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Phillips Family History
Chapter XV
Martha Philips (Mrs. Cadar Bass)
Martha Philips, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia, married Cadar Bass, a prominent Wilson County farmer. They lived in the eleventh district of Wilson County, Tennessee. The author has been unable to locate their tomb-rocks and to learn the datesf their births and deaths.
The name Cadar Bass occurs frequently in the Court records of Wilson County during the first half of the nineteenth century, but since there were two and perhaps three landowners of that name living in the county during that period, it is diffiult to segregate those records applying to the Cadar Bass treated in this chapter. In fact, when the author was getting the early laeds on the various lines in the genealogy, he found in the County Court Wills and Inventories Records of Wilson County where the estate of Cadar Bass was wound up in 1858, secured the name of Cadar?s children from his will, and worked for several weeks on the wrong line. It was somewhat by accident that he discovered that two men by the name of Cadar Bass died in Wilson County in the same years, and that he had begun tracing the descendants of the unrelated family.
Dower in Cadar Bass? farm in the Eleventh District of the county was allotted to his widoe, Martha, and the balance of the farm was partitioned among his five children, Elizabeth Smith, Mary Neal, John Cadar, L.H. and Norvel.
One hundred sixteen descendants of Cadar and Martha are traced in this chapter, 77 of whom are living.
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Bassett Family Association Database
d. 28 Oct 1858, Wilson County, Tennessee