Taken from the Bass Family History written in 1955 by Ivan Bass George L. Bass aka Dock son of Malachi and Arcadia Polk Bass was born June 26, 1839. No further information of Dock Bass has been obtained unless it was he who purchased a tract of land from the government in 1879, the land being situated in Union Parish, Louisiana. In connection with the purchase of this land, Dock Bass made the following statement: "I am forty years of age; have a wife and three children; settled on the land January 15, 1874; established residence on the land in November of 1873; built a house on the land in 1873; my address is Farmersville, Union Parish, Louisiana" A search of the SSDI turned up three people with last known residence in Union Parish two of which were in Farmersville. I am hoping to find some descendants of George Bass. Pamela Dyess Mann My Genealogy Related Pages: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~pdyess/gene.htm Researching Dyess, Bass, Pierce, Robbins, Polk, Evans, King, Beasley, McPhail, Stuckey, Tolar, Myers, Spurlock, Sterling, and Fortenberry A country which supresses it's history is doomed to fail...