NOTE: Birth year is estimated.
Daughter of Lydia and Jonathan White (Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, White Lick Monthly Meeting, Indiana).
Dorcas White married John Ramsey on December 23, 1838, in Hendricks County, Indiana (Indiana Marriages, online). Listed in Penn, Guthrie County, Iowa, in the 1860 federal census are:
John Ramsey, 40, farmer, born Pennsylvania [b May 11, 1820; son of Catharine and Bartholomew]
Dorcas Ramsey, 40, born Indiana
Catharine R Ramsey, 20, born Indiana [b July 7, 1840]
William L Ramsey 18, born Indiana [b October 15, 1842]
Daniel Ramsey, 13, born Iowa [Daniel W, b September 7, 1846]
[birth dates from Hinshaw Index to Quaker Records]
DORCAS RAMSEY, 41 6mo. 14 1861
Guthrie Co., Iowa. An Elder. Wife of John Ramsey.
She endured many years of lingering affliction with much patience, and with cheerful resignation to the Divine will. She bore a faithful testimony to the truths of the Gospel as held by the Society of Friends, and though often under much difficulty, she attended their religious Meetings with great regularity, so long as she was able to do so.
During her last illness she remarked, "All I want is to do my Saviour's will, and be found ready when the solemn messenger arrives." She was much in prayer for herself and her family, that they might all be prepared when the final summons comes to them, to rejoin each other amid the joys of heaven.
She imparted much counsel and advice to each of her children, and expressed the hope that it might be as "Bread cast upon the waters to be found after many days." A spirit of grateful thankfulness pervaded her mind, and she spoke on several occasions of the comforts she was favored with during her illness, and quoted the lines—
"Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are."
When near her close, she said, "I feel peace, sweet peace," and in this happy state continued until removed from this life to that which never ends.
"Oh joy, inexpressible, to know
That the loved and lost of earth
Have found a better home in Heaven."
—The American Annual Monitor for 1862; or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in America, for the Year 1861, New York: William Wood, 1862, 5:190–191.
Daughter of Lydia and Jonathan White (Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, White Lick Monthly Meeting, Indiana).
Dorcas White married John Ramsey on December 23, 1838, in Hendricks County, Indiana (Indiana Marriages, online). Listed in Penn, Guthrie County, Iowa, in the 1860 federal census are:
John Ramsey, 40, farmer, born Pennsylvania [b May 11, 1820; son of Catharine and Bartholomew]
Dorcas Ramsey, 40, born Indiana
Catharine R Ramsey, 20, born Indiana [b July 7, 1840]
William L Ramsey 18, born Indiana [b October 15, 1842]
Daniel Ramsey, 13, born Iowa [Daniel W, b September 7, 1846]
[birth dates from Hinshaw Index to Quaker Records]
DORCAS RAMSEY, 41 6mo. 14 1861
Guthrie Co., Iowa. An Elder. Wife of John Ramsey.
She endured many years of lingering affliction with much patience, and with cheerful resignation to the Divine will. She bore a faithful testimony to the truths of the Gospel as held by the Society of Friends, and though often under much difficulty, she attended their religious Meetings with great regularity, so long as she was able to do so.
During her last illness she remarked, "All I want is to do my Saviour's will, and be found ready when the solemn messenger arrives." She was much in prayer for herself and her family, that they might all be prepared when the final summons comes to them, to rejoin each other amid the joys of heaven.
She imparted much counsel and advice to each of her children, and expressed the hope that it might be as "Bread cast upon the waters to be found after many days." A spirit of grateful thankfulness pervaded her mind, and she spoke on several occasions of the comforts she was favored with during her illness, and quoted the lines—
"Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are."
When near her close, she said, "I feel peace, sweet peace," and in this happy state continued until removed from this life to that which never ends.
"Oh joy, inexpressible, to know
That the loved and lost of earth
Have found a better home in Heaven."
—The American Annual Monitor for 1862; or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in America, for the Year 1861, New York: William Wood, 1862, 5:190–191.
