Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Warren County.

HIRAM S. BASHAM was born in Breckinridge County, Ky., September 30, 1824.  
His father, Bartlett Basham, was born in Bedford County, Va., in 1774, 
and when a boy came to Kentucky with his parents.  He served as a 
soldier in the Seminole war, and afterward engaged in agricultural 
pursuits in connection with the business of "ginning" cotton.  He was 
twice married; first, in 1798, to Miss Rachel Mayberry, who died in 
1821, leaving eleven children:  George, Barbara, Polly, James H., 
Obadiah, Margaret, Elijah, Benajah, Rachel, Savanna and Allen.  His 
second marriage was with Miss Nicey Simmons, and occurred in 1822.  At 
her death, April 8, 1873, she left ten children, of which number Hiram 
S. is the eldest; after him were born Loretta, Lucinda, Napoleon, 
Carroll, Elihu, Nancy, Margaret, Samuel and Candace.  Obadiah Basham, 
the father of Bartlett, was a native of Virginia and a veteran in the 
war of the Revolution, in which he served five years, and some time 
after removed to Kentucky and located in Breckinridge County, where he 
continued to reside until his death, about the year 1850.  Hiram S. 
Basham was born and reared on a farm, where he remained the support of 
his parents until their deaths.  Being the eldest son the business of 
the farm devolved upon him to such an extent that he had very few 
opportunities of attending school, and his education is almost entirely 
practical.  He is self-made, having started in life without any capital 
except that vested in health, strength and resolution.  He is now the 
proprietor of a farm of 140 acres of good land, that produces abundant 
crops of grain and tobacco.  Mr. Basham attributes much of is success in 
life to the assistance and management of his wife, whom he married 
August 30, 1855.  She was a Miss Paradine Taylor, a daughter of Joseph 
and Polly (Hudnall) Taylor.  To Mr. Basham and his wife have been born 
seven sons - Lazarus P., Philander J., Napoleon C., Hiram A., Bartlett 
W., Elijah and Elihu - and two daughters - Mattie and Mary T.  Mr. 
Basham is a Master Mason in Elijah Upton Lodge, No. 377, and he and wife 
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Politically he is a 
Republican.  He enlisted in the Sixteenth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry 
October 23, 1864, and after participating in the engagements at Fort 
Fisher, Fort Anderson and Wilmington, received an honorable discharge 
from the United States service June 10, 1865.

Basham Hudnall Mayberry Simmons Taylor Upton
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Bedford-VA Breckinridge-KY

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