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Generation: 1
| 1. | Delila Powell was born Abt 1849, Indiana, USA (daughter of Eaton Powell and Angeline Bass). Other Events:
- Race: Black
- Reference Number: 6046
- Residence: 1850, Marion, Owen, Indiana, USA; Age: 1
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Generation: 2
| 2. | Eaton Powell was born Abt 1812, Chatham, North Carolina, USA (son of Elijah Powell and Patsey Scott); died 19 Mar 1892, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried Mar 1892, Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Black
- Reference Number: 1895
- Residence: 1850, Marion, Owen, Indiana, USA; Age: 38
- Residence: 1880, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
Notes:
Died:
Age: 71
Eaton married Angeline Bass 17 Sep 1844, Owen, Indiana, USA. Angeline (daughter of Ben Bass, daughter of Benjamin Elijah Bass and Delilah Harris) was born Mar 1826, North Carolina, USA; died 14 Jul 1910, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 3. | Angeline Bass was born Mar 1826, North Carolina, USA (daughter of Ben Bass, daughter of Benjamin Elijah Bass and Delilah Harris); died 14 Jul 1910, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Colored
- Reference Number: 1892
- Residence: 1850, Marion, Owen, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1880, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1900, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 21 Apr 1910, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
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Generation: 3
| 4. | Elijah Powell was born 1755 (son of Mary Powell); died 1833, Chatham, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
Notes:
Elijah, born say 1755, mentioned in the May 1786 Johnston County court which ordered the sheriff to deliver an "orphan" child of his to be bound out [Haun, Johnston County Court Minutes, IV:325]. He was head of a Johnston County household of 1 "other free" in 1800, 6 in Chatham County in 1810 [NC:200], and 10 "free colored" in Chatham in 1820 [NC:211]. He was one of the freeholders of Chatham County who were ordered by the court to work on the road from New Hope Bridge to William Goodwin's in February 1814 [Minutes 1811-18, 147]. His will was proved in Chatham County court on Monday, 13 August 1832.
Elijah married Patsey Scott 17 Jul 1828, Wake, North Carolina, USA. Patsey died , USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 5. | Patsey Scott died , USA. Other Events:
Children:
- Farrow Pharoah Powell was born 1809, Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina, USA; died 27 Aug 1887, South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana, USA.
- 2. Eaton Powell was born Abt 1812, Chatham, North Carolina, USA; died 19 Mar 1892, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried Mar 1892, Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
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| 6. | Benjamin Elijah Bass was born 1809, Robeson, North Carolina, USA (son of Elijah Bass and Eliza Matilda Milbury); died Aft 1880, Vernon, Wisconsin, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- Reference Number: 1896
- Residence: 1850, Marion, Owen, Indiana, USA; Age: 47
- Residence: 1870, South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana, USA; Post Office: South Bend; Age: 66
Notes:
BASS Moses Bass had a mill described as "old" on Raft Swamp before 12
Nov. 1766 (Bladen County Deed Book, 1738-1779, 348-349). This name
was not found in tax lists of Bladen 1775-1789. In the 1850 census of
Robeson, some Bass families reported being born in Anson County before
1790 and others in Robeson after 1815. Some Bass families were listed as
White before 1800 and appear to have been Lumbee. The families of Elijah
and Joseph Bass appear as "mulatoe" in the 1830 census of Robeson. The
Bass surname appears as Indian in the Shoe Heel [Maxton] township in the
1870 census of Robeson. The name Bass (sometimes Boss) is found among
the Nansemond Indians of Norfolk Co., Va., as free persons of color in
Granville and Halifax counties, North Carolina and as free persons of color
among the Red Bones of Louisiana (DeMaree, 1992). White (1988) feels
they possibly descend from Saponi Indians located next to the William
Eaton plantation in Granville County, North Carolina in the 1750s. DeMaree
(1992) traces the Bass family to Norfolk County, Virginia.
Benjamin married Delilah Harris 4 Jan 1823, North Carolina, USA. Delilah was born Abt 1809; died 1870. [Group Sheet]
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| 7. | Delilah Harris was born Abt 1809; died 1870. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 1897
- other: 4 Jan 1823, Stokes, North Carolina, USA
Children:
- Rebecca Maria Bass was born 10 Feb 1824, North Carolina, USA; died 10 Feb 1895, South Bend, St Joseph, Indiana, USA.
- 3. Angeline Bass was born Mar 1826, North Carolina, USA; died 14 Jul 1910, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
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Generation: 4
| 9. | Mary Powell was born 1695, Southampton, Virginia, USA. Other Events:
Notes:
Mary Powell, born say 1695, was called "Mary Powell a mullatto" on 12 June 1755 when the Southampton County court ordered that she be exempt from paying levies [Orders 1754-9, 92].
Children:
- 4. Elijah Powell was born 1755; died 1833, Chatham, North Carolina, USA.
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| 12. | Elijah Bass was born 1770, Anson, North Carolina, USA (son of Frederick Bass and Olive Stewart); died Jun 1854, Kershaw, South Carolina, USA. Other Events:
Notes:
Elijah2 Bass (Frederick1, William3, John2, William1, John1), born say 1775, was head of an Anson County household of 3 "other free" in 1800 [NC:204]. He may have been the Elijah Bass who was counted in Robeson County that same year, head of a household of 5 "other free" in 1800 [NC:362] and 6 in Robeson County in 1810 [NC:237]. He was granted administration on the Robeson County estate of (his brother?) Frederick Bass on 200 pounds security on 9 April 1801 [Minutes 1797-1806, 149]. He was one of the freeholders of Robeson County ordered to work on a road with Breton Barnes on the first Monday in July 1807 [Minutes 1806-13, 38] but was not mentioned again in Robeson County records. He may have been the same Elijah Bass who was head of a Kershaw District, South Carolina household of 6 "other free" and 2 slaves in 1810 [SC:433]. He wrote a 28 December 1839 Kershaw County will, recorded on 16 June 1854, describing himself as a "freeman of Color." He mentioned but did not name his children and lent his wife Milbury Eliza 500 acres "on waters of Beaver Dam and Bell Branch, waters of Twenty Five mile Creek of the Wateree river in Kershaw" which was conveyed to him on 10 February 1809. And he suggested that "my wife may desire to return to North Carolina. Elijah Bass" (signing) [WB A:231]. In August 1846 a grandchild of Elijah Bass named Mrs. White sued a South Carolina tax collector for attempting to collect from her the "free Negro" capitation tax. She testified that her grandmother was a "mulatto," her grandfather a Revolutionary soldier, her father Elijah Bass a "dark quadroon if he was one," and her brother an "ordinary white sandhill boy" [Catterall, Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery, II:400-1]. Elijah may have been the father off
i. Frederick3, born say 1795, purchased 103 acres in Robeson County on the east side of Bay Branch on 6 May 1820 [DB S:275].
ii. Joseph4, born after 1776, head of a Robeson County household of 7 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:300].
Elijah married Eliza Matilda Milbury. Eliza was born 1775, North Carolina, USA; died 1802, Marion, Marion, South Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 13. | Eliza Matilda Milbury was born 1775, North Carolina, USA; died 1802, Marion, Marion, South Carolina, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- 6. Benjamin Elijah Bass was born 1809, Robeson, North Carolina, USA; died Aft 1880, Vernon, Wisconsin, USA.
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