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- History of Davidson County, Tennessee (Excerpt)
(1880)
On the south side of Broad Street, on the Wilson Spring Branch, Peter Bass, the father of John M. Bass, owned a large tannery, and the house where he lived and where John M. Bass was born still stands there. Peter Bass tanned leather on shares for the entire community, one-half for the other, the leather to be delivered twelve months after receiving the hides, either at the tanyard or the leather-store on market Street.
About the year 1816, Peter Bass and Thomas Shackleford, after selling all they could dispose of, moved to St. Louis by water. Being prominent mane, a large crowd assembled at the wharf to see them start in barges down the river, Missouri being considered farther off then than California is now.
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Bassett Family Association Database
Abt 1839 - 1840 (1 year)
d. 23 Jul 1865, Forest Hill, Boone County, Missouri