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William Jefferson Bass

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William Jefferson Bass

Birth
Marion County, Mississippi, USA
Death
19 Oct 1916 (aged 73)
Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi, USA
Plot
Lot 406
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Source:
Bass Family History by Ivan Ernest Bass, published 1955, pp 59-60
Edited by Ron Roberts

William Jefferson Bass, son of Jeremiah and Sarah E. (Phillips) Bass, was born at Mount Carmel, [Marion County], Mississippi, October 8, 1843, and died at Hattiesburg, [Forrest County], Mississippi, October 19, 1917. During the Civil War, he served as a Private and later as Sergeant of Company G, 7th Mississippi Infantry. This company was known as Goode's Rifles of Lawrence County and was under the command of Capt. E. J. Goode. The Regiment was organized September 25, 1861, and in December of that year was stationed at Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi; it then started for Tennessee but was recalled at Corinth, Mississippi, and assigned under General A. S. Johnson to the "High Pressure" Brigade of General J. R. Chalmers. The Regiment, under Lt. Colonel H. Mayson, participated in the Battle of Shiloh and many other engagements. Mr. Bass had fours of service in the Civil War and was wounded at Atlanta, Georgia.

William Jefferson Bass and Lou Elizabeth Webb, daughter of Walter and Courtney Webb, were married at Columbia, [Marion County], Mississippi, August 22 1865; they resided at various times at Columbia, Rawls Spring, Eatonville, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where Mr. Bass engaged in farming and in later life in hotel management.

The following children were born to this first marriage of William Jefferson Bass:

1 Virgil Muratt Bass
2 Mary Martina Bass
3 Henry Webb Bass
4 Thomas Carroll Bass
5 Homer Albert Bass
6 Theodore Ernest Bass
7 Walter Liston Bass
8 Frank Love Bass
9 Laura Myrtle Bass
10 Robert Ford Bass
11 Mattie Alma Bass

William Jefferson Bass married, second, after the death of his first wife, Lou Jane Robertson; they had no children of their own, but adopted a son:

1 William Rex Bass

Source:
Bass Family History by Ivan Ernest Bass, published 1955, pp 59-60
Edited by Ron Roberts

William Jefferson Bass, son of Jeremiah and Sarah E. (Phillips) Bass, was born at Mount Carmel, [Marion County], Mississippi, October 8, 1843, and died at Hattiesburg, [Forrest County], Mississippi, October 19, 1917. During the Civil War, he served as a Private and later as Sergeant of Company G, 7th Mississippi Infantry. This company was known as Goode's Rifles of Lawrence County and was under the command of Capt. E. J. Goode. The Regiment was organized September 25, 1861, and in December of that year was stationed at Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi; it then started for Tennessee but was recalled at Corinth, Mississippi, and assigned under General A. S. Johnson to the "High Pressure" Brigade of General J. R. Chalmers. The Regiment, under Lt. Colonel H. Mayson, participated in the Battle of Shiloh and many other engagements. Mr. Bass had fours of service in the Civil War and was wounded at Atlanta, Georgia.

William Jefferson Bass and Lou Elizabeth Webb, daughter of Walter and Courtney Webb, were married at Columbia, [Marion County], Mississippi, August 22 1865; they resided at various times at Columbia, Rawls Spring, Eatonville, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where Mr. Bass engaged in farming and in later life in hotel management.

The following children were born to this first marriage of William Jefferson Bass:

1 Virgil Muratt Bass
2 Mary Martina Bass
3 Henry Webb Bass
4 Thomas Carroll Bass
5 Homer Albert Bass
6 Theodore Ernest Bass
7 Walter Liston Bass
8 Frank Love Bass
9 Laura Myrtle Bass
10 Robert Ford Bass
11 Mattie Alma Bass

William Jefferson Bass married, second, after the death of his first wife, Lou Jane Robertson; they had no children of their own, but adopted a son:

1 William Rex Bass

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