3G GRANDSON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR CAPTAIN JOHN GEORGE OVERMIRE
BROTHER OF MINNEAPOLIS ARCHITECT EDWIN PARKER OVERMIRE
UNCLE OF REV. RAY E. OVERMIRE, SR.
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR VETERAN, PRIVATE, CO. I, 13TH MINNESOTA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
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A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM RAY OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire (great nephew), genealogist and Overmire family historian, updated Apr. 2020:
William Ray Overmire was born Jun. 29, 1868, in Mattoon, Illinois, the second son of Capt. Silas and Maryetta (Tobey) Overmire. He was commonly called Ray. On Apr. 24, 1889, he married Jasmine "Jessie" Delancey at her father Peter Warren Delancey's home in Minneapolis. They had one child, a son, Jean Stewart Overmire born in 1891.
When he was about 30 years of age, Ray served in the Spanish American War in the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Co. I. The 13th Minnesota was sent to the Philippines and, under the command of Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, engaged in heavy fighting in the Battle of Manila on Aug. 13, 1898, sustaining more casualties than all other regiments combined. Ray was discharged Sept. 15, 1898, and was listed as having a disability at that time.
Ray brought back a Spanish officer's belt buckle from the war, which Jessie made into a broach. It was eventually handed down to Ray's granddaughter Jeanne Overmire Meyer.
According to descendants, Ray's wife Jessie was a free spirit. She and Ray were not the perfect match. They divorced and Ray married a second time to the more stoic Sarah "Sadie" Nyberg on June 1, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota.
Ray worked as an auditor of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, spent fifteen years with Bell Telephone in Minneapolis and Omaha, and fourteen years with the Federal Land Bank in St. Paul.
Ray Overmire died Jun. 7,1959, in Minneapolis at the age of 90. His nephew Rev. Ray Edwin Overmire Sr., who was named after his uncle, performed the ceremony for his funeral and delivered the following eulogy:
"His mind was active and keen well into his later years, and he was known as a man who enjoyed friends and who loved good conversation. His final illness, at the ripe age of 90, was largely free from pain and suffering, and he slipped quietly away to meet his Maker just last Sunday evening.
"He was called 'William' by some - he was called 'Raymond' or 'Ray' by many - but to me he was always my 'Uncle Ray,' after whom I was named. I recall one day some years back, when he was still with the Federal Land Bank in St. Paul, when my son and I called on him in his office there. That day there were three Ray Overmires talking together by his desk...
"Long after this life is a thing of the past, we live on here on earth in the hearts and memories of those who loved us. Just as the name Ray Overmire lives on again in this pastor who bears that same name, so the name itself will live on still longer in the life of the son who was christened by me to be Ray Overmire. But regardless of actual name, we each live on in the lives of those who knew us and loved us...
"And as we realize that our finest tribute to one who is gone can be to reproduce in our own lives those fine qualities that made him the man he was, so again he continues to live on - even here on earth - in the lives we live in his honor...
"William Ray Overmire - the first of the Ray Overmires: You have fought the good fight; You have kept the faith; You have finished the course. Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of the Lord."
For the Overmire/Overmyer family history, see One Immigrant's Legacy, The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009, by Laurence Overmire (Indelible Mark Publishing, imarkbooks.com).
BROTHER OF MINNEAPOLIS ARCHITECT EDWIN PARKER OVERMIRE
UNCLE OF REV. RAY E. OVERMIRE, SR.
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR VETERAN, PRIVATE, CO. I, 13TH MINNESOTA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
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A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM RAY OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire (great nephew), genealogist and Overmire family historian, updated Apr. 2020:
William Ray Overmire was born Jun. 29, 1868, in Mattoon, Illinois, the second son of Capt. Silas and Maryetta (Tobey) Overmire. He was commonly called Ray. On Apr. 24, 1889, he married Jasmine "Jessie" Delancey at her father Peter Warren Delancey's home in Minneapolis. They had one child, a son, Jean Stewart Overmire born in 1891.
When he was about 30 years of age, Ray served in the Spanish American War in the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Co. I. The 13th Minnesota was sent to the Philippines and, under the command of Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, engaged in heavy fighting in the Battle of Manila on Aug. 13, 1898, sustaining more casualties than all other regiments combined. Ray was discharged Sept. 15, 1898, and was listed as having a disability at that time.
