Thomas Jefferson (Jeff) Bass

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Thomas married Verna Ann (Vernie) Culver on 14 Mar 1901. Verna was born on 4 Oct 1881 in Webster County, Iowa; died on 17 Oct 1968 in Webster County, Iowa; was buried in McGuire Bend Cemetery, Dayton, Webster County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Floyd Bass was born in 1902; died in 1903.
2. Bessie Marie Bass was born on 28 Oct 1903 in Boone County, Iowa; died on 11 Feb 1992 in Texas; was buried in McGuire Bend Cemetery, Dayton, Webster County, Iowa.
3. Lillian Myrtle Bass was born about 1905; died in 2002; was buried in Greenfield Cemetery, Knierim, Calhoun County, Iowa.
4. Opal Sylvia Bass was born on 15 Jan 1907 in Boone County, Iowa; died on 7 Feb 1969 in Boone County, Iowa; was buried in McGuire Bend Cemetery, Dayton, Webster County, Iowa.
5. Arthur Richard Bass was born on 19 Nov 1910 in Iowa; died on 6 Nov 1975; was buried in McGuire Bend Cemetery, Dayton, Webster County, Iowa.
6. Nellie Mae Bass was born on 13 Sep 1912 in Boone County, Iowa; died on 10 Sep 1997; was buried in McGuire Bend Cemetery, Dayton, Webster County, Iowa.
7. Dora Irene Bass was born on 15 Aug 1915 in Webster County, Iowa; died on 12 Apr 2001; was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa.
8. Beulah Ione Bass was born on 10 Jul 1917; died on 26 Dec 1995; was buried in McGuire Bend Cemetery, Dayton, Webster County, Iowa.
9. Dorothy Regina Bass was born on 1 Dec 1920; died on 5 Oct 1960; was buried in McGuire Bend Cemetery, Dayton, Webster County, Iowa.

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Evening Time-Republican, Marshalltown, Iowa, May 8, 1900
Died Of Smallpox
Death From the Disease at Boone

Boone, May 8. ? A report reached the city Monday that a little child of Ed Bass, of Dodge township, had died of smallbox. Another child is seriously ill and death may result. Mr. Bass has a family of nine children, but so far all of them have not been stricken with the disease.
This is the first death reported in the county from smallpox since the contagion appeared, altho it is claimed that probably 200 or more have been afflicted with the disease. Fraser had been the hot-bed of the contagion and from there it has spread not only to all parts of the county but to many adjoin counties. The health officers are now trying to enforce a rigid quarantine, but the disease has become so widespread that it will be a difficult task to stamp it out.


1880 Federal Census of Dodge, Boone County, Iowa (June 11, 1880)
Edward Bass - 36 - Male - IN-IN-IN - Head - Farmer
Cynthia - 31 - Female - PA-PA-PA - Wife - Keeps House
Emma - 15 - Female - IA-IN-PA - Daughter - At home
Frank - 13 - Male - IA-IN-PA - Son
Lizzie - 10 - Female - IA-IN-PA - Daughter
Jesse - 6 - Male - IA-IN-PA - Son
Eddie - 5 - Mae - IA-IN-PA - Son
John - 10/12 - Male - IA-IN-PA - Son (born July)
William Bass - 23 - Male - IN-IN-IN - Brother - Teamster
Douglas Bass - 20 - Male - IN-IN-IN - Brother - Laborer

1900 Federal Census of Dodge Township, Boone County, Iowa (2 Jun 1900)
Edward Bass 58 M Jul 1841 IN IN IN Head Farmer
Cintha 52 F Sep 1847 PA PA PA Wife
William 27 M Oct 1872 IN IN PA Son Well Digger
John 20 M Jul 1879 IN IN PA Son Well Digger
Jessie 18 M Oct 1881 IN IN PA Son Farm Labor
Grace 15 F Mar 1885 IN IN PA Daughter At School
Nellie 13 F Dec 1886 IN IN PA Daughter At School
Mathew 10 M Sep 1889 IN IN PA Son At School
& 1 Boarder
(Married 35 years, 12 children, 10 living)


Boone County Democrat
December 20, 1907
Edward Bass
Edward Bass, a prominent pioneer resident of the county, passed away at the early hour Saturday morning; December 14, 1907 at the home of his daughter Mrs. Miller Harden, in Yell Township. He had been in ill health for some time with paralysis and death came as a welcome release from his sufferings. The funeral services were held from the Baptist Church at Mineral Ridge at 1:20 o'clock Sunday afternoon, conducted by the Reverend J.C. Crawford, of this city and attended by a large concourse of old time friends of the deceased. Burial was in the Mineral Ridge Cemetery. Edward Bass was born in Indiana 64 years ago. He came to Boone County in the early 1850's and had resided on a farm near Mineral Ridge until a few years ago when his wife died. Since that time he had made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Harden. He leaves to mourn his death; Jess, John and Mathew; and daughters; Mrs. Emma Harden; Mrs. Elizabeth McFarland; Mrs. Grace Osborn and Mrs. Nellie Evans; also five brothers; Mathew and John of Portland, Oregon.; William of South Dakota; and Thomas and Douglas of Mineral Ridge.

