 1894 - 1942 (47 years)
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| Name |
BASSETT, Adelia Dubois |
- William Bassett, written 02 Dec 2006, requested by Stephen A Hansen. Since never having met Adelia, Stephen asked Bill, a 1st cousin, once removed, to share his impression of her.
Bill writes:
Regarding my memories of Aunt "Dele", I can only remember that she was by far my favorite aunt, and that she was especially warm and friendly with me. I was something of a "problem" growing up and not all that well accepted, but never felt that way in Lago. As I recall, I spent several summers there, as a toddler visiting with my Mother, and then 4 or 5 summers between ages 6 and 13. I remember sacking wheat on the combine, driving a "bull-rake", riding the derrick horse, and pitching hay on the hay stack, and Phil taught me how to ride a horse (sort of). One summer I fell off the hay stack and broke my arm and Aunt Dele was my comfort...she arranged to get me to a doctor. All of the Hansens were good to me, even Phil, but I especially felt close to Aunt "Dele". She always had a smile and I can still see the warmth in her eyes as she put up with me. I also recall that all of my sisters and brothers (most of them grew up in Lago) felt the same about her. You have a wonderful grandmother.
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| Birth |
3 Sep 1894 |
Lago (Trout Creek), Bannock, Id, USA  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
13 Feb 1942 |
Soda Springs, Caribou, Id, USA |
| Burial |
16 Feb 1942 |
Lago, Caribou, Id, USA |
| Notes |
- As a distinct shock to residents of the entire valley came the news of the death of Mrs. Adelia Bassett Hansen, wife of Alfred Hansen, who succumbed Friday morning at 3am in the Caribou County Hospital following major surgery at 8am.
Mrs Hansen was born at Lago September 3, 1894, a daughter of William Henry and Marrett Cook Bassett.
She attended grade school at Lago and High school at Thatcher. She also attended Idaho Tech, now the University of Idaho South at Pocatello, one year. She clerked in her fathers store for 8 years and was cashier in the Keith O'Brien store in SLC for 2 years. She organized the first girls basketball team in Lago which team was not defeated for 2 years. In Aug 1918 (error) she married Alfred P. Hansen and has made her home in Lago since. She served as president, counseler, and secretary of the Lago ward relief society, a sunday school teacher and secretary of the HYN club.
Bud (Clarence) remembers: Ma was about 5'6" of slim build, never put on much weight, maybe because she had to work so hard, packing water, washing clothes in the old fashion hand washers, feeding hired men. We had a big garden and she canned the produce. No electricity until 1929. Just can remember living in the "old Morehead" place up at the saw mill site on the hill in Lago. Then Dad rented and ran the WH Bassett place (grandpa's) and moved into their home. They lived in one end and we the other. In 1928 Dad bought the place. In 1929 grandpa died in a car accident, but grandma (Met) remained with us. We kids had the responsibility of getting in her wood and coal, gather her eggs and be generally useful. The W.H.Bassett store was then sold to Hyrum Swenson, Ma's brother-in-law. Grandma passed away in 1934. By then Ma, who was always active in the church, was Relief Society president and kept busy doing service for her neighbors. Dallas and I kept busy with our own private bird santuary. We had hawks and magpies and woodpeckers. We kept them in our tree house. Then one night we found two baby owls. We just stuck them in the chicken feed box. Later that evening Ma went to feed the chickens and she could see those huge eyes sticking up and got quite a fright. She wouldn't let us keep them and the babies were returned to their nest. I remember us kids were sent to Grandma Hansen's and when we came home Phil was there. That was Sept. of 1924. When we went to Grandma's, her girls and Emil were there and we had to milk cows and pack milk. When the aunts scubbed the floor they made us sit on the chair until it was dry. It was not easy to get around Lago in the early days. Trout Creek would flood and cause extra miles going around instead of over the bridge. We got water in the house in 1931 or 32. After Grandma Bassett died we got a bathroom out of part of her kitchen. When the plummer came and went downstairs to hook up the fixtures (only he and I were there) we found a bottle of Ma,s juice that had fermented and the plumber drank until he passed out down in the basement. When Ma and Dad came home they found him in the basement- he returned the next day to finish the job.
