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Brinkerhoff?s History of Marion County, Illinois
Reuben J. Bass
Mr. Bass is eminently worthy of representation in a volume of the province of the one at hand owing to the life of industry and honesty which he has lived and the work he has done in up building the county of Marion since coming here.
Reuben J. Bass was born October 7, 1845, in Trousdale county, Tennessee, the son of John D. and Betsey (Saterfield) Bass, both natives of Wilson county, Tennessee, where they grew up and married, the subjects? mother having passed to her rest in 1852. His father married a second time, his last wife being a widow, Annie Purdy, of Wilson county, Tennessee. They moved to Smith county and later to Trousdale county, that state. He died at the age of seventy-five years and his second wife died in that county. The subject?s father was always a farmer and a Democrat. He and his wife were member of the Primitive Baptist church. He had five children by his first wife, namely: Reuben J., our subject; John E., who is now deceased, lived in Kentucky; Mollie, who married James Holt, resides in St. Louis; Elizabeth, who married W.L. Puryear, is deceased; Daniel, who lived in Trousdale county, Tennessee, is deceased. The following children were born to the subject?s father by his second wife: Shelby, who lives in Wilson county, Tennessee; Maranda, who lives in Trousdale county, Tennessee; Linnie is deceased; Sion D. lived in Macon county, Tennessee, is deceased; Sidney lived in Wilson county, Tennessee; Edward lives in Toursdale county, Tennessee; Lucy, who was the fourth child in order of birth, lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
The subject of this sketch had only a limited chance to attend school. However, he gained some education in subscription schools. He was married April 26, 1868, to Annie Gaddy, a native os Smith county, Tennessee, the daughter of George and Leacy (Bass) Gaddy, the former a native of Smith county and the latter of Wilson county, Tennessee. In the fifties Mr. Gaddy came to Williamson county, Illinois, and got wild land and made a home on the same where he died. His wife died in Tennessee. Four children were born to the subject and wife as follows: Mollie, deceased; Learner D. lives at Walnut Hill, this county, having married Marvin West, a farmer; Lulu is deceased; Forence is the wife of A.T. Harmon, a farmer in Raccoon township, and the mother of these children, Poal, Ruby, Anna P., Beatr4ice and John D. After his marriage our subject located I Marion, Williamson county, Illinois, living there for two years when he went back to Trousdale county, Tenneessee, and on December 19, 1881, he came to Marion county, locating in Raccoon township, having rented land until 1888, when he bought sixty acres in section 28, where he now lives. It was formerly known as the Willis place. The subject has prospered since coming here, being a hard worker and a good manager. He has made many extensive improvements and carried on a general farming business. He raises hogs, horses and cattle. He also raises a great deal of fruit of all kinds. He is a modern farmer in every sense of the word and has one of the best farms in the township. He has devoted his life work to farming. He is a Democrat in politics and in religion a Free Will Baptist. He is a member of the Farmers? Educational Co-Operative Union of Raccoon township. He is will posted on current topics and is pleasant, agreeable, honest and a fine gentleman in every respect, consequently everybody is a friend to him.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1845 - 1927 (82 years)