George Carlysle Plummer was born March 10, 1893, in Monterey, Putnam County, Tennessee. He was the son of William Asbury Plummer, born June 10, 1855, in Ohio, and Ella V. (Smith) Plummer, born in 1865 in Ohio. The couple married in 1882 and became the parents of Louis Ellsworth (1883), Edwin William (1885), Eric Floyd (1887), Essley Inez (1889), Susannah Ionia (1891), George C. (1893), and Joseph D. (1896).
Joseph passed away on June 8, 1896, and was buried in Middle Creek Cemetery. On March 8, 1900, Ella also passed away and was buried in the same cemetery. After Ella’s death, the family lived in Grover Hill, Ohio, where they employed a servant, Flora Feister, a seventeen-year-old daughter of John Feister, a local Civil War veteran from Grover Hill.
In 1901, William Plummer married Hermia Ann (Hartzog) McDorman, a widow and the sister of Joshua Hartzog, Paulding County’s Medal of Honor recipient. Her first husband had died in 1900. William and Hermia had two children together: Reginald Arthur (born 1902) and Mary Belle (born 1904)…