Edward married Cynthia Christena Spring on 25 Aug 1864 in Webster County, Iowa. Cynthia was born on 5 Sep 1848; died on 9 Sep 1904; was buried in Mineral Ridge Cemetery, Ridgeport, Boone County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1880 Federal Census of Dodge, Boone County, Iowa (June 11, 1880)
Edward Bass - 36 - Male - IN-IN-IN - Head - Farmer
Cynthia - 31 - Female - PA-PA-PA - Wife - Keeps House
Emma - 15 - Female - IA-IN-PA - Daughter - At home
Frank - 13 - Male - IA-IN-PA - Son
Lizzie - 10 - Female - IA-IN-PA - Daughter
Jesse - 6 - Male - IA-IN-PA - Son
Eddie - 5 - Mae - IA-IN-PA - Son
John - 10/12 - Male - IA-IN-PA - Son (born July)
William Bass - 23 - Male - IN-IN-IN - Brother - Teamster
Douglas Bass - 20 - Male - IN-IN-IN - Brother - Laborer

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1840 Federal Census of Grayson, Owen County, Indiana
Jesse Bass 0010-0010
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Jesse Bass Obituary
Died at his residence, in Boone County, near Mineral Ridge, June 29th, 1885, Jesse Bass, of complicated disease. He has been a constant sufferer for more than 19 years, and since April last has been mostly confined to his bed. He leaves his aged wife and large circle of relatives and many friends to mourn his death. He came to this county about 31 years ago and has lived here with the exception of some six years, which he spent in the southwest part of the state. He united with the Mineral Ridge Baptist Church over 17 years ago. He was ready to go. His funeral was largely attended.

Jesse married Mary Elizabeth (Polly) Landreth on 6 Feb 1840 in Owen County, Indiana. Mary was born on 26 Dec 1822 in North Carolina; died on 5 Aug 1886 in Boone County, Iowa; was buried in Mineral Ridge Cemetery, Ridgeport, Boone County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Death of Edward Bass
Boone County Democrat 1882
Last Friday morning at about eight o'clock Edward Bass departed this life at his residence near this city.
Mr. Bass was one of the early settlers of this county, and has been known far and near as Uncle Ed Bass. His home was one of the land marks to the traveler going still farther west, and known as Bass Point, on the old Fort Dodge and Fort Des Moines Road.
Mr. Bass was born in Surry County, North Carolina, in the year 1789. His father bore the same name and was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, participating in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and many other of the important contests of the times that tried men's souls. And there are persons still living here who have heard the old man relate the stories of the many battles and skirmishes in which he was engaged in that conflict. After peace was declared the old man settled in North Carolina, where he spent the remainder of his days.
The subject of this memoir was married at the age of twenty-five to Mary Saffley, and soon thereafter removed to Ash County, North Carolina, where he lived until 1884, when he removed to Owen County, Indiana, where he resided until in the spring of 1854, when he removed to this county, settling on almost the spot where he died. The log cabin is still preserved a few feet in the rear of the present dwelling. Mr Bass was the father of ten children, seven of whom, with their aged mother, survive him. They are Jesse Bass, of Fremont county; Martha Shaffer, relict of the late Peter Shaffer; James Bass, of Webster county; Matilda Cole, wife of Matthew Cole, of Ridgeport; John Bass, and David Bass, of this county, and Sarah Landrith, of Harrison county, this state. He has one sister, Mrs. Racheal Landrith, of Arch County, North Carolina, still living. Mr. Bass's father died in 1840 at the age of ninety-six.
We might say that Mr. Bass died of old age. Nature had given away to decay in obedience to the will of God that it is appointed for men to die. He has been hale and apparently hearty up to a few months before his death.
Mr. Bass was a perfect type of our fathers in nearly every respect. It is probable that he never went to school a day in his life. He was industrious, economical, and as Reverend Lewis Doran remarked at his burial, "a man that attends strictly to his own business". He was of even temper, and although he has lived on the frontier nearly all his life, and in localities where most of the controversies were settled by physical combat, Mr. Bass never was in a fight, and never had a serious quarrel with any one, and never but one in a law suit, which was a small matter before a neighboring justice of the peace. He never professed any particular religious faith, but believed and followed the maxim that honesty is the best policy. He never wronged any one, and no man ever could truthfully say that Uncle Ed Bass had malaused him. His house was always a home for those who went about doing good, and his house was the church of the neighborhood for many years, both in Indiana and this state, in those days when there were no churches.
One by one these old men are disappearing from among us. They have lived to see the times and customs change so fearfully as to scarce be able to recognize this as the world in which they were born.
Railroads, telegraphs, and steam boats, have obliterated distances. And the whole northwest that was Indian ground when Mr Bass was married, is covered with cities and dotted with farms, the like of which could scarce be dreamed of in his youth. These old men preferred quiet and economy to bustle and speculation, but in the busy world of today there is no rest except under the sod of the valley.

