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- Wilmington Journal, North Carolina, June 2, 1864
Tribute of Respect
Departed this life, in the hands of the enemy, our beloved brother, Lewis Uriah Bass, and son of L.G. and Mary Bass, aged 16 years, 9 months and 8 days. Although he being young, felt it his duty to forsake father and mother and all that is near to man at home and to go and obey his country?s call to meet the invading foe, and to contend for his rights and privielges. He entered service two years ago in this month (May) where he continued faithful at his post until the Gettysburg fight, where he was unfortunately captured by the enemy and carried to Fort Delaware where he was kept for about seven months, then carried to Point Lookouit and continued until he was attacked with pneumonia, which terminated his existence in this unfriendly world, on the 7th of March, 1864. Thus has fallen a patriotic youth, a friend to his country and dutiful son. Although it is painful to our hearts to think he was called away while in the hands of his enemy, where there was no friends, father nor mother to console him in all his troubles and afflictions. But the Lord?s will must be done and not ours, therefore we bow in humble admission to his will, believing that our loss is his eternal gaijn. We believe that he obeyed that Divine injunction to Remember his Creator in the days of his youth. In October, 1860, he connected himself with the Baptist Church at Beaverdam, duplin County, N.C., and lived the life of a Christian, so far as we know, until death took him to rest from all his sufferings. On the morning of the resurrection he will arise triumphant over al lhis enemies with a body fashioned like unto the glorious body of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, then to enjoy that rest that is prepared for the people of God.
Asleep in Jesus, far from thee
Thy kindred and there graves may be;
But thine is still a blessed sleep
From which none ever wakes to weep.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1847 - 1864 (17 years)
, d. 6 Aug 1886, Kenansville, Duplin County, North Carolina