George Washington Bassett descends from #5B William Bassett of Virginia as follows:
William Bassett
William Bassett and wife Bridget Carey
William Bassett (b. 1671) and wife Joanna Burwell
William Bassett (b. 1709) and wife Elizabeth Churchill
Burwell Bassett (b. 1734) and wife Anna Maria Dandridge
John Bassett (b. 1765) and wife Betty Carter Browne
George Washington Bassett (b. 1800) and wife Betty B. Lewis
Richmond Dispatch, Virginia, Wednesday, 2 August 1876
An Interesting Centennial Event
Golden Wedding of Lineal Descendants of General and Lady Washington
On yesterday afternoon there was celebrated at Clover Lea, in Hanover county, about three miles from Old Church, an event of unusual interest in this the centennial era. It was mothing more nor less than the golden wedding of Colonel and Mrs. George Washington Bass, perhaps the nearest living relatives of General and Lady George Washington. Colonel Bassett is a grand-nephew of Lady Washington, and Mrs. Bassett is a grand-niece of General Washington. After fifty years of a happy wedded life, full of the reminiscences of the better days of a grand old Commonwealth, this venerable couple have been permitted to gather around them their relatives and descendants, who unite in the prayer that many a year of mutual peace and contentment may be left them.
The occasion drew together many friends from the neighborhood, and the jollification was one that carried the spectator back to the time when General Washington used to open wide his hospitable doors and bid all honest men and women to enter and be of good cheer.
Colonel Bassett is seventy-six years of age, and “Lady” Bassett sixty-nine, and both are remarkably well preserved, and love each other with the same devotion that prompted them to unite their lives fifty years ago. This statement would appear indelicate if they had only been married fifteen or twenty years, but when people have been together for fifty years it seems that you can say what you please about them.
Many handsome presents in gold were tendered the venerable couple, among others a hundred dollars in Tilden Centennial gold, tendered by Major John H. Claiborne, whose first wife was a daughter of the golden bride and groom. The children of Colonel Bassett are scattered about the country – as follows: Two in Texas, one in South Carolina, one in Illinois, one in West Virginia, one in New Jersey, and one in Virginia. May he and his lady live to see their diamond wedding in the same health and happiness that have surrounded them on this happy occasion.
