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- Colorado Springs Gazette, Colorado, Tuesday, August 24, 1920
Letter For Bassett
Lloyd Warfield Bassett, former employe in the office of the city clerk, has a letter at that office from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, MIch., which appears to be a request for information. The city clerk?s office is apparently the last address known to the university. City Clerk Earl E. Ewing is holding the letter a few days in case Mr. Bassett is still in this city.
Denver Post, Colorado, Sunday, May 22, 1927
Retired Business Man And Attorney Ends Life With Gun
Alamosa, Colo., May 21. ? Lloyd W. Bassett, 60 years old, retired Alamosa businessman and former prominent attorney of Colorado Springs, committed suicide in the bathroom of his home here Saturday by shooting himself thru the heart with a forty-four caliber revolver. The bullet passed thru his body, penetrated two walls and lodged in a bed mattress in an adjoining room. Bassett recently returned from the east, where he underwent a medical examination. His ailment it is said, was diagnosed as a cancerous growth. he had been despondent ever since he was informed of the condition of his health.
Bassett is survived by his widow and a son, Hubbard, and a brother, with whom he was engaged in business under the name of the Bassett Stow Mercantile company.
After graduating at law, Bassett practiced at St. Joseph, Mo., and then moved to Colorado Springs, where he engaged in the legal profession for twenty-five years. He abandonded his law practice in 1914 and came to Alamosa. No funeral arrangements have yet been made.
1870 Federal Census of Lathrop, Clinton County, Missouri (27 Jul 1870)
B.F. Bassett - 40- M - Kentucky - Farmer 17,600 2400
Mary J. - 37 - F - Kentucky
Rebecca - 11 - F - Missouri
Moriah - 8 - F - Missouri
John A. - 6 - M - Illinois
Lloid - 4 - M - Missouri
M.V. Warwield - M - Kentucky - Farmer 8000 300
1880 Federal Census of Shoal, Clinton County, Missouri
Benjamin Bassett - 50 - M - KY-KY-VA - Head - Farmer
Mary J. - 47 - F - KY-MD-KY - Wife - Keeping House
Rebecca B. - 20 - F - MO-KY-KY - Daughter - At Home
Maria W. - 18 - F - MO-KY-KY - Daughter - At Home
John A. - 15 - M - MO-KY-KY - Son - At Home
Lloyd W. - 13 - M - MO-KY-KY - Son - At Home
1910 Federal Census of Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado (16 Apr 1910)
Lloyd W. Bassett - 41 - M - MO-KY-KY - Head - Lawyer
Martha - 40 - F - KS-OH-MD - Wife
Herbert W. - 1-7/12 - M - CO-MO-KS - Son
(Married 13 years, 1 child, 1 living)
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Bassett Family Association Database
1866 - 1927 (60 years)