Doctor Bass

1812 - 1853  (41 years)

• Name	Doctor Bass
  Birth	12 May 1812	North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  _UID	8714A8BC3635C34DA63024118D6335812B6F
  Death	4 Oct 1853	Chambersville County, Arkansas
  Burial	Chambersville Cemetery, Chambersville, Calhoun County, Arkansas
  Notes	1840 Federal Census of Dotsons District, Harris County, Georgia D. Bass 00002-20002 2 males 20-30, 2 females under 5, 2 females 20-30 1850 Federal Census of Moro Township, Dallas County, Arkansas (October 2, 1850) Doctor Bass - 38 - Male - North Carolina - Merchant Eliza - 38 - Female - Georgia Louisa J. - 13 - Female - Georgia Lydia J. - 11 - Female - Georgia Thos. C. - 9 - Male - Georgia Jas. R. - 7 - Male - Alabama Martha H. - 5 - Female - Alabama Richd. L. - 3 - Male - Arkansas Infant - 2/12 - Female - Arkansas Calhoun County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas (1889) D. Walter Bass, a prominent educator of Calhoun County, was born at Chambersville. In 1854, the youngest child born to the union of Dr. Bass and Miss Eliza F. Porter, a native of Georgia. His father was a self-made man; he was born in North Carolina, and left home in his youth, and engaged as clerk. In the meantime attending school a few months. He was married in Georgia, about 1835, and resided in Harris County, that State, for a time, engaged in merchandising; then he went to Chambers County, Georgia, in 1839, where he also engaged in mercantile pursuits. He resided at this place until 1847, when he came to Arkansas, settling in Dallas County, in what is now Moro Township, Calhoun County. Here he started a store, the first in the present limits of Calhoun County. The place was soon given the name of Chambersville, from the fact of the people coming from Chambers County, Alabama. Mr. Bass was soon appointed postmaster of the first post office established in this county. Here he lived, doing a good trade for that time, and accumulated quite a nice property. He died in 1853, six months before the birth our subject. The mother died in 1871. Of this family there are now nine children living, and all live in Calhoun County, except the eldest child, Louisa Jane, who lives in Camden. The two who died were twins, and died in Georgia in infancy. The property of this estate was lost from mismanagement, on the part of the administrator, and our subject was reared on his mother's farm.
  Person ID	I43934	1A William Bassett of Plymouth
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	William Bass, Jr.,   b. Abt 1775, North Carolina d. Georgia
  Family ID	F15770	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Frances Porter,   b. 26 Mar 1820, Georgia d. 28 Sep 1871 (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	10 Nov 1836	Newton County, Georgia
  Children	+ 1. Doctor C Bass,   b. 1831, Missouri   2. Louisa Jane Bass,   b. Abt 1837, Georgia   3. Lydia Ann Bass,   b. 28 Jan 1839, Newton County, Georgia d. 1897, Calhoun County, Arkansas (Age 57 years) + 4. Thomas Colquitt Bass,   b. 18 Aug 1841, Georgia d. 10 Jan 1917, Chambersville, Calhoun County, Arkansas (Age 75 years) + 5. James Ranson Bass,   b. 22 Aug 1843, Alabama d. 17 Aug 1919 (Age 75 years)   6. Martha H. Bass,   b. 19 Sep 1845, Alabama d. 5 Apr 1925 (Age 79 years) + 7. Richard Turner Bass,   b. 24 Sep 1847, Arkansas d. 19 Feb 1916 (Age 68 years)   8. Emma J. Bass,   b. Abt 1850, Arkansas + 9. George Porter Bass,   b. 13 Jan 1852, Calhoun County, Arkansas d. 28 Dec 1910, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas (Age 58 years) + 10. Doctor Walter Bass,   b. 15 Apr 1854, Caswell, Calhoun County, Arkansas d. 9 Mar 1930, Fordyce, Dallas County, Arkansas (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F15772	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 May 2022