Obituary of Jere T. Dumas, Wilcox County, Alabama

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June 2003 

Wilcox Progressive Era
Thursday, March 14, 1901
   Last Week, in the death of Mr. Jere T. Dumas, not alone Mobile, but Alabama, 
lost a magnificient citizen. Wilcox has seen not a few of her citizens go to the
cities and in a remarkably short time gain the confidence of the people to such
an extent as to be placed in the vanguard of the progressive set. So it was with
Mr. Dumas. He went to Mobile a few years ago a stranger; he died there last week
so honored and respected that Mobile's first paper, The Register, heads its 
first editorial column with this reference to the deceased:
   
   This community learned with regret yesterday morning of the death-after a 
short and seemingly slight illness-of Mr. Jere T. Dumas, one of Mobile's 
prominent cotton factors. Mr. Dumas has been a resident here but a few years, 
but has long been known to the mercantile interests as a citizen of Wilcox 
county. He was notably progressive both as a merchant and as citizen, ever ready
to promote Mobile's welfare and doing his share in encouraging the growth of
commerce and industry. Mobile has not too many men of this useful sort and 
suffers by his loss. - Mobile Register.