Bassett Family Association Database

Family: Emory Brown Thompson / Edna Foree Bassett (F06061)

m. 23 Feb 1898

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  • Male
    Emory Brown Thompson

    Birth  29 Oct 1869  Cherokee County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  11 Dec 1936  Palestine, Anderson County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial     
    Marriage  23 Feb 1898  Palestine, Anderson County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  William Flint Thompson | F06062 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Matilda Ellen Frisby | F06062 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Edna Foree Bassett

    Birth  31 Jul 1881  Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  May 1972   
    Burial     
    Father  John Foree Bassett | F04158 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Elizabeth McLeod | F04158 Group Sheet 

    Female
    + Jonnie Orceil Thompson

    Birth  20 Nov 1898  Palestine, Anderson County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  6 Feb 1986   
    Burial     
    Spouse  Elliot Duncan Cooke | F07938 
    Marriage  31 May 1921   

    Male
    + Emory Bassett Thompson

    Birth  15 Oct 1905  Palestine, Anderson County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  24 Apr 1979   
    Burial     
    Spouse  Loretta Chapman | F07939 
    Marriage  12 Nov 1929   

  • Notes 
    • Married

      At the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Basset
      Palmer street, Palestine, Texas, at 7:15 p.m., Wednesday, February 23, 1898,
      Mr. Emery B. Thompson to Miss Edna Bassett, Rev. R.R. Hamlin officiating.
      This was a very quiet home wedding, only members of the families and a
      few friends being present.
      The attendants were Miss Eva Thompson, sister of the bridegroom, and
      Mr. Harry Bassett, brother of the bride; Miss Sadie McLeod and Mr. P.
      McBrearty of Taylor.
      The bride wore a handsome suit of navy blue silk henrietta clot
      trimmed with light and dark blue velvet, with cascade of elegant lace at side
      of corsage. Miss Thompson wore a pretty street suit of navy blue, trimmed with
      white braid. Miss McCloud also wore a street suit of brown cloth, with vest of
      pink satin and trimmed with lace. The gentlemen all appeared in handsome black
      suits.
      After congratulations the company were invited out to an elegant
      spread of cake, fruit, coffee and chocolate, served in the dining ro
      colored waiters, in white gloves, etc.
      This evening, Mrs. Thompson, mother of the bridegroom, will give a
      lunch and reception to the newly wedded couple at their elegant residence on
      Langston street.
      Mr. Thompson is a popular young railroad man, and Miss Edna is a
      native of Palestine, where she has spent the bright years of girlhood, and
      numbers her friends by the hundreds. The ADVOCATE joins with many in its
      felicitations to the young people and all wish for them only the happie
      future. May their lives be like their wedding day -- all sunshine.