Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Basnight, Henry Seaton 1935
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THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 03-15-1935, P. 5
HENRY SEATON BASNIGHT

   Henry Seaton Basnight of Ahoskie, N.C., prominently identified with the 
business life of North Carolina, and well known in that State and Virginia, died 
Monday morning at 10 o’clock at a Norfolk hospital, where he had been a patient 
for about three weeks. His death was attributed to complications following an 
operation for gall-stones. He was 66 years old.

   Mr. Basnight was president of the Basnight-Garrett Furniture and Undertaking 
company of Ahoskie, and the W.H. Basnight Wholesale Grocery Company of Ahoskie, 
and a partner in the Basnight Peanut Storage Company, Suffolk. He also owned 
seven or eight farms in the eastern section of North Carolina.

   He was a son of the late Thomas and Mrs. Mary Basnight of Creswell, N.C., and 
is survived by a son, W.H. Basnight, Ahoskie; two daughters, Mrs. Hal J. Lyon 
and Miss Ethel Basnight of Franklin; two grandsons, Howard and Ralph Basnight; a 
granddaughter, Halouise Lyon of Franklin; a brother, Dr. Thomas G. Basnight, of 
Stokes, N.C.,and two sisters, Mrs. Ida Byrum and Mrs. B.J. Rhodes, of Edenton, 
N.C.

   The body was forwarded to Ahoskie Monday afternoon, and funeral services were 
held there on Wednesday afternoon.


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