Greene-Knox County IN Archives Biographies.....Ramsey, Franklin 1839 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 15, 2006, 10:00 pm

Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   FRANKLIN RAMSEY, of Washington Township, was born January 26, 1839, in
Columbiana County, Ohio, and is one of four children of Samuel and Margaret A.
(Orr) Ramsey. Franklin Ramsey came to Greene County, Ind., in March, 1854, with
his father's family, and settled in Stafford Township, where be received a
common school education, such as the log schoolhouse of that day afforded. He
enlisted for the late war, in Company C, of the Twenty-first Regiment Indiana
Infantry, where he served over four years, and received an honorable discharge
January 22, 1866. He was engaged in the following battles: Baton Rouge, Port
Hudson and Spanish Fort and others. Since the war, Mr. Ramsey has engaged in
farming, and for seven years bought grain at Marco. He moved to Washington
Township in November, 1880, and has lived there ever since. In September, 1880,
he was married to Mrs. Eliza J. (Denny) West, by whom he is the father of one
son, Frank. As a Democrat in politics, he has been Trustee of Stafford Township,
and in 1882 was the candidate for his party for County Clerk. He ran much ahead
of his ticket, only failing of election by seventeen votes. He is a member of
both the Subordinate Lodge and Encampment of I. O. O. F. at Worthington. He owns
320 acres of land in Washington Township, and 180 acres in Knox County, Ind.,
and is one of the progressive and enterprising citizens of Greene County.

Additional Comments:
Washington Township Biographies

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/greene/bios/ramsey595nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/

File size: 2.3 Kb