Lydia French

• Name	Lydia French
  Birth	England
  Gender	Female
  _UID	A872761FCD89994995A1ACF578E3D6DECD32
  Notes	Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas The Goodspeed Publishing Company (1890) James Bassett, merchant and farmer of Marion, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1845, and is the son of Samuel and Lydia (French) Bassett, who are natives of England. They came to the United States before their marriage and were united at Vicksburg, making their home there, whence he went into the Mexican War. Soon after his return from the war he died of yellow fever, and after his death the mother and family remained at Vicksburg where Mrs. Bassett was married to David McClure, a native of Mississippi. In 1856 Mr. and Mrs. McClure moved to Memphis, and in the following year to Crittenden County, Arkansas, where the aged mother still lives, her husband having died in 1871. To her first marriage were born two sons, James and Samuel D., and by the second marriage was born one child (now deceased). When a small boy Samuel Bassett moved to Memphis with his mother, and from here they soon came to Crittenden County, Arkansas. During the war the mother and her two children went to Cincinnati, and after staying there a few months, Samuel returned to this county, and in 1864 attended the Christian Brothers' College, at St. Louis. He commenced business for himself at the age of twenty-one years, and has since been engaged in farming and merchandising. He now has a stock of goods at Marion, and one at Gavin Station, where he had an establishment several years before the station was founded. This station is on the old place that was first settled by his people, and on which his mother still lives. 1850 Federal Census of Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi (13 Aug 1850) David A. McClure - 28 - M - Louisiana - Blacksmith Lydia - 30 - F - England James Bassett - 6 - M - Mississippi Samuel Bassett - 2 - M - Mississippi 1860 Federal Census of Fifth Ward, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee (11 Jul 1860) Lydia McClure - 42 - F - England - Landlady James - 16 - M - Mississippi Samuel - 11 - M - Mississippi
  Person ID	I2	72B Samuel Bassett of Vicksburg, Mississippi
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2013

  
  

  Family 1	Samuel Bassett,   b. England d. Bef 1850
  Marriage	Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi
  Children	+ 1. James Bassett,   b. Sep 1845, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi + 2. Samuel D. Bassett,   b. 1846, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi
  Family ID	F1	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	David McClure   d. 1871
  Children	1. McClure
  Family ID	F2	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart