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- 1850 Federal Census of Butler Township, DeKalb County, Indiana (23 Jul 1850)
Sanford Bassett 24 M New York Farmer 500
Mary Ann 23 F Ohio
Sarah Marilla 1 F Ohio
Lyman S. 20 M New York Farmer
(Holbrook families on either side, possibly cousins)
1860 Federal Census of Waterloo, Union Twp., Dekalb County, Indiana (15 Jun
1860)
Sanford Bassett 35 M New York Farming 1500 420
Mary A. 34 F Ohio
Sarah M. 10 F Ohio
Harriett P. 8 F Indiana
Lucius M. 6 M Indiana
Lewis D. 5 M Indiana
Sanford S. 2 M Indiana
1870 Federal Census of Waterloo, Union Twp., Dekalb County, Indiana (16 Aug
1870)
Sanford Basset 45 M New York Minster Gospel 4000 800
Margret 42 F Ohio Keeping house
Harriet 19 F Ohio
Lucious 17 M Indiana Day laborer
Sanford 11 M Indiana
Martha 9 F Indiana
Cyrus P. 6 M Indiana
1880 Federal Census of Upper Loup, Sherman County, Nebraska
Sanford Bassett 55 M NY -- -- Head Farmer
Mary A. 54 F NY -- -- Wife Keeping House
Sanford S. 22 M NE -- -- Son Farmer
Cyrus 16 M NE -- -- Son Laborer
Martha 18 F NE -- -- Daughter Teaching School
Sanford Bassett biography written by Michael Walter
Farmer, minister, temperance leader and reputed Underground Railroad activist.
Sanford married Mary Ann Kuffel (Koffel) in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1845. They
moved about 1850 to a farm in Butler Twp., DeKalb County, Indiana, wher
according to a family tradition handed down through the line of their daughter
Sarah Bassett Kester, they operated a stop on the Underground Railroa
In 1871, Sanford was elected president of the first DeKalb County temperance
association. In 1873, he platted "Sanford Bassett's Addition to the Town of
Waterloo" in DeKalb County. This does not seem to have been a very successful
venture. In 1879, he disposed of the unsold lots and moved with Mary Ann and
their three youngest children to Sherman County, Nebraska. They were preceded
there by John Hogue a neighbor of theirs in Butler Twp. who was treasurer of
the temperance association when Sanford was its president.
Hogue later returned to DeKalb County, but the Bassetts stayed in Nebraska.
Mary Ann died in 1883. Sanford remarried shortly thereafter.
Sanford and Mary Ann had eight children: Leander Sceva, born February 2
1847, in Ohio, (died in infancy); Sarah Marilla, born Oct. 10, 1848, in Ohio;
Harriet Beacher, born March 14, 1851, in Indiana; Lucius Matlack, born June 2,
1853, in Indiana; Lewis Daniel, born February 29, 1856, in Indiana; Sanford
Sceva, born January 6, 1859, in Indiana; Martha Ann, born May 23, 1861, in
Indiana, and Cyrus Prindle, born October 19, 1863, in Indiana.
Sanford and his second wife, Rebecca Rosenberry, had four children: Ali
(October 1885?), Victor Byron (June 1886?), Della M. (May 1888) and Mab
(September 1890).
It is not certain in what denomination Sanford was ordained. Although t
Bassetts lived near Cedar Creek, a Methodist Protestant congregation in Butler
Twp. that still exists as Altarstar United Methodist Church. They were charter
members of what is now the LaOtto Wesleyan Church in the former town of
Simon's Corners (now LaOtto), just across the county line in Swan Twp., Noble
County. Both the MP and Wesleyan Methodist denominations were noted for their
anti-slavery positions.
Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Loup City, Sherman County, Nebraska, Plot: Section 11.
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1824 - 1893 (68 years)