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- Some of the earliest settlers in the village were James Dumas, a French-Canadian, and his Menominee Indian wife, who came from Green Bay and erected a log house which was boarded and whitewashed on the inside , on the lot where the residence of Mrs. William Busse now stands. Because Mr. Dumas had a sixth sense about finding his way through the forests, he was often engaged by the pioneer settlers as a scout.
He was a good farmer in those days, for he owned a team of horses when most farmers had only a yoke of oven. He often carried home a hundred pounds of flour from Green Bay, stopping to rest at some Indian village along the way. He was jolly fellow and his fiddling was much sought after for the simple social occasions of those early days. James Dumas died in Reedsville in 1875 and his daughter, Mary the previous year.
Both are buried on the St. Marys Cemetery in the village.
From Recall Early Day Settlers in Reedsville Manitowoc Herald Times June 3, 1939 page 5
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