriously.

Evelyn graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1953 and taught school in Atlanta for 3

years until her marriage to Carroll Tillman. Thereafter she continued to teach in various

locations as her husband relocated and also to complete a M.A. in counseling. She

counseled at the high school level in the Sacramento, CA area and later in Tokyo.

Following her earlier divorce, she married Wally Fuqua in 1970, continued counseling in

various schools in California, and earned her Ph. D. in psychology from the Professional

School of Psychology in 1983, retiring from the school system in 1987. Her husband,

Wally, died in 1984. In 1987, she published a book, "From Sirius to Earth" dealing with

extraterrestrial soul exchange. She has traveled extensively, but says she's always glad to

get home, and today, home is California, which she loves.

During the Christmas holidays of 2000, Evelyn and Col. Edwin J. Cook were married

aboard the ship Olympic Voyager in the Caribbean. He is retired from the Air Force and is

a rancher in California. Ed accompanied her to the Bassett Reunion in May of 2000, so

has seen the scenes of her childhood and met many relatives.

Evelyn says she feels "extremely fortunate to have had a wonderful childhood on the

Bassett farm with an extended and loving family around me. We were always loved and

protected, giving all of the Bassetts I know a deep inner sense of security."

Sep 1959.

born on 09 Oct 1894. She died on 25 Oct 1985 in Morganton, NC.

Notes for Lucy Cornelia Bassett:

General Notes:

Lucy grew up at the Bassett homeplace, purchased by her father shortly before her birth. She was

the only daughter of Stephen and Maud to survive infancy.

She was educated at Brenau College in Gainesville, GA., college educated at the insistence of her

mother and later taught school for a number of years in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.

Lucy returned home for a few years following the death of her mother, to care for her ailing father until

his death in 1925, an obligation that she felt was hers as the only daughter. She met her husband

while working as a teacher in Morganton, NC and married him in Chicago while vacationing with "Aunt

Fannie".

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She and her husband, Dr. William Kibler, lived in Morganton, where he practiced medicine and they

raised their two daughters. Her daughter, Lucy Maud, reports that her Mother was highly intelligent,

quite strict, but loving. She was very active within her community, being instrumental in establishing

the Girl Scouts in Morganton, worked for her church, the United Methodist, and was active with the

PTA.

(She was also interested in family history and wrote of the Bassett family in about 1929. We are

indebted to her for much early information on the family.)

in Morganton, NC.

had the following children:

George Luckhardt on 05 Mar 1960 in Morganton, NC. She died on 07 Aug 2006 in Easton,

born on 22 Nov 1889 in Byron, GA. She died on 20 Aug 1983 in Ft. Valley, GA.

Notes for Nellie Gordon Bassett:

General Notes:

Nellie was a posthumous baby, born following the early death of her father, Elisha Gordon Bassett.

She lived as a small child in Byron, in the home of her maternal grand-parents and as the much loved

and doted on grand-child of both the Bassetts and Ezells.

The two grandfathers were in many ways opposite. Papa Bassett was a man of property, while Zeke

Ezell was more inclined to give away what he had rather than accumulate anything. At Papa

Bassett's house, prayers were long, and everyone knelt with arms resting on a chair seat to listen to

Papa pray. The view through the slatted chair back was forever photographed on Nellie Bassett's

mind.**

She remembered having reservations about "Miss Tommie", Papa Bassett's wife, who was very

religious and considered herself "sanctified" and therefore not subject to anger, but Nellie

remembered that her eyes could look angry and her lips could be compressed very tightly together at

times.**

Nellie was musical and an avid, life-long reader. She attended Cox College in Atlanta and went to

Texas as a young bride, where her husband worked for the railroads and her 2 daughters were born.

He later became a lawyer and practiced in West Palm Beach, FL, where they lived for a number of

years. She always returned for visits with family in the Byron/Ft. Valley area however, and in their later

life, she and her husband returned to Ft. Valley to live. Nellie died in Fort Valley at age 92.

She and her husband are both buried at Oaklawn Cemetery in Fort Valley.

** From Remembrances of Nellie Bassett Lamar and Nellie Lamar

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children:

was born on 29 Dec 1892 in Fort Valley GA. She died on 01 Feb 1979.

Notes for Malinda Frances Bassett:

General Notes:

Lenna lost her mother (Julia Frances Maynard) when she was a small child and Charlie, her father,

left the area. She was raised in the homes of several family members, but mainly with Gus and

Candace Maynard Bassett (her father's brother and her mother's sister).

Lenna married her husband, Bertrand, when she was 18, and for many years, they lived in Madison,

GA. (Morgan Co.), where he had a General Merchandise and Farm Supplies business and farmed.

Most of the 11 Brown children were born while the family lived there. In 1934, the family moved to

Crawford Co., where they farmed the property that Lenna would inherit from her father, Charlie D.

Bassett.

(Lenna was also very interested in family history and I am indebted to her for the information that she

sent me in 1969) SF

Co. GA.

Olia Bertrand Brown and Malinda Frances Bassett were married on 15 Nov 1910. They had the

following children:

Edward Barnett on 18 Oct 1941 in Peach Co. GA. She died on 13 Mar 1986.

Co. GA.

Notes for Annie Elizabeth Brown:

General Notes:

Annie died in childhood.

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Dunagan on 19 May 1945 in Crawford Co.GA.

Co. GA.

Gordon on 09 Dec 1949. He died on 01 Dec 1954 in Peach Co. GA.

Tidwell on 03 Mar 1952.

Faye Tidwell on 27 Nov 1958. He died on 25 Jun 2001.

born on 08 Mar 1895 in Fort Valley, Georgia (was Houston Co. now Peach Co.). He died on 27 Jan

Notes for Hugh Gale Bassett:

General Notes:

Born in Fort Valley, GA in 1895, the second child of Charlie Bassett and his wife Julia Maynard

Bassett. Following the death of his mother in 1897, when he was 2 1/2 years old, Hugh was taken to

Americus, Ga. and raised by his maternal uncle, Robert L. Maynard and his wife Susie Sheppard

Maynard, who had recently lost their only child. Robert L. Maynard was a prominent attorney and for

many years a judge in Sumter Co. GA. He later served in the Georgia House of Representatives from

1929-31,

Hugh served in the Navy in Cuba in the first World War, and left Georgia soon after his discharge.

