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- The Springfield Advertiser, Green COUnty, Missouri, 1844-1850
March 17, 1849
Mr. Theophilus Bass, a member of last legislature from Taney Co. (MO), died in Jefferson City, Sunday last after an illness of nearly 2 months. Mr. Bass was an excellent man and many warm friends will mourn his early loss. We sympathize with the bereaved family who are thus deprived of their companion, father and best of earthly friends.
Early History of Stone County, Missouri, Pari II
By Charles L. Henson
Theophilos Bass
Theophilos Bass lived on Wheeler Branch where he was an active figure in this area. He was elected as Representative of Taney County in 1848 to the 15th General Assembly. His untimely death at the age of 38 on March 11, 1849, or the day preceding the adjournment of the Assembly, may have deprived him of the honor of participating in the creation of this county. He was buried on the State?s Cemetery lot in Jefferson City where some fourteen other Representatives who died at other sessions are buried. The first news the widow had of his death was when two fellow members led his horse and brought his personal belongings to her door. She implied the news at sight of their approach. In those days it would have been impossible to have handled the situation otherwise. His widow afterwards married Samuel D. Nelson who was an active agent of the county's many developments. One of the daughters of this marriage, Ophelia, was married to J. Frank Seaman, later to become cashier of the Stone County Bank with William B. Cox as its president. It was the first bank in this county. Another daughter, Octavia, was married to John A. McCullah, a son of John Wesley McCullah, who came here in 1849 and thereafter was an early day merchant a few miles north of the present site of Crane, Missouri.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1811 - 1849 (38 years)