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- 1870 Federal Census of Boston, Bowie County, Texas (13 Jul 1870)
M.A. Bassett 27 M North Carolina Farm Labor --- 500
Eva R. 24 F Tennessee Keeping House
William H. 1 M Tennessee
1880 Federal Census of Justice, Bowie County, Texas
M.A. Bassett 36 M NC SC NC Hotelkeeper
Willie 12 M TN NC TN At Home
L.G. 8 TX NC TN At Home
Nellie 2 F TX NC TN AT Home
R.H. DeWitt 36 M TX Mail carrier
S.E. DeWitt 7 F TX
From Misc. source
1860 - Carpenter
1861-1863 Soldier
1870 - Farm labor
1880 Hotel Keeper
1882 Farming 960 acres (from Texarkana Business Directory 1882-83)
1886 Auctioneer (advertisement in the Texarkana Daily Independent 16 Jul 1886, M.A. Bassett, chief of auctioneers & intelligence office, will sell everything pertaining to grociers. Headquarters in TAYLOR corner, opposite GHIO's.).
State Department of Archives and History
North Carolina Troops : 1861-1865
Bassett, M.A., Private
Born in Buncombe County where he resided as a carpenter and enlisted at age 19, May 20, 1861 for the war. Discharged at camp near Culpeper Court House, Va., January 18, 1863 by reason of "necrosis of the Os Calcis destroying the conformity of the heel".
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