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Reverend Garrett RAMSEY |
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In memory of Rev. Garrett Ramsey |
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Reverend Garrett RAMSEY was born on May 24 1822 in California Creek, Buncombe Co. N.C. He was ordained in 1865 in MADISON COUNTY.NC. One source stated he was the first minister to be ordained in the new county of Madison. He was buried in Feb,1907 in RAMSEY CEMETERY (In the old part of the cemetery). He died in Feb, 1907. |
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Rev. Garrett Ramsey, son of Joby and Mary Ramsey, was born May 24, 1822, on California Creek in a cabin in the yard of J.B. Sprinkles' California Creek home. |
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When Garrett was eight years old his family moved to what is known as the Old Station one and one-half miles west of Marshall, N.C. When Garrett was seventeen years old, he joined River Hill (now Marshall) Baptist Church and was baptized in Walnut Creek near the crossing below Mrs. Fronia Roberts. Early in his eighteenth year he was licensed to speak in public and the next year he was married to Miss Violet Roberts. To them was born fourteen children, eleven of the them growing into man-hood and woman-hood and rearing families. |
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| He was ordained in 1856, going into the ministry with utmost zeal and earnestness, staying at home in the opening and early summer making a crop and as soon as the crop was laid-by he was ready to give his time to revivals, conventions and associations, and any religious work that might attract his attention. |
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| In the autumn he gathered his corn, sowed wheat, and prepared wood to keep fires for his family. Then he spent his winters traveling in Yancy ,Buncombe, Madison and the Counties of East Tennessee, holding revivals, being away from home for weeks while his devoted, faithful wife stayed and cared for her home and children. |
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| This devoted man of God gave his life to the work of the ministry, traveling through pathless forests, over rough mountains, through snow knee-deep, never in all his life receiving as much as five dollars as a compensation for his services. |
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| During his ministry he baptized near two thousand people. At one time helping to baptize one hundred people in Cane River when it was so cold the river was floating with mush ice. Ramsey Town in Yancy County was named for him as he founded a church there. |
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| For fifteen years he was very feeble, suffering from bronchitis and Bright's disease, being unable to labor in the work of the Master. This grieved him much and in his last days he became restless because his health deprived him from doing the work he loved so much. |
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| Many times he expressed himself ready and anxious to die when his Father should be ready to call him to rest. For more than a week he lingered between life and death and on Thursday night, February 7, 1907, the summons came at eleven o'clock. He was laid to rest Saturday at eleven o'clock in the family cemetery near his home. Rev. Suttles conducted the services. He leaves a widow (83 years old, four sons, four daughters, twenty-five grandsons, sixteen granddaughters, sixty great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. He was 84 years, 8 months and 14 days old at the time of his death. |
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Ronnies World |
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