James and Mary A. Ramsay: 1870 US Census - Lyons Township, Cherokee, Co. Kansas

November 8, 2005

James and Mary A. (Adelaide) Ramsay (Spaulding) were married but had no children yet in 1870. Mary was only 18. They left for Washington after 1877 as their youngest child, Martha, is listed as 3 years old on the 1880 Census (when they were living near Buckley, WA) and as having been born in Missouri. Their older children are listed on the 1880 census as having been born in Kansas. It would appear then that they moved from Kansas to Mary's home state of Missouri before they emmigrated West to Washington. It is interesting that there is no mention of Martha after the 1880 census. Apparently she died. Lily, their last child was born in 1887 and was 10 years younger than her next older brother, Donald. The loss of Martha (and relative old age of James) may help explain the remembrance of the child Lily as '<i>the baby and her father's spoilt darling</i>.' This impression was passed onto mom (Julia Hamilton) and recorded in her notes. Lily would eventually be the mother of Elsie (Galloway) Hamilton.

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