Person:Emmet Bastin (1)

Emmet Bastin, age 20

Emmet Brockman Bastin was the son of Major Brockman Bastin and Sarah Jane Pointer. Emmet married Harriet Alice Kincart in October of 1882, in Miami County, Kansas. They had four children: Harvey; Gladeth; Stella; and Bessie Bastin.

Oral Traditions

The Bastin family moved from Hart County, KY to keep the boys from going to war during the Civil War.

Emmet's brother Ed did a very pioneering thing - he went to Calgary, Canada, in the early 1900's. The railroad was just going through Canada. Opportunity to homestead was a great motivation. Ed thought it was really nice there and later invited Emmet to come to Canada also. So, Emmet and his family went to Canada by railroad, along with John Bastin and his family. While they were in Canada Emmet broke his hip while ice skating, and walked with a limp thereafter. Gladith hauled him home in a wagon. Harvey was around 16 at this time (ca. 1904). The family filed homestead claims, and possibly paid for some land.

After about two years of this, they got tired of chopping trees, and Emmet and family moved back to Kansas on the freight train. They returned to Miami County, Kansas. Ed stayed a year longer in Canada.

Later, Emmet moved to Thomas County, Kansas, and bought land there. He had heard one could get cheap land there. Emmet owned and lived on a farm near Menlo, Kansas. Gladith farmed land near Rexford for Emmet. They had first settled in the Rexford area. When Harvey got married, his house was a mile from Emmet's, and their land joined.

Emmet had built a five room frame house. He was thought to be a wealthy farmer because he built a frame house instead of a sod house.

Emmet's family went to Arkansas where Emmet, Bessie, and Stella (his daughters) would take hot baths for their health. This was in the winter, as recalled by Edith Bastin. When they returned from Arkansas they moved to Gem, Kansas and ran a grocery store. Emmet attended church a lot, and was quite active in church work. He was a Sunday School superintendant. Once Emmet and Alice borrowed $100 so that the three women folk could have coats to go to church in. The Bastins considered the Kincart women to be "high steppers"; they were tough and worldly. They danced! Edith Bastin thinks they were from Kansas City.

Stella owned the store, so when her mother wanted candy, she paid Stella for it! Alvin Bastin recalls to Don Bastin 10/27/1997: " I only have one memory of my Grandpa Emmet Bastin. I was only three years old when he died. I remember we were at his home in Gem, Kansas. He was dressed in a dark suit, and he was roasting marshmallows for me and my brothers in the pot -bellied heating stove. He had the stove door open, and I remember the red hot coals as Grandpa held the marshmallows over the coals. The home was in a retail store that his daughter, Stella, operated. Grandpa owned a farm next to ours. I don't know who was working the farm at that time. My dad was farming it as far back as I can remember. He may have been farming it at that time."

Census Information

Source Information: Census Place Marysville, Miami, Kansas Family History Library Film 1254388 NA Film Number T9-0388 Page Number 337D

1880 United States Federal Census

about Emmet Bastin

Household Members

1900 Census

Unknown infant daughter of E.B. & A. Bastin. Date on tombstone is Oct. 11, 1898. in Hillsdale Cemetery, Hillsdale, Kansas.

Marriage License

Application for marriage License in Miami County, Kansas. Emmet Bastin to Miss Alice Kincart. Emmet Bastin, 25 years of age, and said Alice Kincart is 23 years of age. on the 26th.

Marriage License witness, E.W. Robinson, October 26, 1882 above info taken from Miami County Marriage Record 1880 - 82 book "D".

Obituary

Emmet Brockman Bastin was born in Hart County, Kentucky, August 16, 1857 and died in Gem, Kansas, April 25, 1923, age 65 years, 8 months and 9 days. He was united in marriage to Alice Kincart at Paola, Kansas, October 26, 1882. To this union were born five children; two boys and three girls. The youngest died in infancy. Those living are Pruda, of Gem, Gladith F. Bastin of Rexford, Harvey E. Bastin of Menlo, Mrs. Bessie Cook of Gem. Pruda being at his bedside when death came. At the age of nineteen years he made a profession of Christ and joined the Baptist Church. He lived a consecrated Christian life ever since. He leaves to mourn his untimely death his wife, two sons, two daughters, two granddaughters, three grandsons, two sisters,( Mrs. Lizzie Carter and Mrs. R.L. McKee of Rexford) besides a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services were conducted by the Masonic Order of which he was a member; all members of his family being present. The remains were laid to rest in the Gem cemetary.

Burial

Emmet is buried in the Gem Cemetery in Thomas County, Kansas.

External Links

[Emmet Bastin] burial at www.findagrave.com.

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Vera Louise Bastin. Vera Bastin's Genealogy Notes; 1963 - present.
2.   Family History Library Film 1254388 , in Tom and Carolyn Ward. The KSGenWeb Project
   NA Film Number T9-0388 Page 337D.
3.   1880 - 82 , in Miami County Marriage Record
   Book "D".
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Emmet Bastin Tombstone.
   
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2}