In Britain 'dumb' is seldom used to mean stupid. It was mostly only used to mean mute e.g 'deaf and dumb'. However 'dumb' in the mute sense is probably politically incorrect nowadays, a bit like calling a short person a 'dwarf'.
Luis Carlos MontalvÃ¡n at a book signing in Coral Gables, Fla., in 2011, with his service dog, Tuesday. Luis Carlos MontalvÃ¡n, an Iraq war veteran and best-selling author who toured the country with his service dog, Tuesday, as an advocate for soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, died on Friday in El Paso. He was 43. He was found dead in his hotel room.
Jesus BAZAN was born in January 1848. His gravestone gives his birth date as March 19, 1848. He died on 26 September 1915 at the age of 67 in Rancho Campo de las Flores, north of Edinburg, TX. Jesus Bazan and his son-in-law Antonio Leopoldo Longoria were murdered by Texas Rangers on September 26, 1915.