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Public Ledger, Memphis, Tennessee, Wednesday, 26 April 1893
In Society
One of the prettiest and happiest weddings that has occurred in Memphis was that of Miss Carrie E. Bassett and Mr. W.E. Barnes at Calvary Church at 5:30 o?clock last evening. It attracted a large number of relatives and friends of the couple and their respective families. While Prof. C.P. Winkler performed a favorite wedding march on the grand organ, the bridal party, excepting the groom, proceeded up the main aisle of the church to the altar, the following gentlemen as ushers leading: Messrs. H.A. Ramsey, Philip Yancey, C.R. Barbee and J.L. Thompson. Then came the charming and beautifully attired bride leaning upon the arm of her uncle, Mr. Robert Lockwood. The groom emerged from the vestry room to meet the bride at the altar, attended by Mr. W. G. Thomas as best man and preceded W.G. Thomas as best man and preceded by Rev. Drs. Dumbell and Davenport, who officiated in the marriage ceremony. Immediately after the ceremony the couple were driven to the depot and left for a tour of the West, followed by a great volume of the sincerest good wishes.
The bride is the eldest daughter of Mr. Geroge T. Bassett, and is a young lady of many and pronounced charms, a reigning favorite in social circles. Mr. Barnes is a young man of excellent business standing and worth, possessing to a large degree those sturdy habits and recognized abilities which accomplish prosperity in his every undertaking.
Nashville Banner, Tennessee, Thursday, 6 July 1893
Found Dead
A Wealthy Lumber Merchant of Memphis Expires in the Woods
The Corpse of Mr. George Bassett, Who Had Been Missing Three Days, Is Found
Special to the Banner.
MEMPHIS, July 6.-Monday morning George T. Bassett, a wealthy lumber merchant of this city, drove from his home in a buggy to go up town and did not return. His disappearance was advertised and the police were notified. Last night his death body was found ten miles south of here. He was lying on his back under a bush, a handkerchief over his breast and his coat hanging on a fence, as though he had lain in the shade to rest. The horse and buggy stood beside him, the animal being thin, as though it had not been fed. Mr. Bassett had been ill for a month and showed signs of mental aberration. It is supposed he spent the three days aimlessly driving about the woods, exposed to the storm of Monday, the heat and without for or shelter.
The Memphis Commercial, Tennessee, Thursday, 6 July 1893
Solved Only In Death
Was the Mystery of Mr. George T. Bassett?s Disappearance
His Dead Body Found South of the City Last Night
With His Horse and Buggy Beside It.
Solved in death is the mystery disappearance of Mr. George T. Bassett.
His dead body was found at Frayzer?s farm, known as Magnolia farm, about twelve miles south of the city, on the Horn Lake road, last night about 6 o?clock.
On Monday morning Mr. Bassett left his home, 123 Fifth street, Chelsea, in his buggy and was seen no more in life. He had been ill for a month and his family feared he had driven aimlessly away while suffering from a temporary aberration of intellect, or that perhaps he had been waylaid, robbed and foully dealt with, as he had $50 or $60 on his person.
The former theory is apparently the correct one. Where the unfortunate gentleman spent all of Monday, Tuesday, and yesterday is not known, nor how long the body had lain before it was found, but it is probable that it could have escaped observation many hours, since his horse and buggy stood close to the corpse.
The body lay in an old field under a bush. There had been no violence, and the position and the surroundings indicated that the deceased had lain down to rest in the shade, when the summons came. His coat was found hanging on the fence, the body was lying on its back, with a handkerchief on the breast, and death had apparently come painlessly while he slept.
The strange feature of the affair is that the deceased should have remained undiscovered for three days in such close proximity to the city in a fairly well settled section, and when his disappearance had been so widely advertised. He probably stayed in the woods, or in little frequented lanes, and what the privation and exposure to the weather he suffered may may never be known.
The news did not reach the city until 2:45 o?clock this morning. The reason of this long delay was that the man who found the remains walked all the way to the city, to the corner of Main and Iowa avenue, from which place he telephoned to the police station. Capt. Hackett on receipt of the news, at once procured a buggy, and carried the sad news to the bereaved family.
