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- Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas
J.D. Bass M.D.
J.D. Bass, M.D., physician and surgeon of Pittsburg, Camp county, Texas is a native of Warren county, Georgia, a son of Buckner and Annie E. Bass. His father was born in North Carolina, and lived there to the age of twenty years, and then moved to Warren county, Georgia, where he married, and in 1848 moved to Barbour county, Alabama, where he died January 6, 1860, in his seventieth year. In early life he taught school; later, when his family came on, he settled down to farming. He was a man of fair means and measurably successful. His wife, a daughter of Thomas Dozier, of Warren county, Georgia, was herself a Georgian by birth. She survived her husband several years, dying at the old homestead, Barbour county, Alabama, in 1882. These two were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this notice is next to the oldest, the others being Jane E., Cynthia A., Emily and Thomas J. The last died at a comparatively early age in the Confederate army, being then in the command of General Longstreet and part of the detachment which was sent out from the Army of Northern Virginia to the relief of Bragg in Tennessee.
The only remaining son of the family, Jeptha D., the subject of this sketch, was born, as stated, in Warren county, Georgia, and first saw light October 17, 1829. His youth was spent in Talbot county, Georgia, moving at the age of twenty with his parents to Barbour county, Alabama. He read medicine and graduated in March, 1855, from the Medical University of New York. He practiced till 1860 in Barbour county, and moved thence to Claiborne parish, Louisiana. In 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate army as a private, Company D, Twenty-eighth Louisiana; served one year in this capacity, and was then appointed assistant surgeon of the Fifteenth Texas, which position he held until the close of the war, serving mainly in the trans-Mississippi department. In December, 1868, he moved to Texas and settled at Pittsburgh, then Upshur, now Camp county. He has been steadily engaged in the practice of medicine, and is now in point of age and residence the oldest physician in Pittsburgh. He remains actively in the practice, and pursues his profession as zealously as in his younger days. He has been very successful, enjoying a good practice and having a large and ever-increasing circle of friends. He is a member of the State Medical Association and of the Northeast Texas Medical Association, in the deliberations of both of which bodies he takes much interest.
Dr. Bass married in April, 1857, Miss Fannie E., daughter of Matthew Palmer, of Barbour county, Alabama, she being a native of that county. The fruit of this union has been seven children ? Lula, now wife of James A. Harralson; Jefferson Dozier Bass, the present judge of the Camp county court; Charles Welburn Bass, now principal of the Pittsburgh high school; and four daughters, Susan A., Rosa Lee, Lena and Hattie Byrd.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1829 - 1905 (75 years)