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- Persons Bass, Newspaper Unknown
Persons Bass was born the 9th of April, 1789, and died the 23d of Sept., 1872, in the eighty-fourth year of his age.
He was born in North Carolina, but raised from a child in Warren county, Ga. He lived several years in Monroe county of this State. In 1838 he came to Chattooga county, where he has lived ever since, honored and revered by all who knew him. He was the father of a large family of children, most of whom are members of some branch of the Christian Church, among whom is our dear brother, Rev. D.P. Bass, who is gratefully remembered by all pastors of this circuit for many years past. The wife and mother went over in advance of her aged companion by a few years, but they are together now. Father Bass was converted to God and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church over 50 years ago. From that time to the day of his death he never faltered in his one purpose, to serve God and get to heaven. He was never in any way involved in Church difficulties. He was a man of independent mind and, as a consequence, of decisive character and indomitable will. These characteristics subjected him to peculiar trails at times, and this was especially so during the war. The United States troops robbed him of everything he had, except his land and houses, as they did well nigh everybody else through this country. Soon after he became sorely afflicted in his eyes, from which he ultimately lost his sight. In the midst of all this physical suffering, in the mysterious providence of God, a band of disguised murderers were allowed to take the life of his youngest boy. In quick succession the helper and comforter, for more than half a century, of his life, under the awful crash, went down quickly to the grave, an there he stood all alone ? nay, not all alone, for God was with him; his faith never failed him. Amid it all the cable to his anchor never gave way, and, glory to God his little bark has outrode the storm and entered the port in safety. His greatest and, indeed, only dread, was the pang of death, all was clear beyond. But God gave him the victory even in this; he passed away without a groan or a struggle. The Saviour gentle lifted the jewel out of the crumbling casket, and attending angels bore it home to the paradise of God.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1789 - 1872 (83 years)