Map showing movement of Bassett and Edgecomb families (click for larger map)
Bassett-Edgecomb-Snyder Archives
You can get to this website by entering besr.info into your web browser (besr=Bassett-Edgecomb-Snyder Reunion).
This website was originally at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~besr/ and seems to have been restored after their hacking incident. However, the site is easier to maintain here, so that site will become out of date over time.
Quick links
Site map
How do I get a pdf version of this history?
Civil War letters of Samuel H. Bassitt
Image database
Guestbook
Map showing movement of Bassett and Edgecomb families (click
for larger map)
Maps showing movement of Snyder ancestors (click
for larger map)
Uriah and Betsey (Doud) Edgecomb webpage
Discuss
Edgecomb genealogy
Samuel and Elsie (Lewis) Bassitt webpage
Discuss
Bassett/Bassitt genealogy
Philip and Mary (Sharpsteen) Snyder webpage
Discuss Snyder
genealogy
How are these three families connected?
(Click
on a box to go to the web page for that family)
Three of the children of Uriah and Betsey (Doud) Edgecomb lived in northeastern Bath Township, Allen County, Ohio, USA during the latter half of the 1800's. Two married children of Samuel and Elsie (Lewis) Bassitt and the third married Peter Snyder. Many of the children and grandchildren of these three families continued to live in that community and maintained close ties.
View a PowerPoint presentation about these families (shown at 2007 Reunion, 7 Mb, requires PowerPoint or free PowerPoint viewer)
What was the Bassett-Edgecomb-Snyder Reunion?
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 1977 Reunion in Bath Twp., Allen Co., Ohio (click for a larger version) 1977 Reunion mailing ("The Story Behind the Seventieth Bassett-Edgecomb-Snyder Reunion") - 2nd page |
100th Reunion in 2007. Bath Twp., Allen Co., Ohio (click
for a larger version)
The Bassett-Edgecomb-Snyder Reunion first met at Lewis Grove in rural Bath Township, Allen County, Ohio, USA in 1908. The participants were primarily members of the interconnected families described above. View notes from the first reunion. Page two. The organization meet yearly in the Lima, Ohio area on the second Sunday of August for 100 years.
Post card from the third reunion (1910). Post card from the tenth reunion (1917). Post card from the twelfth reunion (1919).
Tour of Bassett-Edgecomb-Snyder historical places and cemeteries in the vicinity of Lima, Allen County, Ohio.
At the 100th Reunion in 2007 it was decided to discontinue the annual reunions, but to establish a presence on the Web where those interested in the family history could maintain contact, and where historical and genealogical information and documents could be archived and made available to anyone who was interested.
Comments? Questions? Contact Steve Baskauf
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