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Seaborn Thomas Ramsey Family Seaborn Thomas Ramsey was born in Clarke County, Georgia on March 7, 1837, the son of Seaborn J. Ramsey and Christiana McLeroy. He married Francis Center on December 25, 1856. Their marriage is recorded in the Clarke County, Georgia Courthouse. Francis Center was born May 25, 1833 in South Carolina to James and Francis Center. Seaborn and Francis had two children, Christiana Ramsey, born October 25 1857 and Martha Jane Ramsey, born May 25, 1859. Francis died June 3, 1859. Martha Jane was only 9 days old when her mother died, a death which was probably from complications of childbirth. Seaborn was left with two very young children, and on March 4, 1860, he married Elizah J. Hardman, daughter of Naman Hardman and Joicy Smith pf Cobb County, Georgia. This marriage gave them a son, Charley Corneialiah Ramsey, who only lived one day. Seaborn enlisted in the Confederate Army, and Elizah wrote a letter dated May 1st, 1862 to a Brother and Sister telling that her husband had gone to the war that started the first of April. She said she had moved back in the house with her Pa, Mother, and a sister and her children. She happily announced that she had a big baby boy and his name was “Dilard Seberon and he was bornd” April the 11th. After the Civil War, many Confederate families in the South were devastated. Seaborn and Elizah had another son, John Hardman Ramsey. Shortly after Elizah’s father, Naman died in 1870, Seaborn, Eliza, the children, and Eliza’s mother, Joicy, began to travel to Texas. In a letter dated February 8, 1871, Elizah wrote to her family in Georgia that their “pore old Mother Departed this life February 4 about ten o’clock at night”. They had arrived in Marshal City, Texas on January 15, where they had “aimed to ly over hear and rest” until they could write to her brother Wesley to come after them. Elizah said her mother had taken sick that same day. They tried to treat Joicy for one of her “bad spells, but after she got no relief, they called in a Dr. Marks, who gave her medicine. She died in spite of all efforts. She was buried in a city graveyard, and it’s not known if there was ever a gravestone. If there ever was one, it no longer exists. Seaborn and Elizah had a daughter, Fidellar Oliviah known as Della, in November 1870. In the 1880 US Census in Navarro County, Texas, her birth place was in Georgia. They did not reach Marshall until January 15, and it is unknown exactly when they began their travels to Texas. At least part of their trip was by boat as described in the letter from Elizah. According to some Hardman family genealogy, it is likely they took the old Texas Road since the more direct route by railroad was not yet available. It is also likely that their boat trip was down the Mississippi and then up the Red River and on to the Caddo Lake, which would have put them about 20 miles from Marshall. Seaborn and his family settled in Navarro County, where his occupation in the 1880 US Census was that of a farmer. His oldest daughter, Christiania, died on October 25, 1876, and was buried in Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery. Martha Jane Ramsey, known as Mattie, married Andrew Clarence Middleton on November 27, 1881. Mattie remained close to her father, stepmother and family. Elizah had been the only mother she had ever known, since she was an infant when her own mother died. Sadly, Mattie’s father, Seaborn, died on May 23, 1888, and was buried at Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery. Then on August 15, 1890, tragedy struck. Mattie’s husband died on August 16, 1890 from an accident while on a fishing party, when he was diving in Chamber’s Creek, and struck the bottom with such force as to dislocate his neck, causing death in about 17 hours, leaving a wife and two children, as was reported in a newspaper clipping. Mattie married John Jackson Kent, known as Jack, on July 16. 1891. Mr. Kent had also lost a wife to death, and also had children. Mattie and J. Kent had two daughters. John J. Kent died on February 9, 1917. Mattie spent her remaining years living with her son, C. A. Middleton with occasional stays with her daughter, Anna Patterson. Mattie died on April 13, 1946. She is buried beside Andrew C. Middleton at Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery. Mattie’s children were: Clarence Alonzo Middleton b. September 20, 1883 d. February 18, 1949 married Minnie Ola Elliott June 8, 1907 Anna Ruth Middleton b. January 20, 1888 d. September 14, 1961 married Robert Lester Patterson April 14, 1909 Stella Alwilda Kent b. June 23, 1892 d. January 17, 1976 married Byron Harwell on November 24, 1909 Rebecca Olivia Kent (known as Ora) b. March 10, 1897 d. November 27, 1977 married Joe E Butler
Seaborn and Elizah’s children were: Charley Cornealiah Ramsey b. November 29. 1860 d. November 30. 1860 Seaborn Dillard Ramsey b. April 11, 1862 d. September 20, 1943 married Margaret Elizabeth “Bettie” Cunningham November 15, 1883. John Hardman Ramsey b. April 21, 1868 d. September 9, 1962 married Ruth Priscilla Deffebach February 4, 1904 Fidellar Oleviah “Della” Ramsey b. November 21, 1870 d. February 28, 1964 married James Paul Bryson
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