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• 1860 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 3-4 September, Old River Township, PO Swan Lake, page 96, Hse #757, Fam #701
  Dumond, Calist M 35 Farmer  No real Estate $1000 Personal Estate born Arkansas
  Dumond, Sarah M  F 24 born Tennessee
  
  Sarah's husband Caliste Dumond died in April 1863, according to Brian Demoe, a Dumont family researcher.  In the 1870 census, we find her married to William DeBalt, age 32, from Missouri.  Three of her Dumond children are with her:  Sarah, Edward Caliste and Solomon Lewis.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 9 July, Cypress Bayou Township, PO Arkansas Post, page 7, Hse/Fam #59
  DeBalt [DeBolt?] William 32 M W Farmer $400 Real Estate  $400  Personal  born Missouri cannot read or write
  DeBalt [DeBolt?] Sarah M 31 F W Keeping House born Tennessee cannot read or write
  Dumond Sarah 17 F W  Arkansas
  Calista Edward [sic]  11 M W  Arkansas
  Lewis Solomon [sic]  9 M W  Arkansas
  DeBalt [DeBolt?] Mary A 2 M [sic] W  Arkansas
  
  The names are written as I have given them here, with no comma separating last name from the first.  The middle name of Caliste and Solomon is written as though it was their last name.  It looks like he did not understand that all three of these children were surnamed Dumond, and being told "Sarah Dumond," he wrote Dumond as the last name, but hearing both given names of the boys, he wrote the second name as though that was the surname.
  
  I can envision the conversation;
  Enumerator:  And what is the oldest child's name?
  Sarah:  She is Sarah Dumond.  Her father died.
  E: and the next oldest?
  S:  Edward Caliste
  E: Age (etc)
  E: and the next?
  S:  Solomon Lewis
  E: Age (etc)
  E: And next?
  S: Mary A DeBalt.  She is our first since I married William.
  
  Note that Mary is listed as Male!  I have seen this error in some other cases.
  
  This listing of Caliste here (though as Calista, which is actually close to the way the French pronounced it) also indicates his parents had continued to use the French spelling.  But his children likely changed it, or it was remembered and spelled Collise in retrospect from their English pronunciation.  I have found no public records spelling it that way.
  
  The family name also changed, as we see from the census entries and genealogies, from Dumont (or Du Mont) to Dumond (or Du Mond) in the generation of Caliste's and Sarah's children.  We find it on occasion as Dumonde, in an attempt to make it fit a French word/name form.

Sources

• 1. 1860 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 3-4 September, Old River Township, PO Swan Lake, page 96, Hse #757, Fam #701
• 2. 1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 9 July, Cypress Bayou Township, PO Arkansas Post, page 7, Hse/Fam #59
• 3. Ancestry Trees
  • Brian Demoe, Demoe/Dumont Family Tree, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brian_demoe&id=I1460
• 4. Personal Letters
• 5. 1900 Federal Census, Cleburne County, Arkansas
  • 14 June, Sugar Loaf Township, District 18, page 8B, Hse #137, Fam #141
• 6. RootsWeb -- Paul Rudd, Dumond-Long Family
  • http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2429531&id=I519570204
• 7. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 8. Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
• 9. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 3 February, LaGrue Township, District 12, page 11B, Hse #236, Fam #245
• 10. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
• 11. RootsWeb -- Heureux Genealogy
  • http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lheureux/lh1/d0033/g0000046.html#I116118
• 12. 1910 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 2 June, LaGrue Township, District 9, page 18A, Hse #203, Fam #211
• 13. 1900 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 16 June, LaGrue Township, District 4, page 13B,  Hse #255, Fam #260