“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


HENRY PLUM,  farmer, Secs. 4 and 8;  P.O. Busseyville; was born in 
Allen Township, Adams Co., Penn., Feb. 25, 1820; son of Adam Plum, 
who married, in 1818, Miss Sarah Stahl, a native of Hanover, York Co., 
N.Y., the year of her nativity being 1796; they had nine children, seven 
still living – Michael, Adam, Ephraim, Samuel, Jane, Polly and Henry.  
In the spring of 1835, they came to Columbia Co., Ohio, and engaged in 
farming, which they followed until 1856; then moved to Wisconsin, 
locating in Sumner Township, where he purchased a farm, upon which 
he still lives, his wife having died in 1878.  Henry married, in Trumbull, 
Ohio, in 1842, Miss Caroline Kump, born in York Co., Penn., Jan. 25, 
1825; he had eight children, five still living - John, Noah, Adam, David 
and Samuel.  Three of his sons were in the army;  Stephen enlisted Jan. 
8, 1864, at Janesville, in Co. H, 3d W.V.I., and died of a wound in 
October 1865;  Noah enlisted at Fort Atkinson on Feb. 14, 1865, in Co. 
H, 49th W.V.I., and John enlisted at Madison on Jan. 18, 1864, in Co. K, 
3d W.V.I.  The three made fine records, and the two latter were mustered 
out in July, 1868, the former at Madison, Wis., and the latter at 
Louisville, Ky.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)