Holland Middleton Bass

Family/Spouse: Christian Ward. Christian was born on 21 Oct 1847 in Rocky Bayou, Walton County, Florida; died on 3 Oct 1917 in Walton County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Bennett Bass was born on 14 Dec 1871 in Alabama; died on 15 Apr 1965 in Holt, Okaloosa County, Florida.
2. Nancy Jane Middleton Bass was born on 9 Mar 1873 in Walton County, Florida; died on 13 Nov 1947 in Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama.
3. Catharine ELizabetyh Bass was born on 10 Feb 1877 in Walton County, Florida; died on 23 Jul 1909 in Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama.
4. Isabelle Bass was born on 2 Jan 1880 in Florida; died on 14 Aug 1965 in Dorcus, Okaloosa County, Florida.
5. Mary Alice Bass was born on 17 Sep 1883 in Andalusia, Covington County, ALabama; died on 23 Jun 1964 in Holt, Okaloosa County, Florida.
6. James Dallas Bass was born in 17 Sep1883 in Andalusia, Covington County, ALabama; died on 26 Jan 1976 in Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida.
7. Holland Middleton Bass, Jr. was born on 29 Apr 1885 in Covington County, Alabama; died on 4 Mar 1973 in Brewton, Escambia County, Alabama.
8. Joseph Alexander Bass was born on 14 Apr 1888 in Alabama; died on 25 May 1984.
9. John Riley Bass was born on 8 Mar 1890; died on 26 Sep 1987.
10. Stacy Bibner Bass was born on 21 Apr 1892 in Andalusia, Covington County, ALabama; died on 21 Aug 1993 in Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama; was buried in Shady Hill Cemetery, Covington County, Alabama.
11. Martha Christian Bass was born on 18 Jul 1894 in Andalusia, Covington County, ALabama; died on 11 Feb 1989 in Crestview, Okaloosa County, Florida.

Notes:

Descendants of Hogg Family led Eventful War-era Lives
The Andalusia Star-News, Saturday, May 24, 1997 ? Page 5A (Excerpt)

