Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Ramsey, Charles 1804 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   CHARLES RAMSEY, retired farmer, P. O. Dunkirk, Hardin County, was born in
Montgomery County, Md., in 1804. He was declared free at the age of twenty-one
by the will of his owner, but did not really obtain his freedom until he was
thirty years old. Our subject ran a ferry-boat twenty-five years on the Ohio
River at Steubenville, and amassed a considerable sum of money. In 1853 he came
to Delaware Township, this county, and began clearing up and farming 240 acres
of land he had purchased in 1837; at one time he owned 520 acres of land. In
1868 his wife died. Of her ten children three are now living: Mrs. Christyann L.
Hawkins, Martha Jane and Emily L. In August, 1871, Charles Ramsey married, for
his second wife, Mrs. Louisa Watson, who died of heart disease May 16, 1885,
while visiting her daughter at Forest, Ohio. Mr. Ramsey now owns a fine farm of
240 acres of land in this county, besides having given liberally to his
children. He also owns a comfortable house in Dunkirk, Hardin Co., Ohio, to
which he moved in 1882 and where he is living a somewhat retired life, enjoying
the peace and quiet of a prosperous old. age. His daughters are members of the
United Brethren Church. He has been a church member since he was eleven years of
age, and is now a member of the Wesleyan Church. When he was a little boy, on
being reproved by a gentleman for swearing, Charles made the remark: "I throw it
all in the fire," and he has never been known to swear since that time. He also
formed his habit of saving while very young, by taking the timely advice of a
Mend. Charles Ramsey has been an industrious and energetic citizen and is very
highly respected wherever known.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Delaware Township




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