Daniel James McCabe Ramsey,Missouri Pioneer ****************************************************************** File transcribed and contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by:Nancy J. Ramsey Norris USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ****************************************************************** My first Missouri Pioneer in my family would be: Daniel James McCabe Ramsey was born Dec 4, 1850 in Pulaski Co., KY. He came with his cousins and aunt and uncle, William Green Estes and wife Malinda Pence Estes and children, as near as I know they also brought their mothers and their children. Daniel had been orphaned by his parent's death to Typhoid in KY and was 18 yrs old when they came in a wagon train to Christian Co., MO.. The 1870 Greene Co. census finds Daniel living with Dr and Mrs Thomas Jasper Watts as a farm hand. Dr and Martha Hedgpeth Watts became his brother and sister in law when he married her sister, Mary Jane Hedgpeth, daughter of Wiley and Charlottie Hedgpeth of Porter Township, Christian Co., MO., Nov 19, 1871 in Greene Co.. (she is listed as Mary J. Headgspeth) in the record book pg. 74. 1880 Christian Co. Census finds their family living in Linden Township, Pg1...Dist 4. Showing two living children, Sallie and Lenna, with another little son dying of pneumonia 1972. 1898 personal letters find the family living in Buffalo, MO. and then leaving Missouri in 1899 to go to Kansas. Daniel and Mary Jane had six children born to them in Missouri, four of which lived. They were farmers and seemed to stay around the Hedgpeth families. Nancy J. Ramsey Norris