William Plummer (deceased) was born in Scott County, Ky., in the year 1811, and moved to Callaway County, Mo., in 1827. Ten years later he moved on the farm where his family now reside, and there died in 1883. He and his brother Nicholas, who still survives, were almost inseparable in life. Together they came to the then Far West, and together bore all the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life. Nicholas is now a resident of Miller County. William was married to Miss Elizabeth Hackney, daughter of William and Sarah Hackney, who were also among the pioneers of Cole County. Mrs. Hackney is now living with her daughter, and is a well-preserved old lady at the age of eighty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Plummer were the parents of twelve children, nine of whom still survive, two dying in infancy. The children were named as follows: Sarah C., who married John Lane, of Cole County, and is the mother of five children; Eliza A. (deceased), was the wife of J.E. Garman, whose biography appears in this work, and was the mother of one child; Rachel A, is the wife of J. E. Garman, and has one child; Mary Lusk married Minor E. Wade, and now lives in Atchison, Kas., and has one child; Georgiana is the wife of William Bower, of Cole County, and is the mother of two children, named Harry and Gussie; John, of Marion Township, married Miss Tabitha Susan McMillen, daughter of Dixon McMillen, of Cooper County, where she was born {they have two children living, William, the eldest, who is now a young man of good education and of fair prospects, and Ida Bell, at home with her parents); William H., now of Cole County, was the father of two daughters, Minnie and Nannie, both of whom died in young womanhood; James S. married Miss Martha R. Lane, and has eight children, who are named as follows: William M., Hattie, Ewing, Ernest, Edgar, Nora Lee, Forrest and Columbus M. Martin D. Plummer, the youngest child born to the union of William and Elizabeth (Hackney) Plummer, is now at home with his mother, and has charge of her fine farm of 280 acres of as good land as is to be found in the county. He ranks as one of the most enterprising and prosperous young men of his neighborhood, and is continually threatened with matrimony, as he has the reputation, and justly, too, of being the best-looking man in his circle.

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History of Cole, Moniteau, Morgan, Benton, Miller, Maries, and Osage Counties, Missouri, Goodspeed Publishing Company (1889).