Good afternoon, are you related to Harriet? She was my gg-grandmother here in MN.

She was the daughter of Benjamin Frank King b. Oct. 21, 1825 d. April 12, 1866 and Sylvia Norton b. June 25, 1823 d. May 7, 1900.

Sylvia was the daughter of Jeremiah Norton b. Feb. 8, 1798 d. Jan 4, 1874 and Amanda Seaver b. January 4, 1804.

Benjamin was the son of George William King b. Oct. 19, 1798 d. March 15, 1845 and Hannah Pierce b. Feb 9, 1798 d. Aug. 29, 1822.

Edward H. Bassett was my great great grandfather and if you need some more information on him his son Morton H. Bassett a senator in MN wrote a book called from Bull Run to Bristow Station about Edward.

I am related through Edwards’s son Elmer Bassett and Eva Jane Willis. Elmer was my grandmother’s father on my mother's side.

They had 7 children, Richard (died young-No Issue), Ben (Had three daughters), Leander (passed away young and is buried on a hill on the homestead in Canada-no issue), Leroy (ran away from home in Olmsted MN probably around in his late 20's or early 30's as he had three children, and some say he ran away at 16 but with three children I believe it is contrary to hearsay from family members), Elva (passed away at age 12 from leukemia-No Issue), Helen (9 living children) and Lydia (had no children).

Elmer and Eva moved back and forth from Saskatuan, Freemont (sic) Canada and MN Several Times before he passed away Aug. 4, 1938 in Olmsted Co. MN. He was in the Spanish American War.

His Father Edward H. Bassett was a private in Company G Minnesota 1st, in the Civil War. My uncle Just finished a book about Edward which is 720 pages long. I just got my signed copy yesterday and have read 150 pages so far. It is a worthy read about Edward. Called MN 1st Second to None. By Richard G. Krom.

It is not at the bookstores as of yet. It details some 202 letters home during the war that Edward wrote. His handwriting is a scripty flowing sort even with grammatical errors and all. But that is to be forgiven as the situation that he was in was not conductive to beautiful writing. Although From the examples in the book he had wonderfully beautiful penmanship. And a sense of humor second to none.

Edward had two brothers and two sisters, George, Elford, Ella and Anna. George was killed during the civil war at age 18, March 16, 1862 in Nashville Tenn. and had no children.

I am looking for ties to Elford (passed away Oct 17, 1931), Ella (born 1849) and Anna (passed away Jan 11, 1925).