He's found in Little Rock, Arkansas in the 1920 census. He also worked at some point in Texas,

where he met and married Mary Margaret Brennan of Erath County in 1925. By the late 1920's, they

were in Long Beach, CA. where he was a reporter for the Long Beach Press Telegram. Hugh and his

wife (listed as Margaret) are found in the 1926 Long Beach City Directory, he listed as a reporter for

the Press Telegram and living at 71 Lime Street, Long Beach.

In the 1930 census, they are found at 835 First Street in Downey,(Los Angles County) CA, owning

their own home, he working as an editor on a weekly newspaper (not named) and she as a

bookkeeper.

Their only child, Mary Sue, was born in 1932. Mary Margaret died in 1935. Hugh married again in

May of 1937, to Gertrude "Trudy" White of Hamilton, MT, a fellow reporter at the Press Telegram.

They were married for 13 years, divorcing in 1950.

Hugh spent most of his working life as an editor for various newspapers in the Los Angeles area. At

the time of his death in 1956, he was working for the Los Angeles Examiner.

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Notes for Mary Margaret Brennan:

General Notes:

The only record of Mary Margaret's birthplace as Athens, TX is on her death certificate, obviously

provided by Hugh, her husband. In the History of Henderson Co. Texas (USGENWEB) is mention of

the fact that the St. Louis & Southwestern Railroad came through Athens in the "mid-1890's. Her

father was believed to be a stonemason for the railroads, so this fits with the family living there in

1894. (This info from Jean Brennan, son of her brother Joe)

Her mother, Lena, and a newborn died at childbirth in 1897. Bartholimue, her father, seems to have

left the maternal grandparents to raise his children and he later remarries and has a second family

(Grace and Katherine). Mary and Joseph appear in the 1900 federal census in Dublin, TX, living with

their grandparents, Owen and Mary O'Brien. I believe that Mary O'Brien, the Grandmother, must

have died in the early 1900's. The Grandfather, Owen, died in 1912. In the 1910 census, the children

are living with their maternal uncle, Eugene O'Brien and his wife Mary and daughter, Minnie, in

Alexander, TX. Nothing else is known of her childhood. Jean Brennan says that though his father

(Joe) did not talk much about his childhood, he reported that Eugene O'Brien, the uncle, was a mean

SOB when drunk. We can guess that Mary and Joe would have left as soon as they could.

Mary is found in the Houston, TX City Directory in 1917, working for the Standard Prtg. and Litho Co.

and boarding at 1307 Mary St., Houston.

There is record of a Mary Brennan teaching school at the Clairette School in Clairette, TX (also in

Erath Co.) during the early 1920's. This may have been our Mary. Later, in the 1930 census, by then

married to Daddy, she's listed as Margaret Bassett, working as a bookkeeper in Norwalk, California.

When she was a child, in both the 1900 and 1910 census', she's listed as Mary Brennan. She

apparently prefered Margaret however, and went by that name as an adult. She's listed as Margaret

M. Bassett in the 1930 census and as Margaret in her obituary and I will list her that way also. I

guess she, like me, and always used her middle name instead of Mary.

Hugh Gale Bassett and Mary Margaret Brennan married. They had the following children:

Serumgard Kabeary on 12 Feb 1955 in St. Stephens Cath. Church, San Francisco CA.

Hamilton, Montana. She died on 18 Feb 1998 in Hamilton, Montana.

Hugh Gale Bassett and Gertrude White were married on 01 May 1937 in Long Beach, CA. They had

the following children:

Notes for Robert Mortimer Bassett:

General Notes:

Bob Bassett is a graduate of the University of Montana, with a degree in Russian. He and

his wife, Sonya have lived and worked in Russia. They currently live in Butte, MT. Bob is

a writer.

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Notes for Bertha Bassett:

General Notes:

Bertha was born and raised in Fort Valley, the older daughter of Sid and Maggie Bassett. She was

married to Bob Matthews 17 years. After his death, she lived for several years each in Kansas City,

Mo. and Chicago, where she worked in retail sales. Retirement took her to St. Petersburg, Fl. She

remained close to her sister, Nanine, and having no children of her own, took a particular interest in

Nanine's children, Becky and Carol, who knew her fondly as "Aunt Bebe". Carol loved to hear her tell

the story of the time she fell in the hog wallow at Pineola. Bertha's ashes were scattered in the Gulf of

Mexico.

Robert Matthews and Bertha Bassett married. They had the following children:

Notes for Nanine Bassett:

General Notes:

Nanine, too, grew up in Ft. Valley, She was educated at Shorter College in Rome, GA. Later, in

Atlanta, where she worked in banking, she met and married Wyley Owen Cheney (called W. O.), who

was principal of Tech High School in Atlanta (1921-47). Nanine was active in the Tech High Women's

Club and the PTA's of her daughter's schools. The family were members of Druid Hills Baptist

Church and the Ansley Park Golf Club. An avid reader and a fan of the Atlanta Constitution's Ralph

Magill, she engaged in lively political debates with her sister Bertha. Both Nanine and her husband

are buried at the Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.

Notes for Wylie Owen Cheney:

General Notes:

Was an educator. Graduate of Univ. of Georgia, MA at Oglethorpe and Atlanta School of Law.

Wylie Owen Cheney and Nanine Bassett were married in Dec 1932 in Atlanta, GA. They had the

following children:

1960 in St. Lukes Episcopal Church, Atlanta, GA. She died in Dec 1995.

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Sep 1923. She died on 05 Jun 1960.

William Edmond Norton Sr. and Miriam Doris Kinard married. They had the following children:

Mar 1888 in Marion Co. FL. She died on 27 Aug 1962 in Palm Beach, FL.

Virginia.

Orrin Charles Barker and Edna Pasco Green were married on 16 Jan 1905 in Marion Co. FL. They

had the following children:

Jennie Alma Hoilman on 05 Nov 1931 in Broward Co. FL. He died on 19 May 1967 in

Marion Co. FL.

Francis-1).

James Emmett Pattishall and Joyce Wright married. They had the following children:

William-2, Francis-1).

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Thomas Leo Schmidt and Emma Lillie Bembry married. They had the following children:

Francis-1) was born on 10 Nov 1918 in Fort Valley, Ga. She died on 13 May 2002 in Mansfield, Ohio.

Notes for Martha E. Bassett:

General Notes:

Martha's children (Collier) were adopted by her second husband (Landis) and used Landis as their

last name.

