John Henry Bassett

1827 - 1915  (87 years)

• Name	John Henry Bassett
  Born	31 Dec 1827	Henry County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  _UID	5D3CDDA28281E249B7C2037B919AF9E74816
  Died	4 Feb 1915
  Notes	John Henry Bassett came to the area now called Bassett, Virginia, about 1856. When the railroad came through about 1890, they called the stop "Bassett". 1880 Federal Census of Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia John H. Bassett - 53 - M - VA-VA-VA - Head - Farmer Nancy - 40 - F - VA-VA-VA - Wife - Keeping House Joshua - 18 - M - VA-VA-VA - Son - Works on Farm Mary C. - 15 - F - VA-VA-VA - Daughter - At Home John D. - 14 - M - VA-VA-VA - Son - Works on Farm Charlie - 9 - M - VA-VA-VA - Son Nancy S. - 7 - F - VA-VA-VA - Daughter Sam - 6 - M - VA-VA-VA - Son Pink - 5 - M - VA-VA-VA - Son Joseph - 2 - M - VA-VA-VA - Son History of Virginia, Volume VI (1924) The American Historical Society, Chicago & New York John David Bassett is a loyal Virginian who has not found it necessary or expedient to wander from his "native heath" in finding opportunity for large and constructive achievement along industrial lines. In evidence of this stand the great manufacturing concerns which he has developed at Bassett, Henry County, a vital industrial town of model order and one that has its site on the old homestead farm which was the place of his birth. Here this man of initiative and administrative talent was born July 14, 1866, a son of John H. and Nancy J. (Spencer) Bassett, the former of whom was born near Preston, Henry County, and the latter in Patrick County, both families having early been founded in Virginia. John H. Bassett passed his entire life in this native county, save for the period of his loyal service as a soldier of the Confederacy in the Civil war, and he was long numbered among the representative tobacco farmers of Henry County, the while he stood forth as a substantial and liberal citizen well worthy of the unqualified popular esteem that was his. He died in 1917, at the venerable age of eighty-three years, his wife having passed away in 1907, aged sixty-eight years, and having been his effective help meet, with exceptional ability as a business woman.
  Person ID	I518	2B Thomas Bassett of Virginia
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	Alexander Hunter Bassett,   b. 22 Nov 1795, Virginia ,   d. 8 Nov 1880, Henry County, Virginia  (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Mary (Polly) Koger,   b. 12 Jun 1793,   d. 28 Apr 1863, Henry County, Virginia  (Age 69 years)
  Married	20 Apr 1818
  Family ID	F41	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy Jane Spencer,   b. 14 Apr 1839, Patrick County, Virginia ,   d. 16 Jun 1907  (Age 68 years)
  Married	16 Dec 1856
  Children	1. Bassett,   b. 1857(?)   2. Bassett,   b. 1858(?)   3. Alexander Hunter Bassett,   b. 18 May 1859,   d. 25 Sep 1863  (Age 4 years)   4. Lewis C. Bassett,   b. 14 Dec 1860,   d. 9 Oct 1863  (Age 2 years)   5. William Joshua Bassett,   b. 25 Aug 1862,   d. 22 Jul 1898  (Age 35 years) + 6. Mary Drucilla Bassett,   b. 2 Jul 1865(?),   d. 11 Mar 1950 + 7. John David Bassett,   b. 14 Jul 1866, Bassett, Virginia ,   d. 26 Feb 1965, Virginia  (Age 98 years) + 8. Charles Columbus Bassett,   b. 23 Jun 1869,   d. 4 Jan 1930  (Age 60 years) + 9. Nancy Susan (Dink) Bassett,   b. 17 Apr 1871,   d. 17 May 1956  (Age 85 years) + 10. Samuel Henry Bassett,   b. 10 Feb 1873,   d. 17 Mar 1914  (Age 41 years)   11. Pickney D. Bassett,   b. 16 Jan 1875,   d. 7 Aug 1910  (Age 35 years) + 12. Joseph Benjamin Bassett,   b. 3 Aug 1878,   d. 9 May 1966  (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart