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- Excerpt from Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Tex
(1892)
G.T. Macon, a contractor and builder of Dallas, came here in March, 1889, and
has already erected many residences here, as well as the Oak Cliff Hotel and
the Christian Church. Besides, he has also put up several business houses, as
the Henderson building on Commerce street, etc. in 1890 he employed 250 men.
He was born in Alabama, in 1845, the fifth in order of birth of the
ten children of E.J. and Mary Ann (Syler) Macon. His father was born in North
Carolina and early in life settled in Alabama. He was at first a saddler, and
afterward became a planter and accumulated considerable wealth, but the
ravages of war swept it mostly away. He died in 1863 and his wife, a native of
Alabama, died in 1861 - both in Shelby county, Alabama........
In 1864, in Shelby county, Alabama, Mr. Macon married M.E.
Bassett, a native of that State and brought up in Cahaba. Her parents were
Joseph L. and M.A. (Gwin) Bassett. Her father was born in England, and her
mother in Alabama. She died in 1845, and the father was killed in a sawmill in
Talladega county, that State, in 1865.
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Bassett Family Association Database
- Deceased
d. 12 Dec 1917 (Age 74 years)