Brief Life History of Harvey Delbert
When Harvey Delbert Bassett was born on 27 June 1891, in Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming, United States, his father, David Edwin Bassett, was 44 and his mother, Eliza Jane Atkinson, was 38. He married Alta Thaxton on 22 December 1920, in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1950 and World for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 26 September 1980, in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Lovell Cemetery, Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.
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- Harvey D Bassett, "United States 1950 Census"
- Harvey Bassett, "Wyoming Marriages, 1869-1923"
- Harvey Delbert Bassett, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1894 · The Genealogical Society of Utah is formed.
The Genealogical Society of Utah is formed. - A precursor society to FamilySearch, the GSU was organized on November 13,1894, in the Church Historian's Office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from Old French basset ‘of low stature’, a diminutive of basse ‘low, short’, either a nickname for a short person or a status name for someone of humble origins.
Altered form of French Bessette 1 or Besset (see Bessette 2).
History: William Bassett (c. 1598–1667) came to Plymouth, MA, from Kent, England, in the 1620s; c. 1650 he moved to Duxbury and subesequently to Bridgewater. He had many prominent descendants, among them one of the earliest families on Martha's Vineyard. — The surname Bassett of French origin (see 2 above) is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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