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- Lexington Leader, Kentucky, Friday, June 23, 1922
Telegraphic dispatches from Macon, Ga., following the burial there of six victims of an accident last Tuesday when a Central of Georgia passenger train struck an automobile filled with tourists say that one of the victims was M.F. Bassett, of Lexington. Efforts to locate relatives or to identify Bassett here have been unsuccessful so far. While the burial was in progress Lee Taylor, brother of J. Penn Taylor, one of the victims, who formerly resided near Nicholasville, sent a communication to officials saying the party had visited his home at Quitman, Ga., leaving there Sunday for Kentucky. Lee Taylor had been reported as one of the victims.
Lexington Herald, Kentucky, Friday, June 22, 1922
Lexington Man Killed By Train
M.F. Bassett, 64, Is Listed Among Six Victims of
Automobile Crash at Macon, Ga., Tuesday Afternoon
Were on Way to Kentucky
(Special to the Herald)
MACON, Ga. ? June 22 ? The bodies of six Kentuckians who were killed here Tuesday afternoon when their automobile was struck by a Central of Georgia passenger train were buried here this afternoon.
While the burial was taking place Lee Taylor, of Quitman, Ga., a brother of J. P. Taylor, communicated with officials that six people has been guests at his plantation near the Florida line for three weeks and left there Sunday for Kentucky.
Lee Taylor had been listed among the dead. He said he will be here in the morning to investigate the case. The revised death list is given by Lee Taylor is as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Taylor, their daughter, Mrs. Lovenia Cox, wife of Howard Cox, and her infant daughter; M.F. Bassett, 64 years old of Lexington, Ky., and Ed Markham, 16, all except Bassett being from Nicholasville, Ky.
Four daughters of the Taylors are Mrs. Margie Manesh, of Estill county; Mrs. Ollie Pendleton, of Casey county, Ky.; Arsley Peters and Fannie Hobbs, of West Virginia. There are two brothers and one sister living in Kentucky.
Lexington Leader, Kentucky, Thursday, July 6, 1922
The heirs of M.F. Bassett declining to qualify it is ordered by the court that J. H. Carr be appointed administrator of the estate of M.F. Bassett.
Ordered that C.F Kelley, L.W. Arnett, and J.H. Carr be appointed appraisers of estate of M.F. Bassett, deceased. J.H. Carr and L.W. Arnett qualified.
1880 Federal Census of Caney, Owen County, Kentucky
Millard Bassett 23 M KY KY KY Head Farmer
Mary F. 17 F KY KY KY Wife Keeping House
Effie May 4/12 F KY KY KY Daughter
1900 Federal Census of District #4, Scott County, KY (14 Jun 1900)
Milard F. Bassett 43 Jul 1856 M KY KY KY Head Farmer
Lenora 25 Jun 1874 M KY KY KY Wife
(Married 8 years, no children)
1910 Federal Census of Great Crossings, Scott County, Kentucky (28 Apr 1910)
Millard F. Bassett 53 M KY KY KY Head Laborer Wheat Mill
Leona 36 F KY KY KY Wife
Alice May Irvin 7 M KY KY KY Boarder
James C. Southworth 2 M KY KY KY Nephew
(Married 18 years, no children)
(Living on the Frankfort & Georgetown Turnpike) (Millard 2nd marriage)
1920 Federal Census of Donerail, Fayette County, Kentucky (25 Feb 1920)
Willard F. Bassett (Wd) 64 M KY KY KY Head Laborer Tobacco Farm
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Bassett Family Association Database
Abt 1858 - 1922 (~ 64 years)