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PLUMLEY FAMILY STORIES The Plumley Family Plumley, John and Morning (Gosnell) Plumley, lived and reared their family about a mile beyond the entrance to the Emery/Lindsey Cemetery. They are buried at Mountain Hill Baptist Church , he was born in 1837 and she in 1841. He died in 1900 and she in 1934. They are Jessie Emery's great grandparents. Their children are Louise, Mildred, Margaret, George Holland, Jessie Emery's grandfather, Lavonia, Malinda, Jack, the father of a large family who lived near Mountain Hill Baptist Church . He married Martha Lindsey, sister of France Lindsey, Wesley Plumley who lived and reared his family on Vaughn's Creek at the head of Lake Lenair , he was the Grandfather of Duane Emery. There was also Narcissum (Sis) one of the wives of J. B. (Baez) Emery. They married in the 1880s. John and Morning were listed in the 1880 census along with eight of their children. Morning and her descendants had five generations living at one time. Jack Plumley and Martha Lindsey Plumley lived and reared their children on Glassy Mountain near Mountain Hill Baptist Church and Mountain Hill School that shared the same building. There were about eight children in the family, four boys and four girls. Three of the girls never married. Louemer was the more prominent and she painfully was the last to sell her land for the Cliff's development. This family was charter members as well as faithful members of Mountain Hill Baptist Church until their land was sold. When the people settled the mountains in the latter half of the 1800s, corn would grow anywhere in the rich soil and a healthy crop, the problem was that it would sell for about 20 cent a bushel. The good news was that you could turn into liquid form at about $4.00 a bushel. At that time it was legal to make and sell it. So it was a haven for the blockaders and bootleggers. The Federal, State and County Governments came along and put a tax on it which created another problem. That is the tax was about what you could sell it for. This created a bad relationship between the mountain people and the revengers. Dr. James A. Howard's father, Holland Howard was killed under Round Rock about 1 ½ miles from the cemetery in a raid. When I was a boy, there were two groups to contend with one was the highjackers and the other was the revengers. Their cars were similar and it was hard to tell the difference, in fact, it did not make much difference because both were treated with the same disdain. So one night at the Hogback Road where the Glassy Mountain Road runs into it, one of their cars was spotted and Winchester and pistols and maybe shotguns started firing. The car started moving and the faster they got the more the shooting. The officers started bailing out and at the North Carolina State Line the driver left the car that had more than eighty bullet holes in it. That put an end to the night raids and the highjackers. It surely did not stop the raids during the day, in fact, it increased them. In spite of all these bad things, a lot of positive things happened. There was plenty of honesty, integrity, friendship and liberality. |
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