Ray brought back a Spanish officer's belt buckle from the war, which Jessie made into a broach. It was eventually handed down to Ray's granddaughter Jeanne Overmire Meyer.
According to descendants, Ray's wife Jessie was a free spirit. She and Ray were not the perfect match. They divorced and Ray married a second time to the more stoic Sarah "Sadie" Nyberg on June 1, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota.
Ray worked as an auditor of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, spent fifteen years with Bell Telephone in Minneapolis and Omaha, and fourteen years with the Federal Land Bank in St. Paul.
Ray Overmire died Jun. 7,1959, in Minneapolis at the age of 90. His nephew Rev. Ray Edwin Overmire Sr., who was named after his uncle, performed the ceremony for his funeral and delivered the following eulogy:
"His mind was active and keen well into his later years, and he was known as a man who enjoyed friends and who loved good conversation. His final illness, at the ripe age of 90, was largely free from pain and suffering, and he slipped quietly away to meet his Maker just last Sunday evening.
"He was called 'William' by some - he was called 'Raymond' or 'Ray' by many - but to me he was always my 'Uncle Ray,' after whom I was named. I recall one day some years back, when he was still with the Federal Land Bank in St. Paul, when my son and I called on him in his office there. That day there were three Ray Overmires talking together by his desk...
"Long after this life is a thing of the past, we live on here on earth in the hearts and memories of those who loved us. Just as the name Ray Overmire lives on again in this pastor who bears that same name, so the name itself will live on still longer in the life of the son who was christened by me to be Ray Overmire. But regardless of actual name, we each live on in the lives of those who knew us and loved us...
"And as we realize that our finest tribute to one who is gone can be to reproduce in our own lives those fine qualities that made him the man he was, so again he continues to live on - even here on earth - in the lives we live in his honor...
"William Ray Overmire - the first of the Ray Overmires: You have fought the good fight; You have kept the faith; You have finished the course. Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of the Lord."
For the Overmire/Overmyer family history, see One Immigrant's Legacy, The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009, by Laurence Overmire (Indelible Mark Publishing, imarkbooks.com).
3G GRANDSON OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR CAPTAIN JOHN GEORGE OVERMIRE
BROTHER OF MINNEAPOLIS ARCHITECT EDWIN PARKER OVERMIRE
UNCLE OF REV. RAY E. OVERMIRE, SR.
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR VETERAN, PRIVATE, CO. I, 13TH MINNESOTA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
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A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM RAY OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire (great nephew), genealogist and Overmire family historian, updated Apr. 2020:
William Ray Overmire was born Jun. 29, 1868, in Mattoon, Illinois, the second son of Capt. Silas and Maryetta (Tobey) Overmire. He was commonly called Ray. On Apr. 24, 1889, he married Jasmine "Jessie" Delancey at her father Peter Warren Delancey's home in Minneapolis. They had one child, a son, Jean Stewart Overmire born in 1891.
When he was about 30 years of age, Ray served in the Spanish American War in the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Co. I. The 13th Minnesota was sent to the Philippines and, under the command of Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, engaged in heavy fighting in the Battle of Manila on Aug. 13, 1898, sustaining more casualties than all other regiments combined. Ray was discharged Sept. 15, 1898, and was listed as having a disability at that time.
Ray brought back a Spanish officer's belt buckle from the war, which Jessie made into a broach. It was eventually handed down to Ray's granddaughter Jeanne Overmire Meyer.
According to descendants, Ray's wife Jessie was a free spirit. She and Ray were not the perfect match. They divorced and Ray married a second time to the more stoic Sarah "Sadie" Nyberg on June 1, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota.
Ray worked as an auditor of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, spent fifteen years with Bell Telephone in Minneapolis and Omaha, and fourteen years with the Federal Land Bank in St. Paul.
Ray Overmire died Jun. 7,1959, in Minneapolis at the age of 90. His nephew Rev. Ray Edwin Overmire Sr., who was named after his uncle, performed the ceremony for his funeral and delivered the following eulogy:
"His mind was active and keen well into his later years, and he was known as a man who enjoyed friends and who loved good conversation. His final illness, at the ripe age of 90, was largely free from pain and suffering, and he slipped quietly away to meet his Maker just last Sunday evening.
