Lucinda Charity Mills

Lucinda Charity Mills Ramey

Birth: Sep. 21, 1848

Washington County

Arkansas, USA

Death: Jan. 25, 1917

Washington County

Arkansas, USA

In Memory of Mrs J.M. Ramey

Rarely do we have a character around which cluster so many interesting and unusual experiences as we are privileged to write of the subject of this sketch.

Born in the year of 1848 in Washington County, Arkansas, where she spent her entire life.

Married early in life to J.M. Ramey, and shared with him many of the perils and hardships of the civil war, and later settled on the farm, three miles east of Brentwood, where together they spent nearly half a century.

Going into what was then a wilderness, they bore the trials and struggles, mingled with the joys of improving a pioneer home and rearing a family of fourteen children, all to be grown men and women.

In the year 1898, they were both immersed by Bro C. F. Smith and united with the Christian church. After her husbands death over 4 years ago, Grandma remained on the old homestead, reluctant to leave the surroundings which had been home for so long and which held for her so many pleasant memories.

If there were any traits of character which shone out brighter than others in her life, it was her generous hospitality and the bounteous table which she always spread. No one ever called at this home and went away hungry. Few ever acquire the culinary art that she possessed.

Her last sickness was of short duration and on Jan 25 as the shadows from the western hills were lengthening which marked the closing of the day, darker shadows were deepening within the home and the one who had answered to the call of "mother" for so many years closed her eyes and softly fell asleep.

A long and useful life was finished and she had gone to be with the companion whom she so sadly missed.

Nine of the eleven surviving children were permitted to accompany the body to the White House, on Saturday afternoon. Appropriate services were conducted by Bro Stout, and attended by a large concourse of relatives and friends, after which the remains were laid to rest by her late husband in the family lot of the cemetery.

We shall miss our loved ones because they enjoyed a rare privilege of living a long time and therefore the ties of love are so strongly woven that when severed we feel so deeply the separation, but we who remain have the privilege of meeting them again where we may be united around the Great White Throne of God and dwell as an unbroken family.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord: They rest from their labors and their works do follow them: Rev P.R.L.

Family links:

Spouse:

James Marion Ramey (1838 - 1912)

Children:

Enos Benjamin Ramey (1862 - 1958)*

Sarah A. Ramey Fouch (1865 - 1887)*

William Henry Ramey (1866 - 1936)*

Daniel Rholen Ramey (1869 - 1951)*

Stanford Aaron Ramey (1871 - 1896)*

Lydia Martha Ramey Kelley (1872 - 1918)*

Charity Ellen Ramey Piel (1873 - 1921)*

Amanda Elizabeth Clementine Ramey Chandler (1877 - 1933)*

Virgil Ramey (1878 - 1954)*

Seldon Garfield Ramey (1881 - 1957)*

Lewis A Ramey (1886 - 1953)*

James Wiley Ramey (1887 - 1908)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:

Whitehouse Cemetery

Arnett

Washington County

Arkansas, USA