Benjamin Summerfield RAMSEY

   Another name for Benjamin was Benjamin Summerfield RAMSEY.

  General Notes:

NAME: Benjamin Summerfield Ramsey
MILITARY: Civil War; Volunteer, enlisted 2 May 1864;
-- Company F, 131st Ohio Infantry (National Guard), from 14 May 1864 (Dayton, Ohio) to 25 Aug 1864 (Camp Chase, Ohio), rank Corporal;
-- Company H, 197th Ohio Infantry, from 3 Mar 1865 (Dayton, Ohio) to 31 Jul 1865 (Baltimore, Maryland), promoted to Full Sergeant on 10 Apr 1865
OCCUPATIONS: Farm Insurance Agent (1880 U.S. Census);
Cigar Maker (1900 U.S. Census)
RESIDENCES: North Manchester, Wabash County, IN (1880 U.S. Census)
908 South 8th Street, Goshen, Elkhart County, IN (1900 U.S. Census)
RELIGION: Protestant
DEATH: Had to occur after 4 Feb 1909 (see Veterans Home records)
NOTE: For research purposes, do not confuse this Benjamin Ramsey with another Benjamin Ramsey also born in Ohio (1844) who also served in the Civil War, but ended up blind and died in 1926 in Missouri

  Research Notes:

-- U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles (Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio)
-- American Civil War Soldiers (online database)
-- U.S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio (admitted 1904 and released 1909)
-- Indiana Deaths (1882-1920); Indiana Works Progress Administration
-- Find A Grave, Memorial # 132054077

Benjamin married Clara A. PEPPLE, daughter of James PEPPLE and Mary M. BORDER, on 21 Apr 1874 in Noble County, Indiana. (Clara A. PEPPLE was born in Jan 1855 in Indiana and died on 3 Sep 1902 in Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana.)