Elizabeth Hogg was born c1818, and she married Bennett B. Bass around 1836 while they were living in the Conecuh River community of Covington County. Bennett Bass was born in Georgia, c1808. His father, Wilson Bass, had moved to what is now Covington County before 1820, and settled in the Conecuh River community.
Bennett Bass was a very industrious young man, and he quickly established himself as one of Covington County?s largest land owners and stock farmers, but he never owned any slaves.
The 1850 Agricultural Census of Covington County showed that Bennett Bass owned 60 acres of improved land and 40 acres of unimproved land. At that time, he owned four horses, 100 milk cows, two oxen, 100 other cattle, 13 sheep and 100 hogs. In 1849, he harvested 400 bushels of corn and 200 pounds of rice. BY 1860, he had increased his land holdings to 2,200 acres with 115 of those acres being cleared. He then owned three horses, six mules, 60 milk cows, 10 oxen, 220 other cattle, 300 sheep, and 200 hogs. In 1859, he harvested 400 bushels of corn, two bales of cotton and 1,000 pounds of wool.
Bennett Bass was always opposed to the secessionist movement and in politics he was a strong supporter of Alfred Holley. During the Civil War he moved most of his livestock to Walton County, Fla., and was accused by the Confederate Army of selling cattle to the Union Forces at Pensacola. In March, 1864, the Confederate Army was ordered into Covington County, Ala. and Walton County, Fla. with orders to confiscate all the cattle owned by Alfred Holley, Bennett Bass and other Union supporters. The Army was also given orders to meet out summary punishment to anyone resisting their actions.
On March 7, 1864, a Confederate force of approximately 400 men moved into Covington County, with orders to round up deserters, conscript resistors, and cattle owned by Union sympathizers. They first tried to capture Alfred Holley, but he escaped and went to the home of Bennett Bass in Walton County. The soldiers then moved into Walton County, and within two weeks they had captured and hung seven citizens of that county who were supposedly resisting arrest.
On March 18, 1864, the Confederate forces caught Alfred Holley and five members of the Bass family who were in a skiff trying to cross Boggy Bayou and get to the Union Line. The soldiers fired on the men in the skiff, killing two of Bennet Bass? sons, Wilson and James Hilliard; and his brother, William Riley Bass.
It should be pointed out that William Riley ad Wilson Bass were deserters from the Confederate Army, but James Hilliard Bass was only sixteen years old at the time. Before this incident occurred, another of Bennett Bass?s sons, Holland M. Bass, and his nephew, Elias Ramar, as well as the youngest son of Alfred Holley had already enlisted in Company B, of the 1st Florida Union Cavalry Regiment. Thus the victims were not entirely innocent.
Bennett Bass remained in Walton County, Fla, after the War and he died there in the 1870s. After her husband?s death, Elizabeth (Hogg) Bass returned to Covington County and when she died she was reported to have been buried in the Conecuh River Baptist Church Cemetery, but there is no marker on her grave.
Bennett and Mary Elizabeth (Hogg) Bass reared the following ten children: Mary b 10/12/1838, m1 William Teel, m2 John Wilson Ramar; Wilson b 2/17/1840, m Elizabeth Jane Teel, killed on 3/18/1864; Nancy Jane b 3/2/1842, m James Teel; Levina, b 1/23/1843; Holland Middleton, b 12/21/1845, m. Christine Ward; James Hilliard, b 4/25/1847, killed on 3/18/1864; Bennett B. Jr., b 1/13/1849, m1 Julia Paget, M2 Mary F. Paget; Elizabeth b 10/14/1850, m Jacob D. Ramar; Martha Jane b 2/13/1852, m. George Parrish; and William Riley, b 5/18/1854, m Nancy Jane Ward. Eight of these ten children gave Bennett and Elizabeth Bass 66 grand children.
Many of Bennett Bass?s children and grand children reared families in the southwestern part of Covington County, and hundreds of their descendants, and possibly as many as 1,000 currently reside in the county.




Charleston Mercury, South Carolina, Monday, December 19, 1859
Matrimony By Wholesale

In the Southwestern (Ala.) Baptist, we find the following announcement:
?About eight miles southeast from Andalusia, on Thursday, October 16th, were married at the residence of B.B. Bass, by G.A. Snowden, Judge of Probate, James Teel to Nancy Bass, William Teel to Mary Bass, and Wilson Bass to Jane Teel; James, William, and Jane Teel, are all sons and daughter of John and Ann Teel; Wilson, Nancy and Mary Bass, are all daughters and son of B.B. and Elizabeth Bass, all of Covington County, Alabama. The above connubial attachments were all formed, and but one ceremony delivered ? a nuptial phenomenon perhaps unequalled in this State or the South.?

Bennett married Mary Elizabeth Hogg. Mary was born in 1818; died in 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Wilson is first found 17 Apr 1809 living in Pulaski County, Georgia where he appears as a witness on a deed by Thomas Franklin, who also later is found living in Covingtgon County, AL. (Wikitree) He appears on a jury list in Pulaski County in 1809, 1810, 1811 1812 and 1814. He also appears in the Pulaski County estate of William A. Harper.
He appears as a Corporal from Pulaski County, Georgia in the War of 1812 on a muster roll dated 14 Aug 1813. (From Georgia Military Record Book 1799-1839.
By 1824 he has migrated to Alabama where he purchases 240 acres along the Conecuh River in Conecuh and Covington Counties, Alabama.
Note census shows several more children than what is listed below.

1830 Federal Census of Covington County, Alabama
Wilson Bass 0100101-210101
1m5-10,1m20-30,1m40-50,2fU5,1f5-10,1f15-20,1f30-40

1840 Federal Census of Covington County, Alabama
Wilson Bass 00010001-111101
1m15-20,1m50-60,1fU5,1f5-10,1f10-15,1f15-20,1f30-40

Wilson married Susannah. Susannah was born in 1790; died in 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]