James Hervey Bassett descends from #8B John Bassett of New Jersey as follows:
John Bassett (d.1781)
Amos Bassett (b. 1760) and wife Susan Stout
Jeremiah Vardeman Bassett (b. 1796) and wife Tryphenia Wellesley Birch
James Hervey Bassett (b. 1828) and wife Georgianna Houston
Bassett Family at “The Cedars” about 1900
50th Wedding anniversary of James Hervey and Georgiana Houston Bassett at “The Cedars” near Leitchfield, KY Standing: Birch [Erskine Birch] Bassett, Son of James Hervey & Georgiana Houston Bassett, Age: 33 John Dent, Son of Georgiana Bassett and Samuel Dent, Age: 24 Jim [James Lemuel] Dent, Son of Georgiana Bassett and Samuel Dent, Age: 24 Ellen Dent, First wife of Jim Dent Julia Bassett Chick, Daughter of JH and GH Bassett, Age: 46 Frank Gregory, Husband of Tryphena Bassett Gregory Eucia (looks like?) [Tryphena] Bassett Gregory, Daughter of James H and Georgiana H Bassett, Age: 39 Frank Houston Bassett, Son of JH and GH Bassett, Age: 27 Mamie Thompson Bassett, Wife of Frank H. Bassett, Age: 29 Hattie Moorman Bassett, Wife of Robert Jeremiah Bassett, Age: 39 Moorman Bassett, Son of Robert Jeremiah and Hattie Moorman Bassett, Age: 18 Jim [James Hervey, Jr] Bassett, Age: 37 Esther Dent, Daughter of Georgina Bassett and Samuel R. Dent, Age:16 Ed [Edmund Rufin] Bassett, Son of JH and GH Bassett, Age: 35 Bob [Robert Jeremiah] Bassett, Son of JH and GH Bassett, Age: 41 Sitting: Mollie [Mary S.] Bassett Kenney, Daughter of JH and GH Bassett, Age: 49 (The Cedars was her and her husband’s home) Georgia Dent, Daughter of Georgiana Bassett and Samuel R. Dent, Age: 14 Mary Bassett, Daughter of Myrtle Hazelip and Edmund Ruffin Bassett, Age: 9 James Hervey Bassett, Age: 72 Georgiana Houston Bassett, Age: 68 Charles Bassett, Son of Frank Houston and Mamie Thompson Bassett, Age: 1 (sitting in Grandmother’s lap) Georgia [Georgiana Houston] Bassett Dent, Daughter of JH and GH Bassett, Age: 44 Alex Dent, Son of Georgiana Bassett and Samuel R. Dent, Age: 10 Mary Dent, Daughter of Georgiana Bassett and Samuel R. Dent, Age 20 Enna Chick, Daughter of Julia Bassett and Charles Carroll Chick, Jr, Age: 18 Carroll Bassett, Son of Robert Jeremiah and Hattie Moorman Bassett, Age: 6
The Breckenridge News, Wednesday, October 28, 1903
Was from This County.
Leitchfield, Ky., Oct. 21. – Mrs. Georgia Houston Bassett, wife of James H. Bassett, died this morning at her home, at the Cedars, one and a half miles from town. Mrs. Bassett had been ill for several days, but her death was unexpected. She was well known in Louisville, having lived there for years, and was a member of a prominent family of Breckenridge county.
She leaves a large family of grown children, among them being Mrs. Julia Chick, of Louisville; Mrs. Frank Gregory, Parkland; James Bassett, Louisville; Birch Bassett, Frank Bassett, Hopkinsville; Mrs. Mary Kinney, Mrs. S.R. Dent, E.R. Bassett and J. Robert Bassett, of this place. She was the mother of Mrs. J.J. Johnson, of St. Louis, who died about one year ago.
Mrs. Bassett’s remains will be interred at Thomas cemetery tomorrow.