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- Portrait and Biographical Album of Oakland County, Michigan
By Chapman Brothers
John Bassett
The marriage of our subject occurred February 16, 1837. His bride, Ervilla Coomer, was a daughter of David and Betsey (Cole) Coomer, who came from Yates County, New York, to Michigan about the year 1830, and settled in Farmington Township. These were the first settlers there and they made it their permanent home. Mr. Coomer was born April 8, 1787 and died June 2, 1865. His wife was born October 14, 1790, and died July 2, 1870. They were the parents of ten children, three of whom still survive.
Mrs. Bassett was born April 17, 1816, in Yates County, New York. She died in March, 1887.
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