W. RAMSEY, a farmer of Coffee County, was born April 3, 1823, in Warren County. Samuel and Pollie (Strowd) RAMSEY, his parents, lived in Warren County. The elder, Mrs. RAMSEY’s father, was one of the first settlers of that county.
Our subject is of English and Irish descent. November 30, 1852, he married Rachel PARKER, by whom he had four children. She was a member of the Christian Church and died March 15,1862. August 5, 1865, he married Ellen NORTON, daughter of J.M. and Mary (Wilkinson) NORTON of Coffee County. They have one child. Our subject taught school, having been educated at the school which was the predecessor of Franklin College, also at Irwin College in Warren County. He, his wife and three children are members of the Christian Church.
Goodspeed Pub. Co. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of the Counties of White, Warren, Coffee, DeKalb, and Cannon, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.