Bassett Family Association Database
Chloe M. Cooper
1895 -
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Chloe M. Cooper was born in Feb 1895 in North Carolina (daughter of Charles C. Cooper, Sr. and Chloe Eva Bassett). Other Events:
- _UID: E02D1C495308294EB5F67E69DBEB5E948E54
Notes:
1900 Federal Census of Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (18 Jul 1900)
Charles C. Cooper - 33 - M - Feb 1867 - NC-NC-NC - Head
Eva B. - 34 - F - Dec 1865 - NC-VA-NC - Wife
Chloe M. - 5 - F - Feb 1895 - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Helen C. - 3 - F - Dec 1896 - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Charles C. Jr. - 1 - M - Oct 1898 - NC-NC-NC - Son
Ida A. Bassett - 47 - F - Sep 1852 - NC-VA-NC - SisterL
Liveson L. Harrison - M - NC-NC-NC - Boarder
(Married 6 years, 3 children, 3 living)
1910 Federal Census of Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (5 May 1910)
Charles C. Cooper - 45 - M - NC-NC-NC - Head - Tobacco Warehouse
Eva B. - 44 - F - NC-VA-NC - Wife
Chloe M. - 15 - F - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Helen Clifford - 13 - F - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Charles C. Jr. - 11 - M - NC-NC-NC - Son
Ida A. Bassett - 57 - F - NC-VA-NC - SisterL
Claud L. - 26 - F - NC-NC-NC - Niece - Teacher
(Married 17 years, 3 children, 3 living)
2. Charles C. Cooper, Sr. was born in Feb 1867 in North Carolina. Other Events:
- _UID: 8B84EFFD4EAA624491042B2BC2CDC9D3AFD6
Notes:
1900 Federal Census of Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (18 Jul 1900)
Charles C. Cooper - 33 - M - Feb 1867 - NC-NC-NC - Head
Eva B. - 34 - F - Dec 1865 - NC-VA-NC - Wife
Chloe M. - 5 - F - Feb 1895 - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Helen C. - 3 - F - Dec 1896 - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Charles C. Jr. - 1 - M - Oct 1898 - NC-NC-NC - Son
Ida A. Bassett - 47 - F - Sep 1852 - NC-VA-NC - SisterL
Liveson L. Harrison - M - NC-NC-NC - Boarder
(Married 6 years, 3 children, 3 living)
1910 Federal Census of Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (5 May 1910)
Charles C. Cooper - 45 - M - NC-NC-NC - Head - Tobacco Warehouse
Eva B. - 44 - F - NC-VA-NC - Wife
Chloe M. - 15 - F - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Helen Clifford - 13 - F - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Charles C. Jr. - 11 - M - NC-NC-NC - Son
Ida A. Bassett - 57 - F - NC-VA-NC - SisterL
Claud L. - 26 - F - NC-NC-NC - Niece - Teacher
(Married 17 years, 3 children, 3 living)Charles married Chloe Eva Bassett. Chloe (daughter of William Amos Bassett and Chloe Miller) was born in Dec 1865 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Chloe Eva Bassett was born in Dec 1865 in North Carolina (daughter of William Amos Bassett and Chloe Miller). Other Events:
- _UID: 5AB293DCCFDEA1478B52EC3E46E0273397D8
Notes:
1870 Federal Census of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (2 Jun 1870)
William A. Bassett - 43 - M - Virginia - Painter 700
Ida A. - 16 - F - North Carolina - Keeping House
Thomas C. - 14 - M - North Carolina - At home
Lucius V. - 9 - M - North Carolina - At home
Chloe E. - 6 - F - North Carolina - At home
Sarah Judkins - 5 - F - North Carolina
Thomas Sewell - 22 - M - North Carolina - Apprentice to Painter
Darius J. Obrien - 17 - M - Virginia - Apprentice to Painter
John Locklin - 33 - M - England - Painter
Minnie Lodge - 17 - F - North Carolina - Cook
1880 Federal Census of Rocky Mount, Nash County, North Carolina
William A. Bassett - 50 - M - VA-VA-VA - Head - Painter
Ida A. - 26 - F - NC-VA-AR - Daughter - Keeping House
Lucius - 19 - M - NC-VA-AR - Son - Painter
Clora E. - 15 - F - NC-VA-AR - Daughter
Thomas C. - 24 - M - NC-VA-AR - Son - Painter
Ida M. - 15 - F - NC-NC-NC - Daughter-in-law - Keeping House
1900 Federal Census of Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (18 Jul 1900)
Charles C. Cooper - 33 - M - Feb 1867 - NC-NC-NC - Head
Eva B. - 34 - F - Dec 1865 - NC-VA-NC - Wife
Chloe M. - 5 - F - Feb 1895 - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Helen C. - 3 - F - Dec 1896 - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Charles C. Jr. - 1 - M - Oct 1898 - NC-NC-NC - Son
Ida A. Bassett - 47 - F - Sep 1852 - NC-VA-NC - SisterL
Liveson L. Harrison - M - NC-NC-NC - Boarder
(Married 6 years, 3 children, 3 living)
1910 Federal Census of Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (5 May 1910)
Charles C. Cooper - 45 - M - NC-NC-NC - Head - Tobacco Warehouse
Eva B. - 44 - F - NC-VA-NC - Wife
Chloe M. - 15 - F - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Helen Clifford - 13 - F - NC-NC-NC - Daughter
Charles C. Jr. - 11 - M - NC-NC-NC - Son
Ida A. Bassett - 57 - F - NC-VA-NC - SisterL
Claud L. - 26 - F - NC-NC-NC - Niece - Teacher
(Married 17 years, 3 children, 3 living)Children:
- 1. Chloe M. Cooper was born in Feb 1895 in North Carolina.
- Helen Clifford Cooper was born in Dec 1896 in North Carolina.
- Charles C. Cooper, Jr. was born in Oct 1898 in North Carolina.
Generation: 3
6. William Amos Bassett was born in 1826 in Virginia (son of Richard Bassett and Caroline Spencer); died in 1885; was buried in Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mounty, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Other Events:
- _UID: 22C65587E9F3DD4E9D41E759BD4252F63022
Notes:
(Handwritten at top of page - Gift of 21 Oct 1943
Mrs. Bassett, 58 Pomeroy Terrace, Northampton, Massachusetts
Typed as original - misspellings included)
John Spencer Bassett
Soon after the war of 1812, in Virginia two young Bassetts, William and Richard, became heirs of their father's plantation near Williamsburg, called Eltham, and a small property of their mother's, whose maiden surname was Spencer. They decided to divide and settle up their possessions. Richard left the ancestral home, bought a few slave carpenters, and opened a contracting business in Williamsburg. His son, Richard Baxter, continued his father's business for a time, but later moved to North Carolina.
Williamsburg, although the home of one of the oldest societies in America, was then and still is, a place where there is the greatest amount of equality. This mingling of the good people of the town made a deep impression on the plantation-born elder Bassett, and the democratic idea waxed greater in his son.
Richard Baxter Bassett in his building career in North Carolina designed, as well as built, many structures of note in his adopted state. And it was while he was building at Tarboro that his second son, John Spencer Bassett, was born December 19, 1867.
The son has this to say of his father: "My father was unlike anybody else I have ever known. He was as pure-minded as a woman. I never heard him make an improper or profane remark. He was strict in his household, but never unkind. He was deeply religious, absolutely opposed to slavery, charitable, hospitable, industrious, and generous in his expenditure of money."
The mother of John S. Bassett, Mary Jane Wilson, whose father was John Wilson, a Maine yankee, was a woman of remarkably sweet disposition and great personal beauty. I quote "My mother possessed a very quick and retentive mind, a clear Madonna-like face, fine complexion, and handsome, grey eyes."
The earliest education of the boy John was in the neighborhood schools of Richlands, a plantation his father owned in Eastern North Carolina, and at Goldsboro, not far away; the town that became the permanent residence of the Bassett family. It was here that John graduated from the high school in June, 1883. In the high school under the instruction of a man of good spirit and modern educational methods literature came to mean something to the sensitive, impressionable, and somewhat shy boy. At this point, however, a delicate state of health, as the result of a severe attack of pneumonia, interrupted his attendance at school for two years.
