When Gardner Ladd Plumley was born on 14 February 1862, in Metuchen, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, his father, Rev. Gardiner Spring Plumley, was 34 and his mother, Emily Augusta Fisher, was 29. He married Mabel Hutton on 1 June 1898. He died on 22 December 1927, at the age of 65, and was buried in Akron, Summit, Ohio, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of various places so called, derived from Middle English ploum(b)e, plom(m)e, plim(me) ‘plum tree’ + lei(e) ‘open land, clearing’ (Old English plūme, plȳme + lēah ‘woodland clearing’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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