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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 oldest was Margaret, who married Joseph Moore (a cousin of Scienda Moore, my first wife). He had a very good farm in Kentucky on the Ohio river, west of my father's farm, two or three miles. Joseph Moore and Margaret died there, the latter about 1870, the former about 1883. But the exact years I cannot state. They left one son, Foster, who is living on the old farm and has a very nice family of daughters some of whom are married. They - Margaret and Joseph - left one daughter who married a man named Honecker and who lives in Greenup or Carter, Co, Kentucky. The second daughter of Aunt Sarah Thompson was Susan who married Thomas Warring (a Methodist preacher, cousin of Joseph Waring and Alexander Bassett) about 1830. Susan died about two years after marriage, leaving one child, a son who grew to manhood and who may be living yet. Thomas Warring was subsequently married to Rachel Murphy, a sister of Samuel Murphy who married my oldest Sister. Thomas Waring settle in Louisville, KY and engaged in trade. He left home on business about 1844 and was never heard of afterward. It was believed that he was murdered.
Nancy Thompson was the third daughter of Aunt Sarah. She married Robert Garland about 1833 and died about 1837 or 1838 leaving two children, girls - Synthia [sic] and Sarah. Sarah married Rose Harrison(?) and I do not remember whether Synthia married or not, but I think both of them are dead.
Robert Garland subsequently married Amanda Skidmore and in 1840 bought of my father the little home where I was born. His second wife died some years after and subsequently Robert Garland died on the farm he bought of my Father. He was a large man, 6 ft 4 in, and well proportioned.
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.
Mary, the 5th daughter of Aunt Sarah Thompson married a man by the name of Parker, an old family in KY, but this one was quite poor and not possessed of much energy. He died some years after and Mary, also died about 1870 leaving several children. I don't know what has become of them but saw one daughter at Foster Moore's in 1880. Sarah and Evaline the next two daughters with John, a son of Aunt Sarah, died in 1833 and 1834. Matthew a son of Aunt Sarah was married to a girl named Noel in Scioto Co. Ohio near Portsmouth and engaged in the grocery business which he conducted for 25 or 30 years and died in 1889, or about that time, leaving one son, Frank, who is still in the business.
George, the youngest son and child of Aunt Sarah went into the mercantile business at Ironton, Ohio, afterwards at Rockport, KY and later at Portsmouth, Ohio. I think he is yet alive and doing business in Portsmouth. (He died in 1895.) He married a Miss Rowley of Vanceburg KY and she is living at Chillicothe, IL, with several children. (This I have just learned in the year 1898 from his sister Ann Garland.)
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, d. 7 Aug 1790