Col. Richard Bass had 6 full siblings and a half-sister, and I started with an oder sister who had an interesting photograph (I think) of the couple. Cloud Thrasher Barton and his wife Elizabeth Bass Barton. Cloud's real name had been Claude, when he was born in South Carolina on June 3, 1804 in Pickens, Pickens County.
Elizabeth Bass was born on 9 Oct. 1810 in Wayne County, North Carolina. She had 2 older siblings also born in NC, and then her family moved to Perry, Alabama, probably for a land grant. Her parents were John Bass (1775-18220 and Julia Ann Holloman Bass (Green) (1785-1861). The 5 younger siblings of the Bass family were born in Alabama.
When Elizabeth Bass was 10, her father died with a lot of debt, and there are various court records as to how his brother-in-law, wife, and a neighbor, Jetson Green, would take care of the farm, and the children. Jetson Green married the widow (Julia Ann) three years later, and then was step-father to the children. My great great grandfather was the youngest, having been born in 1819.
Elizabeth Bass, or Eliza, as she was known, married Cloud who had been the 4th of 12 children of his parents, the marriage taking place in 1837 in Perry, Alabama. It was Cloud's second marriage, having earlier married in Georgia. I have no details of that first marriage.
Within 3 years the Barton family relocated again to Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. They had 8 children, with another move of the family to Moorehouse Parish, LA.
Eliza died in 1860, but Cloud lived a long life, dying at age 86 in 1890. His last years were spent living with his adult children, as shown on census reports, in various counties in Texas.
I can't find any records that the Bartons were living near her brother, Col. Richard Bass and his family (my great great grandparents) when they both lived in Louisiana or Texas. That's a lot of territory, and farmers were busy people. But perhaps they did gather at the Green homestead where Eliza and Richard's mother, Julia Ann Bass Green lived until her death in 1861.
Richard Bass' first 4 children were born in Morehouse Parish, LA before the death of his sister Eliza in 1860...so perhaps the children knew their aunts and uncles and cousins. One daughter born to Richard and his wife, Mae (Mary Ann Powell Bass) in February of 1860 was to become my great grandmother, Elizabeth (Bettie) Bass Rogers. Her aunt Eliza Barton didn't die until Oct. 18 of that year, and I like to think that my great grandmother was named "Elizabeth" after her.
I share this accumulation of data with Sepia Saturday this week. At the very least this post is based upon a photograph from many years ago (before Elizabeth's death in 1860?) But she appears pretty young actually. So now I'm wondering if this isn't a later photo and not even of the Bartons. Wouldn't that be funny? (Well, not to the descendants who labeled it.)
Within 3 years the Barton family relocated again to Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. They had 8 children, with another move of the family to Moorehouse Parish, LA.
Eliza died in 1860, but Cloud lived a long life, dying at age 86 in 1890. His last years were spent living with his adult children, as shown on census reports, in various counties in Texas.
I can't find any records that the Bartons were living near her brother, Col. Richard Bass and his family (my great great grandparents) when they both lived in Louisiana or Texas. That's a lot of territory, and farmers were busy people. But perhaps they did gather at the Green homestead where Eliza and Richard's mother, Julia Ann Bass Green lived until her death in 1861.
Richard Bass' first 4 children were born in Morehouse Parish, LA before the death of his sister Eliza in 1860...so perhaps the children knew their aunts and uncles and cousins. One daughter born to Richard and his wife, Mae (Mary Ann Powell Bass) in February of 1860 was to become my great grandmother, Elizabeth (Bettie) Bass Rogers. Her aunt Eliza Barton didn't die until Oct. 18 of that year, and I like to think that my great grandmother was named "Elizabeth" after her.
I share this accumulation of data with Sepia Saturday this week. At the very least this post is based upon a photograph from many years ago (before Elizabeth's death in 1860?) But she appears pretty young actually. So now I'm wondering if this isn't a later photo and not even of the Bartons. Wouldn't that be funny? (Well, not to the descendants who labeled it.)
Sepia Saturday 439
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I love the nickname Eliza for Elizabeth. But her husband's name? Cloud? Was it pronounced Cloud like clouds in the sky, or perhaps it was a misspelling of the name Claude? So very unusual if the former. And if so, I'd love to know what their children's names were - especially the boys! I'm assuming "Thrasher" must have been a family surname else his full given name sounds like a Viking name of old. It's too bad folks posing for portrait photographs back then had to look so serious. They appear to be a handsome couple, but smiles would likely have made a wonderful difference.
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky to have a family photo that dates back to before the Civil War.
ReplyDeleteThe earliest photos are quite difficult to get good identification as they were easily damaged and had little or no place for writing names or dates. I think early family albums protected those small photos and included space for notes of names, etc. but sadly they get divided amongst surviving family members or sold. It's heartbreaking to see them up for auction on eBay but that's the story of ephemera that gets separated from the first owners. The gift of the internet and geneaology networks is that now those distant relations can be reunited through photos.
ReplyDeleteI worry about that with some of my old photos - are they who I think they are? My husband has ancestors from Morehouse Parish. Unrelated to your Clouds or Thrashers. They were enslaved by and related to Fountain Davenport, in case you come across him in your Morehouse research.
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