Fifteenth Generation

5313. Harriette Mott Writer was born on 12 January 1903 in Jasper Co., Missouri, USA. She lived in 1527 Murphy Ave., Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA in 1946. She died in November 1985 at the age of 82 in Jasper Co., Missouri, USA. Harriette was buried in Mount Hope Cmtry., Webb City, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA. She appeared in the census 1910/1920 in Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA. She appeared in the census 1930/1940 in Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA. Find A Grave Memorial# 59105548
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USA Census, 1930
Name: Harriett Ramsay
Event Place: Joplin, Jasper, Missouri
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Birth Year (Estimated): 1903
Birthplace: Missouri
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's Birthplace: New York
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Robt Ramsay Head M 33 Missouri
Harriett Ramsay Wife F 27 Missouri
Harry Whittaker Son M 3 Missouri
District: 0062 , Sheet Number and Letter: 11A , Household ID: 304 , Line Number: 48 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: T626 , Affiliate Film Number: 1205 , GS Film number: 2340940 , Digital Folder Number: 004660797 , Image Number: 00261
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USA Census, 1940
Name: Harriet Ramsay
Event Place: Joplin, Galena Township, Jasper, Missouri
Gender: Female
Age: 36
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Birthplace: Missouri
Birth Year (Estimated): 1904
Last Place of Residence: Same Place
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Robert Ramsay Head M 42 Missouri
Harriet Ramsay Wife F 36 Missouri
Bobby Ramsay Son M 13 Missouri
James Ramsay Son M 7 Missouri
Harry Ramsay Stepson M 12 Missouri
District: 49-14 , Family Number: 437 , Sheet Number and Letter: 20A , Line Number: 1 , Affiliate Publication Number: T627 , Affiliate Film Number: 2117 , Digital Folder Number: 005460052 , Image Number: 00558
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1951 2nd wife Harriette Ramsay with their son James, assistant manager Ramsays, at 1527 Murphy, Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri.
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Mrs. Harriette Ramsay of the Mayflower apartments returned Thursday from a six weeks' visit with relatives in the east. She was called to Inwood, Long Island, NY, by the death of her aunt, Mrs. R. A. Davis, who died on July 4.
Joplin Globe - Joplin, Missouri - 20 Aug 1955
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Mrs. Harriette Writer Ramsay of the Mayflower apartments has returned from New York where she spent two months with relatives.
Joplin Globe - Joplin, Missouri - 21 Jan 1958.

Harriette Mott Writer and Harry L Whittaker I were divorced before 1930 in Missouri, USA. They were divorced. Harry L Whittaker I was born on 24 September 1890 in Grandview, Jackson Co., Missouri, USA. He lived in Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA in 1917. QUERY
Notes for HARRY L. WHITAKER I
US Veterans Gravesites
Name: Harry L Whitaker
Service Info.: WORLD WAR II
Birth Date: 22 Jul 1907
Death Date: 3 May 1970
Interment Date: 6 May 1970
Cemetery: Fort Gibson National Cem.
Cem. Address: 1423 Cem. Road Fort Gibson, OK 74434
Buried At: Section 10 Site 1878
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Find A Grave Memorial# 3017543
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HARRY L. WHITAKER I
World War I Draft Registration:
Name: Harry L Whitaker (Single)
City: Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri
Birthplace: Missouri
Birth Date: 24 Sep 1890
Race: White
FHL Roll #: 1683329
DraftBoard: 0

Harriette Mott Writer and Harry L Whittaker I had the following children:

Harriette Mott Writer and Robert Condon Ramsay were divorced. Robert Condon Ramsay was born on 7 January 1897 in Carthage, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA. He appeared in the census in 1900 in Carthage, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA. He died in November 1968 at the age of 71 in Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA. Robert appeared in the census 1930/1940 in Joplin, Jasper Co., Missouri, USA. Parents:
Father: Albert Algernon Ramsay b: May 1867, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. d 1945
Mother: Emma Geneva Condon b: 23 Apr 1870, Oswego, Labette Co., Kansas. d 1951
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USA Social Security Death Index
Given Name: Robert
Surname: Ramsay
Birth Date: 7 January 1897
Social Security Number: 490-10-9051
State: Missouri
Last Place of Residence: Jasper, Missouri
Previous Residence Postal Code: 64801
Event Date: November 1968
Age: 71
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Find A Grave Memorial# 88477139
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His paternal grandfather, R W Ramsay,sr, died 1903, maternal, C M Condon, in 1915, both in Kansas, ~ ~ his father, uncle and grandfather had imigrated from Scotland to America in the 1880s developing a chain of, up-scale, Dry Goods stores in the midwest, located at one time or another, at Atchison (1907), Coffeyville (<1898) , Iola (1899), Pittsburg (1890) in Kansas,~ Guthrie 1892), McAlester (1928), Miami, Okumalgee (1919) in Oklahoma,~ Beatrice (1936), in Nebraska ~ Carthage (1895) & Joplin (1910) in Missouri to name known locations. In part found in Joplin Globe, p 4, c 2&3, 26 September 1946, for a good history of store growth and its 25 April 1952, 62nd Anniversary article, family owned and operated some stores over eighty years until sons, Bob and Jimmie, sold Carthage & Joplin stores in 1972 to Vandever Incorporated of Oklahoma, with their closing 30 August 1976 or '79. (son Bob opened a store in Las Vegas, Nevada).

