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- Moved to Georgia.
Stephen Bassett appears on the tax list of 1817 for Jones County, Georgia. He also bought 101 1/4 acres of land in Jones County, Georgia in 1817 from John Courson.
(Death records from SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE - Brent Holcomb, p. 19 and 102)
1810 Federal Census of Cumberland County, North Carolina
Stephen Bassett 11200-00002
1820 Federal Census of Jones County, Georgia P. 126
Stephen Bassett 010010-111100 1m10-15,1m26-45,1fU10,1f10-15,1f16-24,1f26-45
1830 Federal Census of Houston County, Georgia
Stephen Bassett 100010000-101001000 Total 5
1850 Federal Census of Houston County, Georgia
Stephen Bassett 62 M North Carolina Farmer 1200
Jane 53 F South Carolina
Elisha 17 M Georgia
Georgeana 16 F Georgia
1860 Federal Census of 5th District, Houston County, Georgia (30 Jul 1860)
Stephen Bassett 72 M North Carolina Farmer 1000 5245
Jane 62 F FL or VA
THE BASSETT FAMILY from HISTORY OF PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA
Before the Revolution there were three Bassett brothers who came to America from England. Two settled in northern states, but Francis went to Virginia and later settled in North Carolina. He was a professor of languages, having a speaking knowledge of seven. His son, William, married Mary Phillips, a descendant of the Flora Stewart who was born during the voyage to America when her parents fled from Elgnad after the execution of Charles I. (1649) William and Mary (Phillips) Bassett had three sons: Stephen, Thomas and Francis. They moved to South Carolina. Later Mary returned to North Carolina with the sons and made her home with her sister, Mrs. Katie (Phillips) Gibson, Katie and her husband, who was a breeder of blooded horses and owned extensive lands along the Cape Fear River, were childless and willed their property to Mary Bassett's oldest son, Stephen. In the meantime William Bassett bought an island off the coast of South Carolina and settled there. When he died, his son Stephen went to settle the estate. While in South Carolina he met and later married Jane Morris, who, because of her jealousy of Stephen's old North Carolina sweetheart, never consented to his returning to claim the Gibson estate.
The Stephen Bassetts moved to Clinton, Georgia, near old Fort Hawkins. In 1823 they moved to Houston County and settled near Bryon. They had five children: William, Mary, Jane, Stephen Elisha and Georgia Ann.
William Bassett, who served in the War between the States in the Third Georgia Regiment, married Sara Ann Walker. He and his wife had four children: William, Angie, Molly and Stephen Morris, who married Neita Allen. Their son, Stephen Allen, married Carolyn Miller; their three children were: Steve Jr., who was killed in action in England during World War II, Neita and June, Neita married Philip Scot of New York; they had three children: Carolyn, Philip Jr., and Vicki. June married Lieutenant-Colonlel P.L. Yow.
Mary, the first daughter of Stephen and Jane (Morris) Bassett, married Dan Clark. Their children were: Victoria, Sweetie, Drew, and three who died in the War Between the States: Sid, John and Will. Victoria married Elijah Thomas Maynard. They had four children: Mattie, Wiley, Elijah W. and Angie. Wiley married Marie King: they had a son, John. Elijah W. was a prominent lawyer, a judge, and a city attorney in Macon. At one time he conducted a law school. Angie Maynard married Norbie Charles Gammage; they had four children. Their son, Norbie Charles Jr. married Naomi Smalling of Macon. They had a daughter, Faye. Elijah Thomas Gammage married Wylena Melvin. Nelle Angelina Gammage married Evie Louie Vickers; their children were Dorothy Nadine, Gerald Van and Elijah Thomas. Dorothy Nadine married a Powell and her brother Gerald Van Vickers married Margaret Best. Grace Ione, the fourth Gammage child, married George W. Goodwin. They had one child, Carole Deloris.
Sweetie Clark, the daughter of Dan and Mary (Bassett) Clark, married Charles Reeves of Macon. Drew Clark and his wife had three sons and a daughter. Mary.
