Brief Life History of Minnie
When Minnie Ramsey was born in February 1890, in West Virginia, United States, her father, John Newman Ramsey, was 31 and her mother, Mary Susan Holliday, was 28. She lived in Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States in 1900. She died in 1899, in Wood, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 9.
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- Minnie Ramsey in household of John Ramsey, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Minnie Ramsey - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Minnie Ramsey
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World Events (2)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, and Irish (Antrim): habitational name from Ramsey (Huntingdonshire, now part of Cambridgeshire), from Old English hramsa ‘wild garlic’ + ēg ‘island, low-lying land’. Alternatively, the name may also arise from Ramsey (Essex), probably from the same etymology as the Huntingdonshire placename. However, this is unlikely to be the source of the Scottish surname. This form of the surname is also common in Ireland, where it is probably in most if not all cases an altered form of Scottish Ramsay .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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