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Milo F. Bassett

Male 1888 - 1961  (73 years)


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  • Name Milo F. Bassett 
    Born 14 May 1888  Pinconning, Bay, Michigan, USA or Midland MI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 8 December 1961  Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • 1920 Federal Census of Wheeling, Livingston County, Missouri (7 Jan 1920)
      Milo F. Bassett 31 M MI MO MN Head Operator Rail Road
      Grace O. 27 F MO IN MO Wife
      Janet M. 5 F MO MI MO Daughter
      Norma I. 4 2/12 F MO MI MO Daughter
      Gerald B. 2 9/12 M MO MI MO Son
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      1930 Federal Census of Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri (15 Apr 1930)
      Milo F. Bassett 42 M MI WI WI Head Ticket Agent Railroad
      Grace O. 37 F MO OH MO Wife
      Norma I. 14 F MO MI MO Daughter
      Gerald B. 12 M MO MI MO Son
      (Living at 722 Fourth Street) (Married at 16 & 21)
      Living next door
      Frank H. 72 M WI US US Head
      Alice 72 F WI EN EN Wife
      (Married at ages 20 & 20)
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      From the "Wheeling Centennial" page 7, notes that "Milo Basset" was one of the agents for the railroad and worked at the depot on Front Street just west of Grant St.
      From notes of W.H. Morrison, "Dec. 8, 1961- Milo F. Bassett dies at Hospital in Kansas City. [A] Former resident of Wheeling. 50 yr. Member of Wheeling Masonic Lodge. Born May 14, 1888 in Mich., Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grayce Bassett; son Gerald B., daughter, Mrs. Kanan, two brothers, Fred and Leonard. Services held at Wheeling Methodist Church with burial in Wheeling Cemetery."
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      Newspaper articles:

      1935
      April 27, 1935 Saturday
      Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bright spent the day Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Milo Bassett and family in Cameron.

      Aug. 17, 1935 Saturday [TCMC-T]
      Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bright entertained with a dinner Thursday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bright and daughter of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. Milo Bassett and daughter, Norma, and son Bright of Cameron.

      1937
      Sept. 13, 1937 [TCC-T] page 3
      Photograph. Wheelingites of 1893. A part of an 1893 Saturday crowd in Wheeling shown in front of the Scruby & Wiley general store located on the west side of Main Street. These folks not knowing that they were going to have their picture published in forty-four years, weren’t all dressed up in their best bib and tucker, but even so Ben Bright, near the center of the front row was on hand with his pet coon and two of the boys Arthur Watson on the left with John Schneider on the right. Are shown with their bicycles. H.P. Scruby and Joe Wiley owners of the store are shown in the middle row in the center of the picture. Scruby on the left and Wiley on the right. Frank Bassett, owner of the market to the left in the picture, is shown in the left center, middle row, with his white apron shining like a star in the North.

      Sept. 13, 1937 [TCC-T] page 5
      Business in full swing throughout Livingston County. Wheeling- C.L. Dahl, postmaster: F.L. Smiley, undertaker: Boone and Bassett Store: Tharp-Litrell Co. General Merchandise: D. Sensenich Lumber Co.

      Sept. 13, 1937 [TCC-T] page 6
      Livingston County Boys Gave Their Lives in War. Frank H. Bassett, Jr., the son of Frank H. and Alice S. Bassett, who enlisted in the Navy, died following an operation October 11, 1918. He became ill of bronchial pneumonia at eh Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Chicago. He is buried in South Wheeling Cemetery.

      1940
      June 1, 1940 Saturday [TCC-T]
      Mr. and Mrs. Len Bassett and son and daughter and Mrs. Bassett’s mother, Mrs. Jesse Moran of Kansas City, spent Decoration Day [Memorial Day] here visiting friends and attended Memorial services at the Wheeling Cemetery.

      1943
      July 29, 1943 [TCC-T]
      Wheeling Items. F.L. Smiley received word Saturday of the death of Mrs. [Alice Scruby] Frank Bassett at her home in California. The body is expected to arrive here sometime this week and burial will be made in the Wheeling cemetery.

