My Genealogy Hound

James P. Ramer, a well-to-do planter of Centerville Township, was born in Morgan County, Tenn., October 7, 1818, and was the eldest son of John and Mary Ramer, who were married in Alabama, and the parents of five sons and five daughters, eight of whom are living. The father was a farmer by occupation, and he and wife departed this life in Tennessee, being faithful worshipers of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Our subject was first married while a resident of McNairy County, Tenn., to Miss Martha Walker, also of this State, and to this marriage were born the following children: Andrew, Elizabeth (deceased), Myra, Ellen, Martha, Clarissa, and one unnamed (deceased). The mother of this family died about 1885, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ten years after his first wife’s death Mrs. Elizabeth White became his second wife, and bore him eight children: George, Retter, James, Sydney, Reuben, Aueritta (deceased), Samuel (deceased), and one unnamed (deceased), and he was called to mourn his loss in 1882, she being also a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and subsequently was married the third time to a Mrs. Vicey Kidd, who died a year after marriage, leaving one child, Maggie, to his care. He and deceased wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was the efficient assistant class leader of the same. He owns some 200 acres of valuable land, with about fifty of it in cut timber.