Brief Life History of Laura Elizabeth
When Laura Elizabeth Ramsey was born on 22 May 1903, in Irish Corner, Greenbrier, Virginia, United States, her father, John Newman Ramsey, was 45 and her mother, Mary Susan Holliday, was 42. She married James Francis Forren on 29 December 1920, in Ronceverte, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Irish Corner District, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States in 1940 and Irish Corner, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States in 1950. She died on 10 November 1989, in Fort Spring, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Fort Spring, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States.
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- Laura Forren, "United States 1950 Census"
- Laura E. Ramsey, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Laura E. Ramsey, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility
Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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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