Life History

Notes

• Emma Cornelia Kinard's first husband Edward Collise (Caliste) Dumonddied 22 Mar 1902, along with two of her daughters and her mother, in apneumonia epidemic.  She married widower George Miller (also calledTom), who had one daughter.  Bertie Lois McSwain gave me thisinformation, but did not have the date of that marriage or the date ofbirth of George's daughter Anna Belle.  She tells us that EmmaCornelia Kinard (Dumond) adopted her stepdaughter Anna Belle afterGeorge's death.  Anna Belle was 12 at the time of adoption.
  
  In letter of 1977 to us about family information, Bertie McSwainrecalled that Emma Cornelia Kinard had half brothers and sisters, buthad no last names.  Bertie had names of three of the half-siblings:
  Jennie, Thomas and George
  
  She tells us that after the death of her husband Edward ColliseDumond, Emma married George Miller.
  
  In May 2008 I found details on the half siblings.  Both her parentshad been married and lost their first spouses.  Emma appears to be theonly child of the marriage of Levi Kinard to Mary Ann Glover BakerKinard.
  
  I have located the half-siblings Bertie McSwain mentioned in herinformation.  Thomas is Thomas Larkin Baker, son of Mary Ann (Somehave her name as Mary Jane) Glover and Rollin Thomas Baker of Georgia.Thomas' wife is Emma Jane Nichols from Indiana.
  --  Mark W Stevens, RootsWeb,http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stevensmw&id=I1958
  
  In the 1880 census, which I also located only in May 2008,twice-widowed Mary Kinard and her daughter Emma Kinard are living withThomas L Baker and his wife Emma in LaGrue Township of ArkansasCounty, Arkansas.  Mary is reported as the mother of Thomas, anmd Emmaas his sister.  (See transciption below.)
  
  The half-brother Bertie named as George appears to be the first childof Levi from his first marriage to Mary Ann Collins of Georgia.  Hisname was George Martin Kinard.  He was born 3 October 1846 in FloydCounty, Georgia, according to a genealogy of the Stevens/Simpsonfamily.
  --  Mark W Stevens, RootsWeb,http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stevensmw&id=I6372
  
  The name Jennie was a little harder.  This is Eugenia (Lula Gennie)Baker, another child of Mary Ann Glover with her first husband RollinThomas Baker.  Lula Gennie was born in 1828 in Georgia, according toMark Stevens, and died in February 1835 in Bayou Meto, Arkansas.  Theinfo as Mark has it reported would indicate a town in Pulaski County.I am wondering, from the other information we have about this familyif this does not refer to Bayou Meto Township in Arkansas County.  Shemarried William Washington Simpson of Mississippi in 27 December 1876.
  --  Mark W Stevens, RootsWeb,http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=stevensmw&id=I0343
  
  1880 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 10 June, LagrueTownship, District 3, page 16, Hse #134, Fam #143
  Baker, Thomas L  W M 25   Farmer  GA GA GA
  Baker, Emma W F 24 Wife Keeping House  IL IL IL
  Kinard, Mary  W F 46 Mother At Home GA GA GA
  Kinard, Emma  W F 13 Sister AR GA GA
  
  In the next 20 years, Emma established a family with Edward CalisteDumond.  The 1900 census enumerated them in Cleburne County, in thenorth central part of Arkansas.
  
  1900 Federal Census, Cleburne County, Arkansas, 14 June, Sugar LoafTownship, District 18, page 8B, Hse #137, Fam #141
  Dumond, Edward C Head  W M  Jan 1860  40  Married 15 years AR AR ARFarmer  Owns Farm
  Dumond, Emma C  Wife  W F Sept 1866  33 Married 15 years AR GA GA
  Dumond, Nora V   Dau W F Feb 1886  14 AR AR AR Farm Laborer
  Dumond, Mary T  Dau  W F Dec 1887  12 AR AR AR Farm Laborer
  Dumond, Edward L  Son W M Dec 1889  10 AR AR AR Farm Laborer
  Dumond, Ira N Son W M Feb 1894  6 AR AR AR
  Dumond, Dollie E  Dau W F  Sept 1896  3 AR AR AR
  Dumond, Zula (?=Lillie) Dau   W F  Apr 1900  2mos AR AR AR
  Dumond, McKinley Son   W M  Apr 1900  2mos AR AR AR
  
  Edward died in 1902 and Emma later married George Miller, a widowerliving nearby.  They are recorded in later census enumerations forPrairie Township of Arkansas County, near where Emma grew up.
  
