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- Excerpt from Autobiography of Isaac Newton Bassett
My Aunt Sarah was married to Mathew Thomson and settled on a farm just west of my father's adjoining it and extending to Kinniconick west. The Thompson family was an old Virginia family. There were, besides Matthew, four brothers, John, William, Alexander and Milton, all who lived not far from my father's in Kentucky. My Aunt Sarah had a very large family. Sarah and Evaline the next two daughters with John, a son of Aunt Sarah, died in 1833 and 1834.
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
- 1833