Brief Life History of Seymour Stimmel
When Seymour Stimmel Plum was born on 26 February 1835, in Hamilton Township, Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, Henry William Plum, was 26 and his mother, Cathrine Duvall, was 24. He married Elmira "Ella" Hughes on 6 October 1861, in Franklin, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Berkshire Township, Delaware, Ohio, United States in 1910 and Galena, Delaware, Ohio, United States in 1920. He died on 16 February 1927, in Berkshire, Delaware, Ohio, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Galena, Delaware, Ohio, United States.
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- Seymour Plumb in household of Henry Plumb, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Seymour Stimmel Plumb - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth-name: Seymour Stimmel Plumb
- Seymore S. Plum, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1836 · Kirtland Temple Dedicated
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
Name Meaning
English and North German: from Middle English plum(b)e, Middle Low German plum(e) ‘plum’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a plum tree, or a metonymic occupational name for a fruit grower, or possibly a nickname, for example for someone with a plum-colored birthmark.
Americanized form of German Pflum ‘plum’, a cognate of 1 above.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Blum .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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