Husband: Elisha Gordon BASSETT
Birthdate: Nov. 13, 1862
Birthplace: Houston Co. GA (1)
Death date: June 27, 1889 (3)
Place of death:
Father: Stephen Elisha BASSETT
Mother: Frances Emmoline HICKS
Other spouses:

Marriage date: Feb. 20, 1889 (2)
Marriage place: Byron, GA (Houston Co.) (3)

Wife: Lena EZELL
Birthdate: Sept. 29, 1866
Birthplace: Byron GA. (4)
Death date: 1933 (4)
Place of death:
Father: Ezekiel EZELL (3)
Mother: Penelope HOLMES
Other spouses: William Wallace PEAVY (4)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Nellie Gordon BASSETT
Birthdate: Nov. 22, 1889, Byron, GA (4)
Spouses' names:Melrose A. Lamar (4)
Marriage date:Oct. 3, 1909, Houston Co. (4)
Death date:Aug. 20 1983, Fort Valley, GA (4)
 
 
Documentation:
1-Family Bible
2-The Enterprise (Houston Co.)
3-Macon Telegraph 1889
4-Family records

Notes:
* Elisha Gordon Bassett was born in Ft. Valley, attended local schools and graduated from Mercer University, returning home to farm. He met his wife-to-be, Lena Ezell, at the County fair in Macon. They were married in Byron in 1889.
* Elisha died of pneumonia at age 27, just months following his marriage to Lena, and before the birth of their only child, Nellie. His death was a great loss to the family and his community, as he was a greatly admired young man. He is buried in Shiloh Methodist Churchyard, Byron, GA. His obituary read, in part;
"Lish" Bassett. as he was familiarly known by his many friends, was a young man of many noble traits; a warm-hearted friend, a true Christian, a most genial companion; he made friends of all with whom he came in contact. He was a young farmer with a bright future before him, having inherited an unusual amount of pluck and energy from his father. He was a tireless worker and gave promise of being one of the largest landed estate owners in this section."
* Following Lish's death, Lena moved back to Byron to live with her parents and for a while, Lena was the postmistress of the tiny Byron Post Office. Lena married a second time, to William Wallace Peavy and had two more children and a happy marriage, according to her grand-daughter.
* Nellie was a posthumous baby, born following the early death of her father, Elisha Gordon Bassett. She lived as a small child in Byron, in the home of her maternal grand-parents and as the much loved and doted on grand-child of both the Bassetts and Ezells.