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- There are separate pictures of Fletcher S. Bassett and his wife included in the Bassett Family of Mercer County, Illinois.
From the Aledo Record, 1910 [Isaac Newton Bassett's] oldest son [Fletcher] was educated at Annapolis at the Annapolis Naval School and was a Lieutenant in the Navy, but had to resign in the early eighties on account of ill health, and died in Chicago on the [1]9th of October 1893. He was the interpreter in the administration building at the Columbian Exposition and translated all of the foreign documents. During his service in the Navy, he was on the admiral's staff and was the interpreter on a visit to the Mikado by the admiral in Japan and was also interpreter in China and other places.
1850 Federal Census of Lewis County, Kentucky
Isaac N. Bassett - 24 - M - Merchant - Kentucky
Scienda - 25 - F - Ohio
Fletcher S. - 2 - M - Kentucky
Clayton W. - 5/12 - M - Kentucky
1860 Federal Census of Mercer County, Illinois
Isaac N. Bassett - 34 - M - Kentucky - Lawyer
Lucinda J. - 34 - F - Ohio
Fletcher S. - 13 - M - Kentucky
Flora A. - 10 - F - Illinois
Minotta - 8 - F - Illinois
Thomas - 6 - F - Illinois
Luella - 3 - F - llinois
Mary J. Bassett - 25 - F - Illinois
1870 Federal Census of Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois (11 Jul 1870)
Isaac N. Bassett - 44 - M - Kentucky - Lawyer 10,000 3,000
Caroline - 36 - F - Pennsylvania - Keeping House
Flora A. - 18 - F - Kentucky
Laura M. - 15 - F - Illinois
Thomas W. - 13 - M - Illinois
Luella - 11 - F - Illinois
Ray H. - 6 - M - Illinois
Fletcher S. - 22 - M - Kentucky - Midshipman U.S. Navy
Gerty Clara Bell - 15 - F - Illinois
Bertram - 3 - M - Illinois
1880 Federal Census of B.H. Dist. Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Fletcher Bassett - 30- M - KY-KY-KY - Head - Lieutenant United States Navy
Helen M. - 26 - F - IL-OH-IA - Wife
Wilbur - 57 - M - IL-KY-IL - Other
A. Louise Hawland - 16 - F - MA-MA-MA - Other - At School
Herbert Conwell - 5 - M - MD-NY-SP - Other
Mary Bollis - 24 - F - IR-IR-IR - Other - Servant
Margaret McSane - 21 - F - NS-NB-NB - Other - Servant
George Evans - B - 26 - M - VA-VA-VA - Other - Servant
(SP - Spain) (NS - Nova Scotia) (NB - New Brunswick)
Excerpt from Autobiography of Isaac Newton Bassett
When I was married my sisters Sabrina and Frances were keeping house for Brother L.A. and I in a house adjoining our store building, so I brought my wife to our home and we remained there until December 1847 when a great rise in the Ohio R. carried our dwelling house away. We moved into rooms of L.S. Moore's house near by and there my son Fletcher Stewart was born on the 20th December. I had to move again in the spring into a house in Samuel Hill's place nearby and remained there a year or more until I built a house in the village of Quincy which Samuel Hill had laid out and where we moved in 1849.
The children of my first wife, Fletcher Stewart, born Dec 20th 1847, married to Helen M. Wheeler on the 10th day of Jan 1874, died Oct 9th 1893 at Chicago. He left one son, Wilber born 1874 who is a lawyer in Chicago.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1847 - 1893 (45 years)