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- Isaac Bassett moved to Aledo, Illinois and was a lawyer.
1820 Federal Census of Portsmouth, Wayne Township, Scioto County, Ohio
1830 Federal Census of Lewis County, Kentucky
Isaac Basset 120001-201001 (#8B26)
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1840 Federal Census of Greenup County, Kentucky
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1850 Federal Census of 15th District, Greenup County, Kentucky
Isaac Bassett - 58- M - Pennsylvania - Farmer
Elisabeth - 35 - F - Kentucky
John - 28 - M - Kentucky - School Teacher
Elizabeth E. - 13 - F - Kentucky
A.W. - 11 - M - Kentucky
Excerpt from Autobiography of Isaac Newton Bassett
My Father Isaac Bassett was born in Delaware [or N.J., Victor Hugo Bassett], August 4, 1791 and his father died three days thereafter. His mother moved to Lewis Co. Kentucky while my father was a boy and he lived in that county and Greenup Co. the remainder of his life, first near Portsmouth, Ohio, afterwards near the little village of Quincy KY, where he had a little farm and engage in the lumber business, building flat-boats and running them to Cincinnati, Ohio for sale and cutting logs and floating them to Cincinnati. My father was about 5 Ft 10 in. in height and always corpulent. In his later life, quite so, weighing 240 lbs. He was well built, broad shouldered and when young, firm of muscle. Naturally he had a fine constitution. His eyes and hair were black, features regular with a well-developed brain, complexion darkish but not very dark. His teeth were regular and well formed and were all sound when he died at 72. He was always temperate in his habits as far as using intoxicants but was rather inclined to indulge his appetite in eating. There was born to him, by my mother, eight children - to wit - Sabina, John Ray, Luke, Allen, and Alexander (twins) Isaac Newton, Frances Ann, Mary Jane and Sarah Susannah. Alexander died when about one year old and Sara Susannah when she was two months old.
My Mother was a woman of medium height and build, of light complexion, black or grey eyes and light hair. My Father received only a very common education, but his language was free from provincialisms and slang phrases. He acted as post-master for a great number of years and as justice of the peace. He and my Mother were both members of the M.E. church. My Father was a class leader from my earliest recollections until his health would not permit of his acting. He was also a licensed exhorter for a great many years.
My mother died of consumption Feb 10, 1833 when Sarah Susannah was six months old. She was better educated than my father and of a more nervous temperament. I remember her quite well altho' not eight years old when she died. I have always felt that her death was a great loss to me. She was more ambitious for intellectual culture than was my father and she was far superior to my stepmother who took her place in mental culture and training.
My Father was a very truthful, upright man and no one was more highly respected in the neighborhood than he was. He was the leader in the M.E. church, which was the only organized church in the neighborhood or within ten miles of us. The preaching place was often at my Father's home, but most generally the schoolhouse and was on weekdays as the circuit was a four weeks one with two preachers assigned to it and there were more than twenty preaching places in the circuit, the term circuit-rider would truly apply to them.
My Father lived in two log cabins, one room in each and here the family of six children, father and mother with sometimes two hired hands lived.
My mother died of consumption, and my oldest sister was then only thirteen years old. She with the hired girl kept house for a year or more, the youngest sister having died, my sister then became the housekeeper dispensing with the services of the hired girl.
In 1834 my father married a second time to Anna Wilson who was an entire stranger to us, and her family lived some thirty miles from us. She was a very good women but she had very little education and culture and poor health in twelve months after the marriage. She became almost an invalid and gradually grew weaker and became bed ridden for four or five years and finally died Feb 8, 1842.
Notwithstanding her weak condition, she gave birth to children rapidly, four having been born within less than three years after the marriage. Elizabeth Ellen on the 22nd of October 1835. She lived until July 23rd 1854 and died unmarried. Hester Ann and Sarah Ann were twins born Oct 25th 1836 - only lived 5 days, - Susannah Ray born August 26th 1837, died Sept 14th 1838. Also Amos Whitaker born Feb 8, 1839 died August 11th 1855. Thus all the children of the 2nd marriage died young and un-married.
During the lifetime of the second wife in the spring of 1840, my father sold his little farm and moved five miles away, first into Greenup Co. He bought 40 acres of land of my Uncle John Bassett for 50 cents an acre. It was at the head of several little streams on high land. White-oak Creek to the East, Briery to the North and Montgomery to the West. It was poor land but heavily timbered and some of it cleared for cultivation. I was then 14 years old and there were then 8 children in the family.
We were three miles from our Uncle Amos's who was west of us and three miles from Samuel Truitts who was east of us and other persons with whom we associated were farther from us. My Father still went to church at the old place where he would hold class meetings on Sundays. He also held meetings at the houses of the other people nearer us and finally organized a church and took in quite a number of members of the women and a few of the men and did some very good missionary work with them.
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