• General Notes

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  Many people have asked if I have found any famous relatives
  in our family tree.  I think I may have at last found a
  legendary family member.
       Nancy Bass had brothers named Moses and Wright Bass.
  Max Kearse had told me he felt Sam Bass, the outlaw, was
  related to this family.  I have found some information
  about Sam's history.  He was the son of Daniel Bass of
  Lawarence County, Indiana.  Born in 1851, he was left an
  orphan in 1864, and ran away to Texas at 17.  Sam Bass got
  his start as an outlaw after a cattle drive to North
  Dakota.  When his outfit got paid they went on a gambling
  and drinking spree and lost all there money. Being stranded
  so far from home they came up with the bright idea of
  robbing a bank.  Sam was betrayed by one of his own men and
  killed by Taxas Rangers in 1878.  Doesn't this sound
  typical of one of our relatives?

Details of Nancy's family with Thomas Melvin

Details of Nancy's family with Henry Powell