Husband: Stephen Hicks BASSETT
Birthdate: March 8, 1860
Birthplace: Fort Valley, GA (Houston Co.) (1)
Death date: Feb. 23, 1925
Place of death: Fort Valley, GA (2)
Father: Stephen Elisha BASSETT
Mother: Frances Emmoline HICKS

Marriage date: Feb. 16, 1884
Marriage place:

Wife: Maud Artemisia BROWN (3)
Birthdate: Dec. 29, 1962
Birthplace: Morgan Co. GA
Death date: July 17, 1920
Place of death:
Father: Simeon Neville BROWN
Mother: Lucy Anne Elizabeth Thomas HEAD

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Stephen Elisha BASSETT (2)
Birthdate: Jan. 31, 1886 Fort Valley
Spouses' names: never married
Marriage date:
Death date: June 4, 1929 Fort Valley

Child No. 2: Neville Brown BASSETT
Birthdate: Aug. 26, 1887 Fort Valley (2)
Spouses' names: Hazel Amelia Smith
Marriage date: Chicago, IL.
Death date: April 10, 1919, Fort Valley

Child No. 3: Bessie BASSETT
Birthdate: Mar. 26, 1890 Fort Valley (2)
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: Sept. 18, 1890 Fort Valley

Child No. 4: Maud BASSETT
Birthdate: Mar. 26, 1890 Fort Valley (2)
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: Aug. 6, 1893

Child No. 5: Ralphiel Phillips BASSETT
Birthdate: Sept. 1891 Fort Valley
Spouses' names: Henriette Blanche Alphonsine BOURDIER (4)
Marriage date: Feb. 28, 1919, Paris, France (5)
Death date: April 16, 1951, Fort Valley (4)

Child No. 6: Noble Paul BASSETT
Birthdate: Jan. 21, 1893 (2)
Spouses' names: Edith MELTON
Marriage date: About 1930
Death date: June 5, 1961, Fort Valley (6)

Child No. 7: Frances BASSETT
Birthdate: Jan. 20, 1896, Fort Valley (2)
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: Aug. 15, 1896, Fort Valley

Child No. 8: Dwight Moody BASSETT
Birthdate: Jan 18, 1899, Fort Valley (2)
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: Jan. 18, 1899

Child No. 9:Lucy Cornelia BASSETT
Birthdate: Oct. 9, 1894, Fort Valley (2)
Spouses' names: William Herbert KIBLER
Marriage date:July 9, 1926, Chicago, IL
Death date: Oct. 25, 1985, Morganton, NC
 
 
Documentation:
1-Family Bible
2-Family Records
3-Records of Lucy Kibler
4-Records of Simone Robbins
5-Leader and Peachland Journal Mar. 1919
6-Macon Telegraph June 6, 1961

Notes:
* Stephen Hicks Bassett was a graduate of Emory College, Oxford, GA. He met his wife Maud there during their college days. Following their marriage in 1884, they spent their lives in the Ft. Valley area. They had a large family, with 9 children, 4 of whom died in childhood.
* Stephen and Maud lived at "the Claxton place" early in their marriage. In 1891, he purchased the "Bassett Homeplace" (on Taylor's Mill Road, Fort Valley) from his father, Stephen Elisha, and a second generation of Bassett children grew up there as their father farmed the large property. In their later years, they owned and operated the Bassett Hotel in downtown Fort Valley (formerly known as the Watson House). The purchase of the hotel occurred in 1918 and according to old letters, (*) was run as a boarding house.
(*) Letters from Maud to her son, Ralphiel Phillips Bassett, while he was in France during WWI.