Shelby County, KY - Bios:  Baskett, Alfred, Jr.
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Alfred BASKETT Jr 3436, Shelby Co. 

Surname: Baskett, Lee, Ratcliff

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co.

ALFRED BASKETT, JR., farmer, was born in Shelby County, November 22, 1845, a son of Alfred 
and Matilda (Lee) Baskett. His father was born in Shelby County, a son of Thomas Baskett. 
His mother was also born in Shelby County, a daughter of Tarleton Lee, a native of Virginia. 
Alfred Baskett, Jr., received a common-school education. He has always been engaged in farming 
and stock raising, buying cattle and sheep and fattening them for the market. He owns seventy 
acres of land. On January 7, 1868, he married Susan Ratcliff, of Shelby County, daughter of 
James Ratcliff, and three children blessed their union, all deceased, two infants and Boyce. 
Mr. Baskett and wife are members of the Baptist Church. He is a Master Mason, belonging to the 
Thomas Todd Lodge, No. 429, in which he has been Worshipful Master. He is also a member of the 
Knights of Honor.