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Spencer Brooker Bassett

Male 1925 - 1941  (15 years)


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  • Name Spencer Brooker Bassett 
    Born 3 Aug 1925  Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 4E81CDE94FF8614FAE89D1B4EC1BDBC9E380 
    Died 12 Apr 1941 
    Notes 
    • Lexington Leader, Kentucky, Sunday, April 13, 1941
      Brooker Bassett, 15, Is Claimed By Death

      Spencer Brooker Bassett, 15, injured March 22 in an automobile at Tyrone bridge in Anderson county, died at 3:15 o?clock yesterday afternoon at the Good Samaritan hospital.
      Young Bassett?s death brought to four the number injured fatally when an automobile in which they were riding plunged over a 200-foot embankment at the Anderson-side approach to the bridge. A fifth occupant of the car escaped with minor injuries.
      Bassett was born in Lexington, a son of J. Edward and Jane Brooker Bassett Jr. Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, J. Edward Bassett III; his paternal grandfather, J. Edward Bassett, and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. H.S. Brooker.
      The body was removed to the W.R. Milward mortuary.
      Funeral services will be held at 11 o?clock Monday morning at the residence, ?Old Hickory,? on the Paris pike. The Rt. Rev. H.P. Almon Abbott, bishoip of the Episcopal diocese of Lexington, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. A.W. Fortune, pastor of the Central Christian church. Interment will take place in the Lexington cemetery.


      1930 Federal Census of Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky (9 Apr 1930)
      Edward Bassett - 33 - M - KY-KY-KY - Head - Business Banker
      Jane - 33 - F - KY-EN-MS - Wife
      James E. III - 8 - M - KY-KY-KY - Son
      Spencer B. - 4 - M - KY-KY-KY - Son
      Mary W. Brookes (Wd) - 60 - F - MS-KY-MS - MotherL
      Mary Honan - 40 - F - KY-NI-NY - Servant - Nurse Private Family
      (Married at 23 & 23)
    Person ID I127  8B John Bassett of Hunterdon County, New Jersey
    Last Modified 28 Aug 2016 

    Father James Edward Bassett, Jr.,   b. 10 Jul 1896, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Jane Brooker,   d. 11 Jan 1985, Ocoee, Florida Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Jun 1920 
    Divorced Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F48  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart