1872–1939
Will Ramsey, Pop Ramsey

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Born: Au­gust 24, 1872, Bel­ton, Tex­as.

Died: March 12, 1939, Lit­tle Rock, Ar­kan­sas.

Buried: Rose­lawn Ce­me­te­ry, Lit­tle Rock, Ar­kan­sas.

Biography

Will was the son of Charles Crump Ram­sey and Mar­tha Ann Fran­ces Burns. He mar­ried twice, to Vir­gie Ce­lem­ma Stat­ton and Will­ie Man­na­sas Law­ing.

Ramsey moved with his fa­mi­ly to north­west Ar­kan­sas as a child. He stu­died mu­sic in Nor­mal schools un­der Eph­ra­im Hil­de­brand, Ste­phen Os­lin, and Ben­ja­min Un­seld.

He be­gan teach­ing shape notes and sing­ing while still a teen­ag­er, and be­came well known in sing­ing schools through­out the Am­eri­can South. He went on to be­come pre­si­dent and own­er of the Cen­tral Mu­sic Com­pa­ny in Lit­tle Rock.

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