Born December 5, 1845, in Lewis County, Missouri, son of Silas Ramsey and his wife Henrietta Baker Ramsey. His paternal grand parents were Seth Ramsey and Martha Ramsey, and maternal grandparents were Martin Baker and Hester Baker, all of his grandparents being born in Kentucky.

He was educated in the common schools of Lewis County, Missouri and at Monticello High School in said county. During his lifetime he was engaged in farming, living in Lewis County, Missouri, until August 4, 1891, when he located in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma Territory, at the opening of the Pottawatomie, Reservation for settlement on September 22, 1891. He was Register of Deeds for Pottawatomie County from January 1, 1897, to January 1, 1901.

He married Mary A. Barkelew on September 13, 1871. He died November 27, 1935 and is buried in Brown Cemetery in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma near Tecumseh. The following children survive him: Francis M. Ramsey, Flomot, Texas; Archie. B. Ramsey, Quitaque, Texas and Florence R. Banks, Tecumseh, Oklahoma.

He was under sheriff of Pottawatomie County from January 1, 1921 to January 1, 1925. In 1906 he was elected as a Democrat as a delegate from District No. 30 to the Constitutional Convention for the State of Oklahoma, and served on the following committees: Suffrage, General Provisions, Public Debt and Public Works, and Public Health and Sanitation, and during said convention presented the following petitions: relating to Religious Liberty, Woman Suffrage, Liquor Traffic, and Location of Capitol; and by resolution introduced the following provisions to be incorporated in the Constitution: No. 144, relating to veto power; No. 145, relating to Establishing Depots, and No. 247, relating to Dual offices.

{Published in the Chronicles of Oklahoma; Volume 14; No. 1; Page 130; March 1936}