Ira James Bassett descends from #538B William Bassett of Randwick, England as follows:
William Bassett
William Bassett (b. 1830) and wife Jane Iddles
Ira James Bassett (b. 1862)
Gloucester Citizen, Wednesday, 27 January 1937
Death of Mr. I.J. Bassett, Of Ebley
Business Man and Local Preacher
A wide circle of friends in the Stroud district will learn with deep regret of the death which took place at his home at the Bungalow, Ebley, of Mr. Ira James Bassett, who was well-known in many spheres of work.
Of Randwick parentage, Mr. Bassett spent his boyhood days and his youth in Leeds, when his mother remarried and left the Stroud district. He early showed signs of business ability. When he returned to the Stroud district he was engaged in business as an oil merchant, and he became greatly interested in the Randwick Methodist Chapel.
There his staunch temperance principles came into conflict with the leaders, from whom he separated, and joined the Primitive Methodists in the village. He shortly after became one of the leaders in the building of the chapel at Cashes Green, of which he remained a trustee to the last.
Mr. Bassett, who was 74, served for a few years on the Stroud Board of Guardians, and was for ever a friend of the “down and out,” when occasion demanded. He was a radical in politics, and for many years was a prominent local preacher, officiating chiefly at Methodist Chapels.
He was ever a fighter for truth, justice, freedom and peace, and he was of a very loving disposition, a fact to which many people who participated in his generosity and kindliness could testify. In his latest years his Christian work was interrupted by illness and pain, which he bore with fortitude.
He leaves a widow and six children, two sons and four daughters.
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