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- Samuel Rowland Bass - February 16, 1880 - February 21, 1959. Son of Allen Rowland and Rosanna H. Waggoner Bass Husband of Nellie Sophia McKinney Bass. Married March 7, 1903 in Watertown, New York.
Newspaper Obituary - Thursday, March 5, 1959 Sandy Creek News - Sandy Creek, New York - Samuel R. Bass Dies in Florida - Samuel Rowland Bass, 79, died Saturday, February 21, 1959 in the Morrell Memorial hospital at Lakeland, Florida, where he had been a patient two weeks. The funeral was held Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. at Lakeland and burial will be held at Evergreen cemetery, Orwell, March 1 at 2:30 p.m. Rev. W. Russell Clark, pastor of the Park Methodist church at Pulaski, will officiate. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Nellie McKinney Bass; four daughters, Mrs. Stanley (Pauline) Getman of LaFargeville, Mrs. Donald (Alice) Clark of Orwell, Mrs. John (Viola) McGrath of Kings Park, Long Island, and Mrs. Ray (Muriel) Heredia of Miami, Florida; one son, Capt. Rowland Bass of Edwards, California; a sister, Mrs. Fred Groat of LaCross, Wisconsin [sic]; eleven grandchildren and five great- grandchildren. -Born in Orwell- Mr. Bass was born at Orwell February 16, 1880, the son of Allen R. and Rosie Waggoner Bass. Following his marriage to Nellie McKinney on March 8, 1903, they lived in the Orwell area, moving to a farm in the Hinman district in 1912 where they resided for 30 years. For the past 15 years he had lived in Lakeland, Florida. He was a former member of the I.O.O.F. lodge in Pulaski and of the Pulaski Grange.
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