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updated 9 August 2003

A list of 420+ RANSOM events in early Connecticut Vital Records, transcribed from a film copy of The BARBOUR Collection.

East Coast Florida Memoirs 1837 to 1886 (Florida Classics), by Robert RANSON, is a 1988/89 reprint, 48 pages, available through Amazon.com

RANSOM marriages, a list of all the marriages listed in Wyllys C RANSOM's 1903 book, Historical Outline of the RANSOM Family of America, is available at Andrew J MORRIS' site

The Ancestors of Charles and Edna RANSOM by Muriel CAILLAU, has good music, extensive photos, and information about this family.

The RANSONE Family Outline by (the late deceased) Richard LUHT has extensive information on the southern RANSONE [RANSOM/E] family, in a modified Henry-numbered system. Since Richard's untimely death, the page is no longer posted; but if you click the link, copy the address, and go to The Internet Archive "Way Back" machine, you can paste the URL and find earlier editions of the site. This was also adapted and reprinted in RANSOM RESEARCHER #29.

The family of Elijah Leland RANSOM (1848-1921) and Edna Helen FILLMORE (1854-1931) by J Homer THEIL contains photographs, narrative and descendants, and links to other Traverse County MI pages.

has posted seven pages of Descendants of James RANSOM born 1704 VA, and his wife Grizzel or Grissel GWATHMEY. This generally follows the line of Richard RANSOM m Keziah PORTIS, who moved to Tennessee. Another, shorter list of descendants of James RANSOM and Grizelle GWATHMEY is maintained by Allison SAXMAN

The autobiography of Nathaniel Carpenter RANSOM was transcribed by and details some of the Wisconsin family life. A photo is linked from that page.

The RANSOM Family of Niagara County, New York, with information about some descendants of William Henry Harrison RANSOM and Eliza ESTES, is maintained by WHHR's great-great-granddaughter, Vicki BLASER.

General Thomas(7) Edward (or Edwin?) Greenfield RANSOM, 1834-1864, descended from [Truman(6), Amasa, George, Matthew, Joseph, Matthew(1)], photo from Library of Congress American Memory Collection of Civil War Photographs[48kb,.jpg]. Also, see a short biography in History of Norwich, Vermont. Also see his father, Truman Bishop RANSOM's biography.There is controversy over his middle name, Edward/Edwin, and the various web sites only add confusion, not clarity. His gravestone says "Edwin" (contact me for a close-up photo), and he enlisted as "Edwin", although some military books(such as HEITMAN's Historical Register...of the U S Army [1903, GPO]) use "Edward", as does the Vermont Civil War site and The American Civil War Site. A contract novelist is crusading for "Edwin", but cannot explain the discrepancies.
The Book Hard Dying Men: The story of General WHL WALLACE, General TEG RANSOM, and their "Old Eleventh" Illinois Infantry in the American Civil War [Heritage Books, 1991] is out of print, but available by special order/search at Amazon.com.
Major General Robert RANSOM Jr [1828-1891], younger brother of Matt W RANSOM (below), graduated West Point 1850, served throughout the southwestern US, and was a cavalry instructor under Colonel Robert E LEE at West Point. He resigned his commission in 1861 and returned to North Carolina, to lead the First NC Cavalry and other units. See his biography from Confederate Military History, vol 4 for more details.Frank GOODWAY published a book, Major General Robert RANSOM which includes a manuscript compiled by the General, along with additions by two descendants, called The RANSOM Family and its Connections. The 87-paragraph report was published in RANSOM RESEARCHER, March 1998, issue #21, pages 509-516.An 1887 speech about the Civil War, and the annotated autobiography of Major General Robert RANSOM, are located at The Southern Historical Collection, UNC Chapel Hill.
Lawyer, planter, state official, Confederate general, Redeemer, Democratic United States senator from North Carolina, 1872-1895, and minister to Mexico, 1895-1897: Matt W RANSOM of North Carolina, (1826-1904) elder brother of General Robert RANSOM. Graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1847. In 1861 he was chosen as one of 3 commissioners from North Carolina to the Confederate government at Montgomery. He was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 1st North Carolina Infantry and subsequently colonel of the 35th North Carolina Infantry. This regiment was part of his brother's brigade, which he later commanded. He was promoted to brigadier general on 13 June 1863, and took part in the battles of Seven Pines, the Seven Days, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Plymouth, Weldon, Suffolk and the siege of Petersburg. He was wounded 3 times during the Civil War and finally surrendered at Appomattox. A brief biography from Confederate Military History vol 4 was posted at Confederate Generals, and at Congressional Biography. His post-war papers [1868-1904] are stored at UNC-Chapel Hill's Southern Historical Collection.An account of the Battle of Boon's Mill [next door to RANSOM's plantation, _Verona_], with Matt W RANSOM as Major General of the 11th PA Cavalry, 108th Volunteers, is found in the story of Jeremiah Gay and The Battle of Boon's Mill.Matt W. Ransom: Confederate General from North Carolina by Clayton Charles Marlow. 192 pp., hc. (MF014BI, $24.50) was available at Blue & Gray Magazine
Information about the person and writings of children's author Arthur RANSOME (1884-1967), including a guide to the Swallows and Amazons series, a slide show, and the archives of e-zine Signalling to Marscan be found at The Arthur Ransome Society [TARS] homepage. For biography, see The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome, edited by Rupert HART-DAVIS [London: J CAPE, 1976; 368p] Oak Knoll Press published [Sept 2000] Arthur RANSOME: A Complete Bibliography by Wayne G HAMMOND.

