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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: U. Bassett
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 09:11:07 -0400


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



DEATH OF GRANDMA BASSETT.



"Early last Thursday morning a gloom spread over this community, when it
was softly whispered in tones of deep concern, that 'Grandma Bassett'
was dying, and it is with feelings of the profoundest sorrow that we
chronicle her death, which occurred at twenty minutes to nine, Thursday
morning, Dec. 16th, 1897, after a very brief illness. It has been said
that 'death loves a shining mark,' and in this instance it is verified,
for nowhere under the broad canopy of Heaven, could a more noble woman,
mother, Christian, have been found, or one whose death will be more
sincerely mourned, than that of 'Grandma Bassett.'



Ursula Withers Waller, was born in Scott county, Kentucky, near
Georgetown, on the 10th day of February, 1815. Came to Missouri in 1839
and settled on the farm where George Harley now lives, about two miles
southwest of this place. Early in life she joined the Christian church
in Kentucky, and has ever been a consistent member and lived a devout
Christian life. She was a charter member of the Madison organization,
who with one exception, have all passed over the river or moved into
other localities.



She married twice, the first time to James H. Evans, with whom she moved
to Randolph county, where she resided for then years and until her
husband's death. After the death of her first husband she returned to
Monroe county, and in 1839, was married to William N. Bassett, of this
city. She leaves four brothers, G.W. Waller of this place, James, John
and William Waller, of near Paris, and two sisters, Mrs. Maggie
Bridgeford, of Paris, and Mrs. Mary Crutcher, of near Paris. Had she
lived until the 10th of Feb'y next she would have been 83 years old.



'Grandma Bennett' was tender and sympathetic, unselfish and generous and
no one, no matter how lowly, ever heard an unkind word from her lips.
She was a universal favorite in the community, and every acquaintance
loved her, and mourn her loss. Her funeral was preached by Elder (?)W.
Smith at her (unknown) residence in this city, (then) her remains were
laid to rest in the Madison cemetery."



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Kathleen Wilham

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