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Phillips Family History, Chapter XVI
Sally Philips (Mrs. Sion Bass)
Sally Philips, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia, was born July 7, 1803 and died November 14, 1890. She married Sion Bass August 21, 1823.
Sion, the oldest child of John and Annie Bass, was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, August 11, 1802. The marriage bond for his wedding to Sally Philips was executed August 2, 1823, and was signed by Sion and his father, John. He and Sally lived to celebrate their sixty-first wedding anniversary.
Shortly after their marriage, Sion was ordained a minister by the Round Lick Baptist Church, beginning a ministry that continued sixty years. For forty-five years he was pastor of the Round Lick church.
In an article in ?The Gospel Messenger? in 1885, P.M. Lancaster gave the following estimate of the ministry of Sion Bass:
?Brother Bass was a gifted man, mighty in the scriptures, an able fender, a good speaker, and a might reasoned. There were but few who were his equals. He was a man of untiring energy. For several years he was nearly alone in the Round Lick Association and he was not able to travel; yet he traveled, and did all he could to keep the churches together until the Lord raised up more preachers.?
Sion and Sally lived on a farm in the Eleventh District of Wilson County. Sion was administrator of the estate of Benjamin Philips.,
Sion died September 27, 1884. Sally became blind in her old age, but survived her husband. She was 81 at the time of his death.
Sion and Sally had ten children: Thomas, Eliza, Edward Price, Elias, Mary Ann, John L., Margaret Malissa, Preston, Emily and Sion Bradford. Thomas and Preston died in boyhood. Eliza married Watson Potter and left no children. Mary Ann married William Allen and move to Illinois. The author has been unable to get in touch with her descendants.
Three hundred fifty-five descendants of Sion and Sally are traced in this chapter, 317 of whom are living.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1803 - 1890 (87 years)
d. 27 Sep 1884 (Age 82 years)