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| Bass, William, Jr. 225989 |
| Birth: 00/00/1859 Death: 01/31/1884 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: Not Stated |
| Record Source: Researcher-Submitted Info |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/16/2025) |
| Notes This information is taken from a paragraph that Skipper Steely wrote in a Texas Historical Commission marker application for Travis Henderson: In 1887 the Lamar County Commissioners Court concluded that a piece of property south of the downtown area used as a county farm was not what was needed. It was tainted in 1884 when a farm employee, Bill Bass, was accused of criminal assault on a ‘half-witted’ girl inmate. He was hung. Footnote: Steely (editor), Backward Glances I, 89. A. W. Neville column in THE PARIS NEWS, December 10, 1929. In 1906 brick houses, three dormitories and a two-story brick main building were constructed on the new farm. From TEXAS EXECUTIONS: Bass, Bill; age 25; black; male; laborer; crime - rape; hanging; 31 Jan 1884. William (Bill) Bass was the son of William & Elizabeth Hampton Bass. siblings, Harrison, Ed, Alice, Bell, James, & Mollie. as per the census he was born around 1861 or 1862. Birth year is calculated. |