Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Plunkett, Robert 1828 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  ROBERT PLUNKETT, farmer and stockman, P. O. Hutsonville, was born October 4,
1828, in Shelby County, Ky. He is a descendant of a Lord Plunkett, who is
connected with the history of Ireland, where his estates were, and becoming
involved in her political affairs with England, he had to flee for his life, and
settled in Virginia. His son, Jesse, who is the grandfather of our subject,
removed to the dark and bloody grounds of Kentucky, where he participated in the
border warfare with the red man of the woods, and married a Miss Moseley; they
reared a large family. One of the boys, named Robert, married Nancie Hartley,
daughter of Daniel and Rebecca Hartley, and the mother of thirteen children.
Abraham, one of the boys, was killed at the battle of Stone River, Tenn. Our
subject was educated in Indiana, where his father had removed in 1833; from
there he went to the Mexican war, in 1846, and participated in the battle of
Buena Vista. He was married, August 19, 1847, in Montgomery County, Ind., to
Christina Andrews, daughter of John and Nancie Andrews, who came from Ohio. She
is the mother of four children now living: John M., was married twice; is the
father of one little boy, named Rollin A.; he is a minister of the Union
Christian Church, receiving his theological education at Merom, Ind. His
brother, Robert A., born August 19, 1850, was educated in the same college; he
is now engaged in the insurance business; Nancie A., wife of Asa Eckard, a
tiller of the soil in this county, he is the father of Anna, Josephine and
Henrietta; Henry S. L., born February 27, 1860. Mrs. Plunkett is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church; her daughter belongs to the Christian Church. Mr.
Plunkett enlisted, 1861, for the three years' term, in the Thirty-eighth
Illinois Infantry Volunteers, Company D, as Second Lieutenant. He was afterward
detailed to Gen. Jefferson C. Davis' staff, of the Union army. He participated
in many thrilling scenes and battles. He came to this county in 1858. He and his
boys have about four hundred acres of fine land; they pay a great deal of
attention to stock raising, and in political affairs are identified with the
Republican party. Mr. Plunkett has filled school offices.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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