Source: "History of Wayne County, Indiana, from its First Settlement to the
Present Time," by Andrew W. Young, Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert Clarke & Co.,
1872, p. 427-8.

"JOSEPH PEMBERTON PLUMMER was born in Anne Arundel Co., Md., Oct. 4, 1783.
He married Susanna Husband, who died, leaving four children, a son and three
daughters. In 1819, he married Lydia Husband, and removed with his family to
Cincinnati, and in 1823 to Richmond. He built a two-story frame dwelling,
with store-room attached, on the south-east corner of Main and Front streets,
and engaged in mercantile business. In 1824, he purchased a grist-mill, and
in 1825 he built an addition to it for the manufacture of oil from castor
beans; but sold all in 1827, and confined his attention to his store. In
1834, he purchased and moved upon the farm now owned by Mark E. Reeves.
Having lost his second wife by death, he returned to town to live with his
children, two of whom, John T. Plummer and Joanna P. Laws, were then living
here. With one or the other of these he resided until his death, Sept. 20,
1868. He was an active business man, a good citizen, and regardful of his
social and domestic duties. He refrained almost entirely from connection
with political and other associations, content with the influence of an
exemplary life upon those with whom he had daily intercourse. He was for
many years an honored minister in the society of Friends, and an active
member until his activities were impaired by his bodily infirmities, which
kept him at home during the last two years of his life. His children, all
by his first wife, were: 1. John T. [Sk.] 2. Mary M., who married William
Owen, and is deceased. 3. Joanna P., who married John M. Laws, an early
watchmaker and jeweler, and afterward for many years a merchant in Richmond.
4. Sarah C., who married Wm. Bancroft, and died in Philadelphia in 1856."