Lamar County Texas Cemetery Records

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Bassano, Francis Willets 149968

Birth: 02/04/1827 Death: 05/21/1907 Marriage: 06/13/1860

Cemetery: Old City (SOUTHEAST)

Record Source: Lamar County Record Rodgers and Wade Furniture Co.

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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/15/2025)

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Lamar County Death Records Bk.#1; p.182; #1873; F.W. Bassano; white male; age 81 years; of England nativity; died in Paris of senility; reported by L. P. McCuistion.

From Rodgers and Wade Furniture Co. Funeral Records in possession of Fry & Gibbs Funeral Home; Book #5; p.241; Service #65; F. W. Bassano; Charge to Estate; Order given by Fisk; Died at Aikin Hospital May 21, 1907 at 12:05 p.m.; Service May 22, 1907 at 4 p.m. at Trinity Church; Clergyman, L. L. Swam; cause of death, Debility; Widower; Religion, Episcopal; age 80 years; interment at Old City Cemetery; Casket size 6/3 manufactured by Chattanooga $60.00; coach $5.00; trap $4.00; 5 carriages $17.50; hearse $10.00; open grave $5.00; total $100.50.

Information from Greer Gibson Bacon, Spokane, WA, ga.gee@live.com, 01/21/2013: Son of Francis W. Bassano Sr. and Mary Willets Bassano. Francis Willets Bassano was born February 4, 1827 at Handsworth, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. He was the oldest child of Francis and Mary (Willets) Bassano who immigrated in 1850 with their seven children. He married Lucy C. Nash June 13, 1860. From family records, Texas Marriages and U.S. Census Records.

On the same stone with Lucy C. Bassano.

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