Martha Matilda (Mattie) Odom, was a daughter of Josiah Odom (Odum) and Mary Ann (Polly) Price. She married Isaac Newton Bass on 19 Jun 1877 in Covington County, Mississippi at the home of the bride's mother.
Children of Isaac Newton Bass and Martha Matilda Odom were:
1 Ida Pernice Bass (James Zelvin McGuffee)
2 Homer Laron Bass (Matilda Louise Cowart)
3 Beulah LaMaggie Bass (Henry Estus Wilson)
4 Ella Mae Bass (William Edgar Driver)
5 Oliver Holmes Bass (Addie D. Clark)
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FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. I. N. BASS
By: Hazel Cannon Brinson
Funeral services were held at the Monticello Baptist church Sunday afternoon for Mrs. I. N. Bass, beloved resident of Monticello since 1896 and resident of Lawrence county for the past 71 years, who died Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Z. McGuffee following an illness of about ten days. She had been in ill health for several years. She was in her ninetieth year.
Her pastor, the Rev. D. O. Horne, pastor of the Monticello Baptist church, conducted the services and was assisted by the Rev. L. M. Sharp of McComb, a former pastor of the Monticello Methodist church. Mrs. Bass was buried in the Bass family plot in the Town cemetery here.
Active pall bearers were C. M. Tynes, C. E. Barnes, M. P. Simmons, French Stamps, A. P. Smith, Jr., Leotha Burkett, O. R. Cross and Charles E. Branning. T. C. McCullough, T. L. Jolly, Dr. G. W. Conn, E. S. Fairman, S. J. Givens and S. F. Magee were named as honorary pall bearers.
Mrs. Bass was born in Covington county on July 19, 1859, the daughter of the late Joseph Odum and Polly Price Odum. She observed her sixty-sixth wedding anniversary with her husband, the late I. N. Bass, on June 19, 1943. Mr. Bass died in December of that year. She was the mother of five children. Her youngest daughter, Mrs. W. E. Driver, dying on March 1947.
A member of the Baptist church since early girlhood, she had been a loyal member of the Monticello Baptist church for fifty-two years and was a member of the Missionary society.
Published in The Lawrence County Press, Monticello, Mississippi, December 1948.
Martha Matilda (Mattie) Odom, was a daughter of Josiah Odom (Odum) and Mary Ann (Polly) Price. She married Isaac Newton Bass on 19 Jun 1877 in Covington County, Mississippi at the home of the bride's mother.
Children of Isaac Newton Bass and Martha Matilda Odom were:
1 Ida Pernice Bass (James Zelvin McGuffee)
2 Homer Laron Bass (Matilda Louise Cowart)
3 Beulah LaMaggie Bass (Henry Estus Wilson)
4 Ella Mae Bass (William Edgar Driver)
5 Oliver Holmes Bass (Addie D. Clark)
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FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. I. N. BASS
By: Hazel Cannon Brinson
Funeral services were held at the Monticello Baptist church Sunday afternoon for Mrs. I. N. Bass, beloved resident of Monticello since 1896 and resident of Lawrence county for the past 71 years, who died Saturday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Z. McGuffee following an illness of about ten days. She had been in ill health for several years. She was in her ninetieth year.
Her pastor, the Rev. D. O. Horne, pastor of the Monticello Baptist church, conducted the services and was assisted by the Rev. L. M. Sharp of McComb, a former pastor of the Monticello Methodist church. Mrs. Bass was buried in the Bass family plot in the Town cemetery here.
Active pall bearers were C. M. Tynes, C. E. Barnes, M. P. Simmons, French Stamps, A. P. Smith, Jr., Leotha Burkett, O. R. Cross and Charles E. Branning. T. C. McCullough, T. L. Jolly, Dr. G. W. Conn, E. S. Fairman, S. J. Givens and S. F. Magee were named as honorary pall bearers.
Mrs. Bass was born in Covington county on July 19, 1859, the daughter of the late Joseph Odum and Polly Price Odum. She observed her sixty-sixth wedding anniversary with her husband, the late I. N. Bass, on June 19, 1943. Mr. Bass died in December of that year. She was the mother of five children. Her youngest daughter, Mrs. W. E. Driver, dying on March 1947.
A member of the Baptist church since early girlhood, she had been a loyal member of the Monticello Baptist church for fifty-two years and was a member of the Missionary society.
Published in The Lawrence County Press, Monticello, Mississippi, December 1948.
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