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Avery Sumter Bass

Male 1881 - 1953  (72 years)


Personal Information

  • Name Avery Sumter Bass 
    Born 21 Sep 1881  Chester County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 240C0353A91C6D43AAD12262AF2066497800 
    Died 15 Oct 1953  South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Mountain View Cemetery, Greer, Greenville County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Town Talk
      Suffers Broken Arm

      A.S. Bass, proprietor of a local bus line, is improving at his home here after suffering a broken left arm a fortnight ago. Mr. Bass was attending the annual meeting of the South Carolina Bus Operator Association, held at Folly Beach, near Charleston, and lost his footing when he stepped off a veranda. He says that the injured member has been causing him great pain until the last day or two.


      Yorkville Enquire
      South Carolina
      Tuesday, May 31, 1910
      Wedding
      A wedding of interest to a large number of Gastonians was celebrated yesterday morning at the home of Reverend and Mrs. W.L. C. Killian, on South Broad Street, when their daughter, Miss Edith Killian, became the bride of Mr. Avery Bass of Chester, South Carolina. The wedding was a very quiet affair, the ceremony being said in the presence of a few close friends and relatives of the parties by Reverend G.D. Herman, pastor of Main Street Methodist Church. Immediately after the marriage Mr. and Mrs. Bass left over the northbound Canadian & North Western for Edgemont where they will spend several days, after which they will be at home near Chester. Miss Killian ia a most excellent young lady and has a large number of friends here and elsewhere. The groom is an employee of the Canadian & North Western and a young man of many good qualities. Their numerous friends are congratulating them on the happy event.


      State, Columbia, South Carolina, Friday, October 16, 1953
      Laurens Man Killed, Another Badly Hurt in Wreck Near Union
      A.S. Bass Is Victim; Was Hotel Owner
      Special to The State

      UNION, Oct. 15 ? One man was instantly killed and another seriously injured in a truck and automobile collision near Union at 1:30 this morning.
      A.S. (Avery Sumter)) Bass, 72, hotel owner of Laurens, was fatally injuired, an dhis 56-year-old employe and companion, Will Byrd, driver of the automobile, is in a Laurens hospital with a factured skull.
      Mr. Bass was credited with being the founder of the Ded Dot and Carolina Scenic Bus Lines.
      Sheriff Rochelle Boyle of Union said that Thomas Reavis, 24, of Atlanta, Ga., driver of the truck was unhurt.
      The sheriff quoted Mr. Reavis as saying that the autobmile appeared to be skidding and that he, Reavis pulled to the side, with two of his truck wheels off the road. It was then that the two vehicles made contact.
      The accident occurred on the Calhoun highway, between WHitmire and Union, on a curve near the Roger?s Ferry River bridge. The truck was going east and the auto heading west.
      The carry-all was loaded, the Union sheriff said, with three new Chevrolet pick-up trucks and a ton and half Chevrolet truck. The carrier fell off the road onto a 15 foot fill landing on its side breaking away from the dab, and considerable damaged by fire. The Bass car damage was from the head-on collison only.
      Mr. Bass? body was brought to the Edgar ? Brown ? Bailey Funeral Home in Union but later transferred to a mortuary in Laurens.
      Coroner George S. Noland of Union said that an inquest would be held.
      Funeral services for Mr. Bass will be conducted at 3 o?clock Friday afternoon from the Kennedy Mortuary Chapel, Laurens, by the Rev. W.B. Garrett. D.D. of Laurens, and the Rev. M.E. Derrick of Columbia. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery at Greer.
      Pallbearers will be Ware Killian, Don Wilson, J.T. Bass, Jesse Bass, Richard Wilson and Ansel Boling.
      Mr. Bass was bor in Fairfield County, the son of J.J. and Dora Etta Killian Bass. He was engaged in the transportation business for many years of his life and for the past 20 years in the hotel business. He had been living here for five years and was a member of the First Methodist Church.
      He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Wilson Bass; two children by a former marriage, A.C. Bass of Spartanburg and Mrs. Wallace R. Camp of Newberry; two brothers, H.L. Bass of Hannon, Ala., and John J. Bass of Chester, and one grandchild. His first wife was the late Mrs. Edith Killian Bass.

    Person ID I7  Bass96 Samuel Bass of South Carolina
    Last Modified 9 May 2023 

    Father Joseph Timothy Bass,   b. 11 Apr 1856, Baton Rouge, Chester County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Oct 1924, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Mother Dora Killian,   b. Abt 1862,   d. 1938  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Family ID F2  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Edith Killian,   b. 19 Mar 1885,   d. 27 Sep 1944  (Age 59 years) 
    Married May 1910  South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Josephine Bass,   b. Abt 1911,   d. 1991  (Age ~ 80 years)
     2. Avery Coleman Bass,   b. 21 Sep 1914, Gaston, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Feb 2000, Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jul 2019 
    Family ID F7  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart