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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.
The fourth daughter of Aunt Sarah, Ann, married Anderson Garland, a brother of Robert Garland, about the year 1835. She is still living with her daughter at Greenup Co. Kentucky, but I do not remember whom the daughters Grace and Ann married. She, also, had one son Rose, who is a bachelor some 50 years old still living. He was rather given to dissipation and of very little force of character.
Anderson Garland was a very handsome man, about 6 ft tall; his brother Robert was 6 ft 4 inches. Their mother married a second husband George Washington Bruce, who lived not far from us. There was, also, another half-brother Nathaniel Garland who lived near my Father's and died there since 1876. He was also six feet tall.
They also, had a sister Synthia who was married to James Keith about 1838. James Keith moved from there to Knox Co, Ill, but I never met him afterwards.
Garland's mother was a large woman, and she had four children by her second marriage to wit: - Thomas, Perry, Horatio and George. They were all large men. Perry and Horatio died after growing up to manhood, unmarried. Thomas married Susan Crawford and died about 1860. George married a daughter of Thomas Stratton who lived near my father. George remained on the old Bassett place until his death about 1892. He was near my age and all of them were energetic intelligent and good men. Washington Bruce, their father, was blind. He bought a large tract of land on and along Kinniconick Creek and built as many as four sawmills on Kinniconick all in operation at one time. Bruce's land extended some four miles along the stream. He was a great landholder and a great litigant and became very much involved before his death, but his sons paid off his debts and saved their land.
Anderson Garland was a trading man for some years and made some money. He engaged in the steamboat business on the Ohio R. about 1850 and after making some money finally lost all he had. He never recovered his grip. In 1857 he bought the house I built in Quincy, KY. And where I had lived and he kept tavern for some years. Later on he kept tavern in Vanceburg, Ky. but he took to drinking and became a drunken sot and died about 1890.
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