Shade Collier and Martha E. Bassett married. They had the following children:

Hugh D. Landis and Martha E. Bassett were married on 05 May 1944. They had the following

children:

Ralph Doerrer and Martha E. Bassett were married about 1955. They had no children.

Co.).

Notes for William Emil Bassett Jr.:

General Notes:

Bill Bassett and his wife Dot live in Juliette, Ga. He retired from the Navy after 22 years and later

worked for the Civil Service.

the following children:

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Francis-1) was born on 10 Dec 1915 in Chicago.

Notes for Frances Irene Bassett:

General Notes:

Frances lost her father, Neville Bassett, when she was four years old. Her mother, Hazel, had been

from Chicago, and for a number of years, Hazel and Frances, moved back and forth between Chicago

and Fort Valley. During the periods that they were in Ft. Valley, Hazel managed the dining room in

the Bassett Hotel and also worked as a secretary locally. Eventually, they did return to the Chicago

area permanently, where Hazel worked for 20-30 years as an executive secretary to the

Vice-President of the Chicago Stockyards. Hazel remarried when Frances was a teenager, to Ed

Housinger.

As a young woman, Frances worked at several jobs in fashion and public relations. She married

George Schwerin before WWII and worked while he finished medical school. During the war, he was

a Capt. in the Army and managed the transport of wounded soldiers from the ports to inland base

hospitals. George went into private practice in Chicago following the war and later in Homewood, Ill.

Frances finished her Master's in Education in the late 40's and early 50's at the University of Chicago.

She and George adopted two children, Leslie and Julie, and lived in Flossmoor, a suburb of Chicago.

She remained active in community and charitable activities throughout her life, and learned Yoga in

her 50's, conversational French in her 60's and was organizing a book group in her 70's.

She currently lives in a retirement home in Hanover, NH, near daughter Julie and her family.

George Schwerin and Frances Irene Bassett married. They had the following children:

Florida.

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 11 Aug 1920 in Ft. Valley, GA. She died on 29 Nov

2000.

Notes for Marguerite Lucy Marie Bassett:

General Notes:

Marguerite was the oldest of the 5 daughters of Ralph Bassett and his wife Henriette and grew up at

Pineola. She attended Fort Valley schools, graduating salutatorian of her high school class and with

honors from Georgia State College for Women. She later taught English and Social Studies in

Porterdale and Fitzgerald, GA.

Following her marriage to Frank Harrison in 1947, the couple lived and raised their 5 children in

Northern Virginia, while he worked as a government attorney in Washington, D.C. For many years,

Marguerite was an active member of Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, VA and in 1968, she and

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Marguerite was an active member of Truro Episcopal Church in Fairfax, VA and in 1968, she and

Frank were founding members of the Church of the Apostles, also located in Fairfax. She was

devoted to her family, friends and Church, and only recently passed away at age 80. (2000).

Frank Harrison and Marguerite Lucy Marie Bassett married. They had the following children:

Muldoon on 26 May 1973.

1974.

Godwin on 25 Aug 1984.

Oct 1976.

Apr 1996.

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 17 Feb 1922 in Ft. Valley, GA. She died on 28 Aug

Notes for Beulah Henriette Bourdier Bassett:

General Notes:

Beulah was the second child of Ralph and Henriette, and was born at the Bassett Hotel in Fort Valley.

She grew up, however, at Pineola, the family having moved to the homeplace when she was a baby.

She had completed one year at Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville when she eloped

with Jean Fricke at age 18. Jean had been part of a firm that had wired Pineola for electricity in 1940

and this is where they met. The marriage was not favored by her parents, although they came to

accept it once grandchildren arrived.

The couple had 2 children, Meg and Jean, Jr. and eventually settled in the Atlanta area. Over the

years, Beulah worked in mortgage lending, assisted her husband in his real estate business and did

office management while they moved several times. After their children were raised, they moved to

Jacksonville, FL, where they were later divorced. When Beulah became ill in 1975, she went to live

with daughter Meg, then living in Hawaii. Beulah died there in 1976 at age 54. Meg says that "she

was steady as a rock, always there when we needed her, loving, kind and intelligent......and much

loved."

had the following children:

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Coker on 17 Sep 1966.

1980.

Francis-1) was born on 14 Aug 1925.

Notes for Simone Bassett:

General Notes:

Simone was born and grew up at Pineola, third of the 5 daughters of "Daddy Bill" and Henriette

Bassett.

She always had a great love of books and love of learning, and tells tales of happily sitting in pecan

trees to read books as a child.

She is a graduate of Georgia State Woman's College (now Valdosta State University) and received

Masters degrees from the University of NC (Chapel Hill) in French Literature and Indiana University in

Library Science.

She moved as a new bride to Bloomington, IN. in 1950, and lives there still. (2001). Her husband, Al,

became a professor of English and American Literature at Indiana University, remaining there until his

retirement in 1985. Simone spent part of her career in the Indiana University Library system, working

there for 12 years, 8 of them in the Biology Library. Retiring, when daughter, Marise, was born in

1961, Simone loved these interim years of her life. The extended visits of her widowed mother,

Henriette Bassett, greatly added to her pleasure.

She again returned to school while Marise was in college, earning a Specialist's degree in Library

and Information Science at age 60, and working on database management. She is highly gifted at

needlework, producing many crossstitch treasures for family and friends over the years. She is also

a devoted gardener, growing roses being her great love. She claims her headstone should read,

"She stitched, she gardened, she went to school."

Simone's husband, Al, died in 1992, after a lengthy illness.

(Simone (together with Delise and Paul Knight) was the power that produced the Bassett Family

Reunion in Ft. Valley in May, 2000. Her tireless efforts saw about 65 Bassett descendents together,

many meeting for the first time, and arriving from all over the country and Canada.)

Bloomington, IN.

J. Albert Robbins and Simone Bassett were married on 08 Jul 1950 in Chapel Hill, NC. They had the

following children:

26 Apr 1992 in Micanopy, Florida.

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 08 Apr 1928.

Notes for Marise Elizabeth Bassett:

General Notes:

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Marise grew up at Pineola, 4th of the 5 Bassett daughters. Her father called her "Sallie-Jo". She

attended Georgia State College for Women, receiving her bachelor's degree in 1949. She was a

primary school teacher for a total of 11 years and taught in SC, FL, KY and Germany. She was

teaching the children of military personnel at Ft. Knox, KY when she met her husband-to-be, Ken, an

Army Lieutenant, stationed there. They were married at Ft. Knox in 1956 and honeymooned at

Cumberland Falls, KY.

