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- Biographies From Miller County People
Henry Frank Bass Family
Henry Frank Bass was born in Miller Co. in the Little Richwoods near the Hickory Point community. He was born 20 Aug 1880, the second child of Isaac T. Bass & Margaret Williams. Frank's ancestors were among the county's earliest settlers. I believe his great-grandfather was Isaac Bass who homesteaded some land in the county before 1833. He settled near the Osage River, south of Tuscumbia.
Isaac Bass Sr. may have had 4 children who were settled in the county as well. They were William Bass b. 1818 KY m. Melvina McCubbin c/1840; Tolbird/Tolbert Bass b. c/1820 KY m. Martha G. Martin; Metheldred Bass b. 1822 KY m. Paulina_____; and Lavenia Bass b. KY m. Jonathan Humphries/Humphrey. I found record of an Isaac Bass family in Barren County, KY in the 1820 census. I don't know if he was the same man who came to Miller County, but I suspect they were one and the same.
? William Bass, son of Isaac, was born in KY in 1818 and married Melvina McCubbin (1821-1902). William and Melvina were parents of 7 children:
? Nancy
? Bass b. 1847 M. Charles P. Myers 1866;
? Metheldred Bass b. 1849 died young;
? John M. Bass b 1851 m. Alice Williams 1876;
? Isaac T. Bass b. 1853 m. Margaret Williams;
Sarah Elizabeth Bass b. 1865 m. (1) General C. Martin (2)James Parkhurst (3) William Martin; Henry Joshua Bass b. 1859 m. Mary EmmaNichols 1882; and Rial/Riley S. Bass b. 1862 m. Ada Martin 1880
William and Melvina (McCubbin) Bass are both buried at Hickory Point cemetery. He died in 1892 and Melvina lived with her children for 10 years before her death in 1902.
Isaac T. Bass, son of William and Melvina, was born in 1853 in Richwoods Township. About 1874, at the age of 21 years, Isaac married Margaret/Maggie Williams. She was a native of Indiana, born in 1859. I believe her sister, Alice Williams, married Isaac's brother, John M. Bass. At this time I have not identified the parents of Maggie and Alice Williams.
Charles and Leftie Burks Bass with Children Pauline and baby Emil
Isaac and Maggie were parents of 4 children, all born on the family farm in the Hickory Point vicinity. Their daughter, Myrtle Bass, was born in 1876 and married Allman E. Farmer in 1896. The three sons were; Henry Frank Bass 1880-1926 m. Dosha L. Groves 1900; Clyde M. Bass 1883-1920 m. (1) Mary L. Bain (2) Lou (Burks) Crisp; and Charles B. Bass 1886-1956 m. Leftie M. Burks 1906.
Henry Frank Bass, son of Isaac, grandson of William and great-grandson of Isaac Sr., was born 10 Aug 1880, the oldest son of Isaac and Maggie (Williams) Bass. On October 21, 1900 Frank Bass married Dosha L. Groves, oldest daughter of George Wash. Groves (1856-1927) and Manerva Jane Smith (1866-1956). Dosha was born in Miller Co. on 22 Sept 1882 and died 17 May 1969.
? Her brothers and sisters were:
? Gordon Chester Groves 1884-1951 m. Sarah Madden;
? Eva Ann Groves 1886-1936 m. Dow W. Wall;
? Robert E. Groves 1889-1951 m. Nellie Teaverbaugh;
? Roy A. Groves 1898-1949 m. Mabel Rider;
? Blanche Groves m. Victor Wilson.
In the 1900 census, another daughter is listed; Millie M. Groves born December 1893. She must have died young.
Frank Bass, mail carrier for the Ulman/Iberia Star Route, was attempting to deliver the mail on Thursday, December 23, 1926. He picked up his mailbags at Ulman that morning and started back to Iberia. The days of December 20-23 were harsh ones. According to the "Diary of C. B. Wright" it has snowed hard and sleet came down in torrents on Dec 21. It continued to rain and by Dec 23 the creeks had swollen and were running out of their banks. Frank Bass arrived a the Brushy Fork and tried to ford the flood waters, but did not make it to the other side. He perished in the icy, flooded waters of Brushy Fork on 23 Dec 1926. His body was recovered and he was laid to rest in Hickory Point cemetery near where he had been born 47 years earlier.
NOTE: After publishing this story, Gene Waite of Eldon (now deceased in 2001), contacted me to say he remembered well the day Frank Bass died. His father, Elmer Waite, was the postmaster at the Watkins Post Office, which was a stop over on the Iberia-Ulman Star Route. Frank came by Watkins about 9:30 a.m. that morning on his way to Ulman to pick up the mail for delivery back to Iberia. Frank was driving a Ford touring car with room in the back seat for the extra heavy load of Christmas mail. Later, Elmer Waite recovered some of the mailbags from the creek; dried some of the letters so they could be delivered to their destination. Mr. Waite also informed me that Charlie Bass, brother to Frank, was the postmaster at Ulman at the time of Frank's death.
1820 Federal Census of Barren County, Kentucky
Isaac Bass 20010-10100
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Patey Bass 01000-00101
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Elizabeth Bass 01000-02001
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1789 - 1840 (51 years)