Rev. Dr. William Swan Plumer and Eliza Gardner Hasell

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Husband Rev. Dr. William Swan Plumer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 26 Jul 1802 - Darlington, Beaver Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Oct 1880 - Baltimore, MD 3
         Buried:  - Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Chesterfield Co, VA

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         Father: William Plumer (1755-1833) 2
         Mother: Catherine McAllister (1759-      ) 2

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       Marriage: 11 Jun 1829 - Hillsborough, Orange Co, NC 4

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Wife Eliza Gardner Hasell ⁴

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 30 Oct 1878 - South Carolina 4
         Buried:  - Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Chesterfield Co, VA

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Children

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1 F Eliza Douglas Plumer ⁴

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           Born: 2 Apr 1830 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Apr 1882 - Charlotte Co, VA 4
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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2 F Catherine Frances "Kate" Plumer ^{1 4}

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           Born: 29 Sep 1831 - Petersburg, Fauquier Co, VA 1 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Feb 1898 1 4
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Samuel Smith Bryan (1819-1892) 1 4
           Marr: 9 Oct 1855 - Allegheny, Allegheny Co, PA 1

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Dr. William Swan Plumer

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Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

After teaching school for some years in Virginia, he entered Washington College, (later Washington and Lee), and took the course in two years. He graduated from Princeton, and was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 14, 1826. He was an evangelist in Virginia and North Carolina, organizing Presbyterian Churches in different parts of those states. His first call, after his marriage, was in Charlotte County, Virginia. Removed to Petersburg, Virginia, 1831, and in 1834 to Richmond, where he remained until 1846. Was Pastor of Franklin Street Church, Baltimore, in 1854. He was appointed by the General Assembly, September, 1854, Professor of Didactic and Pastoral Theology in Western Theological Seminary, which place he filled until 1862, when he became pastor of the Central Church, of Allegheny [Pennsylvania?]. From there he went to Pottsville, in 1865. He was chosen by the Southern General Assembly, Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology in University, at Columbia, South Carolina, and remained there until May, 1880, when he went to Baltimore, and entered the Union Protestant Hospital, for a necessary surgical operation from the effects of which he died. Dr. Plumer was the author of more than twenty-five volumes and a large number of leaflets, tracts and sermons. In 1838, he was the Moderator of the General Assembly Old School, and in 1871 Moderator of the Southern Assembly.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 436.

2 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 22.

3 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 24.

4 Mary Catherine McAllister, Descendants of Archibald McAllister (Harrisburg, PA: Scheffer's Printing & Bookbinding House, 1898), Pg 25.