George Winship Ramsey

Notes:

San Augustine History 1928
Column by Harry P. Noble
Published in The San Augustine Tribune, Thursday, October 13, 2005, pg 10

JULY

Nine local Boy Scouts went on a 10-day summer camp near Jacksonville, Texas. They were:
Tom Blount, Hampton Downs, W. H. Fussell, Morgan Harris, Floyd Lucker, Miller Mathews, Charles McMillian and Harold Taylor. These same boys, plus seven more--George Ramsey, Joe Bickley, Philip Cockerham, Wyatt C. Teel, Lawrence Rulfs, Herbert Payne and Luther Morris--had a party at Bland Lake the week before.


The Sabine Couty Reporter
December 31, 1997, Page 12

George W. Ramsey

George W. Ramsey, 83, of San Augustine died Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1997 at Medical Center Hospital in Nacogdoches.

Ramsey was born Oct. 8, 1914, in San Augustine County as a son of the late Judge William C. Ramsey and Emma Ramsey and served as a master sergeant in the U. S. Marine Corps during World War II. He was a retired postmaster with 24 years service. He served 17 years on San Augustine Independent School District's board of trustees and was a member of Worod of Life Church in Lufkin.

Survivors: wife, Margaret Ramsey of San Augustine, two sons, Ben S. Ramsey of Houston and William C. Ramsey of San Augustine; two daughters, Susann Lohr of Hujble and Dorothy Shoemaker of Midland; two sisters, Lurette Mitchell of San Augustine and Letitia Stine of Henrietta; 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, at the Wyman Roberts Memorial Chapel in San Augustine with Billy Jackson officiating. Interment followed at Liberty Hill Cemetery in San Augustine County.

Arrangements were handled by Wyman Roberts Funeral Directors in San Augustine.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, March 2011)

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.