James Ransom Plummer
mayor of Columbia, Tennessee, in 1832, 1833, 1834, 1836, and 1838.
James Ransom Plummer (March 9, 1797 – February 24, 1858) was the mayor of Columbia, Tennessee, in 1832, 1833, 1834, 1836, and 1838. He was an active Methodist. He was also in Nashville, one of the presiding elders of Davidson County in 1844.
Early life and relatives
James Ransom Plummer was born on March 9, 1797, in Warren County, North Carolina to William Plummer and Elizabeth Jones Ransom. He was therefore a nephew of North Carolina statesman Nathaniel Macon and also a nephew of Macon's wife Hannah Plummer. William and Hannah's brother was the lawyer Kemp Plummer, the grandfather of future University of North Carolina president Kemp Plummer Battle.
J. R. Plummer's grandfather was Macon's stepfather and Regulator James Ransom. Plummer is a relative of Confederate generals Matt Whitaker Ransom and Robert Ransom.
Children
He sired 16 children between two wives, Elizabeth Eleanor Longley (died in 1845) and Elizabeth Gannaway Love. Longley was born in Abingdon, Virginia.
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