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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 Brownâ??s regiment, Confederate States Army, and killed at Richmond. In 1828 J.H. Bass removed with his parents to Troup county, Georgia, and lived there and in Chambers County, Alabama, until 1841. He received his entire education in Troup county, and left school at the age of seventeen, working on his fatherâ??s farm until he had arrived at the age of twenty. In 1841 he removed to Columbus, and entered the City hotel, kept by his father, and clerked there four years. Then he and his brother, Robert L. (deceased), took charge of the Oglethorpe hotel and conducted it until October, 1860. In 1857 they also bought and opened another hotel called the Perry house and conducted that also until the war began, when they were compelled to close it. In 1861 J.H. Bass bought an interest in the â??Columbus Timesâ? and ran that paper throughout the war; and was in the House guards during the last year of the war but saw no active service. After the war he commenced to farm and still follows that pursuit. He has large farming interests in Muscogee and Chattahoochee counties, and produces about 400 bales of cotton annually. Mr. Bass is a member of the board of directors of the Third National Bank and of the Hamburger cotton mills, Columbus. He has served as an alderman, and has been County Commissioner for twelve years. He is a demitted Mason and affiliates with the Presbyterian church. He was happily married in 1854 to Frances E., daughter of the late Archibald McGruder, a native of Georgia, and an old and respected resident of Chattahoochee county, who died in Muscogee county, 1865. This union has been blessed by the birth of several children: Dr. A. C. Bass, of Columbus, Georgia; Jennie B., wife of V.M. Brown, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Roberts S., wife of James A. Lewis, of Columbus.
Columbus Daily Enquirer
December 22, 1896
Mr. John Hicks Bass
(Includes drawing of Mr. Bass)
Mr. John Hicks Bass, the subject of the sketch, was born in Monroe County, this state, on the 15th of May, 1821, and at the age of 20 years came with his parents to this city, where he has resided continuously since. He is the oldest hotel man in the state, and it has only been in recent years that he has not been in the hotel business.
Forty-six years ago he was proprietor of the City Hotel, which he ran most successfully for four years, when he took charge of the Oglethorpe house, and subsequently purchased the Perry House, now Hotel Vernon, which he ran for over twenty years. Finally, after so many years in the hotel business, he launched out as a planter, and to say he has made a success, is putting it small, as he is today one of the largest cotton planters in the state, and foremost among property owners.
Thirteen years ago Mr. Bass was elected to the Board of County Commissioners, and has held his place in that important body until the present day.
Newspaper unknown, 11 January 1898
Mr. Bass At Rest
His Remains Laid Away Sunday Afternoon at 3:30 O?clock
The funeral of the late Mr. John H. Bass took place from the family residence at 3:30 o?clock Sunday afternoon. An immense concourse of sorrowing friends gathered to pay their last sad respects to the memory of the beloved dead. The funeral serices were conducted by Dr. Dowman, pastor of St. Luke, and Dr. Wynn, pastor of St. Paul. The handsome casket was covered with lovely floral designs in which the favorite flowers of the deceased were used.
The interment took place at Linwood cemetery, and a large concourse of sorrowing friends followed the remains to the grave. The following named gentlemen acted as pall bearers:
Mr. O.S. Jordan, Mr. John Blackmar, Capt. J.W. Murohey, Mr. L. G. Levy, Colonel W.L. Tillman, Mr. L.F. Garrard, Mr. William Beach and Mr. Charles A. Lovelace.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1821 - 1898 (76 years)
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