Dan H. Dumas

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DAN H. DUMAS 

            This witness, fifty three years old, is a son of James P. and Mary A. E. Dumas.  He knows that ther was Choctaw blood in the family, coming from his grandmother, Keziah, and her sister, Elizabeth, but did not know the amount.  The fact of Choctaw blood was just handed down to the children of J. P. and M. A. E. Dumas verbally.  Mr. And Mrs. Dumas never cared to talk about it.  They did not want their children to mix up with the full bloods, and did not think it was best for their children to move into the Indian Territory, and at the time it was not deemed to be of much worth anyway.  Witness had heard that Keziah’s Indian blood was one-half, but did not know.  Witness had never seen Elizabeth; he knew Keziah.  Witness’s father was born in South Carolina in 1820, in the Greenville District; he went from there to Alabama or Mississippi.  Witness’s mother was born in 1824.  His father and mother married somewhere about 41, 2, or 3, and then they came to Texas, where his mother died on the 8^th of August, 1901.  His father died in February, 1875.  (Rec., p. 574.) 

VICTORIA J. PIERCE 

            This applicant, forty-seven years old, is a daughter of J. P. and M. A. E. Dumas.  She says Keziah Brashear, her grandmother, was born in 1797, and died in 1870, she was married in Kentucky.  Witness thinks she was not born there.  She lived in Alabama; must have been living there when witness’s mother was born, which was on the 26^th of December, 1821.  Witness’s mother was born in Alabama near the Mississippi line.  Witness is reasonably sure that her grandmother, Keziah Brashear, did live in the old Choctaw Nation in Alabama in 1830.  Witness does not know whether any of her ancestors attempted to comply with the Fourteenth Article.  (Rec., p. 614.) 

BELLE LESLIE 

            This applicant, thirty-three years of age, is a daughter of J. P. and Ma. A. E. Dumas.  She says her grandmother, Keziah, was living in Alabama, in Fayette County, near the Mississippi line, at the time of the marriage of her mother in April, 1841.  Her mother was born in Fayette County, Alabama, and her father said he was born in South Carolina.  Her mother’s parents were living in Alabama in 1824, when her mother was born, and continued residing there and in Mississippi until they moved to Texas.  The witness knows nothing of the attempted compliance with Article Fourteen.  (Rec., p. 699.) 

JOHN F. SANDERS 

            This applicant, fifty-eight years of age, is a son of Nancy Jane, the daughter of Keziah.  Witness was born in Calhoun county, Mississippi, and moved to Texas in 1854.  Keziah Brashear, his grandmother, was living in Fayette County, Alabama in 1830.  Witness’s mother, if living at the time of testifying, would be seventy or seventy-two years of age, and she was born in Fayette County, Alabama.

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