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- 1880 Federal Census of Rising Sun, Ohio County, Indiana
Mills Bassett B 43 M NC NC NC Head Baptist Preacher
Mary B 27 F KY KY VA Wife Keeping House
Aaron Z. B 9 M IN NC KY Son
Miles A. B 3 M IN NC KY Son
James H. B 10/12 M IN NC KY Son
Lucy Washington B 82 F VA VA VA Mother-in-law
Alice Young B 21 F KY KY VA Sister-in-law House Keeper
1900 Federal Census of Noblesville Twp., Hamilton County, IN (Jun 1900)
Miles Basset B 63 M Aug 1836 NC NC NC Head Minister
Mary L. B 46 F Sep 1853 KY KY VA Wife Housewife
Miles B 23 M May 1877 IN NC KY Son Day laborer
James B 20 M Jul 1879 IN NC KY Son Farm hand
Ethel M. B 14 F Jun 1886 IN NC KY Daughter Domestic
Frank B 3 M Jan 1897 IN NY KY Son
Lucy Washington B 110 F 1790 VA VA VA Grandma
(Married 30 years, 7 children, 6 living)
(Lucy, 1 child, 1 living)
1920 Federal Census of Greensboro, Henry County, Indiana (2 Jan 1920)
Miles Bassett B 86 M NC NC NC Head Minister
Mary L. B 67 F KY KY VA Wife
James H. (Wd) B 40 M IN NC KY Son Farmer General farm
Frank A. B 22 M IN NC KY Son
Cyrus T. Cotton? B 9 M IN IN IN Grandson
Mary P. B 5 F IN IN IN Granddau (#295B4)
Our Baptist Ministers (includes picture)
Rev. Miles Bassett of New Albany, Ind.
It is needless to say that the greatest amount of church-building and
organization has been by men who were born during the dark days of slavery,
men who came up through very adverse circumstances, men who rose to usefulness
not with the help of their early surroundings but in spite of the most
strenuous efforts to keep them down.
Such a man is Rev. Miles Bassett of New Albany, Indiana. Rev. Miles
Bassett was born in Greene County, North Carolina, Aug. 25, 1836. He was the
son of Rev. Zachariah Bassett. Before her marriage his mother was Elizabeth
Reed; she was of a family of Reeds who lived near Tarboro in Edgecombe County.
In 1844, Miles Bassett moved from North Carolina and settled in a Quaker
settlement in Park County, Ind. It was here that Rev. Zachariah Bassett first
began to preach, having organized a little church out of the emigrants who
accompanied him from North Carolina.
Miles was sent to a Quaker school, where he received a common school
training, which was afterwards supplemented by hard study. At the age of
seventeen Miles was converted and, being baptized by his father, joined the
church of that place. In 1865 he was ordained. His labors have been almost
exclusively in Indiana. He served the Second Church of Shelbyville for nine
years. From a small congregation he built up a large one and left them with a
house worth $3,200, whereas when he went to them they had no house of worship.
His second charge was the Second Church of Rising Sun, Ind.; at the same time
by unanimous consent of his church he supplied alternately the churches of
Carrollton, Ky., and Madison, Ind. In 1881, he took the pastoral charge of the
Second Church of New Albany, where he still labors. When he accepted the call
to this church they were worshiping in a comfortable but shabby looking house,
ill fitted for the purposed of a church and unpaid for. By untiring effort and
unswerving fidelity, Rev. Bassett not only paid off the last cent but
immediately began raising a building fund. He soon had sufficient money in
hand to warrant him in beginning a new edifice. Instead of building they
bought the finest and most modern style church edifice owned by any colored
congregation in that section of the state. The original cost of the building
was $30,000. Upon it is the city clock, the official time-piece for all
municipal purposes.
Rev. Bassett is a great financier. He has an original and almost
unequaled plant of liquidating the church debt.
As a preacher Rev. Bassett is deep, yet plain and practical, and gives
to his flock abundant spiritual food. He is the founder of the Eastern Indiana
Baptist Association, of which he is corresponding secretary. In every respect
he is an exemplary Christian. His life is his greatest sermon. He lives and
practices what he preaches.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1836 - Deceased