Jessie was born about 1890 in Norfolk, New York to Edward Bastian and Orpha Pinney.[1] She died at age twenty of tuburculosis, having never married. She became a school techer but was only able to teach school for one year. When she passed away, she was buried in Bixby Cemetery, Norfolk, St. Lawrence County, New York. She shares a grave marker with her parents. Find A Grave: Memorial #115559505
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"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSGS-JZT : accessed 17 August 2015), Jessie M Bastian in household of E E Bastian, Norfolk Township, Election District 1, St. Lawrence, New York, United States; citing sheet 5A, family 96, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,157.