Edward Wilson Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows:
William Bassett and wife Elizabeth
William Bassett (b. 1624) and wife Mary Raynesford
William Bassett (b. 1656) and wife Rachel Williston
William Bassett (b. 1680) and wife Abigail Bourne
Nathaniel Bassett (b. 1719) and wife Hannah Hall
Elisha Bassett (b. 1761) and wife Keturah West
Elisha Bassett (b. 1796) and wife Elizabeth Foster
Oliver Langdon Bassett (b.1825) and wife Elizabeth Jane Montgomery
Edward Wilson Bassett (b. 1864) and wife Carrie Ella Howard
Edwin Howard Bassett (b. 1897) died in a plane crash.
History of Greater Indianapolis
by Jacob Piatt Dunn, Volume I
Edward Wilson Bassett is the president of the Bassett Grain Company. He has been a resident of Indianapolis since 1892. When he came to this city he embarked in the grain business, and in 1898 he formed his present business association. The Bassett Grain Company are among the largest handlers of grain in Indianapolis, being both buyers and shippers. Edward Wilson Bassett was born near Battle Ground, on the southern border of White County, Indiana, June 20, 1864, a son of Oliver L. and Elizabeth J. (Montgomery) Bassett, the father born in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1825, and the mother near Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1831. They were married near Madison, Indiana, in 1847, and of the seven children which blessed their marriage union Edward W. was the fifth born. Oliver L. Bassett, a carpenter and farmer, spent his early life in Madison County, Indiana, from whence he later moved to White County, this state, where his children were born and where he spent the last years of his life, dying in 1875, while his wife, Elizabeth J., survived him until 1904. He was an acceptable member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics was a Republican.
After and education in the village schools of Battle Ground, Indiana, Edward W. Bassett began teaching at the age of sixteen, and he continued in the profession until he had attained the age of twenty-two. From that time for about six years he was numbered among the merchants of Stockwell, and at the close of that period came, as above stated, to Indianapolis. He married Carrie E. Howard January, 1, 1890. She was born at Stockwell, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, a daughter of Nelson K. and Eliza P. (Miller) Howard. The father, born in Indiana, enlisted during the Civil War in Company A., Fortieth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, and he was severely wounded at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, a bullet passing through his body and lungs and rendering him an invalid during the remainder of his life, his death occurring in 1874. The two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Bassett are Esther M. and Edwin H. Edward W. Bassett is prominently connected with the Masonic fraternity, holding membership relations with Mystic Tie Lodge, the Indianapolis Chapter, Raper Commandery, Indiana Consistory and Murat Temple. He is also a member of the Columbia, Commercial and Canoe clubs and of the Board of Trade, and his politics are Republican.
Miami Herald, Sunday, November 25, 1928
Cleveland-Chicago Passenger Air Liner Wrecked in Ohio Snowstorm
(By The Associated Press)
EDGERTON, Ohio, Nov. 24 – Two men and a woman were killed tonight when a passenger plane, on the way from Cleveland to Chicago, crashed near here. All three persons are believed to have been residents of Cleveland.
The dead: H.H. Bassett pilot of the plane; Mrs. H.H. Bassett, the pilot’s wife, and Glenn R. Butts.
Several persons, who viewed the crash, declared that the pilot evidently became confused during a snowstorm. He circled three time and in gliding down the plane crashed into a tree.
The place was one of a fleet of passenger planes operated between Cleveland and Chicago by the Universal Air Lines.