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- The records of the children are from a family Bible, a copy of which can be found at the State Archives in Richmond, Virginia. The Bible was in possession of Mrs. Donald Kilgore of Dallas, Texas, when filmed by the State Archives in Richmond. She was a granddaughter of Benjamin Harris and Mary B. Bassett.
Lila Graham Bassett willed her estate equally one-quarter to each of her four sisters - Eleanor Hunter Bassett Muse, Lucy Bassett May, Hope Bassett McCalla, and Mary Burnett Bassett Watson.
The Dallas Morning News
February 10, 1946
Judge’s Wife Dies in Dallas
Mrs. John Watson, wife of District Judge Watson of Cameron, Milam County, died in Dallas Saturday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Donald G. Kilgore, 4324 St. Johns Drive.
She was a native of Brenham, Washington County, and lived in Dallas from 1888 until 1898. Her father was the late Ben H. Bassett, Dallas attorney. She had lived in Cameron for more than forty years. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cameron.
Funeral services are pending with a Cameron funeral home. Burial will be in Cameron. The family requested no flowers.
Survivors besides her husband and Mrs. Kilgore include another daughter, Mrs. John R. Baldwin, Goose Creek, Harris County; three sons, Bassett Watson, Waco; Paul Watson, Taylor, Williamson County, and Capt. John B. Watson, Dallas; three sisters, Mrs. E. B. Muse and Mrs. Lucy B. May, both of Dallas, and Mrs. Hope B. McCalla, Houston; four grandsons and three granddaughters.
1880 Federal Census of Brenham, Washington County, Texas (29 Jun 1880)
Benjamin Bassett - 44 - M - LA-VA-NY - Head - Lawyer
Mary B. - 40 - F - VA-VA-VA - Wife - Keeping House
Elinore - 19 - F - TX-LA-VA - Daughter
Louis - 15 - M - TX-LA-VA - Son
Lucy - 13 - F - TX-LA-VA - Daughter
Hope - 11 - F - TX-LA-VA - Daughter
Ben - 8 - M - TX-LA-VA - Daughter
Jeff - 6 - M - TX-LA-VA - Son
Mary - 1 - F - TX-LA-VA - Daughter
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Bassett Family Association Database
1879 - 1946 (66 years)