Children of Lucinda Charity Mills and James Marion Ramey

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Photograph of Lucinda Charity Mills Ramey and her eldest son, Enos Benjamin Ramey (photo and obit below contributed by Sandy Sylvia, direct descendant of James Marion and Lucinda Charity Mills Ramey through their daughter, 
Amanda Elizabeth Clementine Ramey Chandler- email Sandy here )

NOTE: James Marion Ramey is the son of Owen Ramey who came to Arkansas from Kentucky with Peter Mankins. He was b. 1838 and d. 1912 (this couple is buried at White House Church Cemetery, east of Brentwood, Washington Co., Arkansas)

* Mamie was sometimes spelled "Mayme," and Pinter was sometimes spelled Penter; she was b. 3-5-1889 and d. 1987 in Tucson, Az.

[1] Enos sired 12 children [2] Sarah and Allen had 1 son [3] William and Lucy had 6 sons and 1 daughter [4] Daniel and Callie had 4 sons and 4 daughters [5] Lydia and Sherman had 3 daughters [6] Charity and August had 1 daughter named Edith [7] George William and Anna had 2 sons [8] Amanda and Moses had 9 children [9] Seldon and Mayme had 3 sons and 1 daughter (source: June Ramey Cline email her) [10] Edith and James had 5 daughters [11] Lewis had 2 sons

George W. and Anna Ramey with sons

 

* Obituary of Lucinda Charity Mills Ramey

In Memory of Mrs J.M. Ramey

Rarely do we have a character around which cluster so many interesting and unusual experiences as we are privileged to write of the subject of this sketch.

Born in the year of 1848 in Washington County, Arkansas, where she spent her entire life.

Married early in life to J.M. Ramey,and shared with him many of the perils and hardships of the civil war, and later settled on the farm, three miles east of Brentwood, where together they spent nearly half a century.

Going into what was then a wilderness, they bore the trials and struggles, mingled with the joys of improving a pioneer home and rearing a family of fourteen children, all to be grown men and women.

In the year 1898 they were bth immersed by Bro C. F. Smith and united with the Christian church. After her husbands death over 4 years ago, Grandma remained on the old homestead, reluctant to leave the surroundings which had been home for so long and which held for her so many pleasant memories.

If there were any traits of character which shone out brighter than others in her life, it was her generous hospitality and the bounteous table which she always spread. No one ever called at this home and went away hungry. Few ever acquire the culinary art that she possessed.

Her last sickness was of short duration and on Jan 25 as the shadows from the western hills were lengthening which marked the closing of the day, darker shadows were deepening within the home and the one who had answered to the call of "mother" for so many years closed her eyes and softly fell asleep.

A long and useful life was finished and she had gone to be with the companion whom she so sadly missed.

Nine of the eleven surviving children were permitted to accompany the body to the White House, on Saturday afternoon. Appropriate services were conducted by Bro Stout, and attended by a large concourse of relatives and friends, after which the remains were laid to rest by her late husband in the family lot of the cemetery.

We shall miss our loved ones because they enjoyed a rare privilege of living a long time and therefore the ties of love are so strongly woven that when severed we feel so deeply the separation, but we who remain have the privilege of meeting them again where we may be united around the Great White Throne of God and dwell as an unbroken family.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord: They rest from their labors and their works do follow them: REV P.R.L.