Following his military service, Ken went on to Purdue University, in West Lafayette, IN, where he

earned both a Masters and PhD in Horticulture. Their children, daughter Deborah, and son Ken, Jr.,

were born while Ken was in school at Purdue.

Because of severe allergy problems suffered by Deborah and the need for a drier climate, the family

relocated in 1968 to Ft. Collins, Co. where Ken accepted the position of Department Head of

Horticulture at Colorado State University. Marise was a stay at home Mom, and spent the bulk of her

time providing a loving home to her children and husband. That her efforts bore fruit can be heard in

the words of son Ken, Jr., who says he had a "strong, but supportive father and a mom with a huge

heart and unfaltering optimism." He also says she has more friends than anyone he's ever known.

They had the following children:

Julie Sullivan on 07 Apr 1990.

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 30 Oct 1931 in Ft. Valley, GA.

Notes for Patsy Edith Eugenie Bassett:

General Notes:

The youngest of the "5 Bassett girls", Patsy's life carried her far from Fort Valley, Ga. She was,

however, the last Bassett owner of Pineola (the house and a few acres), having been given the

homeplace by her mother, Henriette, who inherited it after Ralph's death.

Patsy married Russell Hilliard in 1951, while they were both still in school. They graduated from

Valdosta State University in 1952, and Patsy taught second grade in Zebulon, NC while Russell

attended seminary. In 1957 they left for Spain, where Russell began approximately 21 years working

as a teacher in a small Bible Institute for Spanish Baptist pastors and in publishing, living in

Barcelona, Zaragoza, and Madrid. Patsy was busy raising their 4 children who received their early

schooling at The American School of Barcelona.

In 1976, they returned to the United States due to Russell's ill health. He was inactive for about

eleven years. Having been asked to teach at the college level, Patsy returned to school and finished

her master's degree in Spanish, at age 50, from Appalachian State University. She spent a total of 21

years as a professor of Spanish and English as a Second Language at Montreat College, a small

Liberal Arts College in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She says that these were truly wonderful years for

her. She recently retired and she and Russell currently volunteer among the Latinos in the Asheville

area. Due to Russell's greatly improved health, he is now serving as pastor of a Latino congregation.

Their work includes social work, translating for doctors and lawyers and helping people connect with

jobs and housing.

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Russell Hilliard and Patsy Edith Eugenie Bassett were married on 09 Sep 1951 in The Presbyterian

Church of Ft. Valley, GA. They had the following children:

1982 in Ridgecrest, NC.

Vreni Keller on 19 Jul 1980 in Montreat, NC.

1982.

Richard Palmer Krause Jr. on 13 May 1989 in Ridgecrest Baptist church, Ridgecrest, NC.

Francis-1) was born on 26 Sep 1936.

Notes for Ralph Noble Bassett:

General Notes:

Ralph was born in the homeplace house, where he lived until he was 5. His father then built "the

house across the road" in 1940, where he lived until his marriage. He attended Davidson College in

North Carolina and graduated in 1958. He met his wife, Melba Cronenberg in Fort Valley, where her

father (Francis Cronenberg) was a peach broker during the summer season. Ralph and Mr.

Cronenberg owned and operated Georgia Peach and Pecan, a peach packing business for more than

a decade. Following the death of his father, the family farm was inherited and run by Ralph. Like his

father, Ralph was an active member of the Fort Valley community, serving as Vice President of the

Farm Bureau, was active in Republican politics and the Fort Valley United Methodist Church.

About 1969, Ralph finally sold his homeplace, Broadacres, and his share of the Bassett farm. He and

his family moved to Florida where he worked as a sales rep for W. R. Grace and later with Traylor

Chemical and Supply for 19 years until his retirement in 2000.

Ralph Noble Bassett and Melba Ann Cronenburg were married on 05 Sep 1959. They had the

following children:

Francis-1) was born on 13 Sep 1927 in Morganton, NC.

Notes for Lucy Maud Kibler:

General Notes:

Lucy Maud spent her long professional career as a Speech and Language Pathologist, a choice she

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Lucy Maud spent her long professional career as a Speech and Language Pathologist, a choice she

says was a very happy one for her. She graduated from Shorter College in Rome, GA and received

her Masters degree from Northwestern. She has traveled abroad extensively and has an abiding

interest in politics which, in retirement, she now follows on C-Span. She now lives in Morganton, NC,

the town where she grew up.

Lucy Maud Kibler and unknown spouse married. They had the following children:

Notes for Flora Louisa Kibler:

General Notes:

Flora holds degrees in Education and the Arts. She was a teacher early on and started art programs

in Montessori Schools in 3 states. She and Phil now live in Easton, CT, spending their summers in

Millbridge, ME. Flora's big preoccupation these days is with her children and grandchildren who keep

her on a very tight schedule.

Phillip George Luckhardt and Flora Louisa Kibler were married on 05 Mar 1960 in Morganton, NC.

They had the following children:

En-yu-Ho on 26 Mar 2000 in Cerritos, CA.

Francis-1) was born on 30 Jul 1913 in Texas.

Notes for Kate Ezell Lamar:

General Notes:

Kate Lamar Vinson was a graduate of Florida State Women's College. Both she and her sister,

Nellie, spoke fluent Spanish and Kate served as an unofficial translator for the Blue Bird Body

Company, of Ft. Valley, when they expanded their business into South America. Her daughter

reports that she was a great reader and did gorgeous needlework, and had many interests; bridge,

golf, antiques. As an adult, she was afflicted with physical problems that should have rendered her an

invalid, and did see her in a wheelchair in her later years. However, she lived at home and was

independent until her death. A woman of great strength of character.

Both she and her husband, Charles, are buried at Oaklawn Cemetery in Fort Valley.

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Charles Arthur Vinson and Kate Ezell Lamar married. They had the following children:

GA.

Francis-1) was born in 1915 in Texas. She died in 1994 in Fort Valley, Ga.

Notes for Nellie Lamar:

General Notes:

Nellie Lamar, "Little Nellie" (her mother was called "Big Nellie") never married. She taught Spanish

and after her retirement, was very active in the Migrant Ministries of St. Julianna Catholic Church in

Ft. Valley (although she was a Presbyterian), including welcoming migrant families into her home. She

was a dedicated educator, teaching at Lanier High School for Boys in Macon. She returned to live

with Nellie Bassett Lamar after the death of Alexander Melrose Lamar and after her retirement, she

and her mother moved to Fort Valley.

