Florence Elizabeth Bozeman

1884-1970 · Mississippi

Born 1884, Lawrence County, Mississippi

Died 1970

Children include Shelby

Florence Elizabeth Bozeman was born on 28 April 1884 in Lawrence County, Mississippi, the county just north of Marion. By 1904 she had married Robert Fulton Bass of Bunker Hill in Marion County, who became a minister.

She bore at least eight children who lived to grow up. Robert Olouse was born in 1904, Ronald Steven, called Mack, in 1906, Emily Mae in 1908 at Columbia, and Shelby in 1909. Sarah, called Sadie, was born in 1915, and Ella Louise, called Bobbye, in 1918 at Bolivar in the Delta. Joseph and Paul complete the family.

Robert died on 25 November 1921, aged forty one. Florence was thirty seven, with a houseful of children and the youngest only three. She lived another forty nine years, still Florence E. Bass at the end, saw her son Shelby go west to California and her son Mack become a cattleman and church deacon at Columbia, and died at Columbia on 20 April 1970, eight days short of her eighty sixth birthday. She is buried in the Old Bunker Hill Cemetery near her husband.

Children

Shelby E. Bass 1909-1979

Sources

The Columbian Progress, Columbia, Mississippi, 28 April 1983, page 4, column 6, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 67328059, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67328059.

Find a Grave memorial 16269250, photograph added 21 October 2006, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16269250.

Obituary of Mack Bass, The Columbian Progress, Columbia, Mississippi, 28 April 1983, page 4, column 6, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 67328059; gravestone at Old Bunker Hill Cemetery, Find a Grave memorial 16269250 (photograph added 2006).

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