Re: Tuma (Touma)
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In reply to:
Re: Dier Mimas area--Abood, Tuma (Toomey)
4/30/98
I have a family history written by James Tuma who was the fourth son of Ameen (Amos) and Adeeba Tuma who immigrated from Lebanon in 1913 and settled in Michigan.From the obituary of Miriam Tuma (as translated from the Arabic), Miriam Saffady(maiden name) TOUMA was born in Deir Mimas in 1860.She attended school "in town" and "then entered the American girls high school in Sidon.Started teaching in Sidon, Deir Mimas, Ibil-al-sacci and Blat.... She married the late Daniel Touma of Blat and had two famous merchant sons, who live abroad, Ameen in USA and Jacob in Bolivia."