Emma Lurette Ramsey

Notes:

SAN AUGUSTINE TRIBUNE Thursday January 13, 2000

Memory Walk Brick--This is one of the 650 engraved bricks that will make up the San Augustine Garden Club's "Memory Walk" on the Southwest part of the Courthouse lawn. This brick was on the top of the stack when the Garden Club received the shipment this past week. This particular brick is in honor of Lurette Mitchell, an elementary teacher for over 40 years, most of those years spent in the San Augustine Schools. Mrs. Mitchell now resides at Twin Lakes Care Center.

The May 10, 2007 issue of the San Augustine Tribune featured a photo of a Teacher's Reception held at the Twin Lakes Center. Lurette Mitchell was pictured, and it was noted that she taught for 47 years mostly 2nd grade, starting out in a one-room school in the Harmony Community, later teaching in San Augustine.

The Sabine County Reporter
December 2, 2009, Page 14

Emma Lurette Ramsey Mitchell

Mrs. Emma Lurette Ramsey Mitchell, 98, of San Augustine, died Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 in San Augustine.

Mrs. Mitchell was born Jan. 30, 1911, in San Augustine County to Judge W. C. Ramsey and Emma Jenkins Ramsey. She was a teacher for the San Augustine Independent School District and a member of the Christ Church Episcopal, San Augustine.

Mrs. Mitchell was preceded in death by her husband, L. B. "Rudy" Mitchell; son, Judge John W. Mitchell; brothers, William Thomas, Smith, Ben and George Ramsey; and sisters, Addie Laura Ramsey, Mary Belle Ramsey Ledford, and Letitia Ramsey Stine.

Survivors: son, Charles Mitchell and wife Barbara; daughter-in-law, Lucy Mitchell; grandchildren, Sarah Jane "Janie" Mitchell, John Joseph "Jody" Mitchell and wife Sarah, and Emma Virginia "Ginny" Mitchell.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Nov. 28, at Christ Episcopal Church in San Augustine with Rev. Dorothy Gremillion officiating. Burial was at San Augustine City Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Christ Church, Episcopal, P. O. Box 85, San Augustine, Texas 75972.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, December 2009)

The December 3, 2009 issue of the San Augustine Tribune ran a similar obituary.

Emma married Luther Burton "Rudy" Mitchell in Dec 1933 in Newton, Newton County, Texas. Luther (son of Jessie James Mitchell and Beulah Mary Fuller) was born on 31 Jan 1908 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 19 Aug 1998 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; was buried on 21 Aug 1998 in San Augustine City Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Luther (Red) Mitchell and Lurette Ramsey were married at Newton, Texas.

San Augustine Tribune, Thursday, May 4, 2006
Decade of the Great Depression 1933 by Harry P. Noble p 10

1. Judge John Winship Mitchell was born on 25 Aug 1947 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; died on 13 Jul 1999 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
2. Living

Notes:

Sam Ramsey emailed, in January 2012, that the "Birth date of William Charles Ramsey was December 20, 1868 in Rural Burkville-Newton County, Texas. Died January 23, 1930 in San Augustine, Texas. Source: The Genealogy of Benjamin F. Ramsey (1837-1913), his father."

"KILLED BY LIGHTNING: Mr. W. C. Ramsey left the city Tuesday afternoon hurriedly in an effort to reach the train in Nacogdoches, having just received the awful news that his brother Frank, who lives near Cisco in Eastland county, had been killed and another brother, Eddy, seriously injured.
It seems the young men had just finished planting potatoes and had sat down at the end of the row reviewing the work while the little thunder cloud passed away. Frank and Eddy Ramsey are well known to the people of the southern portion of the county and we seriously regret the awful accident, and sympathize with their many relatives. San Augustine Visitor."

(Research):

Census Listings:

1920 Census
Texas, San Augustine County, JP One, San Augustine Town
Enumerated 14 Jan 1920
SD 326 ED 176 Sheet 11A
Ramsey, William C Head M W 51 M Tx Ga Ga Lawyer General Practice
Ramsey, Emma T Wf F W 40 M Tx Ga Ga
Ramsey, Smith C Son M W 17 S Tx Tx Tx
Ramsey, Ben T Son M W 16 S Tx Tx Tx
Ramsey, Letitia H Dtr F W 11 S Tx Tx Tx
Ramsey, Lurette E Dtr F W 9 S Tx Tx Tx
Ramsey, Mary B Dtr F W 7 S Tx Tx Tx
Ramsey, George W Son M W 5 S Tx Tx Tx
Ramsey, Thomas E Son M W 6/12 S Tx Tx Tx

William married Emma T. Jenkins on 27 May 1900 in Newton County, Texas. Emma was born about 1880 in Texas; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On her Gedcom, Barbara Dore notes that the last name might instead be GENKINS, and that she was born in Alabama, not Texas.