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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Bassett
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 13:04:30 -0500

Undated article; original source unknown. Extracted from the newspaper
article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison,
Missouri.





GONE TO REST.



"In the midst of life we are in death.



This was solemnly realized last Friday afternoon, when it was whispered
over town and county, that "Grandma" Bassett was dead. Three short
weeks had hardly elapsed since she cam to Madison to make her home with
her son, "Tennie," and though aged and feeble, the news of her death was
unexpected and a shock to the entire community.



Columbia R. Bassett, familiarly and lovingly called "Grandma Bassett,"
was born in Virginia, Dec. 18th, 1815. She was married in Kentucky,
Dec. 5th, 1832, to G.H. Bassett, to which union eleven children were
born-ten boys and one girl-nine of whom survive her.



With her husband she came to Missouri in 1836, and settled in Randolph
county, near where Moberly now stands, and lived there for some ten
years, after which they located in Monroe county, near Middle Grove,
where they passed the remainder of their lives, with the exception of
the three short weeks Mrs. Bassett spent with her son, "Tennie," in this
place, immediately preceding her death.



"Grandma Bassett" united with the Christian church in 1850 and for forty
long years had been a faithful and consistent follower of the meek and
lowly Nazarine.



In the death of "Grandma Bassett", Monroe county loses another of its
honored pioneers, who by her long and useful life, her charitable and
kindly disposition and rich intellectual endowments, made her a leader
and example on earth and will win for her the brightest crown in the
realms above.



Everybody knew "Grandma Bassett," and none knew her but to love, respect
and honor her, and universal sympathy goes out to those deprived of her
noble and exalted companionship. Her remains were taken to Middle Grove
Sunday morning, where an eloquent discourse was preached by Elder
Strawn, of Paris, and then were laid to rest, amid scenes she loved so
well."







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Kathleen Wilham

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Shelbina, MO. 63468-1562

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