      The following are taken from The Chillicothe Constitution[TCC], The Chillicothe Daily Constitution [TCDC], The Chillicothe Missouri Daily Constitution [TCMDC], The Daily Constitution, The Chillicothe Missouri [TDCCM], The Chillicothe Weekly Constitution [TCWC], and The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune [TCC-T] newspapers, arranged in chronological order:


      December 22, 1943 Wednesday [TCC-T]
      Funeral services for Mrs. Jesse Moran were held at the Christian Church Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Ida May Delamater was born May 2, 1864 and departed this life Saturday December 18, 1943, at the Research hospital in Kansas City. On January 28, 1885 she was united in marriage to Jesse Barnett Moran. To this union three daughters and one son was born; Ruby May now Mrs. Len Bassett, Kansas City; Garnett now Mrs. Garnett Anderson, Liberty, Mo; Pearl Fay, now Mrs. Charles Shackelford of Kansas City. The son, Jesse Clair, preceded his mother in death December 15, 1894. The three daughters, with their father, survive. The family moved to Wheeling in 1894 where they resided for eleven years. They moved from Wheeling to Wellsville, later moving to Kansas City, where they have resided for thirty years. Had she lived until January 28, 1944 they would have completed fifty-eight years of married life. She united with the Wheeling Christian Church. The services were conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Lloyd Morgan. Mrs. Herman Braun, Mrs. Floyd Crammer, F.C. Tompkins and A.D. Botts sang “Asleep in Jesus” and “Nearer My God to Thee”. Pallbearers were Ed Bright, Mont Warren, Harlan Slocum, Clarence Davis, A.D. Botts and W.V. Littrell. Burial was made in the Wheeling cemetery under the direction of the Morton Funeral Home of Kansas City. Those who accompanied the body overland were Mr. Moran, Mrs. [Ruby May Moran] Leon Bassett, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shackleford and son, Kansas City, and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Liberty, Mo.


      1944
      August 12, 1944 Saturday [TCC-T]
      Wheeling items. Fred Bassett of California spent Saturday here visiting old friends. He was en route to Galesburg, Ill. for a residence.

      October 19, 1944 [TCC-T]
      Wheeling items. Ed Bright spent several days last week with his sister, Mrs. Milo Bassett and Mr. Bassett at Canton, Mo.

      1948
      November 2, 1948 Tuesday [TCC-T]
      Wheeling. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Strong of South Missouri were here for a short time Sunday visiting friends. Mrs. Strong will be remembered here as Irene Bassett. They are en route to Canton for a visit with her brother, Milo Bassett and Mrs. Bassett.

      1955
      December 10, 1955 Saturday [TCC-T]
      Ed Brights take long trip through the South. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bright have returned from a 3-week trip through nine different states, visiting Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.
      They visited Mr. Bright’s, Mrs. Milo Bassett, and Mr. Bassett in their new home on the Lake of the Ozarks, near Gravosi Mills. While there, they visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Strong. Mrs. Strong, the former Irene (Peach) Bassett gave them addresses of her two brothers, Hod and Mike Bassett who are both in hospitals.
      H.P. Bassett, Ward E Annex hospital, Veterans Administration Center, Los Angeles, Calif. W.E. Bassett, County hospital, San Bernardino, Calif.
      Mr. and Mrs. Bright had Thanksgiving dinner in St. Genevieve in the first brick house built west of the Mississippi river, built in 1785. It now is remodeled into a restaurant. They attended the Grand Ole Opry at Nashville, Tenn., Saturday night, Nov. 26 and attended church at the First Baptist Church of Nashville Sunday morning. They then headed south and reached the coast near Pensacola, Fla. They followed Highway 90 to New Orleans, where they took a 65-mile conducted tour of both old and new parts of the city.
      From New Orleans, they went to Vicksburg, Miss., where they saw many places of historical interest. They crossed the Mississippi again to Tallulah, La., attended church Dec. 4 at the Baptist church at St. Joe, Ark., then stopped at Branson, Mo., Sunday while the crowed gathered for a program of Christmas adorations and lighting of an adoration scene atop Mt. Branson. The town was full of cars. Mr. Bright took a road through the Shepherd of the Hills country and took Highway 65 north toward home.

      1956
      November 15, 1956 Thursday [TCC-T]
      Horace P. Bassett dies at West Plains. Horace Pike (Hod) Bassett died last week at the Luna Rest home in West Plains. Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Thornburg Funeral home, with the Rev. S.C. Headrick officiating. Mr. Bassett came to West Plains July 5, 1956, and lived with a brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bassett at 316 Pierce Street. Mr. Bassett was born at Pinconning, Mich., Feb. 9, 1891. He spent most of his life at Wheeling, Mo., where he was a telegraph operator for the railroad. During World War I he served in the Navy and was wireless operator. He was a member of the Methodist Church at Wheeling and the Masonic Lodge at Wheeling.
      Mr. Bassett was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion of West Plains. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Irene (Bassett) Strong of Bakersfield, Mo., four brothers, Fred Bassett, West Plains; Leonard L., Louisburg; Milo F. Sunrise Beach, and William F., Redlands, Calif. There are a number of nieces and nephews.
      Military services were held at Oak Lawn cemetery under the direction of Thornburg Funeral Home. The American Legion and V.F.W. attended the funeral services for Mr. Bassett – West Plains Quill. Stanley Scruby and Horace Scruby of Chillicothe are cousins of Mr. Bassett.

      November 21, 1956 Thursday [TCC-T]
      Looking Back – Twenty years ago today. Milo F. Bassett, formerly of Wheeling, was promoted by the Burlington railroad.

      1957
      May 27, 1957 Monday [TCC-T]
      Former resident of Wheeling is dead. William E. Bassett, a former resident of the Wheeling community, died in Redlands, California at four o’clock Wednesday afternoon, according to word received by relatives. Funeral services were held from the Emerson Mortuary in Redlands, Friday. The cremated remains of the body will arrive in Chillicothe this week. Upon the arrival of Mrs. Bassett in Chillicothe in June a Masonic service will be held and burial will be made in the Wheeling cemetery, under the directions of the Meinershagen Funeral Home. Mr. Bassett is a cousin of Mrs. Juilus Meinershagen, H.D. Scruby, and S.R. Scruby of this city.

      Dec. 28, 1957 Saturday Front Page [TCC-T] Ruby’s obituary see Moran file No. and below No. 11C.

      1961
      Dec. 11, 14 & 15, 1961 Monday [TCC-T]
      Milo F. Bassett Was Depot Agent 47 Years. see Milo Bassett
      Ad. [Dec. 15] Santa Specials Shopmate Buys “ DrillScruby Hardware



      From the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, December 11, 1961 front page, “Milo F. Bassett Was Depot Agent 47 Years. Funeral Services Will Be Wednesday at Wheeling. Milo F. Bassett, a former resident of Wheeling died Saturday at Research hospital in Kansas City. He had resided the last six years at Sunrise Beach.
      Mr. Bassett, father of Mrs. Frank (Norma) Kanan, former Chillicothe resident, was born May 14, 1888, at Midland Mich. He was reared in the Cameron and Wheeling communities and was station agent for the Burlington Railroad for 47 years, at Cameron, Canton and Liberty. Mr. Bassett was a 50-year member of the Wheeling Masonic Lodge.
      Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grayce Bassett, of the home; a son Gerald B. Bassett, Westminster Colo; the daughter Mrs. Kanan, Scottsdale, Ariz; two brothers Leonard Bassett; Republic Mo, and Fred Bassett, West Plains, Mo., and four grandchildren.



      From the December 14, 1961 edition of the same paper, an additional paragraph was added to the above obituary, “Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Methodist church in Wheeling. The Masonic lodge of Chillicothe will conduct the services. Burial will be in the Wheeling cemetery. The body will remain at the Freeman mortuary in Kansas City until noon Wednesday, when it will be taken to the church”. And on December 15th the same paper ran this article, “Friends here were sorry to learn of the death of Milo Bassett at a hospital in Kansas City Saturday. The Bassetts were former residents of Wheeling. Mrs. Bassett is the former Miss Grayce Bright. He was preceded in death by a daughter Jeanette; his parents, several brothers and one sister, Mrs. Frank (Irene Bassett) Strong.”
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      1905
      Feb. 2, 1905 [TCC]
      Milo Bassett left for Edwardsville, Ill., Monday where he is attending college.





    Person ID P11  118B Robert H. Bassett
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2013 

    Father Frank Horace Bassett,   b. 15 Dec 1858, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1936, Arlington,Riverside county California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother Alice Scruby,   b. 31 Jul 1858, Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Jul 1943 , Arlington,Riverside county California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Married 18 May 1879   Wheeling, Livingston, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F7  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Grace O. Bright,   d. 4 September 1967, Westminister, Colo Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 23 Feb 1914 
    Children 
     1. Jeanette M. Bassett,   b. 23 Oct 1914 , Wheeling Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Feb 1921, Wheeling Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 6 years)  [Natural]
     2. Norma Imojean Bassett,   b. November 27, 1915, Wheelilng,Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. June 17, 1996, Salem, Marion, Oregon, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 81 years)  [Natural]
    +3. Gerald Bright Bassett,   b. 26 Apr 1917, Wheeling Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov. 30, 1994 , Reed Springs Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years)  [Natural]
    Family ID F6  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart