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Ethyl Bassett

Female 1899 -


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  • Name Ethyl Bassett 
    Born Aug 1899  Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
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    • The Niagara Falls Gazette, Monday, August 23, 1915
      Marriage Ceremony Enables Youth to Leave Lockup
      Walter Horner, 18, and Ethel Bassett, 17, are Wed
      Guardians Give Consent ? Both Working in Buffalo

      Walter Horner and Ethel Bassett were yesterday married by the Rev. A. S. Bacon, at the parsonage of the First Presbyterian church. The couple were under age but special permission was given them by parents and guardians to permit the ceremony to proceed in the regular manner. The marriage license was issued yesterday afternoon and was the first official act of City Clerk Thomas H. Hogan upon that official?s return from a convention o9f municipal clerks at Troy. The Horners remained overnight at the home of the bridegroom?s mother in Fourth street and today arranged to go to Buffalo where Horner is said to have employment.
      The marriage of the twain is the culmination of a romance involving the elopement of the girl, who is under seventeen years old, from the home of her uncle, Claude Webster, No. 29 West Niagara street, with Horner who is only eighteen two weeks ago. The youth was forbidden in the Webster home when he essayed to pay his attentions to the young girl. They planned to elope and go to Detroit, where they hoped to find employment. In Buffalo their funds ran low and Horner was given employment the remuneration for which enabled the pair to enjoy no better luxuries than the cheap loding houses. During the wet spell of last week the girl was caught in a heavy shower and her clothing was soaked. In order to get out on the street with her companion Saturday the girl donned a suit of Horners clothing and walked down Franklin street where she was detected by a policeman who proved his suspicions she was not adapted to the wearing of man?s attire.
      The girl fessed up she was the one being sought by the Niagara Falls police and she and Horner were detained pending the arrival of an officer from this city. Horner was charged with abduction. Following the return of the couple the mother of the youth and guardians of the girl conferred and all agreed it would be well to have the marriage ceremony and settle all difficulties.

      Buffalo Courier, Monday, August 23, 1915
      Falls Eloper Discard Fiance?s Old Trousers
      For Trim Bridal Suit
      Boy and Girl Whom Police of Buffalo Picke Up on
      Saturday Are Granted Parental Forgiveness and Wedding Bells Soon Ring

      Arrayed in a trim, bridal traveling suit ? a costume wholly different from the silly-creased trousers and baggy boy?s jacket she was wearing when arrested in Main street last Saturday ? sixteen-year-old Ethel Bassett and eighteen-year-old Walter Horner left police headquarters at Niagara Falls yesterday morning and a few hours later were united in marriage by the Rev. A.F. Bacon, pastor of First Presbyterian church.
      Thus ended a romance that started two weeks ago with hopes, cinders, bad food ?I.O.U?s.? and the purple light of love. Tired of playing the bachelor, Walter has finally launched upon the sea of matrimony. Clerk Thomas Hogan, who went out of his way yesterday morning to get the license papers for the pairs, states the rites were most tender. Walter publicly announced he now intends to get a job.
      With the typing of the knot, the charges of abduction against Walter are withdrawn, and when the case is called in Niagara Falls police court this morning it will draw smiles and a blue pencil, but no defendant or complainant.
      Policeman Britt of Franklin street station, is historian for the elpoment story which terminated Saturday, when he noticed Ethel?s trousers were built for three like her, and her feet were petite.
      She and Walter were going along Main street as blissful as could be, when Britt stopped them. Brief conversation convinced Britt they were the boy and girl reported to have eloped from Niagara Falls two weeks ago, and for whom the police were looking. When he lifted the girl?s blue serge cap, and her blonde hair dropped in a cascade, he know he was right.
      Ethel wept, but at the Franklin street station she told of how she and Walter had eloped two weeks before, and were simply awaiting sunny skies and plethoric purses before seeking the shrine of Hymen. She admitted dhe was wearing a suit of her sweetheart?s, because her only dress had become soaked with rain and she feared to venture forth in its clinging folds.
      Horner says his fiance?s parents are dead and she has been living with her aunt and uncle in Niagara falls. He said he had been forbidden to visit his sweetheart, so they ran away. Detroit was the destination, where the young man believed he could get steady work. Since arrival in Buffalo, they had braved the nightmare of cheap boarding-house fodder and smelly rooms.
      They found employment selling novelties for a specialty house and were wondering whether their love affair would ever progress beyond the tought buckwheat cake stage, when the big rain fell and Ethel sallied forth in an extra suite of her soulmate?s. The girl?s feminine gait proved fatal ? or fortunate.
      The Buffalo police decided to hold Walter for abduction, and notified Chief of Police Lyons of Niagara Falls. Lyons sent a detective here for the pair. Yesterday morning, accompanied by parents and relatives, the prodigals sought the license clerk and then called upon the parson.
      Having enunciated the pledge of ?with all my worldly goods I thee endow,? Walter kissed his bride and agreed it isn?t such a bad old world.

      Niagara Falls Gazette, Thursday, April 23, 1942
      Falls Women Gets Divorce

      Mrs. Ethel Lilly, of 120 Sixty-ninth street, this city, was awarded a divorce from Forney B. Lilly by Referee Clinton T. Horton in Buffalo yesterday. They were married in 1934.
    Person ID I31939  1A William Bassett of Plymouth
    Last Modified 28 Dec 2014 

    Father Nathan C. Bassett,   b. Sep 1868, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Deceased 
    Family ID F11671  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart