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Bassett Family Newsletter, Volume XVII, Issue 12, 22 Dec 2019(1) Welcome(2) Review of Bassett DNA testing project & types of DNA tests(3) Henry Thurstan Bassett Obituary(4) Carl Wesley Bassett, evangelist, trombonist, chalk artist(5) Herman Sherman Bassett of Washington(6) Gilbert Bassett Amateur Radio License(7) Bassitt-Edgecomb-Snyder Family Reunion Picture(8) New family lines combined or added since the last newsletter(9) DNA project updateI have included a review of the different types of DNA tests available in the first article this month. We are using the Y-Chromosome 37 marker test for the Bassett project. Family Tree DNA has special pricing through the holiday season. You can use the link below to get to their website and choose SHOP NOW under the Paternal Ancestry section to order a Y-37 test kit. I still have funds available for a few kits for members of a Bassett line that has not yet tested. I am especially interested in any Bassett line with roots in France. Test kits are just $99. 1 - WelcomeThe following trees were added to the Bassett website database since the last newsletter: 554B. Samuel Bassett of Texas (47 individuals) Totals number of individuals loaded into the Bassett website: 169.358 * * * * *Section 2 – Featured Bassett: Review of DNA testing for the Bassett Y-DNA project I have gotten several questions about DNA testing over the past few months. I want to review the different tests available.Autosomal testing – this is the test that you get when going through 23andMe, and using the Family Finder test at Family Tree DNA. It provides a list of cousin matches and gives you an ethnic breakdown of your ancestry. In my opinion, it is of limited genealogical value if you already know your family tree back to five generations or more, but it is sometimes interesting to see your ethnic background.Mitochondrial DNA – Commonly called mtDNA, it is DNA passed on from a mother to her children. So testing mtDNA gives you your maternal line (See chart below). If you get matches with this test, that means you share a common maternal line ancestor with your match.Y-chromosome testing – This is the test we use for the Bassett DNA project. You can currently only get this test from Family Tree DNA. I recommend starting with the 37 marker test. The Y-chromosome is passed from father to son each generation virtually unchanged. The value of this test is that it follows the paternal line back through time. (See chart below) The test results gives you a set of values and you can compare your values to other male Bassetts that have also taken the test. If you have a close match, then you share a common Male ancestor somewhere in the past. We have used this test to successfully place Bassetts into the Bassett tree. * * * * *Section 3 – Featured Bassett: Henry Thurstan Bassett Obituary Henry Thurstan Bassettt descends from #196B Richard Bassett of Countesthorpe as follows:Richard Bassett and wife Mary HumphreyWilliam Bassett (b. 1788) and wife Elizabeth FludeJohn Bassett (b. 1825) and wife Hannah HadleyHenry Thurstan Bassett The Lancet, Obituary – Medical news, October 24, 1891* * * * * Section 4 – Featured Bassett: Carl Wesley Bassett, evangelist, trombonist, chalk artist Carl Wesley Bassett descends from #41B Simon Bassett of Connecticut as follows:Simon Bassett (b. 1771) and wife Mary TillotsonSylvanus Bassett (b. 1790) and wife HannahWilliam P. Bassett (b. 1808) and wife Lucinda MartinEdwin Evan Bassett (b. 1832) and wife Phebe Maria HamlinAlbert Elmer Bassett (b. 1859 and wife Anna Maria InveenCarl Wesley Bassett (b. 1888) and wife Myrtle Miller Stark The Sedalia Democrat, Missouri, 27 Mar 1953 Evansville Courier and Press, Indiana, Saturday, July 9, 1927Will Speak At Tent ServicesCarl BassettCarl Bassett, trombonist, chalk artist, and evangelist, will speak tomorrow night at the opening of the ninth annual midsummer tent service of the Evansville Rescue Mission.Mr. Bassett is a member of the Winona Lake Evangelists’ association, and is highly recommended as a three-in-one evangelist, Rev. E.I. Reveal, superintendent of the Evansville Rescue Mission said. He will play tomorrow afternoon at the services in Sunset park at 2:30.The tent service will be held on the Wheeler school grounds, at the corner of Fourth and Mulberry streets.* * * * * Section 5 – Featured Bassett: Herman Sherman Bassett of Washington Herman Sherman Bassett descends from #1B John Bassett of Connecticut as follows:John Bassett and wife MargeryRobert Bassett and wife MaryRobert Bassett (b. 1640) and wife Elizabeth RiggsJonadab Bassett (b. 1695) and wife Mary PhippenyBenjamin Bassett (b. 1725) and wife Deborah EdwardsJohn Bassett (b. 1755) and wife Hepsibeth BuckinghamJohn Bassett (b. 1792) and wife Maria LewisWilber Fisk Bassett (b. 1829) and wife Adelia Lenora LewisHerman Sherman Bassett (b. 1869) Gravestone of Herman Sherman BassettA History Of The State Of WashingtonLloyd Spencer, 1937Volume IIIThe Harrington Citizen: Herman S. BassettBack at the turn of the century, in 1898 to be exact, one Jim Goodwin started the “Harrington Citizen” in the Lincoln County town of the same name. Less than a decade later it was purchased by Herman S. Bassett, by whom it has since been published, with the exception of an interim, when he sold to Robert E. Gay, worked for him, then bought back. It is probable that the long life of the “Citizen” and the length of time it has been published by one man, constitutes something of a record for Washington smaller town newspapers. This journal is a weekly, of approximately five hundred circulation, and is Independent Republican in its politics and thoroughly modern and constructive in its editorial policy.Herman S. Bassett, born in Virginia, October 27, 1869, came to Washington with his parents Wilbur Fiske and Adelia Lenora (Lewis) Bassett, the year after his birth. The family history has an appeal to anyone interested in the pioneers of the Pacific Northwest. Both father and mother were natives of Hartford, and New Haven, Connecticut, and Wilbur Fiske Bassett, a Yale student, was one of the original “Forty-Niners” who crossed the continent by ox-team to find fortune along the watercourses of California. He placer mined for several years; washed the first gold in the camp of Orofino, in Idaho; spent his winters in New York, Washington, District of Columbia, and Connecticut, and in these yearly trips to the mining regions of the Northwest, was twice around Cape Horn, and three times across the Isthmus of Panama. He was among the none too many who actually took large amounts of gold from the ground; and returned East to spend the rest of his life. Like many another, the attraction of the Far West proved too powerful to be resisted and he and his family arrived in Washington in 1871. They located about sixteen miles southwest of Spokane, where he farmed for a dozen years before removing to Cheney, this State. Their first daughter is believed to be the first white child born at Spokane Falls. Both parents are deceased and lie buried in Spokane and Wilbur, Washington.Herman S. Bassett was given the advantages of a good education, but early learned the printer’s trade on the “Cheney Sentinel,” under George W. Stewart. In 1890 he went to Sprague, where he remained for five and a half years. In 1895 he became associated with Howard Spinning, selling out his interests a decade later. In 1905 Mr. Bassett purchased the “Edwall Press,” but two years later sold the paper to buy the “Harrington Citizen” which he has operated practically ever since, both efficiently and successfully He also established the “Krupp Signal,” which after three years was destroyed by fire. Mr. Bassett is a member of the State Press Association, the National Editorial Association, and is a past president of the Lincoln County Press Association. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and the Order of the Eastern Star. He is of the Congregational faith and devotes a great deal of his own means and time, together with the influence of this paper to promote religious, charitable and humanitarian projects.* * * * * Section 6 – Featured Bassett: Gilbert Bassett Amateur Radio License Gilbert Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows:William Bassett and wife ElizabethNathaniel Bassett (b. 1628) and wife Dorcas JoyceNathaniel Bassett and wife Joanna BordenNathaniel Bassett (b. 1704) and wife Mehitable HuntingtonElnathan Bassett (b. 1746) and wife Anne SouthworthElnathan Bassett (b. 1790) and wife Lydia BuckGilbert Bingham Oscar Bassett (b. 1817) and wife Mary SmithGilbert Bingham Oscar Bassett Jr. (b. 1850) and wife Saran AndrewsEarl Bingham Bassett (b. 1889) and wife Emma S. AmundsenGilbert Bingham Oscar Bassett (b. 1913) Amateur Radio License for Gilbert Bassett of Montana* * * * *Section 7 – Featured Bassett: 13th Annual Bassett-Edgecomb-Snyder Reunion, 24 Aug 1930 Samuel Bassett descends from William Bassett of Plymouth as follows:William Bassett and wife ElizabethNathaniel Bassett (b. 1628) and wife Dorcas JoyceSamuel Bassett (b. 1670) and wife Elizabeth JonesSamuel Bassett (b. 1700) and wife Alice WeaverSamuel Bassett (b. 1736) and wife Tabitha WaiteWilliam Bassett (b. 1765)Samuel Bassett (b. 1795) and wife Elsie LewisSamuel had a son and daughter that both married into the Edgecomb family. Some Bassetts from this line took on the spelling Bassitt.Photograph of the 13th Annual Bassett-Edgecomb-Snyder Reunion which was held 24 Aug 1930 at Lincoln Park in Lima, Ohio. This book was written by Steven J. Bassett Baskauf* * * * * Section 8 - New family lines combined or added since the last newsletter The following family lines have been added since the last newsletter. 554B. Samuel Bassett of Texas * * * * * Section 9 - DNA project update.We had one new DNA result this month for kit #920044. This was for a descendant of #9B Thomas Washington Bassett of Virginia. Note he matched via DNA to the other Bassett lines also found in Mathews County, Virginia. We have not yet linked these Virginia Bassetts together with a common ancestor.No new results to report on the Bassett DNA project.Donations of any amount can be made to the Bassett DNA project by clicking on the link below. Any funds donated will be used to fund select Bassett DNA tests that will further our project as a whole and benefit all Bassetts worldwide. is just a reminder that the DNA portion of the Bassett Family Association can be found at:A current spreadsheet of results can be found at: If you don't have Excel and can't open the spreadsheet above, you can now see the DNA test results at the following website. Jeffrey Bassett520 Salceda DriveMundelein, IL 60060 USAbassettgenealogy@ ................
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