Biography of Thaddeus W Dumas, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 664

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 Phœbe 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.