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- The Independent, Wahoo, Nebraska, Thursday, 20 October 1898
Death of Mrs. Gifford Bassett, Nee Lelia Henderson
Mrs. Lelia Bass, nee Henderson, died at her home in Leadville Colorado, last Friday and the remains were brought to Wahoo Tuesday, for burial, the funeral occurring from the home of Mr. and Mrs. H.M. Stratton, and interment at Sunrise cemetery.
Lelia Henderson was born near Jerseyville, Ill., Nov. 23, 1868. When she was quite small she moved with her parents to Mt. Morris, N.Y., where the lived until she was five years of age. They then moved to Wahoo where she lived until the death of her mother, which occurred when she was nine years of age. The next ten years of her life were spent with her aunt, Mrs. L.M. Cutting of Jerseyville, Ills., where she received her education, graduating from the Jerseyville high school. After her graduation she taught one year in the schools of that city. She then returned to Wahoo where she taught for seven years, one year in the country and six years in our city schools. In 1894 she was elected to the position of assistant principal of the Broken Bow high school. It was while teaching at Broken Bow that she met Mr. Gifford Bass and friendship ripened into matrimony, being married to him, June 9th 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Bass resided at Doniphan, Neb. until last April, when they moved to Leadville, Colo., where she resided until her death.
While not a member, she took an active interest in the affairs of the Presbyterian church, assisting in the choir and teaching a class in the Sabbath school.
To know Lelia was to love her. Her gentle manners and winning ways created friends wherever she went. As a social favorite she was much sought after. But she has been called to her reward and there is left only the sweet memory of her bright and winsome life here below. She leaves a husband, an infant son but a few days old, a father and two sisters to mourn her death.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1868 - 1898 (29 years)