Bass, U.S. Deputy Marshal

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Muskogee Phoenix, Thursday, January 13, 1910 BASS REEVES DEAD; UNIQUE CHARACTER Man of the “Old Days” Gone Deputy Marshal Thirty-Two Years. Bass Reeves is dead. He passed away yesterday afternoon about three o’clock and in a short time news of his death had reached the federal court house where the announcement was received in the various offices with the comments of regret and where it recalled to the officers and clerks many incidents in the early days of the United States court here in which the old negro featured heroically. Bass Reeves has completed thirty-two years service as deputy marshal when, with the coming of statehood at the age of sixty-nine he gave up his position. For about two years then he served on the Muskogee police force, which position he gave up about a year ago on account of sickness, from which he never fully recovered. Bright’s disease and a complication of ailments together with old age, were the cause of his death. The deceased is survived by his wife and several children, only one of whom, a daughter, Mrs. Alice Spahn, lives in Muskogee. His mother, who is eighty-seven years old, lives at Van Buren, Arkansas, where a sister of his is also living. The funeral will be held at noon Friday from the Reeves’ home at 816 North Howard Street. Arrangements for the funeral had not been completed last evening.

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