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- Cemetery, Berlin, Green Lake County, Wisconsin
Chas. H. Bassett Space 2, Lot 23 Block 16
Born July 3, 1841 Died Nov. 23, 1909
Declaration For An Original Invalid Pension
State of Wisconsin, County of Milwaukee
On this day of March A.D one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight,
personally appeared before me Thos Dally, a Deputy Clerk of the Municip
court a court of record within and for the county and State aforesaid Charles
H. Bassett aged 56 years, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares
that he is the identical person who was enrolled as a saddler on the 1st day
of Nov. 1861, in Company D of the 1st Regiment of Wisc. Cavalry commanded by
Nelson Bruett and was honorably discharged at Cartersville Ga. on the 1st day
of Sept. 1864; that his personal description is as follows: age twenty years;
height 5 feet 7 inches; complexion light, hair brown, eyes blue. That while a
member of the organization aforesaid, in the service and in the line of duty,
at Helena, in the State of Arkansas on or about the six day of August 1862, he
contracted malarial fever and rheumatism and inflammation of the eyes, that his
eye sight has continually failed to the present, where it is so badly
affected, that he cannot see to read, and can only distinguish a person at a
short distance away, and he believes it to be the result of malarial
poisoning contracted while in the service. That he is greatly troubled with
Rheumatism, and his heart is also affected. That these disabilities have
existed during all the time since 1862 and have continued to grow worse to the
present when he's almost blind and otherwise disabled by reason of Rheumatism +
Heart trouble contracted in the service of U.S. and as a result of malarial
poisoning + exposure.
Berlin Evening Journal, Wednesday, November 24, 1909
Obituary
Chas. H. Bassett, who passed away Tuesday, was born in Lowell, Me.,
and came to Berlin in 1854 with his parents, Thos. S. Bassett and wife. He
learned the harness making trade with his father and worked at it till the
civil war broke out when he enlisted in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry and served
three years in Co. D., and was honorably discharged at the end of his service.
After the war he worked at his trade and later went to work in the Berl
Coffin Co.'s shops here. He was city clerk in 1877 and served as night
policeman at one time. Later he went to Oshkosh and worked at similar
occupation there and later to Milwaukee and was employed by the Milwauk
(Formerly Berlin) Casket Co., till his eyesight failed. For many years he and
his wife conducted a boarding house in Milwaukee and moved back to Berl
about five years ago. He was married in 1870 to Miss Fannie Smith and together
they lived till last March when she passed away. The funeral services will be
held at the home on Wisconsin street at 10 a.m. Friday.
T.E. Bassett and wife arrived from Odanah, Wis., this morning to
attend the funeral of Chas. H. Bassett. Friends from Ripon, Oshkosh and
perhaps Milwaukee are expected at attend the funeral.
The remains of Chas. H. Bassett arrived from Ripon on the evening train
in charge of undertaker Talbot, who went over on the 3:55 train to bring them.
They were taken to the home of deceased from the train.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1842 - 1909 (67 years)