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Doctor Walter Bass

Male 1854 - 1930  (75 years)


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  • Name Doctor Walter Bass 
    Born 15 Apr 1854  Caswell, Calhoun County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID B0F2B09B44AE7941B5B9CA8373CDD92E9B6F 
    Died 9 Mar 1930  Fordyce, Dallas County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Oakland Cemetery, Fordyce, Dallas County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • 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. He attended the common schools until the outbreak of the war, when the schools were all closed, and his educational advantage during the continuance of the war, were consequently extremely limited. After his mother's death in 1871, Mr. Bass went to Camden and engaged as clerk. He remained there two years and then came to Chambersville and attended school for one year, and in 1874 taught his first school. In 1875 he re-engaged as a clerk for the first part of the year, then came back and attended school for awhile, and then taught school in the same settlement that he had taught before. On account of bad health, the next year he was compelled to rest. In 1876 he taught his first free school, and then made his home with Mr. Wade, for whom he worked nine months of the year, teaching and remaining three months. He remained here for three years, and since then has been teaching regularly in this, Dallas or Ouachita Counties. At present he owns three farms, consisting of 366 acres, which he has purchased from time to time, all in this county, except eighty acres in Dallas County. He has eighty acres under cultivation, and the balance of the land is covered with good timber. Mr. Bass is an enterprising and progressive young man, and is doing well at his vocation.
    Person ID I44050  1A William Bassett of Plymouth
    Last Modified 18 Feb 2020 

    Father Doctor Bass,   b. 12 May 1812, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Oct 1853, Chambersville County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 41 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Frances Porter,   b. 26 Mar 1820, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Sep 1871  (Age 51 years) 
    Married 10 Nov 1836  Newton County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F15772  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alice Ware Martin,   b. 28 Apr 1878, Calhoun County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Apr 1962, Harris County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married 1906 
    Children 
     1. Mildred Helen Bass,   b. 15 Aug 1910, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jul 2004, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 93 years)
     2. Marjorie Alice Bass,   b. 21 Jan 1912, Calhoun County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 May 1989, Harris County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
    +3. Walter Ware Bass,   b. 22 Jan 1919, Thornton, Calhoun County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Nov 2012, Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 93 years)
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2020 
    Family ID F15802  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart