Col. Richard Bass' sister Sally Bass Johnson

Col. Richard Bass' sister, Sarah Sally Bass Johnson (1812-1848). Sarah married at 18 in Perry County, AL to John Lamb Johnson. They apparently had 7 children. 

After Sarah's widowed mother married Jetson Green in Perry AL in 1825, the census of 1830 only lists 2 children living with them, between the ages of 10-15. So Sarah might have not been one of them, rather daughter, Keziah (16) and son, Dick (11) are more likely. We don't know who raised Sarah until she married at age 18.

Sarah has interestingly enough been listed as born in 1812 the same year as Keziah.  But that petition to the courts in 1722, about the younger Bass children again strikes my memory. Their birth years seem somewhat flexible (as many ancestors are.)

"your petitioners would further state that the children of John Bass decd are Uriah aged 17 yrs, Polly aged 15 yrs, Elizabeth aged 13 yrs, Molsey Ann under 13 yrs, Sarah under 12 yrs, Keziah under 10 yrs, & Richard under 9 yrs..." Juliann Bass, Maliki Holloman

Sally Bass married John L. Johnson in 1830. She was counted in the 1840 census, and her death was in 1848 in AL.

Their first four sons apparently fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. I only see that her eldest was listed as a physician on one census, but was a private for the CSA.  The next son (William, shown below) apparently served through the whole war, and came home to his wife (second for him) and their 6 children. He lived a long life in Hillsboro Texas, where many of my mother's family lived. So I'm sure he knew some of them. The third son enlisted in 1861 and married in 1864, but we don't have any records beyond that. Son number 4 also enlisted in 1861, and married in 1865. He was still alive in 1870 for the census of Freestone County, TX.

William Brice Johnson and Julia Reives Johnson, married Oct 1864

The two youngest children of Sally and John L. Johnson  were female, and Martha Ann married a man named Columbus C. Johnson (I don't have time to see if he's a cousin.)  Nancy Mary/Mildred Johnson Webb lived until either 1869 or1918. Her husband William W. Webb also served the CSA in the Civil War, and probably died from injuries sustained during the conflict, but not until 1881. I don't know his parents, but he lived in the area of another branch of my mother's family, the Webbs from Goliad TX.

One definite similarity with all these children was that having been born in Perry AL, they all moved to Texas before, during or following the war.