Frances Bassett descends from #5B William Bassett of Virginia as follows:
William Bassett of England and wife Anne
William Bassett and wife Bridget Cary
William Bassett (b. 1671) and wife Joana Burwell
William Bassett (b. 1709) and wife Elizabeth Churchill
Burwell Bassett and wife Anna Maria Dandridge
John Bassett 9b. 1765) and wife Betty Carter Browne
George Washington Bassett (b. 1800) and wife Betty B. Lewis
Ella Moore Bassett (b. 1834) and husband Lewis William Washington
New York Times, January 18, 1898
Mrs. E.B. Washington Dead.
Was a Descendant of Washington’s Family
Performed Many Daring Acts During the Civil War
Mrs. Ella Bassett Washington, one of the nearest descendants of George Washington’s family, died of pneumonia yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at her residence in the Parker apartment house, 123 West Thirty-ninth Street, after a protracted illness.
Mrs. Washington was born fifty-nine years ago in Hanover County, Va., and was the daughter of George Washington Bassett and was related to many of the most distinguished families of America, having the blood of Presidents Washington, Taylor, and the two Harrisons in her veins. She was also a great-granddaughter of William Burnet, one of the Colonial Governors of New York and Massachusetts Bay. She married Col. Lewis William Washington of Jefferson County, West Va., who was the son of George Corbin Washington of Maryland.
Mrs. Washington was an early member of the Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association, which secured and has preserved the home and tomb of Washington. She was the possessor of many valuable relics of Gen. Washington. She was a member of the Society of Colonial Dames of Virginia, of the Mary Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution, of New York, and a Trustee of the National Historical Museum. She was well known in literary circles, having contributed to many of the well-known magazines. Some of her poems, notably, “The Song of the Sea” and “The Ruined Castle” have been widely published.
Being a Southerner by birth, and living at her father’s family place in Virginia, near Richmond, she was within the sound of the guns of seventeen battles, and performed many daring deeds in the way of transmitting information, &c., through the lines. Among the most notable of her acts of bravery as the capture of a Federal officer whom she turned over as a prisoner of war. For this she was voted a gold medal by the Confederate Congress.
Funeral services will be held at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon at St. Ignatius’s Church, Fortieth Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The burial will take place at Charles Town, Jefferson county, West Virginia.