Josiah Ramsey (son of Ramsey) was born 07 Oct 1769 in Ireland, and died 1835. He married Elizabeth Cowen on Abt. 1790 in Ireland.
Notes for Josiah Ramsey: Landed in Baltimore in 1790. In 1791 they went to Hancock County TN.
Ramsey Family Origin
There are two versions of where Josiah Ramsey and Elizabeth Cowen were married as follows:
1. By David R. Hamblen - They were married in Ireland where they were born, about 1865, and immigrated to America soon afterward, sometime near the year 1790. They landed at Baltimore and were met at the wharf by some of their relatives who lived far out in the country. 2. By Mrs. Hilton Ramsey, 1933, of Sneedville, Hancock County, Tennessee, who has made considerable study of Ramsey History. - It came through descendants of Josiah and Elizabeth who have ever since lived around the original homestead in Hancock (originally Claiborne) County. - This version is that Josiah came over before his wife, probably in company with John Cowen, her brother. John, later sent money for his sister, Elizabeth's passage to Pennsylvania. There she was met by Josiah and they were married in that state not long after her coming to America. From there, they moved when they had but one child, about 1791, to Mulberry Gap, Claiborne, (now Hancock) county, Tennessee, where he entered land, and they lived the remainder of their lives.
Josiah Ramsey built a water mill near his home which became a thriving business. He acquired other land till he owned a body four miles long, northeast by southwest, and one and one-half miles wide, about 3800 acres. He died, age about sixty, about 1835, the result of an injury caused from a fall while taking a barrel of corn up a stairs in his mill. Elizabeth died several years later. Both buried in Ramsey Cemetery, near where they lived.
The Ramseys were of Scotch-Irish descent. They trace their ancestry to the Highlands of Scotland. The first of which the writer has record is -------- Ramsey who married Alice Bower, daughter of a Derbyshire instructor of mines. He was manager of Lord Hopetouns mines at Leadhills, Parish of Crawford.
More About Josiah Ramsey and Elizabeth Cowen: Marriage: Abt. 1790, Ireland.
Children of Josiah Ramsey and Elizabeth Cowen are:
+Elizabeth Ramsey, b. 07 Nov 1791, Claiborne County Tennessee, d. 1860, Iowa.
Josiah Ramsey (b. 07 Oct 1769, d. 1835)
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