This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jgB.2ACE/140.246.252.3.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: This is so interesting....I remember my mother talking about Bird E...and James....Viola's children?...I would appreciate anything you can send me...my email: Judithecox@aol.com; I recently relocated to TN and have started researching again...I hit the jackpot yesterday, and am overwhelmed with all I have found in such a short time...I will keep searching for more on Viola and her mother for you too....Thanks so much for the response...stay in touch! Fondly, Judy

Thought I would post this to the list in case some one needed this record. I am not researching this line. Cathy Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas INDEPENDENCE COUNTY-FORMATION AND ORGANIZATION-PUBLIC STRUCTURES-CATALOGUE OF OFFICIALS-THE FRANCHISE-ADMINISTRATION OF LAW-THE COMING OF THE PIONEERS-LOCATION OF THE COUNTY-ITS WATER COURSES-NUMEROUS PERSONALAND BUSINESS SKETOHES-TIMBER AND MINES-LANDS AND CROPS-CENSUS RETURNS-RAILROADS-RELI****IOUS GROWTH-TOWNS-POPULAR INSTRUCTION-WAR RECORD-FACTS AND STATISTICS. Thaddeus W. Dumas, business manager of the Co-operative Wheel Store, Pleasant Plains, Ark. The mercantile interests of this portion of Independence County, have been ably represented for several years by Mr. Dumas, who is a pleasant, genial gentleman, and a good business man. His birth occurred in Lowndes County, Miss., on the 20th of November, 1837, and he was one of six interesting children born to Winchester and Louisa (Jenkins) Dumas, both of whom were natives of South Carolina. They removed to Tipton County, Tenn., in 1864, and there the closing scenes of their lives were passed. Thaddeus W. Dumas came to Arkansas in 1873, and settled in Independence County, where he has since remained. He received his education in the Manual Labor School of Franklin College, Tenn., under the management of Tolbert Fanning. During the late conflict he served in the Third Kentucky Regiment, and participated in the battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Port Hudson, Jackson, and several less important engagements. He chose for his companion in life, Miss Phobe James, whom he married in 1878. They have no children. Mr. Dumas possesses 160 acres of mountain land, and on the same are several fine mineral springs. He is a Jacksonian Democrat in politics, is a member of the Wheel, and in religion a Baptist.