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The Sumner County Standard, Wellington, Kansas, Thursday, 28 December 1893
Found Dead
Thos. E. Bass, a Resident of Rosedale, the Victim of Heart Disease
A man named Thos. Bass, whose home was in southeast part of Rosedale, met his death by heart disease on the farm of Samuel Fox, about three miles southeast of Wellington, early yesterday afternoon. He had a wagon and team and drove out to get a load of straw, following the example of a number of persons who are in the habit of buying straw, hauling it into town and selling it again on the street at and advanced price. Mr. Fox showed him the straw and left him to load it on the wagon, while he cut some corn some distance away. About half an hour afterward he spoke to Bass across the field and after speaking several times and receiving no reply, went over to the straw stack and found Bass lying down near it. An examination revealed the fact that he was dead and had evidently died of heart disease.
Mr. Fox came to town and the county attorney, C.J. Garver, was notified. He did not think it necessary that an inquest should be held on the body of the deceased, the cost being considerable and there being no evidence to show that it was other than a case of failure of the heart to perform its functions. An undertaker went out and brought in the body, which was taken to his late home.
When Bass was left by Mr. Fox he was engaged in forking the straw from the outside of an old stack, to throw away the straw which had been spoiled by exposure to the weather. He had cleared away, also, a place to drive his team close to the stack, and his body was found on this cleared space, the pitchfork under him, his face resting on the ground. He had not loaded any of the straw.
He was about 51 years old and leaves a wife and four children, the oldest child being about twelve years of age and the youngest but three months.
The funeral service was held in the Christian church at 3 o?clock this afternoon, Elder Martin preaching the sermon, interment being made in Prairie Lawn cemetery.
1850 Federal Census of District #21, Iroquois County, Illinois (April 23, 1850)
Thomas R. Bass - Mulatto - 32 - Male - North Carolina - Farmer 200
Polly A. - Mulatto - 31 - Female - North Carolina
William - Mulatto - 9 - Male - Indiana
Thomas J. - Mulatto - 7 - Male - Indiana
Sion A. - Mulatto - 6 - Male - Illinois
John W. - Mulatto - 3 Male - Illinois
Sarah E. - Mulatto - 1 - Female - Illinois
Thomas Graham - Mulatto - 22 - Male - Indiana - Farmer
John T. - Mulatto - 19 - Male - Indiana - Farmer
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