Prudence Basey LAST NAME: Basey FIRST NAME: Prudence MIDDLE NAME:  NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME: Ayers AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: F MILITARY:  BORN: 1 Feb 1823 DIED: 14 Sep 1903 BURIED: 17 Sep 1903 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Housewife BIRTH PLACE:  Indiana DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon NOTES:  1900 OR CENSUS - Prudence Basey, age 77, widow, mother of 10 children 5 of whom are living at the time of the census, b. Iowa, is enumerated in the home of her son-in-law, Auburn Willard, age 46, occupation blacksmith, b. New York, and her daughter Mary Willard, age 43, b. Aug 1856 in Iowa. OBITUARY:  DIED LAST NIGHT.  Mrs. J. J. Basey, After Long Sickness, Passed to Her Rest.  At 9:30 o'clock last evening, at her home on Asylum avenue, in this city, Mrs. Purdence Ayers Basey passed to her rest. She was the wife of J. J. Basey, deceased, who was a son of Isaac Basey, one of the party of men with Lewis and Clark, the explorers, on their trip to Oregon.  Prudence Ayers was born in Indiana in the year 1823, February 1. She was married to J. J. Basey, November 21, 1839, and they crossed the plains with their family in 1853, coming with an ox team. Deceased leaves four sons and a daughter to mourn her demise. They are W. W. and A. J. Basey and Mrs. Mary B. Willard, of Salem, J. C. Basey, of Lakeview, and I. N. Basey, of Portland, also several grandchildren and great grandchildren. There are also a great many friends of the good lady to mourn her loss, for she was a good, kind woman.  During all her days she was a Christian. Just before her death she called in the loved ones of her immediate family circle and bid them goodbye. She had been a patient sufferer from her last sickness for twelve months, bearing all cheerully and never complaining at her lot or dreading the approaching end. The funeral will be held at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) from the late home of Mrs. Basey on Asylum avenue.  Oregon Statesman 15 Sep 1903 6:3  THE FUNERAL TODAY.  The funeral of the late Mrs. J. J. Basey will be held from the late home of the deceased, on Asylum avenue, at 1:30 this afternoon. Rev. F. W. Cliffe, pastor of the First Baptist church, will conduct the services. The burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.  Oregon Statesman 16 Sep 1903 5:1 INSCRIPTION:  Prudence Ayers Basey  1823 - 1903 SOURCES:  LD 1900 OR CENSUS  (Marion Co., Englewood, ED 143, sheet 1B) OS 15 Sep 1903 6:3 OS 16 Sep 1903 5:1 CONTACTS:  LOT: 193 SPACE: 2 NW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE: