Thomas C. Shumate, P. O., Cambridge. On the 17th of February, 1829, Mr. T. C. Shumate was born in Knox county, Ohio, and in 1837 came to Missouri with his parents, and located in Lewis county, and lived there until 1848, when he moved to Saline county. In 1849, 25th of August, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Duncan, daughter of Benjamin F. and Sarah A. Duncan, of this county. They have five children, three sons and two daughters. Since manhood, Mr. Shumate has followed farming and stock raising all his life, and on the farm where he now resides. His father, James Shumate, died in 1879, at the advanced age of eighty-one years.
