Albert Dumas

ALBERT G. DUMAS 

            This applicant is forty seven years of age and the son of Jackson D., by a wife whom the latter married in 1833, at Ripley, Mississippi.  His father was born in South Carolina, February 26^th, 1815.  Witness had been told that his grandmother attempted to comply with article fourteen, but it was all a matter of hearsay with him. (Rec. p. 494.)

DIXIE DUMAS CONNOLLY 

            This applicant, forty years of age, is a daughter of Jackson D. Dumas.  She lives at Fairland, in the Indian Territory.  She had been told that her grandmother.  Elizabeth Dumas, attempted to comply with the treaty before Colonel Ward, but was refused.  This was in the history of her family.  Witness knew of witnesses who had appeared before the Dawes Commission and testified on this point.  (Rec. p. 515.) 

SCOTT S. DUMAS 

            This applicant is fifty-one years of age and a son of J. P. Dumas, who was a son of Elhanan and Elizabeth.  His mother was M. A. E. Thompson, a daughter of Keziah, who married Fleming J. Thompson, the said M. A. E. Thompson and J. P. Dumas being first cousins, as has been heretofore set forth in this brief.  The witness exhibits certified copy of the marriage certificate showing that Fleming J. Thompson and Keziah Brashear were married in Kentucky, in 1818.  The witness manes many of the descendants of John and Nancy Jane Brashear.  He had not personally heard his mother claiming Choctaw blood, but knew that it was family history that his treat grandmother was one-fourth Indian and the they lived in Alabama.  He knew Keziah Thompson, but did not know the Christian mane of his great grandmother or great grandfather.  He thinks his grandmother and his grandfather Thompson died in Texas in the “70’s”.  His father, James P. Dumas, was born in 1820, in South Carolina.  His mother, M.A.E. Thompson was born in 1824.  His grandmother, Keziah Thompson, was seventy-three years of age at the time of her death, was of dark complexion and her hair was black.  She was rather slender as the witness remembers her.  Witness’s mother and father were married about April, 1841.  His father was born in South Carolina and moved to Alabama.  His mother was born in Fayette county, Alabama.  December 26, 1824, and lived there until after she married, and then moved to Texas shortly after marriage.  The history that witness got was that his grandfather Thompson and wife cam from Kentucky to Alabama, were living in Alabama in 1819, and continued to live there until 1844, when they moved to Mississippi and thence moved to Texas, in 1857.  This information was given to him by his mother and he wrote it out.  At one time it was published as a kind of family history.  The records of the marriage of this applicant’s father and mother had been burned, but his father had been a soldier in the Mexican War, and in seeking a pension for his mother, he obtained from his uncle an affidavit as to the marriage of his father and mother which was filed in the Pension Office.  Numerous witnesses in the Record have testified to J. P. and M. A. E. Dumas being married.  Witness’s mother died August, 1901.  (Rec., pp. 1, 11, 12.) 

LENA FULTON 

            This applicant is thirty-two years of age and a grand-daughter of J. P. and M. A. E. Dumas.  It had always been understood in her family that her great grandmother, Keziah Thompson, had one-fourth Indian blood.  She had heard her grandmother, Mary A. E. Dumas, make this statement.  (Rec., 544.)

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