Mary Emma Ramsey

Brief Life History of Mary Emma

When Mary Emma Ramsey was born on 2 May 1893, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Eli Ramsey, was 38 and her mother, Jemima Ann Rodgers, was 31. She lived in Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. She died on 27 April 1985, at the age of 91, and was buried in Rose Point, Slippery Rock Township, Lawrence, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Eli Ramsey
1855–1956
Jemima Ann Rodgers
1861–1928
Nellie Jane Ramsey
1885–1942
Uriah Clifford Ramsey
1887–1968
Martha Ramsey
1889–1892
Mary Emma Ramsey
1893–1985
Elsie Lillian Ramsey
1902–2001

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  • Mary Ramsey in household of James Ramsey, "United States Census, 1910"

World Events (8)

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.

1905 · The Movie Theater

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1917

U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.

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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