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- The Eastern Gazette 12 Dec 1940, page 5
Mrs. Celia A. Page
Mrs. Celia A. Page passed away Wednesday afternoon at her home after a
brief illness of pneumonia.
She was born in Dexter, April 17, 1853, in the house on Spring street
now occupied by Mrs. S. J. Redman. She was the daughter of Hiram Bassett and
Susan Butler Bassett and when a young girl came with them to the home on
Zion's Hill.
After leaving high school she worked for her father in his dry goods
store for several years. In 1882 she married Edward Page of the Page Spearing
Co. Guilford and lived in that town until his death in 1904, when she came
back to the old home in Dexter.
She was the last of the Bassett family of four children; Ellen Derry,
Clara Flynt, Celia Page and Harry Bassett all of whom spent their last years
in the old home on Zion's Hill, and all will lie in the same lot in Mt.
Pleasant cemetery.
Mrs. Page belonged to the Eastern Star, the Woman's Literary Club and
the Universalist church. She was an interesting companion, a kind friend and
neighbor, in fact a real gentlewoman, and will be greatly missed by her many
friends in both Guilford and Dexter.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1853 - 1940 (87 years)