Commodore George Marcellus RANSOM [1826-1899] served with distinction in the US Navy for over 40 years, including the Mexican-American and Civil Wars. A brief biography and information about his diaries [466 pages, 1843-44 and 1862-1865] is found at The University of Michigan.

The Ransom Everglades School in Miami is an independent college prep day school, founded in 1903 byPaul E RANSOM as the Adirondack-Florida School.

James Walter Yancy's 1933 thesis The Negro of Tucson, Past and Present includes a photograph taken by Yancy on 1 Mar 1933 of Henry RANSOM A brief biography and photo are at Tucson's African-American Heritage: Henry Ransom. Henry was b 1855 in Ozark AR, moved to Tucson in 1881.

James RANSOM born 1652 at Crowhurst, England, marriedJudith GLIDE and hadnumerous descendants through several generations all born at Crowhurst through the 1860's. There is a listing, and a downloadable GedCom file, in the LDS Ancestral File Not necessarily accurate!.

A site about the life and paintings of American illustrator Fletcher C RANSOM, 1870-1943 is maintained by Kathy TUASON, a niece.

Freeman Briley RANSOM and his son Willard B RANSOMfigured prominently in the management of the successful black business,The Madame C J WALKER Company. The Indiana Historical Society has the collected papers and references to biographical information on these men. There is an article about Freeman reprinted in Ransom Researcher#11 & #14. .

The Papers of John Crowe RANSOM (1888-1974), poet, educator, editor, critic, Vanderbilt alumnus (BA 1909) and former Vanderbilt faculty member (1914-1937), are in the Heard Library at Vanderbilt. Extensive biographical data is also there, atBiographical Sketch. The RANSOM Family Papers 1833-1957, with much more genealogical data on this line, are at the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville TN.

L COLEY has pages with a partial listing of some of the descendants of James RANSOM and Amy DAVIS, based on the family bible records, the 1910 RANSOM Chronology by George W RANSOM, and the Revolutionary War pension application of Richard RANSOM (m Kiziah PORTIS).

For lots of queries and answers about RANSOMS (and variant spellings), go to GenForum RANSOM Message Board @ Genealogy.comorRANSOMEorRANSONorRANSONE.

RANSOM message board @ Ancestry.com, or RANSOME , or RANSON , or RANSONE .

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