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Nancy Jane Spencer

Female 1839 - 1907  (68 years)


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  • Name Nancy Jane Spencer 
    Born 14 Apr 1839  Patrick County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    _UID B8915A2B3F73D244B3BFD19B86CAEF1DD0C6 
    Died 16 Jun 1907 
    Notes 
    • 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 I520  2B Thomas Bassett of Virginia
    Last Modified 21 Aug 2013 

    Father Lewis Spencer 
    Mother Priscilla Adams 
    Family ID F300  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Henry Bassett,   b. 31 Dec 1827, Henry County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Feb 1915  (Age 87 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 Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1965, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (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