BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Page 700.

JAMES A. RAMSEY, a popular citizen and prosperous farmer of Smith township,
and a resident of Jacobsburgh, was born August 6, 1835. He is a son of Samuel and
Ellinor (Nichols) Ramsey, the former of whom was born in Washington county, Penn.,
in 1803 and the latter in 1807, and the parents of both of whom were natives of
county Tyrone, Ireland. James A. Ramsey, the subject of this mention, was reared
on the farm, and trained to that vocation, and his education was obtained in the
common schools of Jacobsburgh. Arriving at majority, he entered upon the career
of a farmer, and in 1866 he was united in marriage to Nancy J. Jackson, daughter
of Henry and Elizabeth (Belleville) Jackson, natives of Hampshire county, Va. Mrs.
Ramsey was born in the year 1839. By this marriage she is the mother of six
daughters: Elizabeth, Viola, Mary E., Lora J., Nora, and one deceased.