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SUBMITTED BY: Sue Bassett Folawn
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HUSBAND: Stephen BASSETT
date and place of birth: Nov. 27, 1788, NC (1) (2)
date and place of marriage: Feb. 12, 1815 Barnwell Co. SC (1)
date and place of death: Aug. 1867, Houston Co. GA (3)
father: William BASSETT (4)
mother: Mary PHILLIPS (5)
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WIFE: Jane MORRIS (1)
date and place of birth: April 17, 1799, Barnwell Co. SC (1)
date and place of marriage: Feb. 12, 1815, Barnwell, SC (1)
date and place of death: April 4, 1870, Houston Co. GA (5)
mother's father: Elisha MORRIS (5)
mother's mother: Rachel (5)
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CHILD 1: Mary Ann Angeline BASSETT
date and place of birth: Oct. 15, 1819, NC (1)
married: Wiley CLARK (1)
date and place of marriage: April 25, 1836 (1)
date and place of death: June 23, 1905, Monroe Co. GA (5)
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CHILD 2: William Francis BASSETT (1)
date and place of birth: Jan. 12, 1825, Jones Co. GA
married: Sara Ann WALKER (6)
date and place of marriage: July 8, 1847, Houston Co. GA
date and place of death: Aug. 6, 1875, Houston Co. GA (7)
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CHILD 3: Harriet Jane America BASSETT (1)
date and place of birth: Mar. 29, 1830, Jones Co. GA (1)
married: Jackson C. PATTISHALL (1)
date and place of marriage: Dec. 17, 1844, Houston Co. GA (8)
date and place of death: April 16, 1898, Houston Co. GA
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CHILD 4: Stephen Elisha BASSETT (1)
date and place of birth:June 17, 1833, Houston Co. GA (1)
married: Frances Emmoline HICKS (1)
date and place of marriage:Feb. 18, 1855, Crawford Co. GA (1)
other marriages: Elizabeth Thomas YOUNG (1)
date and place of marriage: Mar. 4, 1890, Lee Co. AL (1)
date and place of death: Jul. 20, 1897, Fort Valley, GA (9)
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CHILD 5: Georgia Ann BASSETT (1)
date and place of birth: Sept. 19, 1835, Byron, GA (Houston Co.)
married: Wiley M. MELVIN (1)
date and place of marriage: July 13, 1854, Byron, GA (1)
date and place of death: Feb. 4, 1915, Fort Valley, GA (Houston Co.) (10)
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SOURCES:
1-Family Bible
2-1860 Census
3-Obituary, Southern Christian Advocate, Oct. 4, 1867
4-Will of William Bassett, 1810, Will Bk A, page 23, Barnwell, SC
5-Obituary, Southern Christian Advocate, 1867-78, Sept. 25, 1872
6-"Early American Marriages, Georgia to 1850" by Jordan R. Dodd
7-Tombstone, Shiloh Methodist Churchyard, Byron, GA
8-"First 110 Years in Houston Co, GA" 1822-1932
9-Obituaries, Macon Telegraph Jul. 21, 1897, pg. 3
Houston Home Journal, Jul. 29, 1897, pg. 3
10-Records of Oaklawn Cemetery, Fort Valley, GA
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NOTES:
Family tradition says that this young family arrived from South Carolina
circa 1819 and settled first near old Ft. Hawkins, close to Macon, when
that part of the state was still on the frontier and the Cherokee Indians were
still inhabiting the area. By the 1820 Census, they had moved to Jones
Co., near Clinton.

In 1828, Stephen purchased 202 1/2 acres from Alexander B. Kennedy for Lot
33, District 5 of Houston Co. for $250.(1) This was land originally drawn
by Mr. Kennedy in the 1821 Georgia Land Lottery. The property was
approximately a mile and a half southeast of Byron, Ga. This is where the Bassetts
settled permanently.

There would be years of hard work ahead, but people who managed to obtain
the land that was offered in the Lotteries, considered themselves
fortunate, indeed. The land in Houston County was rich. It was also forested and
needed to be cleared and fenced in order to plant their crops and orchards. At
this point, roads were few and primitive. Railroads would not arrive in
the area until the 1840's.

Their church, assumed to have been the Shiloh Methodist Church, near their
farm, was undoubtedly the mainstay of both their spiritual and social
lives. Notations in the Pineola Bible (2) list the dates that each of the Bassett
sons and daughters joined the Church, indicating its great importance to
them. Stephen and Jane farmed, raised their family of 5 children and lived

long and productive lives, accumulating a considerable amount of land in
the process.

The Civil War brought great personal tragedy to the family with the loss of
3 grandsons in service, Stephen and Will Clark (sons of daughter Mary) and
Walter Pattishall, (daughter Harriet's son) as well as the death of a
son-in-law, Wiley Clark, (Mary's husband). Two of their young Melvin
grandchildren (children of daughter, Georgia) also died of illness during
this time. (1863)

Stephen Bassett died in 1867 (age 78) and Jane in 1870 (age 71). Family
tradition says that they are buried in the Shiloh Methodist Churchyard near

Byron, GA. While there are no markers for them in evidence, there are
estimated to be as many as 150 unmarked graves within the cemetery. They
were married for 52 years.
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