The earliest known family records were found in 1976, in possession of Richard E. Davis, a kinsman and founding president of the Gibson County, Tennessee Historical Society. These records came down through the family of John Wesley Ramsey and his daughter, Lula Virginia (Ramsey) McGee of Gibson County, Tennessee. This early family history states that William Ramsey, Sr. was born in Pennsylvania about 1740-1742, several months after his parents reached America from the North of Ireland; and that William Ramsey married Agnes Maria Boyd who was born in Ireland in 1744, and being five years old when her parents came to America.