"Lovell Bass was born Dec. 31st 1798" is the first entry on the bible's births page. below Lovell, the next entry says "Mary Harwick was born Sept 11th 1800". At the top of a 2nd births page it says "Mary Ann was born April 6th 1824" and next to that is "Adam Reese was born December 20 1818".
The first entry on the Marriages page is Adam Reese was married to Mary Ann Bass June 20th 1841.
"Lovell Bass Died June 18th 1833" is the first entry on the deaths page.
These 5 items are clearly written by the same person and it seems likely that it was Mary Ann Bass, especially since the same handwriting records the births of all her children below hers and Adam's birth dates.
If it wasn't for this bible, we wouldn't know the name of Mary Ann's parents, Lovell Bass and Mary Harwick. Other published genealogies do not have this information, including the LDS genealogical index. In the 1900 census Mary Ann, by then a 76 year old widow living with her daughter Ella, says that her father was born in Connecticut, her mother in New York.
Prior to 1850, U.S. census listed only the head of household's name. Everyone else is just a tick mark for age and gender. In the 1830 census, a Lvill Bass is the head of household of 6 people in Warren, Herkimer County, New York. The ages and genders of the 6 fit to include his wife (Mary Harwick), one small girl (Mary Ann), a small boy (William W.) an older boy (the future Dr. Edgar Bass). and a man older than Lovell. Possibly his or his wife's father.
Twenty years before that in 1810, an L. Bass with a wife and two young boys are living in the town of Otego, Otsego County New York. Lovell would have been a 12 year old boy. So it is possible that Lovell may have his father's name, and he had a brother at one time.
On June 20, 1841 Mary Ann Bass marries Adam Reese in Warren, New York.
