A. Samuel Bassett
Visitors to the Archive asking for information on Samuel Bassett
Cousins & spouses, cousins
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One was a Civil War re-enactor who
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Looking for information on Bassett's Civil War career
Many sources on Bassett
His book - History of Buffalo County
Biographical souvenir of Phelps,
Kearney & Buffalo County
Family file
Probate file
Contents of Probate file
Application for administration
Heirs – 7
children
Will
Divided Echo
Farm between the children
$25 to each
grandchild upon reaching legal age
List of all 19 grandchildren and
their birth dates
List of the 7 who were already of
legal age and were paid
Correspondence:
from John
Dryden to Judge Easterling which had included the $300 for remaining 12
from Judge to
Gibbon Exchange bank depositing money at interest (CD)
from 1st
grandchild to turn 21 asking for his money
from judge –
wait for CD to mature – paid in Aug 1928
payment to
2nd & 3st grandchild Aug 1929
Nine left – into the 1930’s now
2 received
$7.35 plus an assignment of 1/9 of the balance
This was 25%
of their money due ($25) + interest
Would get
about $20 more when the old Exchange Bank liquidated.
That was 1/9 of the CD = $180 – should have been $225 + interest
All have reached maturity – Sued the
Judge
Confusing, things said verbally not
recorded
One letter from judge asked the girl
to come to his office and he will explain it to her.
Settlement reached Aug 17, 1936
$108.08
received by the 9 remaining grandchildren
Probably not divided equally because two had already received $7.35 each
Judge was sued but it wasn’t his fault. It was the financial situation of
the day.
B. Found on Library of Congress website
Journal of the Senate - March 27,
1872.
Bill (S. 829) granting the Fort Kearney military reservation to the State of
Nebraska for the use and benefit of the Nebraska State deaf and dumb and
insane asylums, had been referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, was
reported without amendment.
Journal of the House of
Representatives - May 11, 1872.
Several bills from the Senate were, by unanimous consent, referred to the
Committee on Military Affairs, including:
• S. 829.
An act granting the Fort Kearney military reservation to the State of
Nebraska for the use and benefit of the Nebraska State Deaf and Dumb and
Insane Asylum.
C. John Rose
Nov. 1916 - John Rose, who had been operating a taxi cab in Kearney,
left town with another woman, leaving his wife and three children here
destitute. Mrs. Rose was admitted to the hospital, a charge to the city, and
there was a search for homes for the children.
Feb 16, 1917 – Sheriff Funk traced Rose to St. Louis and had the
police there arrest him. He sent a deputy from here to go get him, figured
he would come voluntarily without extradition papers.
Feb. 19, 1917 – Rose came back peacefully from Mound City where he was
arrested. The woman who had left with Rose accompanied them part of the way
back. [Didn’t say where she got off the train.]
Feb. 21, 1917 – Charged with wife desertion. Hearing was held. Rose
waived examination. He was held over, bond $500.
May 15, 1917 – Rose was placed under a bond to provide for his wife
and children
[This was not the only John Rose in the area]
D. The "Roaring Twenties"
This was the decade of prohibition and Al Capone,
bobbed hair and the Charleston,
the Teapot Dome scandal, the Scopes
trial,
raccoon coats, talking pictures and
radio.
Ford Motor Company was moving into
mass production on the assembly line as cars became a necessity of life for
the average American and there was a strong campaign to develop a nationwide
road system.
The Nebraska Lincoln Highway
Association held a state meeting in Kearney in April of 1925.
By summer the Lincoln Highway through
Buffalo County was all graveled as well as the road from Kearney to
Pleasanton.
This made Buffalo County "further
advanced on gravel surfacing of state aid roads than any other county in
Nebraska."
In Kearney a goat parade was held to
promote the downtown businesses.
The Ku Klux Klan held a big rally at
the Buffalo County fairgrounds in Kearney.
The school at Amherst was set on fire
to divert attention while the bank was robbed.
The last wood bridge across the
Platte River in Buffalo County was replaced by a concrete and steel
structure south of Gibbon at a cost of $55,000.
Jack Knight, air mail pilot, had
engine trouble and landed at the Shelton air field to make repairs.
The Shelton High School music program
in the spring of 1926 included three quartets.
1. The Sober
Seniors was made up of Roy Loffer, Leland Cook, Everett Waddington and
Francis Kelly.
2. The Hoky
Poky quartet consisted of Mark Hackman, Richard Taylor, Fred Hehner and Alex
King.
3. The
Hayseeds included John Spahr, Fred Schroeder, Gale Allen and Franklin Finck.
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