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• I got the basic information on Solomon Dumond from his great-nieceBertie Lois Dumond McSwain.  All she had from family tradition was hisname and nickname, Sol.
  
  In 1870 I found Solomon Lewis with his mother and stepfather and otherDumond children in Cypress Bayou Township of Arkansas County, nearArkansas Post.  The surnames of Sol and his brother Caliste are notrecorded correctly, seeming to indicate that the enumerator wasconfused about the surname of these two, though he got their sisterSarah Dumond's name right.  Note that half sister Mary DeBalt in thehome.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 9 July, Cypress BayouTownship, PO Arkansas Post, page 7, Hse/Fam #59
  DeBalt William 32 M W Farmer $400 Real Estate  $400  Personal  bornMissouri cannot read or write
  DeBalt Sarah M 31 F W Keeping House born Tennessee cannot read orwrite
  Dumond Sarah 17 F W  Arkansas
  Calista Edward [sic]  11 M W  Arkansas
  Lewis Solomon [sic]  9 M W  Arkansas
  DeBalt Mary A 2 F W  Arkansas
  
  In March 2008, I found him listed in the Arkansas County census for1910 under the name Sol L.  I could not find any entry for Sol and hisfamily in 1900.  In 1910 Sol was married to his second wife, alsowidowed, and in the 1910 census, we have her previous children, fromher first husband named Wadkins.
  
  1910 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 2 June, LaGrueTownship, District 9, page 18A, Hse #203, Fam #211
  Dumond, Solomon L Head M W 49  2nd marriage  10 yrs in presentmarriage USA USA USA Farming Owns Farm
  Dumond, Jennie Wife F W 44  2nd marriage  10 yrs in present marriage8 children, 7 living  Kentucky Virginia AR
  Wadkins, Lene (Lena?) Stepdau F W 17 AR NC KY
  Dumond, Sir Walter [sic] Son M W 15 AR USA AR
  Wadkins, Walter C  Stepson M W 14 AR NC KY
  Dumond, Curtis E  Son M W 13 AR AR KY
  Wadkins, Res (Reo?)  Stepson M W 12 AR AR AR
  Duff, Anis Foster Child  F W 6 AR USA AR
  Dumond, James O Son M W 1 AR AR AR
  
  Note that no state of birth is reported for Sol or his parents, butboth parents are reported as born in the USA.  We know from othersources that they were born in Arkansas, and Caliste in ArkansasCounty.
  
  This census provides information on the marriage, which enables us todetermine when Sol and Jennie married.  They have been married 10years, and thus married in about 1900.  James O (Oliver) is the onlychild from this marriage, born after 9 years of marriage.
  
  Curtis' entry is strange, since the birthplace of parents appears tomatch Sol and Jennie, but we are told they were not married but 10years ago, while Curtis is 13 years old.  We know form other sources(such as the L'Heureux genealogy below) that Walter is the son ofSol's first wife, Serena (Serener) Elizabeth Young.  Likewise, theenumerator was confused or distracted when he recorded the informationfor Res (Reo?), showing him and both his parents (Jennie and MrWadkins) as born in Arkansas.  This child's name appears to be Res,but Ancestry transcribes it as Reo.
  
  On the same page, a few houses before Sol and Jennie, is anotherWadkins, who looks like a brother of Jennie's first husband.  This isSylvester Wadkins, born in Mississippi, of parents born in Alabama.Jennie's Wadkins children's father is reported as born in NorthCarolina.  This would be possible, especially if he was an olderbrother of Sylvester. With this initial information in March 2008, Ido not have enough information to confirm the family ties of theWadkins.
  
  1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 3 February, LaGrueTownship, District 12, page 11B, Hse #236, Fam #245
  Dumond, Sol L Head M W 58 AR AR AR Farmer
  Dumond, Jennie Wife F W 54 AR AR AR
  Dumond, Oliver Son M W 11 AR AR AR
  Duff, Annie Servant F W 16 AR AR AR Servant, Private Family
  
  Note that the places of birth in Jennie's record have all changed nowto Arkansas.  Sol's record now correctly shows Arkansas as thebirthplace of himself and both his parents.  I find it interestingthat in 1910 Anis was listed as a foster child, but now is reported asa house servant.
  
  The Heureux Genealogy, by Jacques Heureux(http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lheureux/lh1/d0033/g0000046.html#I116118) has a lot of other good details, including full names of thechildren from the first marriage of Solomon.  This list lacked datesof birth and other details.
  
