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- Richmond Times Dispatch, Virginia, Thursday, March 21, 1940
J.H. Bass, Chesterfield Veteran, Dies
James Henry Bass, 94, believed to have been the last surviving veteran in Chesterfield County of the War Between the States, died at 5 P.M. Wednesday at the thoem of a nephew, J.A. Bass.
He had lived with his nephew in Homeland, where he was born, for many years. Mr. Bass entered the war during its closing states and served in Trop G of the Third Battalion. He was only 17 at the time.
A farmer by occupation, he never was married. He was the son of James Henry and Rebecca Goode Bass.
Funeral Services Thursday
In addition to the nephew at whose home he died, he is survived by another nephew, W.H. Bass of Richmond, and two nieces Miss Stella Bass of Richmond and Mrs. James H. Berry of San Antonio, Texas.
Funeral services will be held at the grave in Skinquarter Baptist Church Cemetery at 3:45 P.M. Thursday. He had been a member of the church all his life.
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