A tombstone shared yesterday – the one that stands to honor the memory of Anna Bass Harvey – also memorializes her parents, David P. and Sarah Bass. An obituary each for David and Sarah follows. North Georgia Citizen (Dalton, GA) 15 August 1895 - pg. 3 [via Georgia Historic Newspapers ] MR. BASS DEAD. One of Dalton's Best Men Gone to his Reward. The sweet influence of no man in Dalton was more felt than that of Rev. D. P. Bass. His death last Thursday was a sad blow to Dalton in every sense of the word. It is superfluous to multiply words in commendation of him. No class in Dalton or Whitfield county but will miss him and [to] know him was to love him. He was suddenly stricken down and rapidly desolution [sic] took place in the body mortal but the spirit of the man and christian accompanied by the myriods [sic] of angels hastened to his home where the blessed "Peace, Peace, Peace" was found awaiting him that he so long sought and in his last breath cried...
Telling the Tales of Tombstones