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- 3B3236531. Emma Amelia Bassett - born 9 Nov 1848, married Harry Orville Hall on 1 Jul 1869. Harry was born 20 Nov 1841. They lived in Washington, D.C. They had a daughter Ethelwyn born 2 Jan 1876. Emma died 19 Nov 1924. See obit below.
CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
MARRIED FIFTY YEARS, D.C. COUPLE CELEBRATE
Mr. and Mrs. Harry O. Hall Receive Gifts From Friends at Willson
Apartments
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Orville Hall celebrated their golden wedding on July 1, having been married on July 1, 1869. Owing to the illness of Mrs. Hall, who has been an invalid during the greater part of her life, they spent the day quietly at their home at the Willson apartments. A number of friends called at the Hall home during the day and many testimonails in gold were received from various parts of the country.
Mrs. Hall is a native of Washington, being the daughter of Robert T. Bassett, also born in Washington, who was for about fifty years connected with the coast and geodetic survey, and Miss Susan Demarest of Portsmouth, Va. Mrs Hall is the granddaughter of Simeon Bassett, who built the house at the corner of 2d and East Capitol strees in 1814, where Mrs. Hall was born. Mrs. Hall is a member of the John Hall Chapter, D.A.R., of which her daughter, Ethelwyn Bassett-Hall, is founder and regent. Mr. and Mrs. Hall were married by the Rev. John Chester in the old Metropolitan Presbyterian Church on Capitol Hill.
Mr. Hall came to Washington in November, 1867, from Lansing, Mich., to accept a place in the government printing office, for which he had been recommended by Ben Perly Poore. During the eight-hour strike in Chicago Mr. Hall was a reporter on the Chicago Tribune. One month after their marriage Mr. Hall resigned and they removed to Iowa, where Mr. Hall founded and edited the first newspaper in Stuart, which is still published. Owing to the hardships and sturdy life of that then pioneer country in that early day, Mrs. Hall's health broke down and they returned to Washington.
Mr. Hall has been continously employed in the library of the surgeon general's office, War Department, for forty-four years,a nd for twenty-eight years had been in charge of the reading room of that library.
Mr. Hall is a collateral descendnt of Gov. Lyman Hall of Georgia, one of the signers of the Delcartion of Independence. He is a member of the Oldest Inhabitants Association, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Sons of the American Revolution, Masoncie Veterans Association; for fifty years
a member of Lafayette Lodge, F.A.A.M., a life member of the Wasington Y.M.C.A. He is one of the original charter members of Metropolitan M.E. Church. Mrs. and Mrs. Hall's ancestors, the Bassett and Halls, lived as near neighbors in Connecticut more than 280 years ago.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1848 - 1924 (76 years)