The Biographical Record of Webster County, Iowa
James Bass
Prominent among the citizens of Webster County who have witnessed the marvelous development of this section of the state in the last half century, and how have, by honest toil and industry succeeded in acquiring a competence, and are now able to spend the sunset of life in quiet and retirement, is the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch. For many years he was actively engaged in agricultural pursuits, but is now living a retired life in Dayton.
Mr. Bass was born in North Carolina April 27, 1832, a son of Edward and Mary (Saffley) Bass, who were of German descent. His paternal grandfather fought for American independence in the Revolutionary War, and participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill. From North Carolina the family removed to Indiana when our subject was three years old, and in 1855 his parents came to Iowa, purchasing a farm of two hundred and forty acres of land in Boone county and later forty acres of timber land. The father, was was born January 17, 1789, died February 3, 1883, and the mother passed away July 15, 1886.
This worthy couple were the parents of the following named children: Jesse married Polly Landreth and both died in Boone County; Patsey became the wife of Fennel Landreth and both are now deceased; Hannah married Thomas Landreth and they spent their last days in Webster County; Matilda is the widow of Matt Cole and makes her home at Mineral Ridge; Betsey married David Spark, of Boone County, and both are now deceased; James is the next of the family; John married Maggie Getzman and lives in Ogden, Boone County; Sarah first married Jesse Maguire and second David Landreth and died at Missouri Valley Junction; David married Maggie Conrad and they reside near Boone; and Rachel, deceased, was the wife Cyrus Haller.

1901 Boone County History Book
John Bass
The history of the pioneer settlement of Boone County would not be complete without an account of the life of Mr. Bass, who from the early development of this portion of the state has been a prominent factor in its establishment, growth and improvement. When the county was cut off from the advantages and conveniences of the older east by lack of railroad communications, he made his way thither and through a long period was identified with agricultural interests, reclaiming a tract of wild land for purposes of cultivation. He arrived in the year 1854, coming to Iowa from Indiana. He is a native, however, of Surrey County, North Carolina, and a son of Edward and Pollie (Sackley) Bass. His father was a native of Kentucky but removed thence to North Carolina, where he remained until 1835, when he became a resident of Owen County, Indiana, There he engaged in farming until 1854, when he came with his family to Boone County, Iowa and purchased farm two miles north of Boonesboro. The tract was then partially covered with native timber but he cleared away the trees and carried on agricultural pursuits there until his death, which occurred in 1884, when he was eighty-four years of age. Three sons and a daughter of the family are still living: James, now a retired farmer of Dayton, Iowa; Tillie, the widow of M. R. Cole, a resident of Boone County; David M. a farmer residing near Boone, and John of this review.

1902 Boone County History Book
David M. Bass
A native of Indiana, Mr. Bass was born in Owen County, on September 6, 1840 his parents, being Edward and Mary (Bessler) Bass, both of whom were born in North Carolina. In the year 1854 the father became a resident of Boone County, Iowa, and purchased a farm near the one upon which our subject now resides. He was a very industrious and hard working man and always devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. From the time he arrived in Iowa until his death he remained continuously upon one farm, there dying at the age of 82 years. His wife survived him and almost 92 years of age at the time of her demise. In their family were ten children, who reached years of maturity, while four are still living: Mrs. Matilda Cole, James B, John and David M. Those who have passed away are Jessie, Sarah, Hannah, Betsey, Martha and Rachael.

1840 Federal Census of Grayson Township, Owen County, Indiana
Edward Bass 2100001-1211001
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Edward married Mary (Polly) Saffley. Mary was born on 5 Sep 1800 in Surry County, North Carolina; died on 15 Jul 1886 in Boone County, Iowa; was buried in Bass Point Cemetery, Boone, Boone County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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