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- Columbus Weekly Enquirer, Georgia, Tuesday, August 11, 1857
Valuable Plantation and Lands
At Executor?s Sale
Under an order granted by the Probate Court of Russell county, Alabama, I will proceed to sell the Plantation and Lands belonging to the estate of Hartwell Bass, deceased, situate on and near the old Federal Road, 12 miles south-west from Columbus, near the residence of Turner Moreland, on Big Uchee Creek. The Plantation consist of 1,480 acres of Land, lying on each side of the Uchee, and is excellent Land ? with about 700 acres opened and in a fine state of cultivation. The Residence is a fine new Two Story Building, consisting of 8 commodious rooms, with all other necessary outbuildings, and is situated on a high, sandy ridge; good water, and undoubted health. No place in this section possesses superior advantages. The sale is for a distribution among the legatees, and will take place on the premises on the 2d Monday, the 12th day of October next.
Terms, one-half payable the 25th of December, 1857, and other half of purchase money due on the 25th Dec. 1858, with notes and two approved securities.
All persons desiring to purchase will please call and examine for themselves.
Elizabeth Bass, Ex?x. July 28, 1857
Greensville County, Virginia Biographies
Hartwell Bass
Bass, Hartwell, Planter, was born November 10, 1797, on his father's plantation in Greensville County, Va., and died on his plantation, ten miles west of Ft. Mitchell, on Old Federal Road, in Russell County, March 11, 1843; son of Sterling and Elizabeth (Dupree) Bass, sr., the former, an only son, originally from England to Greensville County, Va., prior to the American Revolution and the latter of South Carolina. Sterling Bass after his first wife's death married a Miss Gregory and Mrs. Sarah Toney Oates, of Montgomery, wife of former Gov. William C. Oates, is a granddaughter of this union. Hartwell Bass' grandparents on the maternal side were Daniel and Elizabeth Dupree, French Huguenots who came about 1700 to South Carolina. Daniel Dupree, Jr., a son, married Fannie Calhoun of the famous family of that name in that state. The parents of Hartwell Bass were well educated for that day, and it was from them that most of his education was secured. He was a planter, mill man and large slave holder. He was a Whig and a Methodist. Married: April 21, 1825, in Hancock County, Ga., to Elizabeth, daughter of Turner and Rebecca (Sledge) Mooreland, formerly of Dinwiddie County, Va., who had lately come to Georgia and who about 1830, moved to Russell County. Children: 1. Elizabeth Dupree, born, 1828, m. Patrick Henry Perry, five children, died 1889; 2. Joseph Allen, born 1831, died 1841; Demetrius Mooreland, born, 1834, died from wound received while member of Texas cavalry. C. S. Army, 1862; Rebecca Ann Sledge, born 1836, died, 1843; Mary Rivers, born 1839, died 1843: Martha Turner, born 1841, m. first Stephen Clements Greene, one child, second Peter Alexander Greene, no children, died in 1902. Last residence: Russell County. [Source: History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 3; By Thomas McAdory Owen, Mrs. Marie (Bankhead) Owen; publ. 1921; Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack]
1830 Federal Census of Capt. William Robys District, Putnam County, Georgia
Hartwell Bass 001001-10001
1m10-15,1m30-40,1fU5,1f20-30
1840 Federal Census of Russell County, Alabama
Hartwell Bass 0200001-201001
2m5-10,1m40-50,2fU5,1f10-15,1f30-40
1850 Federal Census of Russell County, Alabama (28 Dec 1850)
Elizabeth Bass 45 F Georgia
Benjamin 16 M Georgia
Martha 8 F Alabama
Patrick Perry 27 M Georgia Mechanic
Elizabeth 22 F Georgia
Henry 3 M Alabama
Thomas 1 M Alabama
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