  1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 11 February, PrairieTownship, District 15, page 8A, Old Van Rd, Hse #144, Fam #146
  Miller, George  Head Owns M W 74 GA GA GA Farmer [b abt 1845]
  Miller, Emma Wife F W 52 AR AR AR [b abt 1867]
  
  The 1920 census did not report how long people had been married.  Soit is unclear from this when George and Emma married.  One source saysthey married in October 1913.  There is a problem with this date,however, since George's stepdaughter was born about 1914, possiblylate 1913.  I have not found records of George's first wife or thebirth of Anna Belle.  It is odd that Anna Belle does not appear herewith them in 1920, but she appears in the 1930 census with widow Emmaas Emma's 16-year-old adopted daughter.
  
  After George's death in 1925, Emma applied for a pension asConfederate veteran's widow.
  
  Arkansas, Confederate Pension Records, 1891-1935
  George H. Miller
  Spouse Name: Emma Miller
  Residence Location: Arkansas, Arkansas
  State Served From: Arkansas
  Infantry Division, K  Company, Arkansas  Regiment
  Vet Application Year: 1915
  Death Date: 27 Jan 1925
  Comments: widow applied 1925 / questionnaire
  
  1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 18 April, PrairieTownship, District 24, Page 11B, Hse #225, Fam #226(?) (Some familynumbers are duplicated)
  Miller, Emma Head Owns F W 62 Widow First married at age 18 AR GA GANo Occupation
  Miller, Anna Belle Adopted Dau F W 16 Single MO MO MO
  
  The family story is that Anna Belle was the daughter of a widow whomGeorge married as his first wife, thus she was George's stepdaughter.This is consistent with the report of Anna Belle's parents both beingborn in Missouri, as well as Anna herself.  George was born inMississippi, and had lived in Arkansas County, Arkansas since a child. I have not discovered the names of Anna Belle's parents.
  
  If Anna Belle was born in early 1914, her father might have died inlate 1913, during the 9-month period before her birth.  George wouldhave married Anna's mother during or after her birth in about 1914, soit is confusing that George is reported to have married his secondwife Emma in 1913, before the birth of Anna Belle.
  
  I suspect that the compiler of the records confused two differentmarriages.  The first marriage to Anna Belle's mother could have beenin 1913.  But this coudl not have been to Emma Kinard.  There had tobe time for the girl to be born, George to marry her mother (eitherbefore or after her birth), her mother to die, and George to adoptAnna before he married Emma Kinard.  So the marriage to Emma could nothave been earlier than late 1914, if everything was squeezed in likeclock work.
  
  There is a further complilcation to the family configuration.  Therewere other Miller children older than Annabelle.  Thuis may mean thatthere was a third, first, wife, before Annabelle's stepmother.  Or itmay be that family tradition has rememebred incorrectly Annabelle'sstatus.  The Dumond family had no information about the other Millerchildren.  I found the 1910 census for George only in April 2011.  Ifound him reported as a widower, living with his 24-year-old singleson Tom.
  
  Next door is a Jeane (?) Miller, 22 years old and his wife and family. The birth state information and proximity seems to indicate this isalso a son of George.  The 1900 census might be of help in fillingsome of these gaps, but I cannot find George or either of these sonsin the 1900 census.  Nor any census entry for Annabelle until the 1930census with Emma Kindard Dumond Miller.  So where was Annabelle in thethe 1920 census?

Sources

• 1. Bertie Lois Dumond McSwain, Family Information, handwritten 27February, 1979
• 2. 1900 Federal Census, Cleburne County, Arkansas
  • 14 June, Sugar Loaf Township, District 18, page 8B, Hse #137, Fam #141
• 3. 1880 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 10 June, Lagrue Township, District 3, page 16, Hse #134, Fam #143
• 4. RootsWeb -- Paul Rudd, Dumond-Long Family
  • http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2429531&id
• 5. Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
  • Volume 49, Page 16
• 6. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 11 February, Prairie Township, District 15, page 8A, Old Van Rd, Hse
• 7. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 18 April, Prairie Township, District 24, Page 11B, Hse #225, Fam #226
• 8. Bertie Lois Dumond McSwain, Personal Conversation with Orville BoydJenkins, 1980
• 9. Arkansas, Confederate Pension Records, 1891-1935
• 10. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 12 April, Stuttgart, District 8, page 8B, 715 North College St, Hse
• 11. U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
• 12. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 4 February, DeWitt Town, LaGrue Township, District 12, page 14A, South
• 13. Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
  • Dumond, Ira Eug, Volume 25, Certificate 16
• 14. Gravestone of Ira Eugene Dumond (Sr), Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel,Arkansas
• 15. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 1 February, Prairie Township, District 16, page 5B, LaGrue Springs and
• 16. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 18 April, Prairie Township, District 25, page 6A, Ethel and Point Rd.,
• 17. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
• 18. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 13 January, LaGrue Township, District 12, page 4B, Hse #84, Fam #88
• 19. Ancestry Trees
  • Mark W Stevens,
• 20. Ancestry Trees
  • Stocks Family,
• 21. Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950
• 22. Ralph Dumond, posting on RootsWeb Kinard List, 1999
  • http://genforum.genealogy.com/kinard/messages/87.html