Re: William Basford (or Bassford)
BASFORD, PARKS, COOP, CAMPBELL, HIGGINS
Posted By: Roxie (email) In Response To: Re: William Basford (or Bassford) (Verda Baird)
Date: 3/7/2006 at 22:47:15
I wish Mrs. Prill had bothered to gather info. from odds and ends of those newspapers, but she was a good genealogist, though. By the way, she and I are distant cousins through our connection to the Medlem family: her ancestors were Joseph Barnes and his first wife Susan Medlem Barnes while my ancestors were Daniel Judson and Caroline Medlem Judson. Susan and Caroline were sisters.
In answering your question regarding what had became of the children of Isabell Nancy (Parks) Basford Campbell Higgins.
I got some information on her first 4 children by her first husband, William Basford, before I found the 1880 census record listing her first three children as Pleasant, aged 5 then, Nancy Dells, 4, and 10-month-old Minnie Bell Basford. I just tried to fit my original info with the census info on those three children.
Here it goes....
Four children of Isabell Nancy "Belle" Parks and her first husband, William Basford:)
(1) Arthur (b. and died at birth in 1875)
(2) Della (who married William Roberts)
(3) Minnie[The above information was my original information....now show below the census record]
(1) Pleasant Basford (age 5 in 1880, which meant he was born around 1875)
(2) Nancy Dells Basford (age 4 in 1880, which means she was born around 1876)
(3) Minnie Bell Basford (10 mos. old in 1880
which means she was born in 1879)
(4) Arthur (b. and d. at birth in 1875[I have a newspaper obituary for Della Roberts, wife of William Roberts and daughter of "Belle" Higgins]
With "Belle"'s 2nd husband, Samuel Campbell, whom she married on October 26, 1882:
(5) Emma Elizabeth Campbell (b. 16 Sept. 1883 in Sigourneny, IA; married 1st-John Steven Quinn, a Catholic [1870-1932], on 28 Aug. 1899; 2nd-Mr. Robertson; died on 17 April 1952; burial at Ottumwa Cemetery)
[Mary Lanigan's post fits Emma's birth..."Child #5 female Emma Elizabeth, Sept. 16, 1883, Penn Twp; Jefferson County, Iowa"]
(6) Frank Campbell (b. 1885; married Lela Faulks)
(Mary Lanigan's post "child #7 male born Aug. 7, 1887, Polk Twp. Jefferson Co., IA" could possibly be Frank's)
(7) Clarence (?????)
(8) Mary Alice Campbell (b. 9 June 1887 in Wapello Co., IA; m. the Rev. Henry Alphus Kuhns [1884-?]; d. 25 May 1926)
[Mary Lanigan's post "child #8 female June 9, 1889, Brookville, Jefferson County, Iowa" clearly fits in with Mary Alice's birth date except for the wrong year. I got Mary Alice's date of June 9, 1887, from some sources.]
(9) Blanche Ann Campbell (b. 31 March 1889, in Brighton, Washington Co, IA; married 1st-William W. Stevens in September of 1907 in Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa [William: 1885-1914]; married 2nd-William Van Cleave sometime either in 1914 or 1915 [who died after 1930]; d. 10 March 1916 in Ottumwa) My great-grandparents, William W. Stevens and Blanche Ann Campbell Stevens Van Cleave were buried near each other at Ottumwa Cemetery near their son who died in infancy and near Blanche's infant daughter (by her 2nd husband) who died shortly after birth. Second husband, William Van Cleave, was buried near his relatives at Blakesburg.
The rest of those children, although having the surname of Higgins, are strongly believed to be Samuel Campbell's children because of 2 reasons: (A) I have seen some sources pointing Samuel as the father of those children...i.e., birth records at the Iowa State Historical Society Library in Des Moines, which named the father as Samuel Campbell, among others; and (B) "Belle" Parks Basford Campbell was already filing in court for a divorce from Samuel by 1900 and the file suit said she could not locate Samuel's whereabouts in order to get his agreement to that divorce so she could marry her next husband, James Joseph Higgins. According to her, friends and family did not know where Samuel was; (C) She appeared to have married James Joseph Higgins around 1903 and moved with him and the younger children to Kansas where Belle later died and was buried. So for now, I believe the last three children belonged to Samuel Campbell, not James Higgins. But Mr. Higgins must have legally adopted them and gave them his surname.
(10) Clara Mabel Higgins (b. 11 Aug. 1895 in Wapello County, Iowa; m. Charles Albert Tuell [1890-1959]; and d. 19 Nov. 1934)
(11) Violet Veronica Higgins (b. 8 July 1897 in Wapello Co., Iowa, and m. Charles Harold McNamara)
(12) William Edward Higgins (b. 24 Nov. 1899 in Wapello County, Iowa; m. Evalyn Emgstrom; d. in July of 1969)
The birth, death, and marriage records of some of those children, particularly Emma Elizabeth Quinn Robertson, came from her son, James T. Quinn, and a Catholic nun who knew Sister Dorothy Quinn (a Catholic nun)(Emma's daughter). The other sources are a few newspaper obituaries and others.
Charles and Clara Mabel Tuell moved to Kansas with Clara's mother "Belle" Higgins and a few others.
"Belle" Higgins was born in or near Perlee, Jefferson Co., IA (as the eldest child of Silas and Nancy Coop Parks) on June 12, 1858. She died on August 13, 1925, in Kechi, Kansas (near Wichita). She was buried at Kechi Cemetery. I have her Kansas Dept. of Public Health death certificate.
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