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- 1860 Federal Census of Hallock, Peoria County, Illinois (27 Jun 1860)
Daniel Basset - 37 - M - Connecticut - Farmer 5000 1875
Amy - 33 - F - Connecticut
Annie - 6 - F - Illinois
Dennis Haney - 25 - M - Ireland - Farmhand - - - 100
1870 Federal Census of Groveland Township, LaSalle County, Illinois (1 Jul 1870)
Daniel Basset - 47 - M - Connecticut - Farmer 24,000 1,000
Amy E. - 43 - F - Connecticut - Keeping House
Almus(?) - 16 - F - Illinois
Owen R. - 9 - M - Illinois - At school
Ella A. - 7 - F - Illinois
1880 Federal Census of Groveland Township, LaSalle County, Illinois
Daniel Bassett - 57 - M - CT-CT-CT - Head - Farmer
Amey E. - 53 - F - CT-CT-CT - Wife
Owen B. - 18 - M - IL-CT-CT - Son - Student
Ella A. - 17 - F - IL-CT-CT - Daughter - Student
The Bassett family plot at Rutland Cemetery in Marshall County, Illinois is laid out as follows, with two rows of stones with a large BASSETT BANE stone in the middle.
Joseph M. Bane Annie E. Bane Amy E. Bassett Daniel Bassett
1847-1897 1854-1907 1827-1898 1823-1900
BASSETT BANE
Owen B. Bassett A. Burdette McGill Edna A. Marshall Ella A. Hinton
1861-1941 1877-1961 wife of 1862-1900
A. Burdette McGill
1885-1957
History of LaSalle County (1886)
Daniel Bassett was born in Harwinton, Litchfield County, Conn., Feb. 16, 1823. He was eldest son of Leverett Ives Bassett, who was the 6th lineal descendant of William Bassett who, with his brother John, emigrated from England to Boston, Mass. in 1639. John settled in Mass. and William near New Haven, Conn. Leverette I. Bassett was an extensive farmer, and his son Daniel inherited his dispostion to engage largely in agricultural pursuits. In the summer of 1852 he married Amy E. Barker of Plymouth, Conn. and the following autumn settled in Peoria County, Ill. where he remained until the spring of 1865, when he moved to Groveland Twp., LaSalle County. He was 560 acres of land in one tract which is one of the best farms in the county. In 1875 he built his barn, a substantial structure, 54 x 60 feet in size, and in 1883 erected his residence, which cost $5,000 and is one of the best arranged and most complete in every detail in the county. He has a village of buildings on his farm, and is surrounded by trees anda grove of his own planting. He had 3 children - Annis E., Owen B., and Ella A. Owen is assisting his father in the care and management of the farm. They pay much attention to stock raising.
Daniel Bassett - Biographical and Genealogical Record Pages 704-706
Honored and highly esteemed by everyone who knows him, Daniel Bassett, of Groveland township, LaSalle county, is a sterling representative of two of the oldest families of New England and possesses many of the traits of character for which his sturdy ancestors were renowned. He adheres to the same high principles of daily life, upholds the same ideas of religion and religious liberty, and has the same love for the cause of education and every power making toward the uplifting and progress of the race.
In tracing his lineage it is found, by old records, that his ancestor, William Bassett, emigrated from England to Boston, Masschusetts, in 1639, and located at a village called Hamden, about three miles north of New Haven, Connecticut. He married a Miss Ives. They had one son, John, who was born in 1653, and died February 8, 1714. He served in the state militia, and, being appointed as captain of a company of New Haven troops, always afterward went by the title of Captain Bassett. He married Mercy Grigson, and their son John, born in 1691, became a personage of influence in his time. He represented the town of New Haven in the state legislature for a number of sessions, and was appointed cornet of a company of home guards. He owned considerable property, and was highly respected. He died March 27, 1757, aged sixty-six years. His wife was Elizabeth Thompson, and one of his children, John, was born in 1717, and married Sarah Eaton, a granddaughter of the first governor of the New Haven colony, and died when sixty years of age, February 12, 1777. Their son, Levi, born in 1747, married Mabel Atwater, and had five children, namely; Esther, Eaton, Lyman, Sallie and Leverett. He departed this life September 6, 1816, when sixty-nine years old.
