My great-grandfather, Pleas Ramsour, was born in Rusk county Texas in January of 1850. I found him listed in the 1900 census, which listed his father being from Alabama. He was a very light skinned mullato of German descent. The 1850 and 1860 census of Rusk county Texas shows the Ramsours/Ramsaurs as being from North Carolina. My great-grand father could not read and write, so he might not have understood where his father was from. Ramsuer is also a spelling used for the German name. I can't find anything on his father. Does any Ramsours in North Carlina or Alabama have any of their ramsour ancestors as having gone to Rusk county Texas?

Samuel B. Jones-Mills

sbjones@iwon.com