William Marion Bass

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William married Anna Burk on 25 Dec 1889. Anna died on 18 Feb 1937. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Private Paul Leroy Bass was born on 14 Nov 1896 in Boone County, Iowa; died on 18 Nov 1918 in Camp Dodge, Polk County, Iowa; was buried in Bass Point Cemetery, Boone, Boone County, Iowa.
2. Stella Irene Bass was born on 16 Sep 1898; died in 1899; was buried in Bass Point Cemetery, Boone, Boone County, Iowa.
3. Helen Blanche Bass

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1902 Boone County History Book
David M. Bass
David M. Bass, when the tocsin of war sounded it awakened a patriotic response in the hearts of loyal sons throughout the nation. Many men in every section of the north had watched with interest the progress of events that culminated in the hostilities between the North and the South and when they saw that the war was to be no mere holiday affair that it could not be crushed out in a few weeks or even months, they offered their services to the government. Such was the history of Mr. Bass and now he is numbered among the veterans who aided in preserving the Union. His entire life record had been commendable and he deserves mention among the representative citizens of Boone County. 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. David M. Bass was a youth of fourteen when with his parents he left the Hoosier state and came to Iowa. His educational advantages were somewhat limited but his training at farm work was not meager. He assisted in the cultivation and development of his father’s farm and was thus engaged until 1862, when he could no longer content himself at the plow and donned the blue uniform of the nation, as a defender of the Union cause. He became a member of Company K Sixteenth Iowa Infantry, and participated in the battles of Shiloh, Luka, Vicksburg, the siege of Atlanta and was in some hard service under General Sherman. At the battle of Atlanta on July 2, 1864, he was wounded and in April 1865 he received an honorable discharge. When his military career was ended, Mr. Bass returned to his home in Iowa and here engaged in farming on his own account. He had previously purchased a tract of land on 120 acres, but this he afterward sold, and in 1868 he purchased the farm upon which he now lives, and which has been his home for more then 1/3 of a century. It comprises 120 acres of rich land and he has made excellent improvements upon it, so that it is now a model farm of the community. His attention is given to the raising of grain and stock and he makes a specialty of Durham cattle, keeping full blooded stock. In 1866 Mr. Bass was married to Miss Susan Harter, whose birth occurred in Germany, February 14, 1941. Their union has been blessed with six children, who are yet living: William M, Nettie, Laura, Samuel, Grace and Maude. Mr. Bass has served as a member of the school board and he exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democracy. He is connected with Crooks Post No 329, G A R and often delights in recounting the scenes and experiences of army life. He is numbered among the early pioneer settlers in Boone County, has witnessed almost the entire growth of the state and has seen many changes since he arrived here. There was wild game in the county when he took up his abode with in its borders and much of the land was still in its primitive condition as it came from the hand of nature. Today he owns an excellent farm, as a visible evidence of his life of industry. As a citizen he is as true to his duties as when he followed the old flag, manifesting his loyalty to the Union cause by active service upon the battle fields of the south.

David married Susan Harter in 1866. Susan was born on 14 Feb 1841 in Germany; died on 11 Jun 1919; was buried in Bass Point Cemetery, Boone, 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
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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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Edward Bass lived on Cane Creek in Chatham County, North Carolina until about 1800, after which time they moved with his brother, Moses Bass, to Surry County, North Carolina.

Edward married Hannah Moon in 1781. Hannah (daughter of James Moon and Anne Mendenhall) was born in in Chatham County, North Carolina; died about 1836 in Ashe County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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