My great, great, great, grandparents, Phillip and Sadie Ramer, moved to Moscow (Hickman County) Kentucky in 1834, moving there from Humphrey County, Tennessee. They went through Mayfield and Clinton on the way. The logs that had been cut for building in Clinton were so many it was hard to get the wagon through the town. When they arrived in Moscow, they built their log house. Later, they gave land at the rear of their house so the Mobile and Ohio railroad tracks could be built. They had moved to Tennessee from North Carolina in about 1811. Their descendants were as follows:

William Henry Ramer is listed in the Masonic Book in Louisville, KY and was a Mason for 40 years and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 45 years. He married Nancy Stone, daughter of Gray and Jemima Kendall Stone in August of 1836. They had six children and nineteen grandchildren. The oldest child was John Henry Ramer (born October 5, 1837).

He was a blacksmith and wagon maker, in business with his father. He married Elizabeth Ann Dancy on February 27, 1864. His sister Antoinett (Nettie) was born June 16, 1839. She was my great grandmother. She married Joseph Stephens Mangrum. I do not have the date of their marriage, but my grandmother, Jennie Belle, was the oldest of their children and she was born September 15,1867. Her two sisters were Hester A (Hettie) and Ociola (Ocie). I remember both of them. Ocie married Walter Crostic and they lived in Hickman, KY where he was Jailer of Fulton County. I remember taking my grandmother to visit them while they were living there in the Jail.

We have always felt close to the Ramer side of the family because my grandparents raised Jeanette Ramer after the death of both her parents in about 1900. Her father was Louis Napoleon Ramer and her mother Jackie Mangrum so she was a double cousin of my mother.

Louis Ramer owned and operated the hotel in Moscow.