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Source: Southwest Louisiana and Biographical and Historical by
William Henry Perrin published in 1891;  page 301.



JAMES B. RAMSEY, M. D.
Ramsey, LA

James B. Ramsey was born in Chatham county, N. C., August 27,
1820.  He is the son of Ambrose Knox Ramsey and Nancy Yancey, of
Yanceyville, N. C.. natives of North Carolina.  Ambrose K. Ramsey
was a wealthy farmer and mill owner and North Carolina 
legislator.    When James 13. was but a boy, his parents removed
to Alabama  where his mottler died. The father died at the age of
ninety-one years in Meridian, Miss.     James B. Ramsey's
grandfather and two of his great-uncles were soldiers in the
Revolutionary  War Ä true whigs.   James B. is the second of a
family of ten children, seven now living. He received his
literary education at the University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa.  
Later he matriculated in the medical school of Transylvania
University, Lexington, Ky., from which he graduated in 1843. He
first practised medicine in Washington county, Alabama, and
subsequently in Mississippi. In 1871 he removed  to Iberia
parish. Louisiana, and in 1872 located at his present place of
residence. During the late war he was surgeon of Harrison's
Regiment. He had been a member of the Secession Convention in
Mississippi, and signed the Secession  Ordinance. Doctor Ramsey
has given his attention to planting since 1847.  He now owns four
hundred acres of very fertile land where he resides, which he
conducts to the best advantage.  He was married in 1846 to
Miss Elizabeth A. Cole, daughter of a prominent planter of
Mississippi, and representative in North Carolina and Mississippi
Convention in 1851. They are the parents of seven  living
children, three sons and four daughters. Doctor Ramsey
is a member of  the Masonic fraternity, Master of Royal Arch
Mason.  He is a whole-souled  democrat and takes an active part
in the manipulation of party affairs. Ramsey  postoffice, at his
place of residence, is named in his honor or from his former
residence at the place.   He is opposed to the Louisiana
lottery and all lotteries, and is using his influence to prevent
a recharter.