Leroy Everett "Roy" Plummer was born June 24, 1884 in Ayr, Adams County, Nebraska to Levi Lonzo and Martha Jane (Corbin) Plummer. He was still living with his parents and siblings in Ayr, Nebraska when the 1900 U. S. Census was taken. He is listed as 13-years-of-age and attending school. After his sister and brother-in-law, Anna L. and Spartan Thomas West and their children moved to Montana, "Roy" Plummer and his brother Orey seem to have followed, working as a day laborer on ranches and coal mines.
"Roy" Plummer went further west than other members of the family. We know this because on December 3, 1907, Leroy Plummer married Elizabeth Ann Hunting in Menan, Jefferson County, Idaho. He was 20 years old. Elizabeth Ann Hunting was a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints and there are good records of the events that occurred such as marriages, baptisms and deaths. Elizabeth Ann was known to family and friends as "Lizzie" Hunting and was born to William and Susan (Cherry) Hunting on November 29, 1887 in Menan, Idaho.
Menan, Jefferson County, Idaho was the first Mormon Settlement in Jefferson County, Idaho and her parents, William and Susan (Cherry) Hunting joined other migrants living in the Salt Lake City, Utah area in a wagon train to settle the area in 1879.
Leroy "Roy" and Elizabeth Ann (Hunting) Plummer were the parents to two children: Elizabeth Luceal Plummer, born September 13, 1908 and and Levi Leroy Plummer born February 9, 1910. Unfortunately, both of their children died in infancy. Elisabeth Luceal Plummer died on March 1, 1909 and Levi Leroy Plummer died on March 5, 1911 in Menan, Idaho. The cause of their deaths is not known but both children are burried in Little Butte Cemetery, Annis, Jefferson County, Idaho.
Again, details are not known, but Elizabeth Ann (Hunting) Plummer sued Leroy "Roy" Plummer for divorce stating that he had abandoned the family and that his whereabouts was not known. Perhaps the divorce decree was never filed or served but in any case, the couple reconciled and moved back to Adams County, Nebraska, where they had two more children. The photograph above was taken where both Plummers worked at the Ingleside Hospital for the Insane at Hastings, Adams County, Nebraska.
Walter Orey Plummer was born on August 14, 1913 in Ayr, Adams County, Nebraska. Very little is known of Walter Plummer's life. According to family tradition, he died on January 1, 1933 in Marion County, Oregon suffering from polio. He is buried in Bethany Pioneer Cemetery, Bethany, Marion County, Oregon. I have not been able to find him on U. S. Census reports for 1920 or 1930. It is not known whether or not he married. As you will read below, his sister, Maude Ann Plummer, was married in Silverton, Marion County, Oregon in 1936 so perhaps the brother and sister moved from Montana to Oregon together.
Maude Ann Plummer was born December 28, 1915 in Roundup, Musselshell County, Montana. Several of the family members had previously lived in the Roundup community and apparently Roy and Lizzie Plummer moved there from Ayr, Nebraska. The 1920 U. S. Census records the family living in Harlowtown, Mussellshell, Montana where Leroy "Roy" Plummer is employed as a railroad brakeman.
Maude Ann Plummer married Leo John Nehl on November 6, 1936 in Silverton, Marion County, Oregon.
Leo John Nehl was the son of Florian Henry and Mary (Endres) Nehl and was born April 11, 1912 in Wadena, Minnesota. He is shown still living with his family in Minnesota on the 1930 U. S. Census, but by 1935, he had moved to Marion County, Oregon. By the 1940 U. S. Census, the Leo John and Maude Nehl were living in Portland, Oregon
Maude Ann Plummer
The 1936 Wedding Photo of Leo John and Maude Ann (Plummer) Nehl.
John and Maude Nehl were the parents of three daughters. Beatrice J. Nehl was born about 1937, Leona Jean Nehl was born in October 14, 1938 and Sherry Ann Nehl on October 15, 1945.
I have not found any information concerning Beatrice J. Nehl.
Leona Jean Nehl was married to Ervin Loy Coleman on September 6, 1956 in Portland, Oregon. They are the parents of one daughter, Carron Elaine Coleman born September 12, 1957 in Portland, Oregon. Carron Elaine Coleman died December 22, 1998 in Portland, Oregon. Ervin Coleman died in 2000 in Tillamook County, Oregon and I am assuming that Leona Jean (Nehl) Coleman is still living.
Ervin Loy Coleman at age 16.
Sheryl Ann Nehl was born October 15, 1945 in Portland, Oregon and was married to a man named Herrington. I have not been able to find his first name. She died on December 8, 2006 at Rockaway Beach, Tillamook, Oregon. I have not been able to find information about whether or not there were children.
I have not been able to find a death date or location for Leroy Everett Plummer. The last mention of him I have found is the 1920 U. S. Census, when he was living in Harlowtown, Musselshell, Montana.
I also did not find divorce papers for Leroy Everett and Elizabeth Ann (Hunting) Plummer, but a marraige certificate is among public records, stating that Elizabeth Ann (Hunting) was married a second time on May 10, 1920 in Spokane, Washington to Guy Otto Thurston.
Guy Thurston and Elizabeth Ann Hunting-Plummer-Thurston were the parents of three children:
Allen Ray Thurston in 1922, James Edward Thursday in 1925, and Florence I. Thurston in 1929. While these three children do not have any Corbin ancestry, I have done their genealogy on my www.ancestry.com website.
This is all of the information I have been able to find regarding Leroy Everett "Roy" Plummer and his descendants. If anyone reading this has more, please let me know.
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