Buried at Oaklawn Cemetery, Fort Valley.

Nellie Lamar and unknown spouse married. They had the following children:

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 06 Aug 1915 in Morgan Co. GA. She died on 24 Jan 1979 in Peach

Co. GA.

Notes for Julia Ophelia Brown:

General Notes:

Julia owned and operated The Cottage Beauty Shop in Fort Valley for approximately 30 years

following children:

1966 in Peach Co. GA.

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 29 Jun 1918 in Morgan Co. GA. He died on 19 Jan 1975 in Peach

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James Neville Brown and Allie Mae Reynolds were married on 26 Nov 1938. They had the following

children:

Jun 1967.

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 16 Mar 1922 in Morgan Co. GA.

Notes for Thomas Bassett Brown:

General Notes:

Tom served in the Navy and spent all of his working years with Bell South. He has stayed in Georgia.

For many years, he and his family have lived next door to his brother, Paul Brown and family in

Marietta.

Thomas Bassett Brown and Irene Dunagan were married on 19 May 1945 in Crawford Co.GA. They

had the following children:

Cobb Co. GA.

Mar 1983 in Columbia, TN.

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 01 Feb 1924 in Morgan Co. GA. He died on 06 Mar 1992 in Bibb

Co. GA.

Notes for Olia Bertrand Brown Jr.:

General Notes:

O.B. served in the US Navy during World War II.

They had the following children:

1986 in Ogden, Utah.

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Olia Bertrand Brown Jr. and Oraleen Vinson were married on 03 Mar 1979. They had no children.

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 29 Aug 1925 in Morgan Co. GA. He died on 01 Dec 1954 in Peach

Co. GA.

Notes for Charlie Davis Brown:

General Notes:

Charlie was killed in an auto accident, at age 29.

Charlie Davis Brown and Annie Lee Gordon were married on 09 Dec 1949. They had the following

children:

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 25 Jul 1927.

Notes for William Paul Brown:

General Notes:

Served in the Navy 1945-48

Paul worked for Southern Bell for 39 years. Peggy owned her own beauty shop for 15 years.. He

and Peggy are long time residents of Marietta, GA, where they raised their family.

had the following children:

Nov 1973 in Marietta, GA.

McLeod on 12 Jul 1980 in Marietta, GA.

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 23 Mar 1929 in Morgan Co. GA.

Notes for Millard Grant Brown:

General Notes:

Millard is among the few descendents of the Bassetts still living in the area, currently residing in

Crawford Co.

Millard Grant Brown and Lizzie Mae Tidwell were married on 03 Mar 1952. They had the following

children:

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William-2, Francis-1) was born on 22 Mar 1935 in Peach Co. GA. He died on 25 Jun 2001.

Notes for Edgar Clinton Brown:

General Notes:

Edgar and his wife, Leona, lived in Marshallville, Ga.

(I will always have a special spot in my heart for Edgar, who tramped through the underbrush of

Shiloh Churchyard to check gravesites for me a few years back. He also cleared the underbrush in

the cemetery prior to the Bassett family reunion in 2000, although, sadly, he was not well enough to

attend and passed away this past June. SF)

Edgar Clinton Brown and Shirley Faye Tidwell were married on 27 Nov 1958. They had the following

children:

Edgar Clinton Brown and Leona Layfield were married on 09 Oct 1993 in Marshallville, GA. They had

no children.

Francis-1) was born on 11 May 1932 in Long Beach, CA.

Notes for Mary Sue Bassett:

General Notes:

Sue was born and raised in So. California. Her mother (Mary Brennan) died when she was a small

child. The family later included a new step-mother (Trudy White) and in 1940, a younger brother, Bob.

The family moved frequently during her growing up years and the parents divorced when she was in

her teens. She graduated from Oceanside High School (near San Diego). Both parents left the state

soon thereafter..

At age 19 she moved to San Francisco on a lark, and has always been happy she did. She worked

for several years for Pacific Telephone and married Bill Kabeary, a San Francisco restaurateur in

1955. They had 3 daughters, Kelly, Barbara and Susan. The marriage eventually ended and in 1975

she married John Folawn (Col. USA Ret.), an old friend and former Army Judge Advocate.

Sue spent 15 years working in a pediatric office while her children were growing up and later became

a travel agent, allowing for the exploration of "faraway places", long an interest. She and John have

enjoyed traveling, cooking, and collecting art, living happily in San Mateo, CA. Her greatest pleasures

are her family, genealogy and books.

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Dec 1926 in San Francisco CA. He died on 06 May 1993 in Santa Cruz, CA.

William Serumgard Kabeary and Mary Sue Bassett were married on 12 Feb 1955 in St. Stephens

Cath. Church, San Francisco CA. They had the following children:

White in Apr 1983 in Reno, Nev..

Ronald Dino D'Ercole on 23 Aug 1986 in San Mateo, CA (St. Gregory's Catholic Church).

Robert Allan Corley on 09 May 1992 in Ralston Hall, Belmont, CA (San Mateo County).

John Spencer Folawn and Mary Sue Bassett were married on 27 Dec 1975 in San Mateo, CA. They

had no children.

Notes for Rebecca Cheney:

General Notes:

Rebecca Cheney "Becky" was born in Atlanta, the first daughter of Nanine Bassett Cheney. She was

an ambitious young woman. She attended Vanderbuilt University for two years, then graduated from

Emory University in the first class that officially accepted women undergraduates. She was a member

of Kappa Delta sorority and a founder of it's chapter at Emory. In later life, she served on Emory's

Board of Trustees. Moving to New York City about 1954, she pursued a career in public relations in

the cosmetic industry. She also earned an MBA from NYU. At the time of her death she was

executive vice-president of Estee Lauder, Inc. She and her husband, Charles McGreevy enjoyed

theatre, the arts, travel and weekends at their second home in Essex, Conn. Rebecca Cheney

McGreevy is buried at Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.

Charles McGreevy and Rebecca Cheney were married in Dec 1960 in St. Lukes Episcopal Church,

Atlanta, GA. They had the following children:

Francis-1) was born on 27 Jul 1940 in DeKalb Co. GA.

Notes for Carol Elizabeth Cheney:

General Notes:

Carol Cheney Donahoe is the second daughter of Nanine Bassett Cheney. She was born in Atlanta

and attended public schools there, then Smith College in Northhampton, Mass., as a National Merit

Scholar. She received her BA from Georgia State College, a few years after her marriage to Edgar J.