Mr. Bassett was an old and esteemed citizen of Memphis. For many years he was in the lumber business, having been a member of the firm of Moore & Bassett, Bassett & Clagg, Williams & Co, and other firms. He leaves a widow and several children to mourn his loss.
1870 Federal Census of 1st ward, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee (1 Jun 1870)
G.T. Bassett 31 M New York Clerk
Living with 2 others
1880 Federal Census of 9th ward, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee (1 Jun 1880)
Jno Bassett 44 M TN -- -- Head Lumber Dealer
Lucretia 34 F IA NY NY Wife Keeping House
Carrie E. 7 F TN TN IA Daughter
George E. 4 M TN TN IA Son
Flora L. 1 F TN TN IA Daughter
Ellen Small 15 F TN -- -- Servant
C.H. Judd 23 M IA OH NY Boarder Clerk in lumber
GOODSPEED'S HISTORY OF HAMILTON, KNOX AND SHELBY COUNTIES OF TENNESSEE
(1887)
G.T. Bassett, secretary and treasurer of the Cole Manufacturing
Company, came to Memphis in 1857 and engaged in the lumber business until the
commencement of the war. He was connected with Baxter & Rose. In 1861 he
enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Senior Tennessee Regiment,
Confederate States Army, and served with credit until the cessation of
hostilities, when he returned to Memphis and accepted a clerkship with M.E.
and J.W. Cochran in the lumber trade, and continued until 1870 and then became
agent for the Memphis Wood-words Manufacturing Company, but quit in 1874 when
that company was burned out. January 1, 1875, he formed a partnership with
C.B. Moore, under the style of Moore, Bassett & Co., which partnership expired
January 1, 1880, when a connection was formed with the Cole Manufacturi
Company, which still continues. Our subject was born February 5, 183
Delaware County, N.Y., and is one of a family of fifteen children of Cornelius
and Elizabeth (Cushing) Bassett, the mother being a niece of Hon. Caleb
Cushing. They were married at Schenectady, N.Y. The father was a participant
in the battles on the lakes during the war of 1812, and was a member of the
State Legislature in 1836-37. He died in 1864 and lies buried in the sa
cemetery as Washington Irving. The mother died when our subject was a child.
The latter graduated at Columbia College, New York, in 1854, and was for a short
time engaged in the grain trade in the Upper Mississippi Valley. July 3, 1866,
he married Miss Lucretia Lockwood, a native of Iowa, and to these paren
eight children have been born, one son and two daughters still living. Mr.
Bassett is a Democrat, and is a member of the F.& A.M., K. of P., K. of H.
orders, and he and family are members of the Episcopal Church.
Possibly related:
1920 Federal Census of 18th Ward, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee (5 Jan 1920)
Stephen Martinique 75 M IT IT IT Head
Rose M. 66 F IT IT IT Wife
Carrie Muzzin? 49 F TN IT IT SisterL
George Bassett 17 M TN TN TN Grandson
(Living at 306 Cossett)
1930 Federal Census of Washington, D.C. (1930)
George Basset 27 M TN TN TN Head ?? US Gov.
Mary 24 F DC GM GM Wife
George 2 6/12 M DC TN DC Son
George 6/12 M DC TN DC Son
(Living at 2227 Perry St., NE) (Married at 23 & 20)
(Note census lists both boy children as George)
(George Thompson Bassett Jr. born 14 Jun 1927 (SSDI), died 30 Jun 2003 (SSDI))
The Washington Post, District of Columbia (3 Jul 2003)
George Thompson Bassett Jr. (Age 76)
On Monday, June 30, 2003, of Rockville, MD. Beloved husband of Erna H. Bassett
for 48 years. Loving father of Paul J., Richard C. and John S. Bassett, loving
brother of Joan Ross and Leo J. Bassett; loving grandfather of Zane M.
Bassett. A memorial service will be held at Pumphrey's Colonial Funeral Home,
300 W. Montgomery Ave., (Rt. 28, just of I-270, exit 6-A), Rockville, MD. on
Saturday, July 5 at 11 a.m.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1837 - 1893 (56 years)