Bettie Bass Rogers' father, Col. Richard Bass had 6 full siblings and a half-sister. Their parents were John Bass (1775-1822 and Julian/Jullia Ann Holloman Bass (Green) (1785-1861).
I'm including a previous post here, in case it seems like you've read it before!
Richard Bass' older sister, Elizabeth Bass was born on 9 Oct. 1810 in Wayne County, North Carolina. She had 2 older siblings also born in NC, and then the Bass family moved to Perry, Alabama, probably for a land grant.
The 5 younger siblings of the Bass family were born in Alabama, and I started with an older 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 SC. If you've ever heard the South Carolina accent, it's not surprising that his name became Cloud...which probably didn't sound much like it's spelled anyway!
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 (Julian/Julia Ann Bass) three years later, and then
was step-father to the Bass 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.
The other siblings of Col. Richard Bass? (another repost)
The connections within families include many cousins who marry in small communities. But this time I found an uncle who married a woman's sister-in-law.
So today let's go back to the Bass family, once they got to Marion, Union Parish, Louisiana. (and I am reminded how the Parish was divided, and different names given to same places as the Parish grew and changed into smaller Parishes through the years.)
My great great grandfather was the youngest son of John and Julian Holloman Bass. I call him Colonel Richard (Dick) Bass. (He did fight for the Confederacy under Mississippi troops, but may not have been a real Col.)
He married Mary Ann (Mae) Powell Bass.
Her parents were James Moore Powell and Nancy Jones Traylor Powell.
Col. Richard Bass had an older sister named Keziah (or Cozzie) Bass. She married James M. Traylor Sr.
He was the brother of her grandmother, Nancy Jones Traylor Powell, or Uncle to her mother, Mae Bass.
So Mae Bass' mother's brother married her husband's (Col. Dick Bass') sister. I wonder what they called each other!
I've enjoyed seeing Traylor children on census reports for Bass families, or Powells, often because parents had died or needed to have them live with other families. Unfortunately early census reports didn't say what the relationships were to heads of households...but they learned to add that after a while.
I posted a bit about Col. Richard Bass back on Friday, January 3, 2014. Here, and again this week.
Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week.
I have a cousin in South Carolina so I understand how Claude become Cloud. I take it "Thrasher" is a family name? But Cloud, together with Thrasher, sounds like an Indian name. Was the mistake made by a census taker, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteI didn't look into any other Thrashers in the family. I think (as this moment strikes me) that thrashing of clouds might have been a family joke, and his name reflects that. I don't know where Claude came from.
DeleteIt's such a fascinating name isn't it ? Cloud Thrasher. You wonder if he used to be bullied for being named Claude and so then he grew up to be a fighter; hence Thrasher. How wonderful to have photos from so far back.
ReplyDeleteI did think like that as well. When parents are naming their children, some of them think about things like that!
DeleteI like that your great grandmother may have been named after Eliza. You don't mention Eliza's cause of death, but if Eliza was ill it's quite possible that Richard and his wife Mae might name their new child for her to raise her spirits. Incredible to have that photo of Eliza and Cloud!
ReplyDeleteThere isn't info about Eliza's cause of death. But your thoughtful idea might have been exactly what happened.
DeleteThat's sure is a lot of branches in the family tree to keep track of! It's interesting how regional dialects influenced spelling and pronunciation. My wife is English and when we first liver in Savannah, Georgia she was confronted with placenames that did not sound the way she expected the Queen's English to work. Beaufort was not "boh-for" but "bue-fert", Macon was not "may-cohn" but "mak-in". I often wish we could hear the speech patterns of our ancestors. I suspect they sounded very different from the modern regional accents.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, the way things are pronounced here in the south separates locals from "newbies" all the time.
DeleteNice to have that old photo of Cloud and Eliza!
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