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- Lorain County Reporter, Ohio, Saturday, 14 Sep 1895
Obituary: Betsey Nash
Aunt Betsey Nash died at the home of her son Nathan Nash in North Russia last
Tuesday morning at two o'clock of old age. She had been ill only a few days
and all were surprised to hear of her sudden death. The funeral services were
conducted by the Rev. Berry of Oberlin Wednesday afternoon. The remains were
interred in the cemetery here.
Oberlin News Lorain County, Ohio, 19 Sep 1895
Mrs. Betsey Bassett Nash
Betsey Bassett was born June 23, 1805, in Eaton, Madison county, N.Y. She was
the fifth in a family of nine children. She was married to Jared Nash
Chili, Monroe county, N.Y. March 3, 1825. After the death of her husband
February 14, 1832, she came with her two children, Eleanor and Nathan
Ohio, settling on a farm in Russia township in 1835, where she has lived for
over sixty years. She had a wonderful memory for one so old, instantly
recalling the exact dates of all the births and deaths of those who were in
any way related to her, though ever so distantly. Although a great reader, the
only books she cared particularly to read were the Bible and Shakespeare
After the death of her daughter, Mrs. Godfrey Fowl January 5, 1854, she made a
home for her grandson, Charles Fowl, until his marriage, after which she lived
alone through the summer months, but spending the winter with her son, where
she died, tenderly cared for by those she loved, September 10, 1895, aged 90
years, 2 months and 17 days.
Betsey Bassett Nash came of old Puritan stock, being a lineal descendant
through her mother, of the Puritan Captain Miles Standish, who came over in
the Mayflower in 1620, and also through her father, of Captain William
Bassett, who came over in the ship Fortune, in 1621. Her parents having a
large family, she did not eat the bread of idleness, but in common with other
daughters of the early pioneers, was taught all kinds of work, including the
carding, spinning and weaving of woolen and linen cloths. In the olden times,
when spinning and weaving was all done by hand, a certain number of skeins or
"runs" was a day's work, but so expert was she at the spinning-wheel that she
did two days' work in one, regularly, for weeks in succession, and on o
occasion did two days' work in one, after she had passed her 60th year. In
her youth, girls were not in the habit of running up long dry goods and
millinery bills for their papa's to pay, but when they could be spared from
home worked out at spinning and weaving, or by the week, wages for girls being
two shillings six pence per week. It is a significant fact that out of such
small wages she and her sisters bought solid silver teaspoons and tablespoons,
which were higher in price then than now. Only one brother survives, Charles
Bassett of South Amherst. She leaves one son, seven grandchildren, and four
great grandchildren to mourn her loss.
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1805 - 1895 (90 years)