Julian (Julia A.) Holloman Bass Green (1785-1861)

Dear Grandmother with 3 greats, Julian/Julia Ann...she had many children, and two husbands, and had to deal with court cases following the death of her first husband, not only about her property but even the guardianship of her younger children.

Her father, Thomas Holloman/Holleman, had been born in Virginia, but apparently left there and settled in North Carolina about the time he married in 1772, to a woman named Emaline but we don't know her family name.  Julian was the 3rd of their 5 children born in 1785. Grandfather Thomas Holloman/Holleman died between 1786 and 1804 in Raleigh, Wake County, NC.

Though she had many uncles (and aunts) who were from Thomas Holloman's family, I have been looking for those who also immigrated with Thomas to North Carolina, and even some who might have gone to Alabama when Julian and her family did.  So far I haven't had much luck.

So there were other Hollomans who signed those court documents, and they must have been related

I've found a hand written document (1832) stating a Silas Holleman was administering the estate of Ezekiel Holleman, including a debt to Jetson Green. That estate was in Wayne County, NC, but I haven't found any connection between Silas nor Ezekiel Holloman to our family...besides of course that Jetson Green married Julian.

I am pretty certain her first husband, John Bass died in 1822, or maybe late 1821...because all kinds of court documents start with bills against his estate and inventories of it in early 1822.

One bill against the estate was a final bill to the Orphans Court of Perry AL for $5000 for guardianship of the young orphans...including Richard (Dick) Bass my great great grandfather. The signatures on that document include a Robert Smith (probably the attorney) on Dec 23, 1826 on behalf of Samuel H. Nelms, guardian of "Elizabeth, Mosely Ann, Sarah, Keziah, and Richard Bass."

Another bill states someone has visited in Oct, Nov. and Dec. of 1822 and wishes payment in Feb. 1823 of $36.25 signed by Daniel Long. Julian Bass swore that these visits did occur, and she signed the form "Julian Bass." (Many of the notations are in a kind of shorthand.)

On "Jan 31, 182, Daniel Long received the --?--  record in full of Capt. Samuel H. Nelms." This is the cover sheet for several other records that are in microfilm files of Perry County AL. One is the list of slaves, and who apparently owned them, several are Julian Bass' property.

I haven't found anything giving the spelling of my great times 3 grandmother's name as Julia Ann, so I'm going through my ancestry files and changing it to Julian. However, in 1850 she was head of her household in Union Parish, LA, and listed her name as Julia A. Green. She had living with her an overseer, 25 year old S(?) Freeman and his wife and 4 children. (It doesn't have any designation as to whether the Freemans were white or black, however.) She has none of her own family with her household. Though there were farmers listed on the same census sheet, several listed their occupation as "overseer."  This suggests a plantation style kind of farming to my mind.

And the 1850 Slave Schedule for Union Parish does list 9 black people that belonged to Mrs. Julia A. Green.

Her last census listing in 1860 has her being about 70 years old, living in Point Jefferson, Moorehouse, LA. The family head is 56 year old C. T. Barton, farmer, who is married to Elizabeth Bass Barton (Julian's daughter) who is 46 now.  There are 4 Barton children, and a 54 year old Daniel Barton (no occupa.) as well as a 25 year old C. T. Barton who lists himself also as a farmer. There is also a farm manager in the household.

C. T. Barton Sr. was Claude (say Cloud) Thrasher Barton. He lived until 1880, but his little brother Daniel Barton died in 1870, and Elizabeth, his wife, died in Oct. 1860.

So this is a very early photo (prior to 1860) of them. I've talked more about them here on this blog, and will mention them again next week.

Julia A (Julian) Bass Green died March 11, 1861 in Moorehouse Parish, LA.

What had happened to Jetson Green? He died of pneumonia in Union Parish LA in Dec. 1849, just before that census when Mrs. Julia A. Green was still running her plantation/farm.

Great grandmother named after her aunt Eliza Bass Barton

Today to look at my grandfather George Rogers' grandfather's interesting Bass family.

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.)

Sepia Saturday 439

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