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John H. Bass
John H. Bass, Shubuta, Clarke county, Miss. John Bass, father of John H. Bass, of Shubuta, Clarke county, Miss., was born in Marlborough district, S. C., in 1783, and was a United States soldier in the war of 1812. He was married to Miss Mary Harris, of South Carolina, and they had nine children: Elizabeth, James S., J. W., Sarah A., M.A., M. J., Anna Moselle, D. Catherine and John, all of whom, except two, survive, and all of whom, except one, are residents of Mississippi. Mr. Bass died in 1872; Mrs. Bass about 1838. He was a successful planter and a charitable citizen, benevolent to a fault, and in every way a model man. John H. Bass, our subject, was born June 5, 1831, in Marion district, S.C., spent his early life on the farm, and had limited educational advantages. In 1861 he enlisted at Columbus, Miss., in the regiment commanded by Colonel Barry. Owing to ill health, though always ready to go, he was compelled to remain out of active service. How: ever, he was honored with the position of lieutenant of a home company. Mr. Bass began life for himself September 5, 1865, the date of his marriage, and located in Clarke county, Miss., three and one-half miles from Shubuta. When he came out of the war he had in money only $1.25. He purchased land in 1871, and by constant accretion he now owns over two thousand acres of the average land of Clarke county, and grows cotton, corn, oats, etc., employing about forty men and two hundred and ten mules in its culture. His annual yield of cotton is about one hundred and twenty-five bales. His plantation is self-sustaining. He uses some commercial fertilizer, and farms intensively. On his plantation is found some longleaf pine and some fine hardwoods. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, is a democrat, though once a whig, and is a Methodist, his family also belonging to that church. He was married to Miss M. W. Sherin, of North Carolina, though at the time of their mar riage a resident of Lowndes county, Miss. She is a daughter of E. E. Sherin. The Sherins are one of the first families of North Carolina. By this marriage Mr. Bass had three children: Joseph A., Miss M. E. and an infant who died unnamed. Joseph A. died in April, 1885, at Shubuta. Mrs. Bass died in 1885, and Mr. Bass later married Mrs. Anna (Morrison) McCloud, of Clarke county, Miss., a daughter of Benjamin J. Morrison, who is a merchant of De Soto, and who was a lieutenant in the Confederate service in the late war. Mr. Bass is interested in schools, churches, etc., and has ever been a liberal contributor to all worthy interests.
The following statement was found among the papers of John H. Bass of Clarke County, Mississippi.
?I, J.H. Bass, son of Mary and John Bass, was born in South Carolina, Marion District, the fifth of June, 1831. When I was young, about 3 years and six months of age, my father and mother moved to Barbour County, Alabama, near Louisville (1835). My mother died in 1842. In 1849, we moved to Clarke County, Mississppi; father died. I married Mary Virginia Shears and we were happy for twenty years; she died and I married Anna, a widow.?
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