Jane, the third child of Stephen and Jane (Morris) Bassett, married Jackson Pattishall. Their children were Stephen C., Jackson Jr., Elisha, Eula, Glenn, Mary, Rome and Georgia. Stephen C. served four years in the 14th Georgia Regiment, Company A, in the War Between the States. He was in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga and Atlanta. He married Eliza A. Tucker. The Stephen C. Pattishall children were Minnie, who married John Edwards; Phillip, a minister, who married Lou Ella GUrr; Emmett married Georgie Pearl Cole and their child, William A. married Mildred Dillard; their children were: Albert W., William A. Jr., and Vedde Lynn; Elisha married Hattie Smith; Alma Jane married Charles Edwards; Cluade; Elizabeth; and Katherine married John Mercer. The Mercers' son, John A. served in the European Theater, Tenth Mountain Division, World War II, and married Elizabeth Walton. They had two sons, John and Billy.
Jackson Pattishall Jr. was killed in action during the War Between the States. His brother, Elisha, married Mattie Lewis. Among their children were Mamie, who married Roy House; Emma, whose husband was James Mathis; and J.C., who married Helen. Eula, a daughter of Jackson and Jane (Bassett) Pattishall, married Ben King and their children were: Lucile, who married a Roberts; Ethel married a Walton; Eunice; Leonard: B.H., who married Obi Webb; and C., who married a Josey. Glenn Pattishall married Lilly Christmas. Their four children were: Jackson, who married Mary Wycroft; Beverly, a lawyer; Annie Lee, who married Gordon Bembery; and Lou, who married George Carroll. Mary, another Pattishall daughter, married James Bateman. Their daughter, Flossie, married Wiley M. Melvin.
Rome Pattishall married Annie Butts. Their children were: Maud, who married John Carr; Estella, a nurse; Jack, whose wife was Emma; and Annabelle, who married a Pyre. The eighth Pattishall child, Georgia, married Lewis Smith of North Carolina; they had eight children: Maude, Nancy, Hogan, Albert, Wayne, Paul, Lige and Alice Clifford. Maude married James Oliver. Hogan's second wife was Vera; Alice Clifford was the second wife of Oliver Benson Bowden. See Oliver Benson Bowden Family.
Georgia Ann Bassett, the youngest child of Stephen and Jane (Morris) Bassett, married Wiley Melvin. They had two sons, William A. and Wiley M. William A. Melvin married first Lizzie Turrentine. The children by this marriage were William A. Jr., Anna Kate, Minnie, Maggie Frances, Lizzie, James and Louise. William A. Jr. married first Joyce Williams. He and his second wife, Norma Caolson, had a daughter, Jimmie, who married Herschel E. Griffin. Anna Kate married Morgan Kimbrough; they had two chidren, Billy, who married Ralph Dasher and they had a daughter, Beverly; and Elizabeth, who married Rex Van Orsdate. Rex Jr. and Ray were the Orsdate sons and Joy, the daughter. Anna Kate (Melvin) Kimbrough's second husband was John Wiggins; they had a son, John Jr. Minnie Melvin amrried Ralph A. Aldredge. Their chlidren were R.A. Jr. and William. R.A. Aldreidge Jr. married and had two sons, Mike and R.A. III. Lizzie Melvin amrried Charles Wright; their daughter Inez married James Marshall. The Marshall children were Charlie and Betty Ann. James Melvin was drowned; Louise a sister, married Jonas Hillyer. Maggie Frances was the eighth child of the Turrentine-Melvin marriage. William A. Melvin's second wife was Lucy Wright.
Wiley M. Melvin married Flossie Bateman, who was the granddaughter of Jane (Bassett) Pattishall, the sister of his mother, Georgia Ann (Bassett) Melvin. The Wiley Melvins had eight children: Georgia mae, Frances, Wylena, Wiley Millard, Grace, Dudley, Nell and Beulah. Georgia Mae married E.C. Cameron; Frances, Joe Fishback; Wylena married Elisha Thomas Gammage; they had one child, William Marshall. Wiley Millard and Grace never married. Dudley married Rose Vitzell; Nell, Roy J. Mercer; Beulah, Wilson S. Herdon.