(continued under John Spencer Bassett)
1850 Federal Census of Pasquotank County, North Carolina
Will. A. Bassett - 24 - M - North Carolina - Painter
Living with Edward Mason, Hotel Keeper
1860 Federal Census of Tarboro, Edgecomb County, North Carolina
William A. Bassett - 34 - M - Virginia - Painter 4000
Chlory A. - 28 - F - North Carolina
Ida G. - 7 - F - North Carolina
Tho C. - 3 - M - North Carolina
Sarah - 2 - F - North Carolina
Mollie - 1 - F - North Carolina
(White, Black, Mulato has check mark for this family)
1870 Federal Census of Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina (2 Jun 1870)
William A. Bassett - 43 - M - Virginia - Painter 700
Ida A. - 16 - F - North Carolina - Keeping House
Thomas C. - 14 - M - North Carolina - At home
Lucius V. - 9 - M - North Carolina - At home
Chloe E. - 6 - F - North Carolina - At home
Sarah Judkins - 5 - F - North Carolina
Thomas Sewell - 22 - M - North Carolina - Apprentice to Painter
Darius J. Obrien - 17 - M - Virginia - Apprentice to Painter
John Locklin - 33 - M - England - Painter
Minnie Lodge - 17 - F - North Carolina - Cook
1880 Federal Census of Rocky Mount, Nash County, North Carolina
William A. Bassett - 50 - M - VA-VA-VA - Head - Painter
Ida A. - 26 - F - NC-VA-AR - Daughter - Keeping House
Lucius - 19 - M - NC-VA-AR - Son - Painter
Clora E. - 15 - F - NC-VA-AR - Daughter
Thomas C. - 24 - M - NC-VA-AR - Son - Painter
Ida M. - 15 - F - NC-NC-NC - Daughter-in-law - Keeping HouseWilliam married Chloe Miller. Chloe was born about 1832 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7. Chloe Miller was born about 1832 in North Carolina. Other Events:
- _UID: 9B367215028A584B8C05E0D91885F7A70CC4
Notes:
1860 Federal Census of Tarboro, Edgecomb County, North Carolina
William A. Bassett - 34 - M - Virginia - Painter 4000
Chlory A. - 28 - F - North Carolina
Ida G. - 7 - F - North Carolina
Tho C. - 3 - M - North Carolina
Sarah - 2 - F - North Carolina
Mollie - 1 - F - North Carolina
(White, Black, Mulato has check mark for this family)Children:
- Ida Bassett was born about 1853 in North Carolina.
- Thomas Clifford Bassett, Sr. was born in 1855 in North Carolina; died in 1887 in North Carolina; was buried in Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
- Sarah Bassett was born about 1858 in North Carolina.
- Mollie Bassett was born about 1859 in North Carolina.
- Lucius Virginius Bassett was born on 2 Mar 1861 in Tarboro, Edgecombe County, North Carolina; died in 1927; was buried in Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
- 3. Chloe Eva Bassett was born in Dec 1865 in North Carolina.
Generation: 4
12. Richard Bassett was born in From 1790 to 1800. Other Events:
- _UID: B4845AC2E6490945882CBFFCD2211EA3F4D8
Notes:
Richard and Caroline Bassett lived in Mathews County, Virginia and later moved to Williamsburg, Virginia. Richard and his son were contractors and architects. According to the obituary of his grandson, Richard Bassett had a brother named William Bassett.
1840 Mathews County, Virginia
Richard Bassett 1100001-3111010
1MU5, 1M5-10, 1M40-50, 3FU5, 1F5-10, 1F10-15, 1F15-20, 1F30-40
(Handwritten at top of page - Gift of 21 Oct 1943
Mrs. Bassett, 58 Pomeroy Terrace, Northampton, Massachusetts
Typed as original - misspellings included)
John Spencer Bassett
Soon after the war of 1812, in Virginia two young Bassetts, William and Richard, became heirs of their father's plantation near Williamsburg, called Eltham, and a small property of their mother's, whose maiden surname was Spencer. They decided to divide and settle up their possessions. Richard left the ancestral home, bought a few slave carpenters, and opened a contracting business in Williamsburg. His son, Richard Baxter, continued his father's business for a time, but later moved to North Carolina.
Williamsburg, although the home of one of the oldest societies in America, was then and still is, a place where there is the greatest amount of equality. This mingling of the good people of the town made a deep impression on the plantation-born elder Bassett, and the democratic idea waxed greater in his son.
Richard Baxter Bassett in his building career in North Carolina designed, as well as built, many structures of note in his adopted state. And it was while he was building at Tarboro that his second son, John Spencer Bassett, was born December 19, 1867.
