Jack Sims Bass (1886 - 1938)

Born 27 Aug 1886 in Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Died 2 Oct 1938 at age 52 in Hialeah, Dade, Florida, United States

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Biography

Jack was born in 1886. He is the son of Hardy Bass and Eleanor Jarrett. In 1900, the family was living in Meriwether, Baldwin, Georgia.^[1]

In 1917, Jack registered for the WWI draft in Macon, Georgia. Jack was married with one child, and working as a machinist, at the time.^[2]

Jack passed away in Florida in 1938 from "acute dilatation of the heart." His wife was Ruby Bass. He worked as a farmer.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3NJ-9TY : accessed 13 October 2020), Jack Bass in household of H Whitfield Bass, Militia District 318, Meriwether, Baldwin, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 3, sheet 9B, family 168, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,178.
2. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZZF-6MW : 23 August 2019), Jack S Bass, 1917-1918.
3. ↑ "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FP3C-D7N : 8 August 2019), Jack Sims Bass, 1938.