Donahoe, Jr. and the birth of her daughters, Lane and Cathy. In 1968, the Donahoe family moved to

Denver Colo., where Ed established a public accounting firm and Carol was a scout leader and active

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Denver Colo., where Ed established a public accounting firm and Carol was a scout leader and active

volunteer in community activities and St. Thomas' Episcopal Church. She later earned an MAR from

the Iliff School of Theology at the University of Denver and worked as Director of Congregational

Resources for the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado for 14 years. She also did free lance writing and

editing for the United Church Press and other publishers. Recent years have included several

wonderful travel adventures.

They had the following children:

Francis-1) was born in 1944.

William Edmond Norton Jr. and Ruth Gaynelle McBee married. They had the following children:

Francis-1) was born on 04 Feb 1910 in Marion Co. FL. He died on 19 May 1967 in Marion Co. FL.

Marion Co. FL.

William "Bill" Everett Barker and Jennie Alma Hoilman were married on 05 Nov 1931 in Broward Co.

FL. They had the following children:

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born in 1949.

David Lee Goettee and Loretta Ann Schmidt married. They had the following children:

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Gordon E. Siefferman and Loretta Ann Schmidt married. They had no children.

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 15 May 1953.

Notes for Julia Bassett Schwerin:

General Notes:

Julie grew up in the Chicago area with a strong church background, and an advantaged life. She

holds a BA in Music from the University of Northern Illinois and studied for an MBA at the Illinois

Institute of Technology. She has a fascinating resume with a background as an opera singer, racecar

driver, and has also worked in the field of technology for 25 years. She currently owns her own

company in Market Research. As a hobby, she sings jazz in clubs around New England, using the

name Julie Bassett Schwerin.

Ted Pine and Julia Bassett Schwerin were married in 1992 in Florida. They had the following children:

Stephen Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 05 Jan 1951.

Notes for Catherine Marise Harrison:

General Notes:

Cathy and her husband Keith live in Fairfax, VA. She grew up in the Fairfax area, attending local

schools and Mount Olive College.

Thomas Michael Muldoon and Catherine Marise Harrison were married on 26 May 1973. They had

the following children:

1995.

Keith Leonard Clayton and Catherine Marise Harrison were married on 20 Sep 1980. They had no

children.

Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 26 Aug 1953.

Notes for Frank Bernard Harrison:

General Notes:

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General Notes:

Frank and his family live in Manassas, Va., 20 miles outside of Washington, D. C. He works for

Cropp-Metcalf, an air conditioning firm, while Deborah is a kindergarten teacher in nearby Fairfax, VA.

Daughter, Gillian, accompanied her grandmother, Marguerite Harrison, to the Bassett Reunion in

2000.

Frank Bernard Harrison and Deborah Darr were married on 05 Jul 1974. They had the following

children:

Stephen Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 08 Feb 1955.

Notes for Janice Marguerite Harrison:

General Notes:

Janice is the middle of the 5 children of the Harrisons, growing up in Virginia and attending local

schools. She attended Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia, graduating with

a BS in Medical Technology. She is on the faculty at Cornell University Medical College, in a position

created for her in recognition of her role in medical education. She has given individual instruction at

the teaching microscope to hundreds of medical students, pathology and internal medicine residents

and hematology-oncology fellows.

She met her husband, Thomas Godwin, a pathologist in training at the other side of a double-headed

teaching microscope (he was the student). Although they worked at the same hospital for many

years, Thomas is now chairman of Pathology at a community-teaching hospital.Living in New York

City, they enjoy a great fondness for the arts and enjoy the culture available in that city.

Thomas Adams Godwin and Janice Marguerite Harrison were married on 25 Aug 1984. They had the

following children:

Stephen Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 03 Jun 1956.

Notes for Ralphiel Phillips Harrison:

General Notes:

Phillip lives in Clifton, Va. and works in sales. His interests include Archery, boating, Fishing and

Cooking (the best cook in the family, by report!) He also has a keen interest in finances and the stock

market. He and his son Christopher, both attended the Reunion at Pineola in May, 2000.

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Ralphiel Phillips Harrison and Lisa Ann Ritchie were married on 17 Oct 1976. They had the following

children:

Stephen Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 21 Apr 1964.

Notes for Gregory Trussler Harrison:

General Notes:

Raised in the area of Fairfax, VA, Greg was the youngest of the children of Marguerite and Frank

Harrison. He received his undergraduate degree (Business Management) from Old Dominion

University in Norfolk and his masters degree (Information Systems) from George Mason University in

Fairfax. He is a Senior Associate with the Management and Consulting firm of Booz-Allen &

Hamilton.

Greg is a venturesome soul and has enjoyed caving, cliff climbing, whitewater rafting and sky diving

as well as considerable traveling.

He and his wife Ellen live in Fairfax with their family. Ellen is a CPA and a partner in the KMPG, a

national accounting firm. They are also Washington Redskin fans....win or lose!

Gregory Trussler Harrison and Ellen Jean Carey were married on 20 Apr 1996. They had the

following children:

Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 18 Oct 1942 in Macon, Ga..

Notes for Harold Jean Fricke Jr.:

General Notes:

Jean is the Senior Electronics Engineer for a Department of Defense contracting firm and lives in

Summerville, SC. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1964, as a Navy

sponsored student and went on to serve 20 years in the U.S. Navy, achieving the rank of commander

before his retirement in 1984. During his career, he attained his Master of Science degree in

Electronic Engineering and spent one tour as the Commanding Officer of the USS Genesee (AOG-8)

in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Jean says his fondest childhood memories are of Pineola and Grandaddy Bill. He loved sitting on

the old concrete bench and listening to his Grandfather's war stories and wishes he could do it again.

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Harold Jean Fricke Jr. and Linda Marie Coker were married on 17 Sep 1966. They had the following

children:

on 13 Nov 1999.

Stephen Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 13 Oct 1945.

Notes for Margaret Henriette Fricke:

General Notes:

Meg is a psychotherapist, living in Concord, NH. Born in Macon, she grew up in Georgia. Named

Margaret Henriette Fricke, she was called "Meg" (after her mother's favorite character in Little

Women). She attended Newberry College in Newberry, SC and Georgia State College in Atlanta,

where she graduated in 1967 with a B.A. in Sociology and German. During her college years, she

was married, briefly, to Richard Schultz of Pennsylvania. Following graduation, she worked in Atlanta

in the newly integrated public welfare agency as a caseworker, supervisor and branch office

supervisor.

