George Bassett descends from #56B Jonathan Bassett as follows:
Jonathan Bassett and wife Amy Finch
John Bassett (b. 1779) and wife Sabra Witter
George Bassett (b. 1808) and wife Nancy Wilson
1884 Picture of the Bassett House on Jefferson Street, Abingdon, Knox County, Illinois for sale on ebay
Back of photo mentions Mrs. G.A. Hickman, a granddaughter of George Bassett of Abingdon
Nebraska, The Land and the People, Vol. 2
George Bassett was born in 1809, and he and his wife were married at Russellville, Ohio, in September, 1837. When still a boy George Bassett left his home in New York State and came as far west as Ohio, and for some years worked at anything honest he could find to do, saving his money and investing it profitably until he had a sufficient amount to start in the mercantile business, which he did at Russellville, and there he achieved an admirable success, and there all of his children, with the exception of Charles K., were born. Leaving Russellville, he moved to Abingdon, Illinois, having sold his interests in his former home, and in his new one repeated his former successes, and during the war period of the ’60s, served as postmaster of Abingdon, and was its leading merchant. A zealous Republican, he and his sons were loyal supporters of its principles and the Union, and when a miscreant tried to cut down the flagpole, from which the flag was kept flying in the public square, one of the sons shot at him and prevented the desecration. The life of this useful citizen and great patriot terminated in 1889, when he was over seventy-nine years old. His wife survived him for some years, passing away in 1906, at the age of eighty-eight years. They had three sons and three daughters, namely: Sarah, who married D. N. Strain, had three children; Cyrus, who served in the Union army during the war between the states, died from tuberculosis contracted in the war, shortly after the declaration of peace, [p.456] leaving his widow, formerly Mary Merrill; Louise, who married Paul Fearing, an uncle of Vice President Dawes, and they have two sons and one daughter; George M., who is a minister of the Methodist Episcopal faith, is now superintendent of the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, and is married; Julia, who married W. F. Shoop, has three sons; and Charles K., who is the youngest.