Today's DEVIL MAKE A THIRD afternoon project is speculation upon the name "Bass" which was used as the first name of one the two men who reflect upon the passing scene in Aven over the years in short chapters of the book called INTERLUDE.
Bascom "Bass" Wooten is a railroad brakeman and early loan customer of Buck Bannon.
"Bass" is an interesting nickname and a google search reveals that nobody's ever seemed to consider it to be short for "Bascom" other than DEVIL MAKE A THIRD'S author but I believe naming a child "Bascom" and calling him "Bass" for short would not be unusual for parents in the Civil War-Reconstruction-era Wiregrass.
Only thirty miles south of Dothan, one finds BASCOM, FLORIDA
Bascom, Faye Dunaway's hometown, is named for the Reverend Henry Bascom who engineered the move in 1845 that split the Methodist Church and created the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.
Bascom wrote Methodism and Slavery; with Other Matters in Controversy between the North and the South; Being a Review of the Manifesto of the Majority, in Reply to the Protest of the Minority, of the Late General Conference of the Methodist E. Church, in the Case of Bishop Andrew (1845; available free on line at Google Books).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bidleman_Bascom

On the Geneva side of my family, I had a Great-Great Uncle named "Henry Bascom Register"
Named after the famous Methodist, Henry Bascom Register was born only five years after the advent of Methodist-Episcopal Church, South. From surveying the local newspapers, it appears Uncle H.B. was pastoring churches in the Marianna District as early as 1896 and for about 25 years, he preached at Methodist churches around Defuniak Springs, Coffee Springs, Dothan, Daleville, Ashford and Wicksburg,  https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77711086





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church,_South




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