My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. ... I've heard her talk of her brother Henry Bass from Texas; in fact he came to Arkansas when I was about 7 years old. ... When they married, he had at home then, John, Ernest, Oreal, Allen and Rubyhell.(?) ...

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