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- Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas
The Goodspeed Publishing Company (1890)
Samuel D. Bassett, a merchant and farmer of Marion, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1846. and is the son of Samuel and Lydia (French) Bassett. (See sketch of James Bassett.) When a small boy Samuel Bassett moved to Memphis with his mother, and from here they soon came to Crittenden County, Arkansas. During the war the mother and her two children went to Cincinnati, and after staying there a few months, Samuel returned to this county, and in 1864 attended the Christian Brothers' College, at St. Louis. After leaving college in 1865, he returned to this county, where he has lived ever since, except two years (1870 and 1871) that he spent in Texas and Kansas. He commenced business for himself at the age of twenty-one years, and has since been engaged in farming and merchandising. He first put in a stock of general merchandise, which he sold in 1878, and his since been doing a general business. He now has a stock of goods at Marion, and one at Gavin Station, where he had an establishment several years before the station was founded. This station is on the old place that was first settled by his people, and on which his mother still lives. Mr. Bassett was married in 1875 to Miss Love Swepston, who was born in Ohio, and is a daughter of John Swepston. This union was blessed by one child (Musetta) in 1876. Mr. Bassett has always taken an active part in educational matters, and his prominence in these affairs has given him a position as director on the school board; he is also postmaster at Gavin Station. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of Lodge No. 3114, K. of H. of Marion. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are good Christian people, well liked by all.
1850 Federal Census of Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi (13 Aug 1850)
David A. McClure - 28 - M - Louisiana - Blacksmith
Lydia - 30 - F - England
James Bassett - 6 - M - Mississippi
Samuel Bassett - 2 - M - Mississippi
1860 Federal Census of Fifth Ward, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee (11 Jul 1860)
Lydia McClure - 42 - F - England - Landlady
James - 16 - M - Mississippi
Samuel - 11 - M - Mississippi
1880 Federal Census of Jasper, Crittenden County, Arkansas
S.D. Bassett - 33 - M - MS-EN-EN - Head - Farmer
Love S. - 26 - F - OH-VA-OH - Wife - Keeping House
Mittie M. - 3 - F - AR-MS-OH - Daughter
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