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- He served in the U.S.
Navy. They are both buried in Wayside Cemetery, Richville,
Dekalb, St. Lawrence County, New York. Lillian's SSN was 032-22
-3550 and it was issued in Massachusetts. The following death
residences are listed for Lillian: Bucks Bridge, Canton, Crary
Mills, Eddy, Langdon Corners, Morley, North Russell, Pierrepont,
and West Pierrepont, all located in St. Lawrence County, New
York.
Watertown Daily Times, April 15, 1910
Love At First Sight
Leon Bassett, U.S.N., of Gouverneur, Weds ‘Frisco Maid
Gouverneur, April 15. – Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Bassett of Prospect street received word a few days ago that their eldest son, Leon Bassett, who for the past year has been a bluejacket on the U.S.S. Washington, was united in marriage recently to the daughter of a San Francisco merchant while his ship was at Seattle, Wash., where for some weeks the crew was in quarantine for small pox after arriving from Japan. It appears to have been a cause of love at first sight as the young lady who, with her father, had been visiting in Seattle, had not known Bassett for over two weeks.
Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, New York, 9 Apr 1957
Leon A. Bassett Succumbs at 65
RICHVILLE, April 9 – Leon Arthur Bassett, 65, Richville, died suddently at the house where he lived while doing carpentry work at 9:30 a.m Monday. He was living at the home of daughter, Mrs. Robert Rice, Richville.
The funeral will be held from his home Thursday at 2 p.m., Rev. Richard Walbridge, rector, Trinity Episcopal Church, Gouverneur, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Gouverneur. Friends may call Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Mr. Bassett is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lillian Westerfelt Bassett, Gouverneur; one daughter, Mrs. Robert (Marilyn) Rice, Richville; one sister, Mrs. Allen Rice, Hallesboro; and one brother, John Bassett, Florida.
Mr. Bassett was born June 28, 1891, the son of Theodore and Mary Elizabeth Manning Bassett. He attended Gouverneru schools and joined the navy in 1908, making two trips around the world before his discharge from service. Mr. Bassett worked in the New York city and New Jersey area. He married Miss Lillian Westerfelt Sept. 17, 1919, in New York city.
In 1921, Mr. Bassett went to work for the General Electric company at Pittsfield, Mass., as an electric welder until July, 1956, when he retired and came to Richville.
The Northern Tribune, Gouverneur, N.Y., Wednesday, Sept. 23, 1908
Leon Bassett, the eldest son of Mr. And Mrs. T.S. Bassett of Prospect street, this village, enlisted as an apprentice seaman in the navy Friday at Syracuse, and has gone to New York to being his duties.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1891 - 1957 (65 years)