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- Excerpt from Autobiography of Isaac Newton Bassett
My father's sister, Hester Cole was married to John Clark. He was a local Methodist Episcopal preacher. He was quite poor and commenced trading with very little money. He gradually increased his capital, settled in Gallia, Gallia Co, Ohio, and kept a general store for a great many years. Subsequently, he moved to Millersport, Ohio, on the Ohio River and kept a general store there for a number of years and became quite well off but in his later years, by the failure of his debtors for whom he expended quite an amount of money and was endorser and security he lost nearly all that he had made. He used to visit my father with my aunt and brought their children or some of them from time to time with them. Aunt was a large woman, quite cheerful and full of jokes. She used to tell about a little matter regarding her big feet and laugh over it. She wore a number seven shoe and often found difficulty getting her size. At one time, when Uncle had bought a new stock of goods she went into the store and took out all the number 7 shoes. Uncle had not yet opened up and checked off the goods. When he came to do so he found the count one pair short in the first lot. He went to Aunt and asked her if she had got any shoes out of the lot. She answered yes. In a few minutes he came and asked if she had taken a pair out of the next lot. She answered in the affirmative and there gathered up all the shoes she had taken and took them to the store and laid them down. Uncle took an inventory of them and told her to keep them.
Aunt Hester died about 1857 or 58 and Uncle John Clark died at or near Evansville, Ind when on a business trip there a few years later. They had a large family. Thompson, the oldest son, named for my Uncle Mathew Thompson, engaged first in merchandise, afterwards in hotel business in Burliington, Ohio and subsequently married a widow lady in Lewis Co, KY, near Vanceburg and was living there a few years ago.
Susan, the only daughter, married a man by the name of Shelton in Gallia Co. Ohio and died in the 40's nearly 50 years ago. I think she left some children but do not know where they are.
Amos, the 2nd son engaged in merchandise in various places - once in Vanceburg, KY, and was in the steamboat business on the Ohio R. one or two years about 1844-1845. He finally settled in Cincinnati, OH where he and a younger brother, Alexander engaged in the wholesale grocery business which they continued for many years. Amos finally retired and the last I heard from him he was living out at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati and Alexander was still conducting the grocery business. Amos had started two of his sons in business in Vanceburg, KY about 1880. They may be there yet but Amos is doubtless dead.
George, the next son, engaged in the grocery business in Ironton, Ohio where he was living in 1829. He was not social as were his brothers Thompson and Amos and cared little for his relatives. Quincy, another son of Aunt Hester's was in the mercantile business in Portsmouth, Ohio for a few years but in 1892 he was living near Millersport (?) Ohio on the Ohio R.
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