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Female Bessie Mae Basham Click to view Bessie Mae Basham in the family tree

Bessie Mae was born about December 1898 in Virginia.1   Bessie Mae's father was James Samuel Basham and her mother was Annie O'Cundley.  Her paternal grandparents were Jonathan Basham and Lucinda Preston. She had six brothers and two sisters, named James Clarence, Floyd Monroe, Charles W., Carey, Mitchell Garfield, Raymond S., Beulah E. and Lora Dalton.  She was the fifth oldest of the nine children. She had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Benjamin H. and Sallie Lee.  She died on June 4th, 1985 in Roanoke, Roanoke Co., Virginia.1 


Bessie Mae's family with Paul Lester Starkey


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