Stephen Elisha Bassett married Frances Emmoline Hicks, the daughter of Elijah and Martha M. (Fudge) Hicks and the granddaughter of Amos Hicks of Crawford County. The Stephen Elisha Bassetts settled on Taylor's Mill Road near Fort Valley shortly after the close of the War Between States. Mr. Bassett donated land for and built the Congregational church in Fort Valley, which he served as pastor for twelve years. About twenty yaers before joining the Congregational church he was a local preacher in the Methodist church. At the time of his death he was superintendent of the Congregational churches of Alabama for the Congregational Home Missionary Society.
Stephen Elisha and Frances E. (Hicks) Bassett had nine children: William Augustus, Walter Leonard, Stephen Hicks, Elisha Gordon, Ida Jane, Francis Asbury, Charles Dunwody, Sidney Green, and Martha Frances. William Augustus married Martha Candice Maynard; their children were: Francis Augustus, William Emile, and Henry Lee. Francis Augustus married Eva Joyer; their children were Gordon, Susie Lee and Homer Lewis. William Emile married Alice Williams of Juliette. Their children were: Martha E., William Emile Jr., Homer Maynard, Stephen Xenophen, Elisha Tansell and Hillyer Gordon. Martha E. married First Shade Collier; their children were Alice, Phillip R. and William. Mrs. Martha (Bassett) Collier's second husband was Herbert D. Landis, their child was Georgia D. Mr. Landis adopted the Collier children and changed their names. Alice Collier Landis married Philip Keller; they had a child, Carla J. William Collier Landis married Joann Marie Halzer. William Emile Basett Jr. married Dorothy J. Truman. Their children were: Jonathan W., Stephen S., Susan A., and Mary A. Stphene Xenophen married Lucy Fulwood; Elisha Tansell married Mary; Hillyer Gordon married Gender Hancock of Crawford County.
Walter Leonard Bassett married first Fannie Baxter of Boaz, Alabama. Their children were: Richard Gladstone, a captain in World War I; Mattie, who married Dock Curtis; Mary, who married Wayne Wilson and had a daughter, Mary; Claudia, who married a Mr. Campbell; and Sidney Greene. Walter Leonard's second wife was Nannie Bryson of Alabama.
Stephen Hicks Bassett received his education at Emory College where he was a charter member of Alpha Tau Omega, won a speaker's place in history, and was awarded a prize in oratory. In Oxford he met and later married Maud Artemisia Brown, the daughter of Simeon Nevill and Luce A.E. (Head) Brown of Morgan County. Maud (Brown) Bassett was a charter member of the Governor Treutlen Capter, DAR. Her American ancestry started six generations back with a Scott. See James Neville Brown family.
The Stephen Hicks Bassett had nine children: Stpehen Elisha, Neville Brown, Bessie and Maud, twins; Ralph Phillip, Noble Paul, Lucy Cornelia, Frances and Dwight Moody.
Neville Brown married Hazel Amelia Smith; they had one child, Frances Irene, who married Dr. George Schiwerin; they had two adopted children.
Ralph Phillip, a garduate of the University of Georgia, was Chi Phi and a Phi Beta Kappa. In World War I he was a captain and was wounded at Chateau Theirry. After his recovery he became Assitant Provost Marshall of Paris, where he met and married Henriette Blanch Alphomsine Boudier, who received her education at Lycee Victor Duruy in Paris and at a private school in England. During the war she was in interpreter under Captain Charles G. Dawes, later Vice-President of the USA.
