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Full Name Harriet Downen Edwards Ramsey
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People ID 670785
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First Name Harriet
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Surname Ramsey
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Father's Surname Downen
Mother's Surname Mills
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Gender Female
Full Birth Date If Known 1851-03-01
Birth Year 1851
Birth Month 3
Birth Day 1
Full Death Date If Known 1877-04-14
Death Year 1877
Death Month 4
Death Day 14

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Relationship Related To Relative's People ID Relative's Birth Year Relative's Death Year Other Date (typically Marriage Date)
Daughter ofTimothy Downen66847218301898
Daughter ofRachel Mills Downen66837918311866
Wife ofJames Thomas Edwards68072018431867
Mother of Mary Edwards Wade68078118671943

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Cemetery Timothy Downen Cemetery
Address 7051 Downen Road
City/Town Blairsville
County/District Posey
State/Province Indiana
Postal/Zip Code 47638
Country/Principality USA
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The last record I have that shows Harriet is an 1870 census from Posey County. I stumbled across the listing for Harriet Ramsey not realizing they were almost certainly the same person. The only thing I can think of that would clinch this and make it a certainty would be a marriage record between Harriet (listed either under Downen or more likely Edwards) and one of the three James Ramseys I have found in Posey County in the 1870s who would have been the right age to have married her after James Edwards died.

We do know this much. James Edwards was never seen again (at least in the paper records) after that same 1870 census. In 1880 Harriet and James's daughter Mary showed up in the Wade household without either of her parents. Three years later she married one of the Wade boys (not sure if he was a son of the couple she was staying with, or one of their other relatives).

So it would seem that James Edwards died first, then Harriet remarried, to one of the Ramseys. Then Harriet died shortly thereafter, and the Wades took in young Mary Edwards, who at this point would not have been more than 10 or 11.

There are two circumstantial pieces of evidence that support the thesis that Harriet Ramsey is the same person as Harriet Downen Edwards. They share the same birthday, 1 March 1851. Also, Harriet's burial in the Downen family graveyard near Blairsville is significant. Not everyone buried there is a Downen, but most either are Downens or are related to the Downens. Rachel Mills Downen (Harriet's mother, who predeceased her by 11 years) is buried there, as well as Rachel's parents Felix and Rachel Owens Mills.

As I mentioned earlier, there are several James Ramseys who might have been her husband. My favorite candidate at this point would be James Washington Ramsey, who was living in Black Township in Posey County in 1880, and married Nancy Hendricks in 1878 in Posey County. That's only a year after Harriet died, so the timeline for him having been married to Harriet dovetails nicely.

I haven't added the other two James Ramseys to the database yet, but when I do I will go ahead and add links to their records on this page. I hope that either a marriage record or some other document shows up at some point which proves that Harriet Ramsey is in fact Harriet Downen Edwards, and also informs us which James Ramsey she was married to if that is the case.


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