NOTE: Birth year is estimated.
Daughter of Lydia and Jonathan White (Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, White Lick Monthly Meeting, Indiana).
Dorcas White married John Ramsey on December 23, 1838, in Hendricks County, Indiana (Indiana Marriages, online). Listed in Penn, Guthrie County, Iowa, in the 1860 federal census are:
John Ramsey, 40, farmer, born Pennsylvania [b May 11, 1820; son of Catharine and Bartholomew]
Dorcas Ramsey, 40, born Indiana
Catharine R Ramsey, 20, born Indiana [b July 7, 1840]
William L Ramsey 18, born Indiana [b October 15, 1842]
Daniel Ramsey, 13, born Iowa [Daniel W, b September 7, 1846]
[birth dates from Hinshaw Index to Quaker Records]
DORCAS RAMSEY, 41 6mo. 14 1861
Guthrie Co., Iowa. An Elder. Wife of John Ramsey.
She endured many years of lingering affliction with much patience, and with cheerful resignation to the Divine will. She bore a faithful testimony to the truths of the Gospel as held by the Society of Friends, and though often under much difficulty, she attended their religious Meetings with great regularity, so long as she was able to do so.
During her last illness she remarked, "All I want is to do my Saviour's will, and be found ready when the solemn messenger arrives." She was much in prayer for herself and her family, that they might all be prepared when the final summons comes to them, to rejoin each other amid the joys of heaven.
She imparted much counsel and advice to each of her children, and expressed the hope that it might be as "Bread cast upon the waters to be found after many days." A spirit of grateful thankfulness pervaded her mind, and she spoke on several occasions of the comforts she was favored with during her illness, and quoted the lines—
"Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are."
When near her close, she said, "I feel peace, sweet peace," and in this happy state continued until removed from this life to that which never ends.
"Oh joy, inexpressible, to know
That the loved and lost of earth
Have found a better home in Heaven."
—The American Annual Monitor for 1862; or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in America, for the Year 1861, New York: William Wood, 1862, 5:190–191.
Daughter of Lydia and Jonathan White (Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, White Lick Monthly Meeting, Indiana).
Dorcas White married John Ramsey on December 23, 1838, in Hendricks County, Indiana (Indiana Marriages, online). Listed in Penn, Guthrie County, Iowa, in the 1860 federal census are:
John Ramsey, 40, farmer, born Pennsylvania [b May 11, 1820; son of Catharine and Bartholomew]
Dorcas Ramsey, 40, born Indiana
Catharine R Ramsey, 20, born Indiana [b July 7, 1840]
William L Ramsey 18, born Indiana [b October 15, 1842]
Daniel Ramsey, 13, born Iowa [Daniel W, b September 7, 1846]
[birth dates from Hinshaw Index to Quaker Records]
DORCAS RAMSEY, 41 6mo. 14 1861
Guthrie Co., Iowa. An Elder. Wife of John Ramsey.
She endured many years of lingering affliction with much patience, and with cheerful resignation to the Divine will. She bore a faithful testimony to the truths of the Gospel as held by the Society of Friends, and though often under much difficulty, she attended their religious Meetings with great regularity, so long as she was able to do so.
During her last illness she remarked, "All I want is to do my Saviour's will, and be found ready when the solemn messenger arrives." She was much in prayer for herself and her family, that they might all be prepared when the final summons comes to them, to rejoin each other amid the joys of heaven.
She imparted much counsel and advice to each of her children, and expressed the hope that it might be as "Bread cast upon the waters to be found after many days." A spirit of grateful thankfulness pervaded her mind, and she spoke on several occasions of the comforts she was favored with during her illness, and quoted the lines—
"Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are."
When near her close, she said, "I feel peace, sweet peace," and in this happy state continued until removed from this life to that which never ends.
"Oh joy, inexpressible, to know
That the loved and lost of earth
Have found a better home in Heaven."
—The American Annual Monitor for 1862; or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in America, for the Year 1861, New York: William Wood, 1862, 5:190–191.
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