Julius was born September 3, 1860 in Independence to William Harrison and Susan (Thomasson) Plummer. On January 25, 1881 he was sworn in as a Campbell County Deputy Sheriff. Nine months later he married Carrie Bell Gosney in Newport. He was elected Sheriff on November 6, 1894.
During 1896 he was credited with finding the clue that led to the identification of Pearl Bryant’s headless body (a notorious tristate murder case). Sheriff Plummer pulled the lever at the hanging of the murderers, Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, in 1897. They were the last to be hung from the gallows behind the Campbell County Courthouse on York Street.
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