When of age J. E. Plummer left the paternal homestead, and in December, 1855, began the study of medicine. After two and a half years had passed, he began to practice in McDonald County, Mo., and in the fall of 1858 accompanied his father to Texas there remaining, in Gonzales County, a year and a half. He then spent a year in Upshur County, and then lived in Harrison County until 1865.

Going to Bentonville, Benton Co., Ark., he practiced there until 1874, and since that time has enjoyed a lucrative practice in Huntsville. He owns a farm of 145 acres, sixty of which are under cultivation. In 1857 Mrs. Septima MILLER, daughter of Dr. GRAY, with whom our subject had studied, became his wife, and by her he had one daughter, Mary G. Mrs. Plummer died in 1881, and the following year he wedded Miss Melissa P. PHILLIPS, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. Plummer have two children: Erwin, aged six, and James R., aged four.