Rev. Greene Warren Plummer

Barry County Missouri Obituary Reverend Green Plummer Source: Scrapbook bought at the estate sale of Vivian Roller by Ted W. Roller

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APOPLEXY FATAL TO REV. PLUMMER PIONEER PASTER ---------Stricken While Driving In Buggy On Olive Street and Falls To Street ---------LONG IN MINISTRY ---------Minister Had Remarked On His Good Health Before Leaving Home ---------Stricken with apoplexy as he was driving West on Olive street neat the entrance to the Baker arcade. Rev. Green Plummer, who lived, seven miles east of the city on Mill street road, plunged lifeless to the pavement this morning at 10:20 o'clock. The attack apparently came without a seconds notice as eye witnesses say the only move on the part of the man was the fall from the seat of the buggy.

Drs. Henry J. Ruyle and Robert F. Williams hastened to that stricken man's side but their efforts to revive the patient were of no avail. They said the minister was dead when the body struck the ground.

Alfred Sampey and Ben Lamb, police detectives, carried the body into the rear of McMinn barber shop in the arcade where Will. C(?) Lohmeyer, coroner of Greene County, viewed it. The corpse was later taken(?) to the Paxson Undertakers ??? company morgue where it is being prepared for burial.

At the time of his death Rev. Plummer was making his weekley rounds of customers he furnished with butter. He was driving a single horse and the faithful animal stopped when he felt the grip on the lines released.

HAD BEEN IN GOOD HEALTH

Rev. Plummer was 67 years old and had never been troubles with symptoms of apoplexy. When he departed from his home this morning he remarked to his wife that he was in excellent health. The decedent was a pioneer of Greene County and for a number of years presided over the Ozark presbytery. Later he conducted revival meetings at the various churches in his territory. In the last two years the minister had confined his activities to the pulpit of the Danforth Cumberland Presbyterian church. He served during the Civil war in the Union army and participated in several engagements of importance.

The decedent was born in 1846 to Mr and Mrs. John Plummer, on the farm where he lived at the time of his death. Mr. Plummer was reared on the homestead and he received his early education at the county school near Turner Station. Following his admittance to the ministry, the young man turned his attention to revival work in the surrounding country. At one time he was pastor of as many as four churches, preaching in each one Sunday out of the month. At the age of about 25 he was he was married to the daughter of a neighbor and to this union was born four children, one of whom died after reaching his majority.

Rev. Plummer and Rec. John T. Bacon, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian church of this city, were intimate friends. The Springfield ministry was shocked this morning when he was notified of the death of his friend by a reporter.

"I have known Mr. Plummer for a great many years" said Rev. Bacon today, "and I can conscientiously say that I have never met a nobler man. He and I were thrown together repeatedly and I learned to look upon him as my closes friend."

Rev. Plummer is survived by the widow, three daughters and one son. The children are Mrs. Kate Ball, living in the state of Washington; Mrs. Nellie Meredith, Reed Springs, Mo., Miss Artelia, living at the family home and Floyd Plummer a prosperous farmer in California. A brother, Henry Plummer lives in Reed Springs, Dr. T.G. Plummer, a dentist of this city, is a nephew.

The relatives are this afternoon being notified of the sudden death of Rev. Plummer

No arrangements have as yet been made for the funeral but it is probable that interment will be in Danfort cemetery.

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