Morris, Josie Bassett McKnight Wells, interviewee

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Josie Bassett was born in 1870 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Mr. and Mrs. Amos Herbert Beck Bassett. Her family moved to Brown's Park, Utah, in 1877. Josie married three times, the first to Jim McKnight, secondly to Emerson Wells, and thirdly to Ben Morris. Her first two husbands died, and she divorced the third. In 1919, Josie moved to Vernal where she spent most of her life.

From the guide to the Josie Bassett McKnight Wells Morris oral history interview, 1959, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)

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