Leverett Ives Bassett, the father of our subject, was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, and died on the same old homestead where he first saw the light. He married Linda Holt, a native of the same county, and they led the peaceful, industrious lives of agriculturists. Her father, Daniel Holt, also a Connecticut farmer, came from one of the oldest families in that state. His ancestor, William Holt, came from England and was one of the early settlers of New Haven, and was one of the seven persons who signed the New Haven constitution on the 1st of July, 1664. He died at Wallingford, Connecticut, September 1, 1683, aged seventy-three years. Daniel Holt, above mentioned, was the eldest of twelve children, and was born in East New Haven, July 5, 1767. On the 12th of January, 1789, he married Hannah, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah Holt, born August 17, 1767, and died December 14, 1839. They were the parents of five children, namely; Daniel, Hiram, Jeremiah, Hannah and Linda. Daniel Holt, who died June 23, 1834, when in his sixty-eighth year, removed to Northbury (subsequently, Plymouth, and no Thomaston) in 1789, and thence to Harwinton, where the remainder of his life was spent. Mrs. Linda (Holt) Bassett was born May 23, 1800, and died on Christmas day, 1854. Later Levrett I. Bassett wedded Hannah, sister of his first wife, and she lived to attain the extreme age of one hundred and one years. Mr. Bassett was called to his reward, April 4, 1863. Of ten children born in his family, four were sons, and of the entire number six survive, namely; Daniel, our subject; Levi; Annis. the widow of Stiles Hotchkiss; Mary, the wife of William W. Clemence; Mrs. Lois B. Coe, of Connecticut; and George, of Cleveland, Ohio.
The birth of Daniel Bassett took place in the country where so many generations of his forebears had passed the span of life, the date of this being February 16, 1823. He grew to manhood on a farm and received a very "common" school educaton. In August, 1852, he was united in marriage to Miss Amy Elvira Barker, a daughter of Daniel and Amy (Pardy) Barker, and one week afterward the young couple started for the new home which they were to found on the broad prairies of Illinois. They located near West Hallock, Peoria county, buying a quarter-section of land, to the cultivation of which Mr. Bassett devoted his chief energy for many years. In 1865 he removed to his present homestead in Groveland township. Here he has owned, previous to allotting to his children, five hundred and sixty acres, finely improved, having a substantial dwelling and other farm buildings, and all of the comforts and conveniences deemed necessary in modern life. Mr. Bassett has been an industrious, hard-working man, useful in his community, upright and just in all of his transactions, and is wholly worthy the high esteem in which he is held.
For almost forty-six years, Mr. Bassett found a faithful companion and sharer of his joys and sorrows in the person of his devoted wife. She was a lady of rare Christian virtues, and was loved by all who knew her. As is her husband, she was a consistent member of the Congregational church, and nobly strove to do her duty toward all mankind. She received the summons to the mansions above in April, 1898, when she was in her seventy-second year. The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Bassett are: Annis Elvira, Owen B. and Ella A. The elder daughter married Joseph Bane, since deceased, and their children are named respectively Daniel Hubert and Ira Owen. Owen B., the only son of our subject, is unmarried, and resides at home. Ella A. first married Wiley Marshall and had one child, Edna, and is now the wife of C. R. Hinton.
Mr. Bassett has kept posted in all of the public affairs of this country, deeming this the duty of every patriotic citizen, but he has never been an aspirant to official distinction, and has resolutely kept out of politics. Since becoming a voter he has cast his ballot for the nominees of the Whig and Republican parties.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1823 - 1900 (76 years)
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