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Amelia W. Bass - Madison Parish, Louisiana

NOTE: Ameria W. Bass was the daughter of Madison Parish's first Sheriff and owner of Scotland 
Plantation, Thomas B. Scott.

From Texas Christian Advocate, February 21, 1907

BASS.--Sister Amelia W. Bass was born in Madison Parish, La. May 17, 1811. She has been a resident 
of Texas for more than forty years, having come to this State with her mother, brother, and the parents 
of her future husband during the Civil War. She was happily married to Dr. J. H. Bass December 30, 1863 
by Rev. H. Shotwell, a Presbyterian minister. She was converted in early life and with her mother united 
with the Presbyterian Church. After her marriage to Dr. Bass, who was always Methodist, she and her mother 
also came into the Methodist	Church in which she lived as a faithful and consistent member till the day 
of her death, which occurred January 22, 1907. She was the mother of four children, three of whom--a daughter 
and two sons -- survive her. She lived to see all her children members of the Methodist Church that she 
loved so well. About a year ago, her daughter Mary -- Mrs. A. S. Hardwick -- passed over the river in triumph, 
since which time she has had charge of her daughter's children, her time was given almost entirely to these 
children, until stricken with apoplexy about the first of December last. Sister Bass has spent a life of 
activity in the work of the Church. She assisted in the organization of the Woman's Home Mission Society 
of the First Methodist Church in the early days of Abilene, and was always a worker in the society until 
about a year ago, when home duties made it necessary that she retire from active participation in the 
management of the affairs of the society. She was President of the society for about twenty years. Frequently 
during the last few years, she expressed a desire that some of the younger members of the society should be 
chosen to take her place, but such was the love for her and confidence in her executive ability upon the part 
of all the members of the Society, that they would never consent for her to give up the place until about 
a year ago when she positively refused to serve any longer in this capacity, owing to the fact that the 
care of her grandchildren made it impossible that she attend regularly to the meetings of the society. 
During her last illness, her husband, knowing that she was in a very critical condition, asked her if she 
realized that she was very sick, and that in all probability she would not recover and inquiring about her 
spiritual condition, asked if all was well with her soul. She very promptly replied, "O, yes. I settled that 
matter a long time ago." During the weeks that she lay in a state of delirium her talk was almost entirely 
about the children and members of the family, arranging and I planning for them, showing that her life long 
habit of caring for them was the "ruling passion strong in death." Sister Bass was of a very retiring 
disposition, never wishing to put herself forward, yet she was positive in her convictions of right and 
wrong and did not believe in compromising with evil of any kind. Her funeral sermon was preached by the 
writer to a large concourse of relatives and friends from a part of Solomon's inspired description of the 
model woman. It is safe to say that no woman ever lived in Abilene that was more universally esteemed by 
her neighbors and loved by her intimate friends than was Sister Bass. She has most ???? gone to her reward 
and ???? to follow her. This community ???? in all those spiritual forms that conspire to uplift humanity 
because she lived and died here. DANIEL L. COLLIE