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- Trenton Evening Times, December 29, 1935
Miss Bassett Is Wed To Hammon
Ceremony Performed Here by the Rev. Oscar W. Henderson
Yardley, Dec. 28. - Announcement has been made by Dr. and Mrs. H. Linn Bassett of the marriage of their daughter, Miss Carolyn Bassett, to Cornelius Hammon, a former resident of Yardley. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Oscar W. Henderson, pastor of the Grace Baptist Church, of Trenton, at his home.
Only the immediate family were present at the ceremony.
Mrs. Hammon, a lifelong resident of Yardley, for some time has been employed in hospital work in Philadelphia.
1920 Federal Census of Yardley, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (10 Jan 1920)
Henry L. Bassett - 45 - M - PA-NJ-PA - Head - Doctor Medicine
Mary T. - 47 - F - KS-PA-PA - Wife
Linda M. - 15 - F - PA-PA-KS - Daughter
Caroline S. - 13 - F - PA-PA-KS - Daughter
Juliet L. - 8 - F - PA-PA-KS - Daughter
Juliet H. - 83 - F - PA-PA-PA - Mother
Harry South - 46 - M - PA-PA-PA - Servant - Chauffer Private Family
(Living on South Main Street)
Trenton Evening Times, December 1, 1958
Dr. Bassett Dead at 84
Dr. Henry Bassett, 84, of 70 South Main Street, Yardley, died Saturday in Mercer Hospital, where he was a staff member over 20 years.
A former president of the Yardley Board of Health, Dr. Bassett graduated from Princeton University in 1898 and three years later received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College.
He was a member of the American Medical Association and the Bucks County Medical Society. He had been active in the Boy Scouts of America and the Yardley Lions Club.
Husband of the late Mary T. Simpson Bassett, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Richard A. Morse of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Cornelius H. Haman of Balboa, Canal Zone, and Mrs. Hardwick T. Lord of Summit; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Fitzgerald Funeral Home, 17 South Delaware Avenue, Yardley, with the Rev. Philip F. Palmer of Yardley Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be in St. Andrew's Cemetery. Friends may call tomorrow evening.
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