When I was in high school I remember that Ma went up to see a doctor in Pocatello. She was having trouble using her arms. He told her to change her deoderant. Stan was born 1934. In about 1937 Ma had surgery for a cyst on her ovary by Dr. Kackley in Soda Springs, By the time I graduated and left home her arm was bothering her quite a bit. In Feb. of 1942 while at work at Vega Air Craft in Burbank, California I recieved a telegram that Ma had passed away following surgery for breast cancer.
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| Person ID |
I1280 |
Our Generations Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
13 Jun 2009 |
| Father |
BASSETT, William Henry, b. 14 Mar 1858, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Ut d. 29 Dec 1929, Pocatello, Bannock, Id (Age 71 years) |
| Mother |
COOK, Marette (Twin), b. 17 Mar 1856, Cedar Forte, Utah, Ut d. 10 May 1931, Lago, Caribou, Id (Age 75 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Oct 1876 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Ut |
| Notes |
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| Family ID |
F6 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
HANSEN, Alfred Peter, b. 30 Nov 1896, Lago, Bannock(Caribou), Id, USA d. 28 Jan 1983, Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho (Age 86 years) |
| Marriage |
31 Aug 1918 |
Pocatello, Bannock, Id, USA |
| Children |
| + | 1. HANSEN, Dallas Alfred, b. 25 Apr 1919, Lago, Bannock(Caribou), Id, USA d. 17 Apr 1997, Logan, Cache, Ut (Age 77 years) |
| + | 2. Living |
| + | 3. Living |
| + | 4. HANSEN, William Phillip, b. 7 Sep 1924, Lago, Bannock(Caribou), Id, USA d. 06 Oct 2008, Logan, Ut (Age 84 years) [Father: Birth] [Mother: Birth] |
| + | 5. Hansen, Stanley Dee, b. 08 Oct 1934, Lago, Bannock (Caribou), ID d. 23 Mar 2017, Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah (Age 82 years) [Father: Sealing] [Mother: Sealing] |
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| Family ID |
F2 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Photos
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 | Bassett: Adelia Dubois Bassett
19 Nov 1941 47 years old, three months before her death
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 | Hansen: Alfred Hansen and Adelia Bassett family. 1935
William Phillip (Phil), Dallas Alfred, Dorothy, Clarence (Bud) Bassett
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 | Lago Ward Relief Society Presidency, 1942
Back: Annie Rasmussen, Norma Mickelsen
Front: Adelia Hansen, Lenore Ruud
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 | Bassett: Adelia Dubois Bassett
1910 16 years old
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 | Bassett: Adelia Dubois Bassett
1914 20 years old
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 | Bassett: Mett Bassett, Ivy Bassett, Andrew Ruud, Olive Ruud, Adelia Bassett, Andrew Ruud, Louella Ruud, Norman Ruud
About 1918 |
 | Bassett: Family group, probably around 1918.
Some identities were made by facial appearance and may not be accurate. |
 | Bassett: Group of friends on a car outing.
Some identities were determined by facial appearance and may not be accurate. |
 | Bassett: Adelia Bassett and Neighberhood friends
January 1913. Winter coats, bowties and dresses. |
 | Bassett: William. H. Bassett and Marrette Cook home
This picture was taken around 1960. The house was built in at least three sections. The right hand side is log (abt 10" diameter) with willow lath and plaster on the inside and drop siding on the outside. The left hand side is two story frame. The back part is one story frame. The parts were undoubtedly built at separate times, but there is no written or verbal history except birth of children to signify when. The first child born there was Sophronia (1887) followed by Roscoe (1891) and Adelia (1894). 1887 was when the the Bassett Stage Line (see history) was operating and WH and CHII Bassett moved their winter horse range from Cedar Fort, Utah to Lago (Trout Creek), Idaho. Hence the log part was probably built then, the back part being added later and the two story frame being completed around 1900. The drop siding on the log part was probably added when the frame sections were built. There are verbal stories of Indians looking through the windows during the early years. Roscoe Bassett and his wife, Inez, lived in the back part for a few years then moved to Ogden, Utah. Then Alfred Hansen and family lived in the back part until WH and Met's death when they occupied the entire house. It became unoccupied in the 1960's and burned down. See Lago (Trout Creek) and W. H. Bassett histories. |
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