In 1971, Meg and her parents went to visit with brother Jean, then stationed in Hawaii with the Navy.

Jean introduced her to Robert B. McLaughlin, a Chief Warrant Officer who had been in the submarine

service, and they soon became engaged. They were married in Hawaii later that year. While Meg

and Bob were still living in Honolulu, Beulah joined them in the year before her death. After his

retirement in 1978, Meg and Bob, a native of New England, moved to Concord, NH. A year later, Bob

died of a sudden heart attack on Feb. 24, 1979. He was 57.

Later that year she met Dean Wilber, a Concord businessman, who was divorced and raising his 3

teenage children; Mitch, who was 19 and in college, Chris, 17, and Debbie, 15. They were married in

1980 and have lived in Concord ever since. Meg was as a medical social worker at a general hospital

in NH and in 1985 graduated with a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Connecticut.

She has been in private group practice for the past 6 years. Dean works as an OSHA compliance

consultant and is also a dedicated maple syrup producer using trees on and near their property. All of

their children are married and live fairly near Concord, enabling Dean and Meg to enjoy their four

grandchildren.

Meg reports that her memories of being at Pineola are the "best of all my childhood memories".

When she was in grade school, her French grandmother, widowed by then, would invite her and her

brother Jean to visit for 2 or 3 weeks every summer. She loved being with her grandmother and

brother, relaxing in the gentle country life at Pineola.

Dean E. Wilber and Margaret Henriette Fricke were married in Jun 1980. They had the following

children:

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Robert B. McLaughlin and Margaret Henriette Fricke were married in 1971. They had no children.

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 27 Sep 1962.

Notes for Marise Henriette Robbins:

General Notes:

Marise is the only child of Simone Bassett and Al Robbins, and grew up in Bloomington, IN. She

graduated with a BS in Biology from Indiana University and later earned double Master's degrees in

Biology and Environmental Science, eventually working as a field biologist in Florida. She flew over

the state in a helicopter doing bald eagle surveys, hiked through the pine flatwoods in search of the

elusive red-cockaded woodpecker and gopher tortoises and swooped through the Everglades on an

airboat doing predator/prey surveys. Work she found fascinating.. She later managed wetland and

faunal permitting for 100,000 acres of central Florida.

She married Guy W. Forbes in 1992 in Florida. He was pursuing a Ph.D. in Music Education at the

University of Florida and was her choir director at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Gainesville.

In 1996, Guy was offered a Music Education/Choral faculty position at Millikin University in Decatur,

IL.

As it was a prestigious music school and only three hours from Simone Robbins, they jumped at the

chance.

Their daughter, Sydney Simone was born in Aug. 1999, coincidentally the same birthdate as her

Grandma Simone.

Marise served as "Director of Academic Grant Development and Legislative Affairs" at Millikin

University for their first five years on campus and Guy is the Coordinator of Music Education and

Associate Director of Choirs at Millikin. She has recently (July 2001) accepted a new position as

Director of Development for a non-profit organization called Baby TALK that encourages parents in

the nurture of their very young children (0-3 years), providing information and services to equip them

for the challenges of parenting.

Guy Wayne Forbes and Marise Henriette Robbins were married on 26 Apr 1992 in Micanopy, Florida.

They had the following children:

Notes for Sydney Simone Forbes:

General Notes:

Born on her grandmother's 74th birthday!

Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 08 May 1963 in West Lafayette, Ind..

Notes for Kenneth Maurice Brink Jr.:

General Notes:

Kenneth graduated from Colorado State University in May, 1985 with a degree in recreation

management. He trained to become an Emergency Medical Technician and also serves as a

volunteer fireman. He spent 5 years working for the U.S. Forest Service as a wilderness ranger and

coordinator. In 1987 he began a career with the Colorado State Parks, where he has been a climbing

ranger at Eldorado Canyon near Boulder, a boat patrol ranger at Boyd Lake, and a Senior Ranger at

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ranger at Eldorado Canyon near Boulder, a boat patrol ranger at Boyd Lake, and a Senior Ranger at

Jackson Lake. Since 1997, he has been the park manager at Steamboat Lake State Park, high in the

mountains of Northern Colorado.

Kenneth has a son, Alex, who lives with his mother, but father and son spend endless hours hiking,

fishing, hunting and skiing. As an avid outdoorsman, Kenneth say he has an innate love of the

outdoors that is unique in the family and may only be explained by the presence of his grandfather

Daddy-Bill's DNA deep inside him.

Kenneth's wife Lynette works for the Steamboat springs Police Department.

Kenneth Maurice Brink Jr. and Julie Sullivan were married on 07 Apr 1990. They had the following

children:

Kenneth Maurice Brink Jr. and Lynette Braden were married on 10 May 1997. They had no children.

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 13 Dec 1960.

Notes for Deborah Ruth Brink:

General Notes:

Since her childhood years, Deborah has lived in Colorado. She graduated from Ft. Collins High

School and later, from Colorado State University in 1982 with a degree in Civil Engineering. While at

CSU, she was a member of Pi Beta Phi. She spent some time after graduation as a research

associate and then returned to school to earn her Master's degree in Environmental Engineering in

1984.

She spent a year and a half working for the Colorado Dept. of Health. Since 1986, she has worked

for the AWWA Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that serves as the centralized research

organization on drinking water research in North America, and increasingly internationally. She

started as a Project Manager and is currently the Deputy Executive Director, Research Management.

In 1999 she received an MBA from Denver University. She was in the Executive MBA program,

working and going to school full-time. A real adventure, including 3 weeks at sea!

She recently became engaged to Ken Thompson, a friend since the late '80's, who works for an

environmental engineering firm in Colorado. They plan an early 2002 wedding.

Deborah Ruth Brink and unknown spouse married. They had the following children:

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Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 13 Jul 1956.

Notes for Rose Margaret Hilliard:

General Notes:

Rose celebrated her first birthday in Barcelona, when her parents were newly arrived in Spain, where

the family lived for nearly twenty-one years. She received her early education at The American

School of Barcelona. When she was in 4th grade, there were only 8 children in her class, but they

were from 5 different countries.

