{"id":126,"date":"2012-11-21T19:03:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T01:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/?p=126"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:43:54","slug":"bass-james-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/bass-james-w\/","title":{"rendered":"BASS, James W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>James W. BASS,<\/strong>\u00a0citizen and farmer of Hardeman County, was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., July 4, 1848, and is a son of\u00a0<strong>Thomas W. and Nannie P. (Avent) BASS<\/strong>.\u00a0 The father was born in 1822, and is now living in Rutherford County near Murfreesboro.\u00a0 The mother is several years younger than her husband and is still living.\u00a0 In 1852, they moved to West Tennessee and lived until the war, dividing the time in Madison, Gibson and Hardeman counties.\u00a0 The father entered the Confederate Army in 1862, in the Twelfth Tennessee Regiment of Calvary, and was quartermaster or foragemaster of the regiment until the war was closed; was captured and kept for several months a prisoner at Alton, Ill.\u00a0 Two years after the ware he moved his family back to Rutherford County, where he has since lived and farmed.<\/p>\n<p>With his wife he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South.\u00a0 Our subject is the second of ten children; he had a good education, and when eight years old moved with his parents to Hardeman County and has since made it his home.\u00a0 After finishing school he sold goods for various parties in New Castle for eight years, and in 1875 he established, with\u00a0<strong>Thomas POLK<\/strong>, a store in New Castle and was in the mercantile business for two years.\u00a0 In 1876 he purchased the farm where he now lives, and moved to it in 1879.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Mr. BASS<\/strong>\u00a0owns now over 1,600 acres of land in Hardeman County and in Arkansas.\u00a0 December 20, 1874, he married\u00a0<strong>Miss Olivia B. KENT<\/strong>, born in Lee County, Ark., November 26, 1856.\u00a0 They have one daughter born December 7, 1879.\u00a0 Our subject is a Democrat, and in August, 1882, was elected magistrate and still holds the office; he is not a church member; his wife is Roman Catholic.\u00a0 He is an honest man and a kind neighbor, and exerts an influence for good in his country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: \u00a0Goodspeed\u2019s History of Tennessee, 1887.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James W. BASS,\u00a0citizen and farmer of Hardeman County, was born in Rutherford County, Tenn., July 4, 1848, and is a son of\u00a0Thomas W. and Nannie P. (Avent) BASS.\u00a0 The father was born in 1822, and is now living in Rutherford County near Murfreesboro.\u00a0 The mother is several years younger than her husband and is still living.\u00a0 In 1852, they moved to West Tennessee and lived until the war, dividing the time in Madison, Gibson and Hardeman counties.\u00a0 The father entered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/bass-james-w\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,27,30,29],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-avent","tag-bass","tag-kent","tag-polk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/fayette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}