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- 1870 Federal Census of Sublette Township, Lee County, Illinois (9 Jul 1870)
Charles Bassett - 59 - M - Massachusetts - Farmer 1600 600
Abigal - 54 - F - New York - Keeping House
Edna - 17 - F - Illinois - School Teacher
Marsella - 13 - F - Illinois
1880 Federal Census of Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas
Abigail Bassett - 65 - F - NY----NY - Head - Keeping House
Edna - 28 - F - IL-MA-NY - Daughter - Teaching School
Marsella - 23 - F - IL-MA-NY - Daughter - Teaching School
The Amboy Journal
15 Jul 1871
About midnight, one week ago last Wednesday, Miss Edna Bassett found a man lying on the bed beside her, which did not harmonize with her ideas of propriety. With unearthly shrieks she left the room. Waresella started, but the man caught and held him a few seconds. Mr. Bassett admits that he was terribly frightened, but he has acted constable too much in his younger days, to run from danger. He seized the intruder, and would have spoiled his face but for Mrs. Bassett. The girls ran endishabelle for Wm. Beard, but ere he arrived Mr. and Mrs. Bassett had the fellow securely tied with a rope. He had got in at the bed room window, leaving his boots outside, and hat and coat within, and was lying on the bed when his presence became known. They kept him until morning, decided that he was crazy, so gave him some breakfast and let him go. He went to Binghampton and said he was going fifty miles north of Freeport. Then came the handbills, advertising John Reed, the murderer of Miss McCormick in DeKalb county, which described the crazy man so closely that we telegraphed Sheriff Berkley to watch for him at Dixo. Whether it was the murderer or not we have not heard.
Charles Bassett was living next door to William Beard (husband of daughter Mary Bassett) in the 1870 census of Lee County, Illinois.
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