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Rev. Thomas Dulany, Missionary Baptist minister, Ben Lomond, Ark. The personal example and influence which this humble but worthy minister of the gospel casts about him in every-day life cannot but be beneficial to those who enjoy the privilege of his companionship. His faithful, earnest endeavors to show others the error of their ways and to point them to Christ have not gone unrewarded, and while it may not be his privilege to witness the reaping of all the truths which he has spoken, he has been enabled to feel the force of that precious passage in God’s word that “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” Mr. Dulany was born in Fayette County, Ala., in 1831, and is the son of Alfred and Rachel (McNeice) Dulany, natives also of Alabama. The parents were reared and married in that State, and in about 1834 they moved to Itawamba County, Miss., where Mr. Dulany died, in 1862. He was born in 1808, and was a farmer the principal part of his life. He was police judge of Itawamba County for a number of years, and was lieutenant of the first company that entered the Confederate army from Itawamba County for sixty days’ service. He was discharged and sent home just prior to his death. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity for many years. The mother was born March 12, 1812, and died July 9, 1883, and was a member of the Baptist Church for thirty-four years. The paternal grandfather, Thomas Dulany, was accidentally killed while hunting in Alabama. The maternal grandfather, Henry McNeice, was killed by an enemy, while working in his field in Alabama. Rev. Thomas Dulany, the second of ten children—seven sons and three daughters—was early taught the duties of the farm, and received his education in the common schools. He was married in 1853, to Miss Eliza M. Horn, the daughter of Zaccheus and Jane Horn, of Mississippi. She died in 1867, leaving four sons and two daughters. Mr. Dulany’s second marriage was to Mrs. Sarah L. Benson, nee Chaffin, who died in 1876, leaving two sons and one daughter. His third marriage was to Miss Amanda E. M. Casey, a native of Floyd County, Ga., born in 1844, and the daughter of John A. and Emily J. Casey, natives of Georgia, who moved from there in 1844, to Atalla County, Miss., where they resided until 1860, when they removed to Lawrence County, Ark. There Mrs. Casey died in 1880, and Mr. Casey died in Scott County the same year. He was a blacksmith by trade. In 1850 Mr. Dulany united with the Missionary Baptist Church, and eight years later was licensed to preach. In 1860 he was ordained, and since 1858 he has been constantly in the field. He now has charge of the church at Mount Carmal, Howard County, and Union and Damascus Churches in Sevier County. In 1861 he joined the sixty-day service with his father, but after a short service in Kentucky, he was taken sick and discharged. He had five brothers in the Confederate army. In 1870 Mr. Dulany came to Sevier County, Ark., where he has since resided. He is also the owner of 110 acres of land. In politics he is a Democrat, and socially he is a member of the A. F. & A. M., demitted from Fulton, Miss. By his present wife Mr. Dulany has two sons and three daughters.