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- Columbus Daily Enquirer
Georgia
Friday, September 17, 1880
Death of Robert L. Bass
Mr. Robert L. Bass, an old and esteemed citizen of this city, died at his residence at the Perry Home yesterday morning at 5:40 o’clock. Mr. Bass has been a great sufferer with flatulo for about two years, and for a large portion of the time has been confined to his home and bed.
He was born in Monroe County, Georgia, August 16th, 1819, hence was sixty-one years of age last August. He removed to West Point and from there came to Columbus in 1841, where he lived until his death, except one year, from October 1848 to October 1849, when he resided in Macon. He was a son of Eaton Bass, who died in this city in 1843. He was married to Miss Margaret Rowland, a niece of Bishop Kavanaugh, in Versailes, Kentucky, in 1854. No children have been born to them. The deceased is a brother of Mr. John Bass and Mrs. R.E. Sappington.
Mr. Bass was a prominent citizen and a man generally esteemed by all who knew him. By his energy and prudence he amassed considerable property and was one of the largest real estate owners in the city. He and his brother were for many years proprietors of the old Oglethorpe hotel and afterwards proprietors of the Perry house which they still own. He has been an alderman several times, though always preferring the privacy of domestic life. He was a useful man and one whose many noble deeds of charity were never heralded to the world, though the burdens of many of his fellow men were made lighter by his generous hand.
His death will bring the tear of sorrow to the eye of many friends and to the bereaved widow and brother and sister, we tender out sincerest condolence.
Memoirs of Georgia, Muscogee County
John Hicks Bass
John Hicks Bass, County Commissioner of Muscogee County, Georgia, was born in Monroe County, Georgia in 1821. His paternal grandfather was John H. Bass, who was a native of Virginia. He married in Virginia and came to Georgia and settled in Hancock county, where he died about 1852. The father of John Hicks Bass was Eden Bass, a native of Hancock county, and born in 1777. He was a merchant in Troup county, Georgia, for many years. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and married a Miss Nancy Clay. They had eleven children, of whom nine lived to maturity and two now survive: John H.; Rebecca E., widow successively of William L. Stanley and J.W. Sappington, both of Columbus. John Hicks Bass had two brothers who saw military service, viz.: Robert L., a soldier in the Creek war in 1836 , and Maston G., a major in Colonel John Brown’s regiment, Confederate States Army, and killed at Richmond.
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1819 - 1880 (61 years)