DUANE
Duane's take
The way the official marker tells it, here's the story of Plummer Cemetery in Limestone County. Now, Luther Thomas Martin Plummer — most folks knew him as L.T.M. — came to what is now Limestone County in 1834, alongside his wife Rachel Parker Plummer. They were building something out here.
The following year, they received a Mexican land grant for three thousand three hundred and twenty-one acres in this very area. Three thousand, three hundred, and twenty-one acres. That is a serious piece of Texas ground.
Then came 1836, and the story takes a turn no family should ever have to endure. Rachel, her son James, and her cousin Cynthia Ann Parker were kidnapped by Comanches. Just like that, a family was torn open.
Rachel was returned in 1838. She and L.T.M. had another son, Wilson, born in January of 1839. But grief has a way of compounding itself out on the frontier.
Rachel died in February. The infant Wilson died in March. And right there, in the wake of that loss — mother gone, then child gone — L.T.M.
Plummer set aside one acre of his land for a family cemetery. One acre, carved out of thirty-three hundred, as a place to keep the people he could no longer keep. Since then, more than a hundred Plummer descendants have been buried on that acre.
What started as a father's grief became a community's memory — rooted right here in Limestone County, and still holding.
What the marker says
Luther Thomas Martin (L.T.M.) Plummer and his wife Rachel (Parker) arrived in what is now Limestone County in 1834. They received a Mexican land grant for 3,321 acres in this area the next year. In 1836, Rachel, her son James, and her cousin Cynthia Ann Parker were kidnapped by Comanches. After Rachel was returned in 1838, she and L. T. M. had another son, Wilson, in January 1839, but Rachel died in February and the infant in March. Upon Wilson's death, L. T. M. set aside one acre of land for a family cemetery. Since then, over 100 Plummer descendants have been buried here. 1991