Henry B Plummer

Henry B Plummer is the youngest child of John and Eliza Wharton Plummer. The family had come to Greene County, MO from North Carolina through Tennessee by 1850. Henry was born in MO in 1862, the youngest of ten children. His oldest brother died at Andersonville in 1864.

The family owned a farm 8 miles east of Springfield on the Mill Street Road. His father donated the ground for the Plummer school house, the first in that area. It was still being used in 1942.

By 1900, Henry was living in Stone Country and in 1910 he was operating a general store in Reeds Spring as the Missouri Pacific Railroad was being built.

In 1916, he sold the store and moved to Steamboat Springs, CO, where he farmed for some years before retiring and moving to Los Angeles, were he resided until his death. He was survived by his wife and three daughters.

Most of this information was obtained from the obit in the Stone County News-Oracle, 30 Dec. 1942.