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Mary Bassett

Female 1832 - 1863  (31 years)


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  • Name Mary Bassett 
    Born 15 Jun 1832  Glastonbury, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    _UID ACDE69D434842B4C9EE3A9C5D2D983394CC0 
    Died 28 Oct 1863  Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • History of the State of Kansas
      William G. Cutler
      Shawnee County, Part 48
      Alfred Sage, farmer, Section 26, P.O. Valencia. Has 335 acres, all under fence, 130 acres under cultivation. Has good improvements, large two-story stone house, containing eight rooms, built in the fall of 1878, at a cost of $1,300. Barn is forty feet square. There are also other buildings, such as cattle stables, granary, etc., and a stone house one-half mile north of his residence, containing eight rooms. He deals extensively in live stock, keeping 100 to 200 head of cattle. Has also a fine Percheron-Norman stallion, which Mr. M.W. Dunham imported, and was bought by him at a cost of $2,000. He has also a store room and general stock of goods at the village of Dover, which is in the charge of son, Squire. He is one of the best farmers in Kansas, and realizes large yields from his crops. He was born in Somersetshire, England, August 6, 1833, and came to America with his mother, settling in Onondaga County, New York, where he remained until twenty-one years old. He then moved to Iowa, and from there to Kansas in 1856, locating on the present site of the village of Dover, in which vicinity he has since resided. In 1871 he purchased the Snider Building, and in partnership with A.D. Craig, he opened a general store, which he kept three years. He then sold out his interest and returned to his farm, where he resided two years. He again entered business at his present stand. He was married at Onondaga, New York, in 1854, to Miss Mary Bassett, a native of England. They had five children - Maggie, William, Squire, James and Dudley. His wife died October 28, 1863. On July 23, 1864, he married Mrs. Mary A. Buell, a native of Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Sage has always been an active Republican, and identified with that party snice its organization.

      Sage Family of Shawnee County, Kansas
      A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans - (1918)
      Sage Family of Shawnee County. The name of Sage has been very prominently identified with Shawnee County, particularly in the community around Dover, for a half century or more. The family is one that would prove a valuable contribution to any community. They have been upright and conscientious citizens, have done their share of the development work connected with the raising of a new country to the best standards of civilization, and there is probably not a single member of the family who has not pulled his own weight in the world.
      The first of this particular family to come from Somersetshire, England, the original seat of the family, to America was Arthur Sage. His parents were Samuel and Elizabeth (Davis) Sage. Arthur located in Onondaga County, New York. His experience in the New World was very gratifying, and the reports he sent back home caused his father Samuel to also come to America. He too was favorably impressed, and about the year 1849 he sent for the other members of the family to join him. Samuel Sage was twice married. None of the children of his first wife ever lived in America. One son of the first marriage was named Aaron and he gained distinction by being selected a member of the Queen's Guard.
      The children of Samuel Sage by his second marriage were: Arthur, Ann, who married Simon Mayne; John, Alfred, Mark, Samuel, Aaron, Elizabeth, who married Edward Stock; and Walter. The only one of these children who never lived in Kansas was Walter. Walter enlisted in Battery F of the Third New York Light Artillery early in the war, and died of typhoid fever at Newbern, North Carolina, unmarried.
      The first of the family to come to Kansas were John and Alfred Sage, who arrived during the decade of the 1850s, when Kansas was still a territory, and preempted land at Dover. That land is now owned by John R. Tomson. These brothers when they came west were what was known as "tenderfoot". They left their families in Topeka until they could build shacks and start farming operations around Dover. They went out into the country in a wagon, and the first night was one of very great discomfort. They were frightened by the howling of wolves, and not knowing to what extent those animals were dangerous they remained in the covered wagon all night, one of them occupying the front end with a gun and the other the rear with an ax. They had no sleep, and early the next morning they suffered a great deal of chagrin when they found, instead of a pack of ravening wolves, only two or three loud but practically harmless coyotes. Later John and Alfred developed into very substantial and forceful men of early territorial days. They became associated with James H. Lane and John Brown and other leaders of the noted free soilers, and had some worthy share in making Kansas a free state.
      After John and Alfred came Mark Sage, who settled on Mill Creek, where he kept a stage station. Following him was Samuel, Jr., who settled at Dover, and after the war came Aaron, with his father, and Elizabeth, the wife of Edward Stock, was the last to come.
      Samuel Sage, father of this large family of Kansans, did not long survive his arrival in Kansas. He was a man of great moral and physical strength and courage. When Napoleon threatened to conquer the world Samuel Sage was seized and got drafted for the British army. Being possessed of considerable talent, he was assigned to the band and for ten years continued in the English army and participated in a number of the continental campaigns against Napoleon. He was a man advanced in years when he came to America and his life was spent here practically uneventful. His death occurred at the extreme age of ninety-eight.
      Arthur, his oldest son, married Keziah Shepard, and of their five children the four who grew to maturity were Ann, Albert, Sarah and Emily. The son John married Elizabeth Bassett, and they became the parents of a large family. John Sage was for many years postmaster at Dover. Alfred married Mary Bassett and some of their children are still living near Dover. Mark married Josephine Howe, and four of his children are still residents of Kansas. The son Samuel, Jr., was in a Kansas regiment during the Civil War and died from an attack of the measles.

      1850 Federal Census of Skaneateles, Onondaga County, New York
      Joseph Bassett - 40 - M - England - Laborer
      Joseph - 18 - M - England - Laborer
      Mary - 18 - F - England
      Thomas - 16 - M - England - Laborer
      James - 14 - M - England
      Elizabeth - 12 - F - England
      Emma - 10 - F- England
      Fanny - 7 - F - England
    Person ID I5  61B Joseph Bassett of Glastonbury, England
    Last Modified 3 Feb 2013 

    Father Joseph Isaac Bassett,   b. Abt 1800, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1858  (Age ~ 58 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Heal Hale,   b. Abt 1803, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jan 1850, Skaneateles, Onondaga County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 47 years) 
    Married 1 Feb 1826  Glastonbury, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alfred Sage,   b. 6 Aug 1833, Somersetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 17 Apr 1854  Onondaga County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Maryon (Maggie) Sage,   b. Abt 1855, New York Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. William Sage,   b. Abt 1856, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Squire Sage,   b. Abt 1858, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. James Sage,   b. Abt 1862, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Dudley Sage,   b. Abt 1863, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F8  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart