George Edwin BASSETT

BASSETT, VAUGHN, FORD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/20/2011 at 22:23:02

March 29, 1838 --- 1907

George Edwin Bassett was born March 29, 1838 at Pittsford, Vermont. He left Vermont for the West in 1859 settling in Wright County, Iowa. In 1862 he left for Vermont intending to enlist there in the northern army but instead enlisted at Woodstock, Illinois in the 19th Illinois Infantry Co. B and with this company fought until the end of the war in 1865. August 11, 1867 Mr. Bassett was married at Pittsford, Vermont to Emma Vaughn and there were born to Mr. and Mrs. Bassett two children, Dulcie Muy, now Mrs. Asa Ford and Earl Roy.

Coming to Clay county, Iowa in 1870 Mr. Bassett took a homestead some eleven miles east of Spencer not far from Ruthven, here he lived until 1892 when having sold his farm he moved to Spencer. In 1894 he removed to a firm in Meadow township where he resided until in November 1906 when he came to Spencer, making this place his home until the day of death which occurred Tuesday morning, August 20. Mr. Bassett is survived by his wife, a daughter, a son, four grandchildren, two sisters and two brothers.

Funeral Services were held at the Congregational Church of which he was a member, Wednesday afternoon and the burial service at Riverside Cemetery was conducted by Post G.A.R. to which Mr. Bassett belonged.

Mr. Bassett was known as a man of retiring nature but true as steel in every relation of life. Through some ten years of gradually declining health he showed the spirit of it soldier as he showed it some forty-five years before in the great conflict between north and south. He was a good neighbor, an honorable citizen, a kind father and husband. For many years he was a consistent member of the Methodist church and died a triumphant death in the glorious hope of immortal life. The world is the poorer for his going.

The Spencer Herald -- Spencer, Iowa
August 21, 1907