Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hopkins Co.
AMOS BASSETT was born September 15, 1815, in Bracken County, Ky.
He is a son of John and Jane (Rogison) Bassett. The father was
born three miles from Pittsburgh, and when a boy moved to Mason
County, Ky., and later to Bracken County. There he lived many
years engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was sheriff of that
county twenty-eight years. He died in Webster County in February,
1865, aged seventy-two. His wife died in June, 1842. Our subject
was reared on his father's farm, and served as deputy sheriff from
1834 to 1841, at which time he came to Hopkins County, and first
bought eighty five acres of land, and engaged in farming. He has
bought and sold several tracts of land since, and now owns 112
acres, which join Madisonville on the east. Mr. Bassett was
married, in 1842, to Lucy W. Nisbet, of Hopkins County. This
union has been blessed with eleven children, ten of whom are
living - six sons and four daughters. Mrs. Bassett is a member of
the Christian Church. Their farm is one of the oldest in the
county, and once owned by Mr. McGarey, in whose house the first
county election was held.
Hopkins Co.
AMOS BASSETT was born September 15, 1815, in Bracken County, Ky.
He is a son of John and Jane (Rogison) Bassett. The father was
born three miles from Pittsburgh, and when a boy moved to Mason
County, Ky., and later to Bracken County. There he lived many
years engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was sheriff of that
county twenty-eight years. He died in Webster County in February,
1865, aged seventy-two. His wife died in June, 1842. Our subject
was reared on his father's farm, and served as deputy sheriff from
1834 to 1841, at which time he came to Hopkins County, and first
bought eighty five acres of land, and engaged in farming. He has
bought and sold several tracts of land since, and now owns 112
acres, which join Madisonville on the east. Mr. Bassett was
married, in 1842, to Lucy W. Nisbet, of Hopkins County. This
union has been blessed with eleven children, ten of whom are
living - six sons and four daughters. Mrs. Bassett is a member of
the Christian Church. Their farm is one of the oldest in the
county, and once owned by Mr. McGarey, in whose house the first
county election was held.
Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 2nd ed., 1885,
Hopkins Co.
AMOS BASSETT was born September 15, 1815, in Bracken County, Ky.
He is a son of John and Jane (Rogison) Bassett. The father was
born three miles from Pittsburgh, and when a boy moved to Mason
County, Ky., and later to Bracken County. There he lived many
years engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was sheriff of that
county twenty-eight years. He died in Webster County in February,
1865, aged seventy-two. His wife died in June, 1842. Our subject
was reared on his father's farm, and served as deputy sheriff from
1834 to 1841, at which time he came to Hopkins County, and first
bought eighty five acres of land, and engaged in farming. He has
bought and sold several tracts of land since, and now owns 112
acres, which join Madisonville on the east. Mr. Bassett was
married, in 1842, to Lucy W. Nisbet, of Hopkins County. This
union has been blessed with eleven children, ten of whom are
living - six sons and four daughters. Mrs. Bassett is a member of
the Christian Church. Their farm is one of the oldest in the
county, and once owned by Mr. McGarey, in whose house the first
county election was held.
Hopkins Co.
AMOS BASSETT was born September 15, 1815, in Bracken County, Ky.
He is a son of John and Jane (Rogison) Bassett. The father was
born three miles from Pittsburgh, and when a boy moved to Mason
County, Ky., and later to Bracken County. There he lived many
years engaged in agricultural pursuits, and was sheriff of that
county twenty-eight years. He died in Webster County in February,
1865, aged seventy-two. His wife died in June, 1842. Our subject
was reared on his father's farm, and served as deputy sheriff from
1834 to 1841, at which time he came to Hopkins County, and first
bought eighty five acres of land, and engaged in farming. He has
bought and sold several tracts of land since, and now owns 112
acres, which join Madisonville on the east. Mr. Bassett was
married, in 1842, to Lucy W. Nisbet, of Hopkins County. This
union has been blessed with eleven children, ten of whom are
living - six sons and four daughters. Mrs. Bassett is a member of
the Christian Church. Their farm is one of the oldest in the
county, and once owned by Mr. McGarey, in whose house the first
county election was held.
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