Hiram BASS
BIRTH: Of Edwardsburg, Grenville, Johnstown, Ontario, Canada OCCUPATION: Farmer RESEARCH NOTES: There is a family tradition that said that Hiram's last name may not be Bass at all, but that he chose that name after living with Lydia's family (who were named Bass). He was a hired hand before their marriage and could have taken her name from living with the family. SOURCES: 1. Will of Hiram Bass at Grenville County, Ontario 2. Land Records of Edwardsburg 1847-1877 shows Hiram Bass and family living there 3. 1994 IGI 4. Ancestral File BIRTH: Family Records also list birth place as New York state
DEATH: May have been 4 Feb 1876
BIRTH: May have been 28 Feb 1832
SOURCES: 1. Ancestral File 2. Main Archive Record 3. 1994 IGI
SOURCES: 1. 1871 Ontario, Can. Census. Reel (FHL#C647)
He married Lydia Bass 16 May 1827 at Grenville, Ontario, Canada . Lydia Bass was born at Augusta, Grenville, Ontario, Canada 25 Sep 1804 daughter of John Bass and Hannah Lakins .
They were the parents of 11
children:
Freeman W. Bass
born 10 Jan 1828.
David Bass
born 9 Mar 1830.
Sarah Bass
born 22 Feb 1832.
James Bass
born 9 Feb 1834.
John Bass
born 22 May 1836.
Ezra Bass
born 7 May 1838.
Hannah Elizabeth Bass
born 26 Nov 1840.
Joseph Church Bass
born 26 Jan 1842.
Hiram Albert Bass
born 25 May 1845.
William Bass
born 19 Apr 1847.
Walter Bass
born 30 Jun 1849.
Hiram Bass died 8 Feb 1894 at Edwardsburgh, Grenville, Ontario, Canada .
Lydia Bass died 1 Feb 1876 .