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I am seeking contact with anyone who might be researching the following David Ramsay (a/k/a Ramsey). Please contact me directly at duaneaboggs@hotmail.com.
1. In Parke County, Indiana Will Book 1, at pages 155-158 is the will and/or probate information for one David Ramsey. December 30, 1844 is either the date of the Will or perhaps the date of the probate. I have NOT seen the contents of this Will Book, but only seen an index item.
2. In the 1840 census for Parke County, David ("Sr.") was listed as age 70 to 80.
3. In the 1830 census for Parke County, Indiana, David was listed as age 60 to 70.
4. In the 1820 census for Fleming County, Kentucky, David was listed with these stats: 2-1-0-1-0-1; 1-2-0-1-0
5. From the above, we can infer that David was born between 1760 and 1770.
6. In the 1810 census for Fleming County, Kentucky, a David was listed with these stats: 2-0-0-1-2; 0-0-0-1-0. I suspect that the census taker made a clerical error and entered some information in an incorrect column. I believe rather than having two old men in the household, this number "2" should have been one column to the right, so that it would have recorded two females under the age of 10. In other words, I believe the 1810 census SHOULD have been 2-0-0-1-0; 2-0-0-1-0.
7. A David Ramsey married Rosannah Wills, daughter of Andrew and Martha (maiden name unknown) Wills of Fleming County on May 22, 1801.
8. According to various researchers, David and Rosannah (Wills) Ramsey had the following children between 1801 (marriage) and 1810 (census): Samuel W., b. June 8, 1801; Martha, b. February 6, 1804; David, b. November 30, 1806; and Lucinda, b. ca. 1808. This information would be consistent with the 1810 census data if the "clerical error" were corrected as I have suggested.
9. I believe this David Ramsay/Ramsey is one of the two men both named David Ramsey referred to in certain land litigation in Fleming County Circuit Court from about 1820-1824. See transcription by Alice J. Ramsay Korbydan at http://files.usgwarchives.org/ky/fleming/court/lawsuits/r5200001.txt.
10. The Latter Day Saints website (www.familysearch.org) reports that several people have submitted information on a David Ramsey born April 10, 1770.
11. One, C. Bryce Stetler, has submitted to the LDS Pedigree Resource File that the David born April 10, 1770 died February 7, 1844 and is buried in Seceder Cemetery, near Portland Mills, Indiana.
12. A Peggy Soares has submitted to the LDS PRF the same birth and death dates and claims he married a Polly Wills.
13. A Stephanie Marquardson Ramsay has submitted to the LDS PRF the same birth and death dates, but a marriage to Rosannah Wills. This S. M. Ramsay also claims that this David was the son of James and Mary (Cochran) Ramsay of Pennsylvania.
14. Other researchers have stated that James and Mary (Cochran) Ramsey were the parents of a Hannah Cochran Ramsey, who married James McHaffy Hamilton in Pennsylvania and eventually lived in Parke County, Indiana. These researchers state that Hannah was born March 14, 1770.
15. Obviously, James and Mary (Cochran) Ramsey could not have had Hannah in March 1770 and then David in April 1770, so somebody is wrong on something.
16. Does anyone know if the birthdates of David and Hannah come from tombstones in Seceder Cemetery??
17. I would like to propose, as a THEORY requiring further research, that the David Ramsey born 1760-1770 (reportedly April 10, 1770) was NOT the son of James and Mary, but was instead the son of an older David Ramsey.
18. This older David Ramsey appeared in the 1790 census for Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania with the stats 3-0-3. This would have been the father David, perhaps born about 1728-1734, and two sons over 16, one of whom was the David born ca. 1770 (and so age 20). I believe this older David Ramsey died in Huntingdon County between 1790 and 1800 (he does not appear in the 1800 census there), and that his son David moved to Fleming County, KY, in or before 1800 (to have time to meet, court and then marry Rosannah Wills in May 1801).
19. I believe that David, b. 1770, was introduced to Rosannah by David's brother, Alexander Ramsey, who had married Rosannah's older sister Mary ("Polly") Wills, in 1795.
20. After Alexander Ramsey died in Fleming County, in 1807, his younger brother David, with Rosannah and children, apparently moved on to Alexander's land, sharing it with the widow Mary (Wills) Ramsey and her minor children. This inference is based on certain information in the land litigation of 1820-1824, referenced above (including an earlier lawsuit, from about 1816, involving a ejectment action).
Does anyone have any more detailed information about this David's tombstone, or the contents of his will? Does anyone have any conclusive information that would show who his parents were?
According to one David Wallace Ramsay, born in 1851 in Parke County, and who was a grandson of the Alexander Ramsey who died in Fleming County, KY in 1807, D.W. Ramsay's grandfather (i.e., Alexander) had both a brother named David and a father named David. David Wallace Ramsey could have heard this family "history" from his father, William Burk Ramsey, and would have known his father's double cousins (that is, children of David and Rosannah (Wills) Ramsey), some of whom also lived in the area.
Can anyone help??
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