Beckham County, Ok - Birthdays: Parthenia Ramsey, 1939
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
RAMSEY, PARTHENIA
(21 Sep 1939, Elk City Journal, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
WOMAN PASSES CENTURY MARK
Friends Gather to Honor Mrs. Parthenia Ramsey At Sentinel Party.
Still very active and doing her own cooking daily, Aunt Parthenia Ramsey
of Sentinel began her second century of life this week after friends
gathered at her home in Sentinel Tuesday night to celebrate her 100th
birthday.
Mrs. Ramsey's husband, the late John Ramsey, died in 1915.  He was a civil
war veteran who fought on the side of the Confederacy.  Mrs. Ramsey has
managed her own property and financial affairs since his death.  They came
to Port, Oklahoma, in 1899 from Cedar Hill, Tex.
When Mrs. Ramsey was born in 1839, Texas had won its independence from
Mexico only three years earlier, and was not to become a state of the
United States until six more years.  The months before her birth were
marked by the first trip across the Atlantic Ocean of the steamship, The
Great Western; Daguerre invented photography; Chicago became a city;
Princess Victoria was crowned Queen of Great Britain; Americans were
moaning about the "great depression" of 1837; and the Civil War was still
21 years away!
Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey moved from Port to Sentinel in 1908, where she lives
now, and where more than a hundred friends and the Sentinel band gathered
for her birthday party Tuesday.

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