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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Mary A. Ramp
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Mary A. Ramp
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| LAST NAME: Ramp
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FIRST NAME: Mary
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MIDDLE NAME: A.
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| MAIDEN NAME: Hammer
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GENDER: F
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| BORN: 12 May 1829
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DIED: 15 Jan 1916
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BURIED: 19 Jan 1916
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| BIRTH PLACE: Galesburg, Knox Co., Illinois
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
Name of father Washington Hammer (b. Kentucky)
Maiden name of mother Susan Harlan (b. Kentucky).
BIOGRAPHICAL: Mary A. C. Hammer married June 3, 1842 to Samuel Ramp. They had seven children. Mary was always interested in equal suffrage and prohibition. She was the first woman to vote at a School Election in Salem, approximately 1891. She gave Salem a home for the "white ribboners" of the W.C.T.U. as a memorial to her husband in 1903.
Neva Rusk-McCrea in Pioneers of Lake Labish, p. 80-81
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DEATH CERTIFICATE:
Not found in Oregon Death Index
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OBITUARY:
MRS. MARY RAMP CALLED BY DEATH.
Long Known in Oregon as Worker for Suffrage and National Temperance.
Gave Ramp Memorial Hall to City - Came Across Plains in 1853 -
Funeral to be Held From Residence Tomorrow Afternoon.
Mrs. Mary Ramp, a pioneer of 1853 and founder of the Ramp Memorial hall of this city, died at her home, 517 North Capitol street, yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. She was 86 years old. Although confined to an invalid's chair for over ten years, "Grandma" Ramp had been in failing health for only two weeks. Mrs. Ramp was the grandmother of twenty-one children and the great-grandmother of twenty-eight, and is survived by a son and two daughters, B. F. Ramp of Brooks, Or., Mrs. S. L. Huelen of Waterloo, Or., and Mrs. George Sturges of Kings Valley, Or.
The funeral will be held from the late residence tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. Rev. D. H. Tatman will officiate and burial will be in Odd Fellows cemetery.
Crossed The Plains With Oxen.
In 1830 Mrs. Ramp was born in Galesburg, Ill., and was married in that city when a young girl. With her husband, the late Samuel Ramp, and two babies, she crossed the plains from Illinois to Oregon in 1853, with an ox team, and camped in the spurs of the Cascade mountains. It was there that her third child was born on the river Sweet Water, the territory then being known as Oregon, but it was probably in Colorado. They settled on Howell prairie in the same year, moving to Brooks in 1856. In 1878 they moved to Salem, having lived here continuously since. Mr. Ramp died sixteen years ago.
Long Served W. C. T. U.
Mrs. Ramp was long interested in equal suffrage and prohibition. She was the first woman to vote at a school election in Salem, twenty-five years ago. Fourteen years ago she gave Salem a home for the white ribboners of the W. C. T. U. as a memorial to her husband, donating about $1700 to the cause. It was the first given the name "Ramp Hall for the Promotion of Equal Suffrage and Temperance," but later, as the founder clung closer to her own watchword, "Be earnest," the word "temperance" was found to be too weak, and the works "national prohibition" were substituted in its place. Standing firm in the opposition of early times, Mrs. Ramp worked hard for the cause, serving for eleven years as the county superintendent of franchise for the W. C. T. U.
Daily Oregon Statesman 18 Jan 1916 5:4
[Actual Will printed in newspaper and clipping is in Chapman scrapbook on pg. 96];
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INSCRIPTION:
Mother
Mary A. Ramp
Born
Kentucky
May 12, 1829
Died
Jan. 15, 1916
[shares marker with Samuel Ramp]
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SOURCES:
LR
LD
IOOF Register of Burials
J. Plant Register
S&H pg 56
Saucy Survey & Photographs
Barrick #423
DOS 18 Jan 1916 5:4
Pioneers of Lake Labish, p. 80-81
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| LOT: 954
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SPACE: 1 NW
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LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.208'
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LATITUDE: W 123° 03.019'
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