Birth: an only child in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri, named for each of his grandfathers.
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Census: 1900, age 3 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents at 1340 Grand avenue.
Census: 1910, age 13 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents at 1332, now 1422 Grand avenue. (listed as Albert)
Census: 1920, age 22, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents at 1332, now 1422 Grand avenue, a merchant.
Census: 1930, age 33, Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri with 2nd wife & her 3 y/o son, Harry Whitaker.
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U S City Directories information:
1925, department manager, Ramsay Dry Goods Company, C S Condon [Clifford Sturat, mother's youngest brother] manager, 1st wife Mary R, residence #43 Olive apartments, Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri.
1929, 1st wife Mary R at #25 Gentry Apartments, Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri.
1930, 2nd wife Harriette at 15th & Mississippi, Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri.
1931, 2nd wife Harriette at Castle rock, Jasper count, Missouri.
1938, manager Ramsay's at 527-531 Main street, Joplin,2nd wife Harriette, residing at 1220 Range Line, Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri.
1942, 2nd wife Harriette at 2609 east 32nd street.
1946, 3rd wife Stella, residing at Redings Mill, Newton county, Missouri.

See Joplin Globe, p 4, c 2&3, 26 September 1946 for a good history of the Ramsay store's growth.
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Cousins, Robert C, s/o Albert A and Ronald H, s/o Robert W Ramsay,jr split ownership, Ronald H ending with Iola & Atchison, Kansas stores, Robert C the others. Not much was uncovered in the internet research concerning this Ramsay or the Condon families, so two ladies went to Oswego, Kansas in 2012 and did some deep research.

1951 & 1953, president Ramsay Dry Goods Company, 3rd wife Stella residence Redings Mill, Newton county, Missouri.
1959 & 1960, president Ramsay Dry Goods Company, 3rd wife Stella, residence Tabor Woods, Jasper county, Missouri.
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Marriage 1: Mary Rebecca Crane
(currently unknown is what happened to her after 1929)

Child: Robert Crane Ramsey b: 1927 in Missouri, d: May 1999.
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Marriage 2: Mrs Harriette Mott (Writer) Whitaker b: 12 Jan 1903 Jasper county, Missouri.
Married: about 1930 location currently unknown, likely Jasper county, Missouri, ~ (?) divorced before 1946 ~ (she brought, at least, one child, Harry, into the marriage)

Child: James A Ramsay b: 31 OCT 1932 Joplin, Jasper county, Missouri. (at Wentworth Military Academy, 1949/50)
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Marriage 3: Stella C (currently unknown) b: 18 SEP 1905/6
Married: between 1942 & 1946, d: MAR 1989.

No known issue
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TRIPS TO EUROPE

New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists
Name: Robert Ramsay
First Class Passenger
Departure from: Southampton, England
Departure: 27 Apr 1951
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: 3 May 1951
Event Place: New York City, New York
Gender: Male
Age: 54
Birthplace: Missouri
Ship Name: Ile De France
Birth Year (Estimated): 1897
Affiliate Publication Title: Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY, 1897-1957 , Affiliate Publication Number: T715 , Affiliate Film Number: 7976 , GS Film number: 002297495 , Digital Folder Number: 007256101 , Image Number: 00748
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New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists
Name: Robert Ramsay
First Class Passenger
Departure from: Le Havre, France
Departure: 26 Sep 1955
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: 3 Oct 1955
Event Place: New York City, New York
Gender: Male
Age: 58
Birthplace: Missouri
Ship Name: Flandre
Birth Year (Estimated): 1897
Affiliate Publication Title: Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY, 1897-1957 , Affiliate Publication Number: T715 , Affiliate Film Number: 8642 , GS Film number: 002322088 , Digital Folder Number: 007266517 , Image Number: 00845
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OTHER TRIP
New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists
Name: Robert Ramsay
First Class Passenger
Departure: 27 May 1955
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: 3 Jun 1955
Event Place: New York City, New York
Birthplace: Mo
Ship Name: Nassau
Affiliate Publication Title: Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, NY, 1897-1957 , Affiliate Publication Number: T715 , Affiliate Film Number: 8592 , GS Film number: 002322038 , Digital Folder Number: 007266422 , Image Number: 00975

Harriette Mott Writer and Robert Condon Ramsay had the following children: