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Sarah Wallingford

Female 1795 - 1857  (61 years)


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  • Name Sarah Wallingford 
    Born 31 May 1795  Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    _UID 39FD553095076B4D9AFDCA5CC75ED7784044 
    Died 25 May 1857 
    Buried Mt. Gilead Cemetry, Mason County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • 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.

      1850 Federal Census of Lewis County, Kentucky
      Amos Bassett - 69 - Farmer 1000 New Jersey
      Sarah - 55 - Virginia
      Sophia A. - 19 - Kentucky
      Martha A. - 15 - Kentucky
    Person ID I21  8B John Bassett of Hunterdon County, New Jersey
    Last Modified 22 May 2012 

    Family 1 Waring 
    Children 
     1. Joseph Waring
     2. Frances Waring
    Family ID F64  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Amos Bassett,   b. 14 Feb 1781, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1868, Lewis County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years) 
    Married 1 Jan 1822  Mason County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Bassett,   d. 1833
     2. John Bassett,   d. 1833
    +3. Harriet M. Bassett,   b. Abt 1825, Lewis County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Sophia Ann Bassett,   b. 28 Jul 1831, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jun 1884, Fleming County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years)
    +5. Martha Elizabeth Bassett,   b. 6 Feb 1836, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Dec 1887, Lewis County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
    Family ID F8  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart