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- [S112] Census, 1930.
name: Roy Ramsey
event: Census
event date: 1930
event place: District 17, Sevier, Tennessee
gender: Male
age: 8
marital status: Single
race: White
birthplace: Tennessee
estimated birth year: 1922
immigration year:
relationship to head of household: Son
father's birthplace: Tennessee
mother's birthplace: Tennessee
enumeration district number: 0020
family number: 89
sheet number and letter: 4B
line number: 78
nara publication: T626, roll 2271
film number: 2342005
digital folder number: 4547919
image number: 00999
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head Eliga Ramsey M 36 Tennessee
wife Mary E Ramsey F 31 Tennessee
daughter Evie C Ramsey F 14 Tennessee
son Roy Ramsey M 8 Tennessee
son Clay Ramsey M 6 Tennessee
daughter Michel E Ramsey F 2 Tennessee
son Ishma C Ramsey M 0 Tennessee
- [S112] Census, 1940.
name: Ray Ramsey
titles & terms:
event: Census
event year: 1940
event place: Civil District 1, Grainger, Tennessee, United States
gender: Male
age: 19
marital status: Single
race (original):
race (standardized): White
relationship to head of household (original):
relationship to head of household (standardized): Son
birthplace: Tennessee
estimated birth year: 1921
residence in 1935: Rural
enumeration district number: 29-2
family number: 129
sheet number and letter: 7A
line number: 20
nara publication number: T627
nara roll number: 3895
digital folder number: 005461301
image number: 00056
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head Elijah Ramsey M 44 Tennessee
wife Ellie Ramsey F 43 Tennessee
son Ray Ramsey M 19 Tennessee
son Clay Ramsey M 17 Tennessee
daughter Earnie B Ramsey F 12 Tennessee
son Ishmel Ramsey M 9 Tennessee
daughter Zelma Ramsey F 7 Tennessee
- [S4] Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee), 4 Aug 2007.
RAMSEY, RAY - age 85 of Blaine passed away Wednesday, August 1, 2007, at UT Medical Center. Ray was born and raised in the Great Smoky Mountains and moved to Grainger County after a great flood in the late 1930s took the family homestead. Growing up in the mountains he learned to work hard for survival. He loved to sing and taught himself to play various musical instruments. He loved the Lord, and he loved to sing about Heaven. He was a member of New Bethel Baptist Church and had attended Indian Ridge Baptist Church the last several years. Ray was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and a friend to all who knew him. Preceded in death by wife of 51 years, Vada Ramsey; grandson, Brandon Ramsey; brothers, Clay and Ishmael Ramsey; sisters, Elzie Ramsey and Zelma Lindsey. Survived by sons, Billy Ray Ramsey and wife Linda of Blaine, Charles Ramsey and wife Edith of Rogersville, and Darrell Ramsey and wife Darla of Blaine; daughter, Charlotte Patterson and husband Junior of Blaine; sister, Ernabe Hayes; grandchildren, Rick Patterson and wife Anita, Cindy Ramsey, Michael Ramsey, Brian Patterson, Allen Ramsey, Andy Ramsey and wife Brooke, and Blake Ramsey; great-grandchildren, Alexis, Alyson, and Riley Patterson, and Abbey Trammell; sisters-in-law, Kathryn and Paralee Ramsey, and Virginia Roach and husband Jr. Family and friends will meet 10:30 am Saturday at Bridges Funeral Home and proceed to Grainger Memorial Gardens for an 11:30 am interment. The grandchildren will serve as pallbearers. "O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever." Psalm 136:26 Arrangements by Bridges Funeral Home, 5430 Rutledge Pike, 523-4999.
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