  But this list enabled me to identify a Lewis J Dumond in the 1920census, whom I had been unable to connect to the other Dumonds.  Thiswould be the John Lewis that Jacques Heureux reports.  According tohis age of 33 in the February 1920 census, John Lewis would have beenborn in 1896.
  
  Here is the information on Solomon Louis DUMOND and family fromJacques Heureux:
  
  BIRTH: 2 OCT 1861, Mena, Polk, AR
  DEATH: 20 MAY 1938, Stuttgart, Arkansas, AR
  Father: Caliste DUMOND
  Mother: Sarah HAGA
  Family 1: Serener Elizabeth YOUNG
  MARRIAGE: 6 MAR 1886
  Children:
  John Lewis DUMOND
  Minnie Ada DUMOND
  Walter DUMOND
  Curtis Edward DUMOND
  Family 2: Jennie MCCOY
  child:  James Oliver DUMOND
  
  This provides information on the first wife, which one or two othergenealogies with Solomon lack.  I am puzzled by the birth in Mena,however, which is on the border with Oklahoma.  All other informationI have on Caliste and his family occurs in the east central area ofthe state, in Arkansas and Desha Counties.  It would be odd if he andSarah went that far west, had a child, then came back.  He already hada land grant from 1850 in Arkansas-Desha, and public records beforeand after place the family there.
  
  I thought it might be related to Caliste's Civil War assignment.  Hewas a member of the Desha County Militia.  Checking on the dates, Isee that Caliste did not enroll in the militia until 28 November 1861,just 6 weeks after Sol's birth.  So he was still in the Arkansas Postarea.  In the 1860 census he was enumerated in the Swan Lake area ofArkansas County, in Old River Township.
  
  While Jacques seems wrong about the place of birth, the exact date heprovides for the birth of Solomon Lewis would fit the other knowninformation about Solomon.  The death date here also fits within arange reported by another major Dumont researcher, Brian Demoe.
  
  This  compilation lacks the child Walter, but provides some additionaldetails I had not found on the children,
  
  Solomon Louis Dumond
  B: 2 Oct 1861 DeWitt, Arkansas, Arkansas
  D: 20 May 1938 Stuttgart, Arkansas, Arkansas
  Wife Serener Elizabeth Young
  B: 4 Mar 1870 DeWitt, Arkansas, Arkansas
  D: 1897 Arkansas
  Son:
  John Lewis DumondSon
  b 4 May 1887 Arkansas City, Arkansas, Arkansas
  d November 3, 1926 Arkansas, Arkansas
  Daughter:
  Minnie Ada Dumond
  b 6 May 1890 DeWitt, Arkansas, Arkansas
  d 15 Jan 1979 San Antonio, Bexar, Texas
  Son:
  Curtis Edward Dumond
  b 28 Jan 1897 DeWitt, Arkansas, Arkansas
  d 29 Dec 1943 Arkansas, Arkansas
  --  Byers Family,http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/8967591/family/familygroup?fpid=1386169152&sid=1386169165
  
  Sol was listed in the Essex Funeral Home Registry list, which gave themonths of the book's first and last entries, but not the individualdates of death or burial.  This matches the death date given byJacques L'Heureux above.
  
  Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
  Dumond, Solomon Lew
  Death 20 May 1938
  Arkansas County, Arkansas

Sources

• 1. 1910 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 2 June, LaGrue Township, District 9, page 18A, Hse #203, Fam #211
• 2. Ancestry Trees
  • Brian Demoe, Demoe/Dumont Family Tree,
• 3. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 3 February, LaGrue Township, District 12, page 11B, Hse #236, Fam #245
• 4. 1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 9 July, Cypress Bayou Township, PO Arkansas Post, page 7, Hse/Fam #59
• 5. RootsWeb -- Heureux Genealogy
  • http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lheureux/lh1/d0033/g0000046.html#I11611
• 6. U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
• 7. Essex Funeral Home Registry
  • Location:http://www.argenweb.net/arkansas/essex_funeral_home_records.htm;
  • BOOK IV -- April 1936 - October 1939, p 183
• 8. Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
• 9. Bertie Lois Dumond McSwain, letter to Orville and Edith Jenkins, 12March, 1977
• 10. Bertie Lois Dumond McSwain, Personal Conversation with Orville BoydJenkins, 1980
• 11. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 17 April, LaGrue Township, District 17, page 10B, Point DeLuce Road,
• 12. Ancestry Trees
  • Byers Family,
• 13. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 3 February, LaGrue Township, District 12, page 12A, Hse #247, Fam #257
• 14. Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
  • Dumond, Curtis Edw, Volume 73, Certificate 7,
• 15. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946