When Frank Talbert Plummer was born on 22 April 1885, in Springville, Linn, Iowa, United States, his father, Casper Michael Plummer, was 33 and his mother, Mary Alice Secrist, was 32. He married Nellie Aleda Graham on 3 December 1914, in Linn, Iowa, United States. He lived in Maine Township, Linn, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Marion Township, Linn, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 5 January 1971, in Marion, Linn, Iowa, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Oak Shade Cemetery, Marion, Linn, Iowa, United States.
English:
occupational name for a worker in lead, especially a maker of lead pipes and conduits, from Middle English plum(b)er, plom(b)er, plummer ‘worker or dealer in lead, plumber’ (Anglo-Norman French plum(m)er, plomner).
habitational name from Plummers in Hertfordshire, which probably derives from Middle English plo(u)me ‘plum’ + mere ‘lake, pool, pond’. The name is also established in Ireland, taken there from England in the 17th century.
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