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William Lindsey Ramsey (1915)

RAMSEY

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 12/29/2010 at 19:52:01

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
August 4, 1915, Earlham, page 2

WILLIAM RAMSEY

The death of William Ramsey occurred last Friday, after a long illness. The funeral services were held at the Conservative Friends' church Sunday afternoon. Interment at the Bear Creek cemetery.
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Newspaper Unknown
August 1915

OBITUARY

Died at his home in Earlham, Iowa, the 30th of July 1915, William L. Ramsey, born October 15, 1842 in Hendricks Co., Indiana.

He, with his parents moved to Warren County, Iowa, in the autumn of 1855. The next spring they located on a farm in Guthrie County where is now the present site of Stuart. He lived there with his parents until 1861 when the home was broken up by the death of his mother. On the 15th of August 1865 he was united in marriage to Susanna E. Newlin. To this union were born fourteen children, eleven of whom survive him.

With the exception of three years spent at Stuart, Iowa, and seven years residence in Jewell County, Kansas he has lived with his family in the vicinity of Earlham during the long period of his married life. In 1895 they moved onto a farm five miles north east of town where they lived until 1909 when they moved to their present home in Earlham.

William L. Ramsey was a life long member of the Society of Friends and for many years manifested a deep intrest in the support of his meeting. While living on the farm north of town he was a regular attendant at the meetings here in Earlham coming the five miles over the hills though the weather was often inclement and the roads difficult for travel; and after moving to town he was faithfully in his place as long as as (sic) his health would permit. Although a man of few words his sincerity and Christian faith was evident to all even in the expression on his face and the warmth of his hand shake. He left his home but little the last year he lived, failing rapidly the last month. He was in bed but a week before the end came.

Funeral services were held in the Conservative Friends meeting house and interment at Bear Creek. Five of the children were here the last few days of their father's life, distance preventing those in North Dakota and the one in California from coming.

Though death brings sadness to those who lose a loved one, there is joy in the comforting hope expressed in the lines of the poet Cowper:

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform,
He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
Deep in the unfathomable mines, Of never failing skill,
He treasures up his bright designs, And works his wondrous will.
Judge not the Lord with feeble sense! , But trust him for his grace;
Behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face.
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scans his works in vain,
God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

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