In Independence, N. Y., Jan. 13th, John C. Bassett in the 64th year of his age. The deceased was born in Wilmington, Vt., April 26th, 1795, where he lived the most of his time, until 1827, when he became a resident of Independence. He experienced a change of heart at the age of 15, but made no public profession of his faith until 1834, when he was baptized, and was one of the number which composed the Church when it was constituted, with which he continued a faithful member till death.
He suffered much for a year and a half past, and his disease being of that nature that rendered his last hours very painful, but his confidence in Christ as his Saviour was unshaken. He has left a wife and a large family of children and other friends, and the crowded church at his funeral, bespoke the esteem of the community. We buried him with the assurance that he rests from his labors, and that he now enjoys that "rest that remains for the people of God." J. K.
