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- Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas
The Goodspeed Publishing Company (1890)
James Bassett, merchant and farmer of Marion, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1845, and is the son of Samuel and Lydia (French) Bassett, who are natives of England. They came to the United States before their marriage and were united at Vicksburg, making their home there, whence he went into the Mexican War. Soon after his return from the war he died of yellow fever, and after his death the mother and family remained at Vicksburg where Mrs. Bassett was married to David McClure, a native of Mississippi. In 1856 Mr. and Mrs. McClure moved to Memphis, and in the following year to Crittenden County, Arkansas, where the aged mother still lives, her husband having died in 1871. To her first marriage were born two sons, James and Samuel D., and by the second marriage was born one child (now deceased). Before the war James Bassett made his home in Memphis most of the time and at the commencement of the war joined the Confederate army as a private in the Twenty-first Tennessee Regiment, under Colonel Pickett. He served three years and was not in any battles of note; was in Memphis when that city was besieged. After the war he returned to Crittenden County, where he has since lived and has been engaged in farming, and in 1883 embarked in the merchandising business at Marion, and today is one of the most prominent citizens of that place. He was married to Mary A. Fox, who was born in Memphis and reared in Arkansas, and a daughter of John H. and Eva (Echeiner) Fox, natives of Germany. The mother died in 1889 at a very old age. To Mr. and Mrs. Bassett have been born four children: Lydia E., Mary E. (who is the wife of Dr. T.O. Bridgeforth), Samuel D. and Virginia J. Politically, Mr. Bassett is a Democrat and is a member of the Knights of Honor, Lodge No. 3114 of Marion. This family is composed of fine-looking people and has been noted for some time for its remarkable health. Mr. Bassett in many ways is a typical western man, imbued with that vim, enterprise and push so characteristic of the free sons of the West, and has done much for the advancement of his county.
1850 Federal Census of Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi (13 Aug 1850)
David A. McClure - 28 - M - Louisiana - Blacksmith
Lydia - 30 - F - England
James Bassett - 6 - M - Mississippi
Samuel Bassett - 2 - M - Mississippi
1860 Federal Census of Fifth Ward, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee (11 Jul 1860)
Lydia McClure - 42 - F - England - Landlady
James - 16 - M - Mississippi
Samuel - 11 - M - Mississippi
1880 Federal Census of Jasper, Crittenden County, Arkansas
James Bassett - 33 - M - MS-EN-EN - Head - Farming
Mary A. - 28 - F - TN-GM---- - Wife - Keeping House
Lilly E. - 10 - F - AR-MS-TN - Daughter
Mary E. - 8 - F - AR-MS-TN - Daughter
Samuel C. - 6 - M - AR-MS-TN - Son
Virginia - 4 - F - AR-MS-TN - Daughter
Abe Hamilton (B) - 24 - M - TN-TN-TN - Other - Farm Laborer
George Butler (B) - 19 - M - AL-KY-GA - Other - Farm Laborer
1900 Federal Census of Jasper, Crittenden County, Arkansas (20 Jun 1900)
James Bassett - 54 - M - Sep 1845 - MS-EN-EN - Head - Farmer
Mary A. - 49 - F - Nov 1850 - TN-GM-GM - Wife
Mary E. Bidgforth (Wd) - 28 - F - May 1872 - AR-MS-TN - Daughter - Clerk
Samuel C. Bassett - 25 - M - Jun 1874 - AR-MS-TN - Son
Maud A. - 23 - F - Aug 1876 - AR-MS-TN - Daughter
(Married 31 years, 4 children, 4 living)
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