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- Philips Family History, Chapter VIII
Rachel Philips (Mrs. Archamack Bass)
Rachel Philips, daughter of John and Mary, was born January 30, 1799, two years after her father and mother migrated to Tennessee, and before the homestead tract was purchased. On June 18, 1822, a marriage bond was executed for the wedding of Rachel Philips to Archamack Bass, signed by Archamack and Sion Bass.
Archamack was born December 29, 1800, one mile north of the present site of Watertown and was a son of Ezekiel Bass and was an elder brother of the Reverend Henry Bass, who married Francina Philips, a sister to Rachel. Both Rachel and Archamack joined the Round Lick Missionary Baptist church, and Archamack was elected church clerk in June 1822. In August 1836, Archamack accepted a call to the Baptist ministry and was ordained by the Round Lick church with the following ministers acting as presbytery: Cantrel Bethel, Joshua Lester, William Dale, H.W. Pickett, John Borum, Thomas P. Moore, John Bond, and Sion Bass.
The writer has been unable to determine the kinship of Archamack and Sion Bass, both Baptist ministers. That they were either brothers or cousins is suggested by the fact that their names appear together frequently in the court and church records of Wilson County. In 1837 a division in the Round Lick church occurred over the mission question, and Archamack and his brother Henry, favored missions and affiliated with the Missionary Baptist Church, while Sion became an outstanding minister in the Primitive Baptist Church.
About the year 1840, Archamack and Rachel moved to DeKalb County, Tennessee, and settled on Smith Fork Creek near Liberty, where they purchased a large farm. Many of their descendants still live in the Liberty community. Archamack died September 19, 1845.
J.H. Grime, in his “History of Middle Tennessee Baptists,” pages 176-177, has the following to say converning the ministry of Archmack Bass:
“His ministerial life was very short, a little less than ten years. He did very little pastoral work, preferring to give his time to destitute sections. He traveled considerably as missionary. He was called to the care of Round Lick Church a short time before his death, but soon resigned to return to his missionary work. He did much of which we can secure no data. He was a great evangelist and witnessed many conversions. Among those he baptized I note Deacon J.S. Womack and Elder William Borum.
“His death in the prime of life and the very zenith of his ministerial work was like the withering of a full-blown rose by an early autumn frost.”
Archamack and Rachel reared eight children: Ezekiel, William Dolphin, John Wiseman, Thomas, Josiah, Sarah, Mary, and Elizabeth. Rachel died November 29, 1853. She and Archamack are buried in the Salem Cemetery at Liberty, Tennessee.
Archamack and Rachel have 314 descendants, 263 of whom are living.
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1799 - 1853 (54 years)