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- GIVEN NAME: Also spelled Hulda Dimeras and Hulda Demaris.
BIRTH: Family Group Record - Main Record Section (Archives), family group record of Loren Elias Bassett (1809) and Hulda Dimrus (formerly Vaughn); Temple Record Index Bureau (TIB), self endowment; and obituary from the DESERET NEWS WEEKLY, 27 Oct 1886, vol. 35, p. 656
MARR. TO ALPHEUS HARMON:
MARR. TO LOREN ELIAS BASSETT: A marriage record has not been found for this marriage. Loren Elias Bassett married Huldah Dimrus Vaughn Harmon after Alpheus Harmon died 17 Nov 1842 and before the first child of Loren Elias and Huldah was born 13 Oct 1844.
DEATH: Obituary from the DESERET NEWS WEEKLY - 27 Oct 1886, vol. 35, p. 656 and admon of Huldah Bassett granted 19 Jan 1891 at the Cache County, UT - see Cache County probate file #72.
CENSUS: Huldah was found in the 1850, 1856, 1860, 1870, and 1880 censuses.
In the 1850 Census of Hancock County, IL, p. 431 (BYU film #7682) the Loren Elias Bassett household included: Lorin Bassett, age 41, farmer, born Conn.; Huldah Bassett, age 43, born Canada; Elizabeth Bassett, age 22, born Penn.; Alma Harmon, age 14, born Ohio; Andrew Bassett, age 14, born Ohio; Ammon Harmon, age 14, born Ohio; Amalek Harmon, age 12, born Ohio; Huldah Harmon, age 10, born Ill.; Loring Bassett, age 6, born Ill.; and Edwin Bassett, age 4, born Ill.
In the 1856 State Census of Union, Floyd, IA, p. 680 (BYU film #1021299) the Loren Elias Bassett household included: Loren Bassett, age 48, married, farmer, born Ct.; Huldah Bassett, age 48, married, born NY; Loren Bassett, age 11, born Ills.; Edwin Bassett, age 9, born Ills.; and Harriet C. Bassett, age 5, born Ills. This family lived 1 year in the state of Iowa.
In the 1860 Census of Rockford, Floyd, IA, p. 21/337 (BYU film #803322) the Loren Elias Bassett household included: Lorin L. Bassett, age 53, farmer, real estate value of $1,000 & personal property worth $400, born Connecticut; Huldah Bassett, age 53, born New York; Lorin Bassett, age 14, born Illinois; Edwin Bassett, age 12, born Illinois; Harriet Bassett, age 9, born Illinois; William Berry, age 33, farmer, born New Hampshire; Elizabeth Berry, age 32, born Pennsylvania; and Henry Berry, age 4, born Iowa. This census was taken 25 June 1860.
In the 1870 Census of Providence, Cache, UT, p. 133 (BYU film #553109) the Loren Elias Bassett household included: Loren Bassett, age 63, farmer, real estate value $250. & personal property value $200., born Connecticut and Huldah Bassett, age 63, keeping house, born Canada.
In the 1880 Census of Providence, Cache, UT, En.Dist.11, p.2 (BYU film #1255336) the Loren Elias Bassett household included: Loren Bassett, age 70, father, married, farmer, can read & write, born Utah [written over something else], father born Conn. and Huldah Bassett, age 73, wife, born Utah [sic], parents born Canada. Census taken 1 June 1880.
MIGRATION TO UTAH: Loren Elias Bassett crossed the plains in the Alvus H. Patterson Company. They arrived in Salt Lake City 4 Sept. 1863. Trek included: Edwin Bassett age 16, Harriet Cordelia Bassett age 12, Huldah Dimrus Vaughn age 55, Loren Elias Bassett age 54, and Loren Elias Bassett age 18. See JOURNAL HISTORY, 4 Sep 1863, p. 5 and PIONEER WOMEN OF FAITH AND FORTITUDE, p. 178.
TESTIMONY OF HENRY MARTIN HARMON
WITNESS TO THE MARTYRDOM OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH
at Carthage, Hancock, Illinois, 28 Jun 1844
I, Henry M. Harmon, aged 25, do solemnly declare and affirm that on the 27th day of June 1844, I lived in Carthage and was on the cupola of the court house in Carthage when the anti-Mormon mob made their appearnace from the west. I came down from the cupola and arrived at the jail about
the time the mob did. They were painted black and mostly wore the uniform of the Warsaw Company. I saw the mob rush onto the guards who were stationed at the jail, when the guar fired upon them and a scuffle ensued. Some of the mob then went into the jail and I heard the reports of the guns fired inside. Joseph Smith came to the window, and then went back and in a few moments appeared again, and leaped from the window, when the mob fired upon him and he fell dead. The fifer of the Warsaw Company came running into the jail yard as Joseph fell dead, and brandishing his fife over Joseph, triumphantly exclaimed, "You were the ruination of my father. I will have revenge," and struck him several times on the head with hiw pewter fife, then fled with the company toward Warsaw.
I then went home and told my mother what had happened, and returned in a few minutes and saw Joseph who was set up against the well curb, and was informed that Stigall the jailor had set him up there. Stigall appeared very much alarmed. His room in the lower part of the jail being fired into through the window and his wife only just escaped being shot. I have examined many time where the ball lodged in the wall after being shot through the window.
In company with my mother (Hulda Vaughn Harmon) and step-father, (Loren E. Bassett) we moved that even 3 miles out of Carthage onto our farm. My Mother did not want to go, but my step-father insisted. Next day, with my brother, I returned to Carthage and found the town almost entirely
vacated.
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