Robert Leroy Ramsdell

Robert Leroy Ramsdell

• Father: Charles H. Ramsdell b. 21 February 1842, d. 13 July 1903
• Mother: Augusta Fredonia Halley b. 24 November 1850, d. 19 August 1918

• Robert Leroy Ramsdell was born on 18 March 1882 in Salado, Bell County, Texas.
• Charles H. Ramsdell and Augusta Fredonia Halley appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Brazoria County, Texas. Other members of the household included Robert Leroy Ramsdell, Charles William Ramsdell, Frederick Lee Ramsdell, Marshall Albert Ramsdell and Alice Emma Ramsdell.
• The following appeared on 24 December 1911 in the Dallas Morning News: Fred ("Texas") Ramsdell, famous as a sprinter and football star was in Dallas yesterday, stopping here on his way to Austin, where he will spend the holidays with his family. Fred Ramsdell broke records first at the University of Texas and later went to Pennsylvania where he played on the Football team and was sent to Europe for a tour with a track team from that school. In England, Germany and France Ramsdell competed with world famous runners. He was in Dallas with his brother, Bob Ramsdell, who also played on the University of Texas football teams and is now a medical student at Galveston. This is the first time Fred Ramsdell has been home in nearly three years and he expresses great pleasure at being back in the State, saying that it looks better to him than any other country. He is now coach in Football, track and basket ball at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburg. He comes of a family all of whom are excellent athletes, is brother Marshall having been captain of the Univeristy of Texas football team during the past season. His sister also won her letter at the University of Texas, playing on the girls' basket ball team.
• He married Adalee Sarah Hill circa 1913.
• Robert Leroy Ramsdell registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas, while living and working in San Augustine as a physician.
• Robert Leroy Ramsdell and Adalee Sarah Hill appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas. Other members of the household included Ann Augusta Ramsdell.
• He was a physician in general practice, accordig to the 1920 census.
• Robert Leroy Ramsdell and Adalee Sarah Hill appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Dallas, Texas, at 6006 (?) Worth.
• He was a physician in private practice, according to the 1930 census.
• Robert Leroy Ramsdell and Adalee Sarah Hill appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Dallas, Texas, at 5601 Goodwin.
• He was a doctor in private practice, according to the 1940 census.
• The following appeared on 4 March 1941 in the Dallas Morning News: New officers elected by the Dallas Ex-Students Association were Dr. Robert L. Ramsdell, president. . .
• Robert Leroy Ramsdell died on 5 July 1953 at age 71 in Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma.
• His wife Adalee Sarah Hill became a widow at his death.
• He was interred at Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 6 July 1953 in the Dallas Morning News: Dr. R. L. Ramsdell, who practiced in Dallas until about ten years ago and who was former president of the Dallas County Medical Society, died Sunday night in a hospital at Ardmore, Okla., of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was psychiatrist for the central State Hospital at Norman, Okla. He was stricken last Thursday. He had gone to Oklahoma about a year ago after serving on the staff of the state hospital at Austin about nine years. Dr. Ramsdell came to Dallas around 1926, and practiced medicine as an associate of the old Santa Fe Clinic. He was elected president of the Dallas County Medical Society in 1935, and also was named worshipful master of the East Dallas Masonic Lodge the same year. After graduation from the University of Texas in 1913, he entered the state medical college in Galveston and finished six years later. His early practice was as a psychiatrist in Houston. Masonic services will e conducted Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Weed-Corley Funeral Home in Austin. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Mrs. J. W. Bridgewater of Akron Ohio; two brothers, Dr. M. A. Ramsdell of San Antonio and Fred L. Ramsdell of Philadelphia, Pa; a sister, Mrs. Ray Adamson of Glendale, Calif., and two grand-children.
• It is worthy of note that on Cora Isadora Winters Walker's death certificate her mother's name is "unknown." Signing as informant was her daughter Mrs. F. F. Dyer, and signing as her attending physician was her first cousin (son of her mother's brother) Robert Leroy Ramsdell.

• Last Edited: 12 Sep 2012