Eventually, she returned to the U.S. to attend college and has a degree in languages from Wake

Forest and a Masters in linguistics from the The University of SC. She met her Swedish husband,

Ake, while both were serving as volunteers with Operation Mobilization on an exhibit/bookstore ship,

called the "Doulos", that was serving ports in Latin America on that voyage.

Rose is a teacher of English as a Second Language and lives with her family in Sweden. Her

husband is a professor of English Literature at Karlstad University.

Ake Bergvall and Rose Margaret Hilliard were married on 26 Jun 1982 in Ridgecrest, NC. They had

the following children:

Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 26 Sep 1957 in Barcelona, Spain.

Notes for Russell Boston Hilliard Jr.:

General Notes:

Russell, Jr. was born in Barcelona, Spain, shortly after his parents arrived there to do missionary work

and grew up in Spain. He returned to the U. S. to attend college at Wake Forest, the University of NC

at Asheville and Harvard. He then received a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology from Vanderbuilt. He also

attended school at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Like Rose, Russell also met his wife, Vreni, while serving with Operation Mobilization on the "Doulos".

He and his family live in Nurensdorf, Switzerland, where he is a clinical psychologist. His wife Vreni is

Swiss.

Russell Boston Hilliard Jr. and Vreni Keller were married on 19 Jul 1980 in Montreat, NC. They had

the following children:

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Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born in 1959.

Notes for Elizabeth Ruth Hilliard:

General Notes:

Born in Barcelona, Spain, Elizabeth, her husband John, and their two daughters currently live in

Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, where they are missionaries of the Presbyterian Church of America. In the

summer of 2001 they will return to the U. S. where John will be involved in the medical and

community developement training of missionaries destined for work in Third World countries.

They have had a widely varied career including two years of medical work in the jungles of Peru and

work with the Hispanic population of Hendersonville, NC, in the States. Both are graduates of Emory

University School of Nursing. John received his master's degree and certificate as a nurse practitioner

from the University. of Virginia.

John Carroll Sexton and Elizabeth Ruth Hilliard were married on 12 Jun 1982. They had the following

children:

Elisha-4, Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 25 Aug 1964 in Barcelona, Spain.

Notes for Rebecca Anne Hilliard:

General Notes:

Becky was also born in Barcelona, Spain. She has degrees in psychology and counseling from the

University of NC at Chapel Hill. Becky teaches Spanish in the public schools. She and her husband

met when both were volunteers in an Appalachian Outreach program in Tennessee, where they were

renovating and repairing houses in an area of poverty.

She and her family live in Frederick, MD, where her husband, Richard Krauss is an youth and family

pastor of the First Baptist Church.

Richard Palmer Krause Jr. and Rebecca Anne Hilliard were married on 13 May 1989 in Ridgecrest

Baptist church, Ridgecrest, NC. They had the following children:

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 13 Jul 1960 in Macon, GA.

Notes for Mary Katherine Bassett:

General Notes:

Kitsie spent her younger years in Fort Valley, in the "house across the road" from Pineola. When she

was 9, her parents, Ralph and Melba Bassett, moved to Florida, where she grew up, later coming

back to Atlanta to attend Agnes Scott College from which both her mother, aunt (Evelyn Bassett

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back to Atlanta to attend Agnes Scott College from which both her mother, aunt (Evelyn Bassett

Fuqua) and her grandmother, (Edith Melton Bassett) graduated. After graduation in 1983, she

worked for CNN in public relations, and later, Turner Broadcasting until 1996 when she "retired" as

Vice-President of Financial Communications.

She is currently at home in Atlanta, raising sons, Chart and Hunter, her contribution to the next

generation of Bassetts. Her husband, Chris, has worked on congressional and senate staffs and is

currently press secretary for the Georgia Secretary of State

Christopher Dwight Riggall and Mary Katherine Bassett were married on 26 Oct 1985 in Atlanta,

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 07 Jan 1965 in Macon, GA.

Notes for Francis Noble Bassett:

General Notes:

Frank attended Wake Forest University, graduating in 1987 with a degree in Political Science. Out of

school, he went to work for Hyatt Hotels and Resorts and is still with them, currently as Assistant

General Manager of the Hyatt Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia. Frank, no doubt, deserves the

prize for coming the farthest distance to attend the 2000 Bassett family reunion.

Francis Noble Bassett and unknown spouse married. They had the following children:

Notes for Lucy Anne Luckhardt:

General Notes:

Lucy and Steve live in San Francisco, where she is active in community and church activities and he

is in business.

They had the following children:

William-2, Francis-1) was born on 21 Dec 1962 in Washington DC.

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Notes for Corell Luckhardt:

General Notes:

Corell's first husband Brett, died tragically in 1994, when he was gunned down in his office in

Southhampton, PA, by a deranged former employee of the James River Corp., manufacturer of

paper products, co-founded by Brenton Shaw Halsey Sr., father of the deceased. Corell was left with

3 small children and expecting a 4th.

She has remarried. She and her husband, Thurston Moore, have a son and live in Richmond, VA.

where he practices law and she teaches 9th grade Algebra in addition to raising her large family.

Corell completed her Masters in abstract math.

They had the following children:

Thurston Roach Moore and Corell Luckhardt were married on 26 Sep 1998 in Deltaville, VA. They

had the following children:

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 02 Jan 1966 in West Chester, PA.

Notes for Amelia Kibler Luckhardt:

General Notes:

Amy, and her husband Guy, live in Melrose, MA. She is a financial manager at Boston Medical

Center and he is an architect.

They had the following children:

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 01 Jun 1971 in Pheonix, AZ.

Notes for George William Luckhardt:

General Notes:

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General Notes:

George and Esther live in Alameda, CA . He is an attorney with a law firm in Sunnyvale

George William Luckhardt and Esther En-yu-Ho were married on 26 Mar 2000 in Cerritos, CA. They

had the following children:

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 08 Jan 1936. She died on 22 Mar 2007 in Ft. Valley,

GA.

Notes for Penelope Ezell Vinson:

General Notes:

Pennie is a retired teacher. She graduated from Florida State University with a degree in Education

and later obtained her Master's degree. She and her husband Bob, live in Fort Valley, in the home

that was originally built for her great grandparents, Lish and Lena Ezell Bassett by Stephen Elisha

Bassett.

Robert Holtzclaw Almon and Penelope Ezell Vinson married. They had the following children:

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born on 07 Jul 1938.

Russel W. Spangler and Melrose Lamar Vinson married. They had the following children:

Stephen-3, William-2, Francis-1) was born in 1944.