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CALEB AND REBECCA WERE MARRIED IN PERRY TOWNSHIP, WAYNE COUNTY,
OHIO ON JAN 6,1831 BY SQUIRE ERICK J.P.. THE COURT HOUSE BURNED AND
RECORDS WERE LOST. THEY LIVED IN OHIO, MOVED TO WHITESIDE COUNTY,
ILL PROBABLY AROUND 1845. THEY THEN MOVED IN 1854/55 TO
BROOKLYN, WARREN TWP, IN POWESHIEK COUNTY, IA. THREE OF THEIR
SONS ENLISTED TOGETHER TO JOIN THE CIVIL WAR. ALL THREE DIED
WITHIN 2 MONTHS OF EACH OTHER IN JUNE-JULY 1863 IN MISSISSIPPI.
CALEB HAD GONE TO MS TO HELP NURSE THE BOYS AND HIS OWN HEALTH
WAS BROKEN. HE CONTRACTED TYPHOID FEVER AND CHRONIC DIARRHEA
WHICH MADE HIM A INVALID. HE WAS NO LONGER ABLE TO FARM. REBECCA
WORKED FROM 1863-1873 AND A SINGLE DAUGHTER WHO WAS CRIPPLED
ALSO WORKED. ( BELEIVED TO BE SARAH WHO MARRIED JOHN WESLEY
WADDELL). IN 1872 THE FAMILY MOVED TO AVOCA IN JAMES TOWNSHIP,
POTTAWATTAMIE CO. IA. RESOURCES CEMETERY BOOK, VOLUME 1, BOOK 1,
EAST POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, 1980, SHELBY
PUBLIC LIBRARY, SHELBY, IA.
Also found them on the 1856 State census of Poweshiek, IA Warren Township
Caleb Plummer age 49 b in MD
Rebecca Plummer age 43 b in OH
Anna 19 bn in OH
Thomas 19
Jessup 17 bn in OH
Sarah age_?_ bn in OH
Nicholas 14 bn in Ia
Elizabeth 13 bn in IL
Mary 11 bn IL
Julie Ann 8 bn in IL
William 7 bn in IA
Julias 5 bn in ILL
Cyrus 2 _?_ bn in IA
Doris
Henning /Waddell