After the war was over, the Ralph Bassetts came to Fort Valley and lived at the Bassett homestead. Ralph became manager of the Farm Loan Department of the Atlanta Trust Company and was one of its vice-presidents, spending week-ends with his family. He and Henriette had five daughters: Marguerite, Lucy Marie, Beulah Henriette, Mildred Simone, Marise Elizabeth and Edith Eugenia. Marguerite, a garduate of Georgia College, married Frank Harrison. Their five chilren were: Catherine, Bernard, Janice, Philip and Gregory. Beulah attended Georgia College and married J. H. Frick; they had two children, Gene and Margert. Simone married Albert Robbins, who became chairman of the Department of English at the University of Indiana, where he obtained his doctorate and Simone became a librarian. They had one child, Marise. The fourth daughter, Marise Elizabeth, married Lieutenant Kenneth Maurice Brink. Their children were Kenneth and Debbie. Edith Eugenia married Russell Boston Hilliard. They both served as Baptist missionaries to Spain. Their four children were: Rose Margret, Russell Boston Jr., Elizabeth and Rebecca.
Noble Paul Bassett, a graduate of the University of Georgia, a Chi Phi, a Phi Beta Kappa, and a member of Alpha Zeta, an honorary agricultural fraternity, was an ensign in World War I. He married Edith, the daughter of the John William Meltons of Opelika, Alabama and Decatur, Georgia. Her maternal grandfather was Dr. William Dobbins, and early president of the Georgia Medical Society. On her paternal side she was a descendant of President Zachary Taylor. She graduated from Agnes Scott College and the Atlanta Conservatory of Music. She was assistand director of Camp Suwali in North Carolina. The Noble Bassetts had two children, Evelyn and Ralph Noble. Evelyn, a graduate of Agnes Scott College, married Wallace D. Fuqua, a planning geologist of California. She taught in Japan and in California, where she becam a school counselor. Ralph Noble graduated from Davidson College and married Melba Ann Cronenberg of Orlando, Florida, a graduate of Agnes Scott College. They had two children, Mary Catherine and Francis Noble.
Lucy Cornelia Bassett graduated from Brenau College, where she was an Alpha Chi Omega. She was a charter member of the Fort Valley Chapter, DAR. She taught in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. She married Dr. William Herbert Kibler, son of William Michael and Henrietta Louise (Bristol) Kibler. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania, later doing post-graduate work in Chicago. He served four years in Dutch Guiana with the Rockefeller Foundation. He returned to Morganton, North Carolina, to practice medicine. The Kiblers had two children, Lucy Maud and Flora, who married Philip Luckhardt, the son of Gustav George and Mildred Corella Luckhardt. The Philip Luckhardts had three daughters: Lucy Ann, Mildred Corell and Amelia Kibler.
Elisha Gordon, the fourth child of Stephen Elisha and his wife, Frances E. Hicks, married Lena, the daughter of Professor Ezell of Byron. Their daughter, Nellie Gordon, married Melrose A. Lamar, an attorney. See Lamar and Vinson families.
Charles Dunwody Bassett married first Julia Frances, the daughter of William Tansel and Martha Malinda (Dewberry) Maynard of Monroe County. They had three children: Malinda Frances, Hugh Gale, and Bessie Mae. Malinda Frances married Olia Bertrand Brown of Morgan County. See James Neville Brown Family. Hugh Gale Bassett, who served in the Navy during World War I, first married mary Brennen ot Texas. Their daughter, Mary Sue, married William S. Kabeary. of California; their daughters were: Kelly Ann, Barbara Ruth and Susan Eileen. Hugh Bassett's second wife was Gertrude White of Hamilton, Montana. They had one child, Robert Mortimer. Charles Dunwody Basestt's second wife was Mrs. Agnes Krogg Anderson of Illinois; they had an adopted son, Cecil Dwight.
Sidney Green, the eighth child of Stephen Elisha and Frances (Hicks) Bassett, married Maggie Sikes. They had two daughters, Bertha Belle and Nanine, and a son, Millard Sikes. Bertha married Robert Mathews. Nanine married Wylie Owen Cheney of Atlanta. They had two daughters: Rebecca and Carol. Rebecca married Charles McGreevy. Carol married Edgar J. Donahoe; their children were Lane and Cathrine.
Martha Frances, the ninth child of Stephen Elisha Bassett made her home with her father's second wife, the former Elizabeth Thomas Young of Mount Jefferson, Alabama.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1788 - 1867 (78 years)