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- 1880 Federal Census of Miami, Clermont County, Ohio (June 7, 1880)
J.Q. Bass - 34 - Male - OH-MA-OH - Head - Grocer
Sousie - 30 - Female - KY-AL-MA - Wife - Keeps House
Samuel - 7 - Male - OH-OH-KY - Son
William - 5 - Male - OH-OH-KY - Son
Henry - 3 - Male - OH-OH-KY - Son
George - 1 - Male - OH-OH-KY - Son
Find-a-Grave Obituary
William Rybolt Bass
William R. (Billy) Bass, prominent Cincinnati insurance man and nationally known athlete, died yesterday at his home, 322 Harvard Avenue, Terrace Park. He was 77 years old. In 1898, he coached University of Kentucky to its only unbeaten, untied, unscored-on football season. Mr. Bass had been associated with the Union Central Life Insurance Company since 1916. He was active with the company at the time of his death. He was a director of the Milford Building Loan and Savings Company.
A versatile athlete, Billy declined many offers to play for national league baseball teams. He pitched for the Avondale Saturday Baseball League from 1899 thru 1912. In exhibition games with the Boston Braves and the Cincinnati Reds, he never was beaten badly, and sometimes shut out the big-leaguers. Billy told Magee Adams, Enquirer Radio Editor and longtime friend, that when he started playing football, no one wore helmets. "They just let their hair grow long," he said. "The first helmet I wore was an old felt hat with the brim cut off". At the 1941 National Congree of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity in French Lick, Indiana, Mr. Bass demonstrated golfing prowess. Nearly 70 years old, he toured the strange course in an even 80, to lead all delegates and undergraduates of the fraternity. A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, he helped install the ATO fraternity chapter there. He was also one of the founders of the fraternity chapter at the University of Cincinnati. At the Founders Day dinner in 1942, he received the Golden Circle Certificate, emblematic of 50 years of service. Mr. Bass' wife Myra Greene Bass died last May at the age of 81. The couple had no children. He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Edna Bass Scott, and two brothers George Bass, Yukon, Oklahoma, and Harry Bass, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A nephew, John Quincy Bass, is a member of the faculty of the College of Music. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Milford Methodist Church. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery, Milford.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1874 - 1951 (77 years)