"He was called 'William' by some - he was called 'Raymond' or 'Ray' by many - but to me he was always my 'Uncle Ray,' after whom I was named. I recall one day some years back, when he was still with the Federal Land Bank in St. Paul, when my son and I called on him in his office there. That day there were three Ray Overmires talking together by his desk...
"Long after this life is a thing of the past, we live on here on earth in the hearts and memories of those who loved us. Just as the name Ray Overmire lives on again in this pastor who bears that same name, so the name itself will live on still longer in the life of the son who was christened by me to be Ray Overmire. But regardless of actual name, we each live on in the lives of those who knew us and loved us...
"And as we realize that our finest tribute to one who is gone can be to reproduce in our own lives those fine qualities that made him the man he was, so again he continues to live on - even here on earth - in the lives we live in his honor...
"William Ray Overmire - the first of the Ray Overmires: You have fought the good fight; You have kept the faith; You have finished the course. Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of the Lord."
For the Overmire/Overmyer family history, see One Immigrant's Legacy, The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009, by Laurence Overmire (Indelible Mark Publishing, imarkbooks.com).
BROTHER OF MINNEAPOLIS ARCHITECT EDWIN PARKER OVERMIRE
UNCLE OF REV. RAY E. OVERMIRE, SR.
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR VETERAN, PRIVATE, CO. I, 13TH MINNESOTA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
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A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM RAY OVERMIRE, by Laurence Overmire (great nephew), genealogist and Overmire family historian, updated Apr. 2020:
William Ray Overmire was born Jun. 29, 1868, in Mattoon, Illinois, the second son of Capt. Silas and Maryetta (Tobey) Overmire. He was commonly called Ray. On Apr. 24, 1889, he married Jasmine "Jessie" Delancey at her father Peter Warren Delancey's home in Minneapolis. They had one child, a son, Jean Stewart Overmire born in 1891.
When he was about 30 years of age, Ray served in the Spanish American War in the 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Co. I. The 13th Minnesota was sent to the Philippines and, under the command of Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, engaged in heavy fighting in the Battle of Manila on Aug. 13, 1898, sustaining more casualties than all other regiments combined. Ray was discharged Sept. 15, 1898, and was listed as having a disability at that time.
Ray brought back a Spanish officer's belt buckle from the war, which Jessie made into a broach. It was eventually handed down to Ray's granddaughter Jeanne Overmire Meyer.
According to descendants, Ray's wife Jessie was a free spirit. She and Ray were not the perfect match. They divorced and Ray married a second time to the more stoic Sarah "Sadie" Nyberg on June 1, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota.
Ray worked as an auditor of the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, spent fifteen years with Bell Telephone in Minneapolis and Omaha, and fourteen years with the Federal Land Bank in St. Paul.
Ray Overmire died Jun. 7,1959, in Minneapolis at the age of 90. His nephew Rev. Ray Edwin Overmire Sr., who was named after his uncle, performed the ceremony for his funeral and delivered the following eulogy:
"His mind was active and keen well into his later years, and he was known as a man who enjoyed friends and who loved good conversation. His final illness, at the ripe age of 90, was largely free from pain and suffering, and he slipped quietly away to meet his Maker just last Sunday evening.
"He was called 'William' by some - he was called 'Raymond' or 'Ray' by many - but to me he was always my 'Uncle Ray,' after whom I was named. I recall one day some years back, when he was still with the Federal Land Bank in St. Paul, when my son and I called on him in his office there. That day there were three Ray Overmires talking together by his desk...
"Long after this life is a thing of the past, we live on here on earth in the hearts and memories of those who loved us. Just as the name Ray Overmire lives on again in this pastor who bears that same name, so the name itself will live on still longer in the life of the son who was christened by me to be Ray Overmire. But regardless of actual name, we each live on in the lives of those who knew us and loved us...
"And as we realize that our finest tribute to one who is gone can be to reproduce in our own lives those fine qualities that made him the man he was, so again he continues to live on - even here on earth - in the lives we live in his honor...
"William Ray Overmire - the first of the Ray Overmires: You have fought the good fight; You have kept the faith; You have finished the course. Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of the Lord."
For the Overmire/Overmyer family history, see One Immigrant's Legacy, The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009, by Laurence Overmire (Indelible Mark Publishing, imarkbooks.com).
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