Lloyd Warfield Bassett descends from #8B John Bassett of New Jersey as follows:
John Bassett
Amos Bassett (b. 1760) and wife Susan Stout
Jeremiah Vardeman Bassett (b. 1796) and wife Tryphenia Wellesley Birch
Benjamin Franklin Bassett (b. 1830) and wife Mary Jane Warfield
Lloyd Warfield Bassett
Alamosa Colorado Post Card. Bassett Stow and Co. Sign in lower right hand corner
Denver Post, Colorado, Sunday, May 22, 1927
Retired Business Man And Attorney Ends Life With Gun
Alamosa, Colo., May 21. – Lloyd W. Bassett, 60 years old, retired Alamosa businessman and former prominent attorney of Colorado Springs, committed suicide in the bathroom of his home here Saturday by shooting himself thru the heart with a forty-four caliber revolver. The bullet passed thru his body, penetrated two walls and lodged in a bed mattress in an adjoining room. Bassett recently returned from the east, where he underwent a medical examination. His ailment it is said, was diagnosed as a cancerous growth. he had been despondent ever since he was informed of the condition of his health.
Bassett is survived by his widow and a son, Hubbard, and a brother, with whom he was engaged in business under the name of the Bassett Stow Mercantile company.
After graduating at law, Bassett practiced at St. Joseph, Mo., and then moved to Colorado Springs, where he engaged in the legal profession for twenty-five years. He abandoned his law practice in 1914 and came to Alamosa. No funeral arrangements have yet been made.