Correspondence and papers of Elisha and Elizabeth Eulalia Bass and family
Overview
The Bass/Bayley collection consists primarily of the correspondence and papers of Elisha and Elizabeth Eulalia Bass and their relatives. The Bass family were New Englanders who settled in pre-Civil War Texas near present-day Brownsville, Cameron County. They later located to California and Colorado.
Dates
- Creation: 1794, 1831, bulk 1844-1922, 1962, 1975
Creator
- Bass, Elisha, 1820-1880 (Person)
- Bass, Elizabeth Eulalia, 1834-1923 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
History of the Bass and Bayley families
Elisha Bass, Junior (1820-1880), and Elizabeth Eulalia Bass (1834-1923), cousins, were married in Maine in 1856. They had three children: William, Frank, and Mary E. (1877-1938). Mary E. Bass married Francis Sawyer Bayley (1874-1963) in 1901. They had four children, the oldest of whom was Elizabeth Palmer Bayley (1903-2003). Francis Sawyer Bayley was the son of Francis (Frank) Tappan (T.) Bayley and Mercy Julia Palmer. Frank T. Bayley (1846-1917) was the reverend of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Denver, Colorado for several years.
[Information for this note from the collection and from the website ancestors.familysearch.org.]
Extent
2 Linear Feet (2 boxes + 1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Scope and Contents
Material of significance in the collection includes Bass correspondence with friends and family, illustrative of Elisha's work as a lawyer and judge, and the narrative written by Elizabeth Bass, depicting frontier life in the Rio Grande River Valley. Other items included in the collection are the correspondence of family members, and a genealogical volume entitled Jeriah Bass and His Descendents (privately printed, 1962).
Physical Location
RH MS 283
Physical Location
RH MS R38
Subject
- Bass family (Family)
- Title
- Guide to the Bass/Bayley Families Collection
- Subtitle
- Correspondence and papers of Elisha and Elizabeth Eulalia Bass and family
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by js, 1981. Finding aid encoded by skt, 2006. Finding aid revised by mrm, 2009; lwm, 2020.
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4027303775
- Preferred citation
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Bass/Bayley Families correspondence and papers, Kansas Collection, RH MS 283, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository