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Pressman M Plumb

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Pressman M Plumb

Birth
Saint Johns, Apache County, Arizona, USA
Death
23 Jul 1951 (aged 69)
Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
Burial
Clay Springs, Navajo County, Arizona, USA Add to Map
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Pressman Moses Plumb was born January 3, 1881 or 1882. Press, as he was known by his friends, had dark brown eyes, black hair, was about 6'2" and weighed about 220 lbs. Press worked as a cowboy, mule skinner, powder monkey (working with explosives), border patrolman, sheepherder, and Arizona Ranger. Press worked on the Boulder Dam as a powder monkey and the Holbrook Levee as a mule skinner and as a cowboy with the Hashknife Outfit. Press, also, worked for the Q Land & Cattle Company of Young (Pleasant Valley), Arizona for R. N. Grantham.

Press was married to Unisa Victoria Mackey June 9, 1924. Press was forty-three years old at the time of his marriage and Tory, as she liked to be called, was only thirteen.

Press was a fine old man whose wife left him to rear a family alone in 1941. He had a comfortable but small four room house, a kitchen, and an open front porch, also a well.

Press died of stomach cancer in 1951 at the age of 70.
Pressman Moses Plumb was born January 3, 1881 or 1882. Press, as he was known by his friends, had dark brown eyes, black hair, was about 6'2" and weighed about 220 lbs. Press worked as a cowboy, mule skinner, powder monkey (working with explosives), border patrolman, sheepherder, and Arizona Ranger. Press worked on the Boulder Dam as a powder monkey and the Holbrook Levee as a mule skinner and as a cowboy with the Hashknife Outfit. Press, also, worked for the Q Land & Cattle Company of Young (Pleasant Valley), Arizona for R. N. Grantham.

Press was married to Unisa Victoria Mackey June 9, 1924. Press was forty-three years old at the time of his marriage and Tory, as she liked to be called, was only thirteen.

Press was a fine old man whose wife left him to rear a family alone in 1941. He had a comfortable but small four room house, a kitchen, and an open front porch, also a well.

Press died of stomach cancer in 1951 at the age of 70.


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