The son has this to say of his father: "My father was unlike anybody else I have ever known. He was as pure-minded as a woman. I never heard him make an improper or profane remark. He was strict in his household, but never unkind. He was deeply religious, absolutely opposed to slavery, charitable, hospitable, industrious, and generous in his expenditure of money."
The mother of John S. Bassett, Mary Jane Wilson, whose father was John Wilson, a Maine yankee, was a woman of remarkably sweet disposition and great personal beauty. I quote "My mother possessed a very quick and retentive mind, a clear Madonna-like face, fine complexion, and handsome, grey eyes."
The earliest education of the boy John was in the neighborhood schools of Richlands, a plantation his father owned in Eastern North Carolina, and at Goldsboro, not far away; the town that became the permanent residence of the Bassett family. It was here that John graduated from the high school in June, 1883. In the high school under the instruction of a man of good spirit and modern educational methods literature came to mean something to the sensitive, impressionable, and somewhat shy boy. At this point, however, a delicate state of health, as the result of a severe attack of pneumonia, interrupted his attendance at school for two years.
(continued under John Spencer Bassett)Richard married Caroline Spencer. Caroline was born in From 1800 to 1810. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
13. Caroline Spencer was born in From 1800 to 1810. Other Events:
- _UID: 61E13C4882B2D2409A5C0FF4BDA5C82B5A71
Notes:
Richard and Caroline Bassett lived in Mathews County, Virginia and later moved to Williamsburg, Virginia. Richard and his son were contractors and architects. According to the obituary of his grandson, Richard Bassett had a brother named William Bassett.
(Handwritten at top of page - Gift of 21 Oct 1943
Mrs. Bassett, 58 Pomeroy Terrace, Northampton, Massachusetts
Typed as original - misspellings included)
John Spencer Bassett
Soon after the war of 1812, in Virginia two young Bassetts, William and Richard, became heirs of their father's plantation near Williamsburg, called Eltham, and a small property of their mother's, whose maiden surname was Spencer. They decided to divide and settle up their possessions. Richard left the ancestral home, bought a few slave carpenters, and opened a contracting business in Williamsburg. His son, Richard Baxter, continued his father's business for a time, but later moved to North Carolina.
Williamsburg, although the home of one of the oldest societies in America, was then and still is, a place where there is the greatest amount of equality. This mingling of the good people of the town made a deep impression on the plantation-born elder Bassett, and the democratic idea waxed greater in his son.
Richard Baxter Bassett in his building career in North Carolina designed, as well as built, many structures of note in his adopted state. And it was while he was building at Tarboro that his second son, John Spencer Bassett, was born December 19, 1867.
The son has this to say of his father: "My father was unlike anybody else I have ever known. He was as pure-minded as a woman. I never heard him make an improper or profane remark. He was strict in his household, but never unkind. He was deeply religious, absolutely opposed to slavery, charitable, hospitable, industrious, and generous in his expenditure of money."
The mother of John S. Bassett, Mary Jane Wilson, whose father was John Wilson, a Maine yankee, was a woman of remarkably sweet disposition and great personal beauty. I quote "My mother possessed a very quick and retentive mind, a clear Madonna-like face, fine complexion, and handsome, grey eyes."
The earliest education of the boy John was in the neighborhood schools of Richlands, a plantation his father owned in Eastern North Carolina, and at Goldsboro, not far away; the town that became the permanent residence of the Bassett family. It was here that John graduated from the high school in June, 1883. In the high school under the instruction of a man of good spirit and modern educational methods literature came to mean something to the sensitive, impressionable, and somewhat shy boy. At this point, however, a delicate state of health, as the result of a severe attack of pneumonia, interrupted his attendance at school for two years.
(continued under John Spencer Bassett)Children:
- 6. William Amos Bassett was born in 1826 in Virginia; died in 1885; was buried in Pineview Cemetery, Rocky Mounty, Edgecombe County, North Carolina.
- Richard Baxter Bassett, Sr. was born on 20 Sep 1832 in Mathews County, Virginia; died on 23/25 Mar 1902 in Goldsboro, North Carolina; was buried in Willow Dale Cemetery, Goldsboro, North Carolina.
- Lucy Bassett was born in 1835 in Williamsburg, Virginia; died on 5 Nov 1903; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, Virginia.