The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-02
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one Hundred Years Old.

EliZdDetn baSSett, VINO uled on SUNDAY
at Wilmington. Delaware, in the Tooth
year of her age, was born at Woodstown,
December 18, 1870. She was one of ~
brothers and sisters, the children of
Nathan and Sarah Bassett. Nathan Bas-
sett was of the third generation in descent
from William Bassett, who is said to have
come from Lynn, Mass, in 1891. and to
have settled near Salem, in what was then
the province of West Jersey. The family
removed to Wilmington in 1909. Her
father, who had a local reputation as as
tronomer and mathematician, died in 1S47,
at the age of So.
The life of Elizabeth Bassett was CON-
paratively an u%neventful one. To many
of the colored population of Wilmington
her marked characteristic of benevolence
was known through three generations.
Her hearing failed a few years ago, but
her eyesight was good and she could read
without glasses until her 98th year. She
went regularly to her meals until two days
before her decease. the cause of which was
simply old age. Besides her brother Mark
5. Bassett, aged 81, who survives her, she
leaves several nephews and one niece,
among whom are Josiah Bassett, E. l. D.
Pepper, a Methodist minister and editor OF
the Christian Standard; Prof. Albert R.
Leeds, ofHoboken; Josiah w. Leeds and
Annie E. Mcdowell, of Philadelphia.
Miss Bassett never married, and was a
consistent member of the Society of the
Hicksite Friends. During her residence
in Woodstown, we understand, she lived
in the old hotel property, o owned by
Charles Caffrey and occupied by Nicholas
Justice. We should be pleased to hear
from any of our old residents who have
any recollections of the family.
Deaths In The state.
A mass of statistics of nearly 500 pages
which has just come from the State print
er's hands, bears the title of the "Thir-
tenth Annual Record of the New Jersey
Board of HEALTH" The vital statistics for
the year ending June 80 last appear to be
very complete and accurate. During the
year there were 10, 726 marriages, 90, 099
births and &c, 543 deaths in the State. In
the number of marriages Camden county
leads all the State, 1866 couples, most Of
them Pennsylvanians who had crossed the
river in order to avoid compliance with the
marriages license laws of their own State.
OF the 26, 543 deaths recorded in the
State 10, 373, or 80. 10 to each 100 were due
to preventable diseases. The total death
rate of the State to each 1000 of an esti-
mated population of 1, 1907, CAT was IS. so.
The largest county death rate was in Hud-
son, 1888. That of Essex. 22.S1, was
next and that of Passaic. 81. 90, third. The
lowest death rate in the State is that of
Hunterdon county, 11.66. The rate in 9TH
er counties is as follows: Atlantic, 81 .08;
Bergen, IA. 81; Burlington. 14.22; Camden.
10. 80; Cape May, 16. %; Cumberland, 14.11;
Gloucester, 1872; Mercer, 1876; Middle
sex, II. 80; Monmouth, IA. "a; Morris, IT,
II; Ocean, 1910; Salem, 1926; Somerset.
6.79; Sussex. 1854; Union, 1S. "; Warren,
14.1S.
OF the deaths in the State 6,S42 were
those of children under n year of age,
l, 952 of them being less than a month old
1919 those of children between one and
five years old; {, 1895 those of youths be-
tween five and twenty years old; S,06S
those of persons between twenty and sixty
years old, and $685. those of persons over
sixty years of age, the ages in 140 cases not
being defined. In each 100 deaths 80. Oh
were those of persons under five years of
age.