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- Excerpt from the Isaac Newton Bassett Autobiography
My Uncle Amos was unfortunate in his first marriage and the family never referred to it and seemed desirous of blotting it out of their memory. [added in pencil: "nothing important now nor any disgrace".] He subsequently married a widow woman whose maiden name was Walinsgsford. A family who lived in Fleming Co, Kentucky and was in good circumstances. She first married a man named Waring, a very respectable family of Greenup Co. Kentucky. Her husband died leaving her with two children, Joseph and Frances. My Uncle married her and settled in the Valley of Montgomery Creek, two miles from my Father's place. His farm was in the little creek bottoms about 30 or 40 rods wide and extended along the creek over half a mile.
Amos Bassett had five children, Elizabeth, John, Harriet, Sophia and Martha. Elizabeth and John died in the summer of 1833 when they were just budding into womanhood and manhood. Harriet was married in 1847 to George W. Johnson and is still living on the headwater of the little Montgomery Creek. She had six children but I do not know anything about them.
Sophia and Martha were both married and have since died, but I do not remember who they married nor what children they left. These girls of my Uncle, with his stepchildren were among my playmates and schoolmates and my visits to my uncle Amos were always very pleasant. Uncle Amos was a small man or rather medium. He was thin or medium in flesh about 5 ft. 8 in. height and weighed (about) 140 - 145 lbs. He was well proportioned, erect and elastic in his step. His education, as with all of the family, only limited: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. He was a man of unexceptional character. He had no enemies, yet he was firm in character. He was industrious, strictly temperate, quiet in his manners, and upright in all of his dealings. He lived to an advanced age - upwards of 86 and died about 1868, but the exact year I do not know. In religion he was Methodist, in politics, a Whig, in the war, a staunch Unionist.
In the summer of 1833 the bloody flux was very bad in our neighborhood, this was the year following the first outbreak of cholera in an epidemic form in the United States. Many of our neighbors died of the flux among them my cousins John and Eveline Thompson and Elizabeth and John Bassett. My father spent almost two months in nursing and assisting our sick neighbors. We did not have it in our family, only in a very mild form by Brother Allen.
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Bassett Family Association Database
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, d. 26 Feb 1868, Lewis County, Kentucky