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- Notes on Charles Franklin Bassett provided by Amos E. Bassett Jr.
Charles Franklin Bassett, Hillsdale, Indiana, in the early 1890's spent two seasons cooking at a ranch in New Mexico. He applied for a homestead near Rosewell, New Mexico. He gave it up and in 1910 homesteaded in Montana. He and son Amos loaded a boxcar with household goods plus a cow and some chickens and rode in it to Montana. Amos worked with his dad until he enlisted in the U.S. Navy about 1917. He intended to be a cook but ended a band member (cornet & french horn). All of his duty was in the Mediterranean. He was discharged from Philadelphia Naval Hospital and told not to return to Montana (because of lung damage) but find something in Florida. He enrolled in the college of agriculture at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Mittie Ruth Bieger lived with his sister Ethel and cared for sons Wayne and Otto in order to attend high school in Lavina, Montana. Ruth and Earl corresponded during his service and Ruth accepted his letter of Proposal. They were married in Tampa, Florida, 8 Sep 1920. They returned to Gainesville and dad accepted a dairy job in Jupiter, Florida and later was given charge of the fernery and the development of a tropical plant nursery for the Nothern market. By World War II's end, he had his own nursery and sold out in 1960. Dad's father sold out in Montana after World War II and moved to first, St. Petersburg, Florida and about 1926-1927 to Jupiter, Florida, where he and grandmother lived until their deaths of natural causes, grandmother, 6 May 1935 and grandfather, 8 Aug 1935. Amos, 30 May 1975 and Ruth, 28 Dec 1994 lie next to them in the Jupiter, Florida, Cemetery.
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