Ramsdell Descendants
This page documents the known descendants of Harry Ames Ramsdell (1867-1955) and Susie Catherine Findley (Ramsdell) (1881-1932). Susie was the second child of our ancestors William Fremont Findley, 1855-1921 and Laura Caroline Bean (Findley), 1848-1911; Susie's descendants are designated with numbers beginning with the digit 2. Susie was the sister of our ancestor Mary Caroline Findley (Edmands) (1887-1970).
2.1 Minerva Ramsdell Born 25 December 1905
Married John B. Russell
--- (his brother George died April 1963 of cancer;
--- John had double hernia in 1966)
Resided New Bedford, MA, and South Dartmouth, MA
--- toured England and Scotland in 1964, 1968
--- toured Austria in 1966
--- toured Oregon in 1969
2.1.1 John ("Jack") B. Russell Twin of JoAn
Born 28 June 1927
Married August 1954
Resided St. Albans, L.I., NY
2.1.2 JoAn Phelps Russell Twin of Jack
Born 28 June 1927
Married 29 September 1956
--- to John Walter Stewart, Jr.
--- in New Bedford, MA
Resided Winchester, MA
--- PhD. from Boston University
--- taught at Boston State College
2.1.3 Minerva "Babe" Russell Born 18 August 1928
Married 23 June 1950
--- to Paul Sprogis
Resided North Reading, MA
--- later in Winchester, MA
2.1.3.1 David Sprogis Born 23 June 1951
2.1.3.2 Minerva Ames Sprogis Born May 1952
2.1.3.3 Laura Phelps Sprogis Born 29 September 1954
2.1.3.4 Jonathan Sprogis (still a baby in July 1959)
2.1.3.5 ??? Sprogis "lost this baby"
2.1.3.6 ??? Sprogis "lost this baby in 1966"


2.2 Virginia Ramsdell Born 27 May 1907
Married Paul R. O'Donnell, U.S.N. (SeaBees)
--- retired December 1964
--- then worked for NY State
Resided Peekskill, NY
--- vacation cruise through Panama Canal to San Francisco 1965
--- toured Mexico 1966
--- toured Venezuela and Guyana 1967
--- toured Scotland 1968
--- Christmas holidays in Redondo Beach, CA, 1965, 1966, 1967
2.2.1 Joyce Anne O'Donnell Born 19 June 1933
Graduated Albertus Magnus College (New Haven, CT), 1955
Married 22 December 1956
--- to Elmer Joseph Arsenault
--- in Peekskill, NY
Resided in Fitchburg, MA
Moved to Ashburnham, MA, in 1966
2.2.1.1 Noël Arsenault Born 19 April 1958
Syracuse, NY
2.2.1.2 Stephen Joseph Arsenault Born 20 November 1959
2.2.1.3 Christopher Charles Arsenault Born 27 December 1963
2.2.1.4 Celeste Arsenault Born 17 February 1968
2.2.2 Richard "Dicky" O'Donnell Born 18 August 1935
Entered U.S. Air Force, October 1958
--- at Pease Air Force Base (Dover, NH)
--- accident in December 1964
--- transferred to Westover Field 1966
--- 2 missions to Vietnam
Married 1962 to Suzie ???


2.3 Eleanor Ramsdell Born 4 January 1912
Married 14 May 1932 (17 days before mother's death)
--- to Col. Edwin L. Tucker, U.S.A.R.
(He retired from Army in 1957
and received Master of Education from Univ. of Mass [Amherst], 1962)
Resided in:
--- Japan (during occupation)
--- Falls Church, VA
--- Texas
--- Munich, Germany (1955)
--- Baldwinville, NH (after 1956, in old restored farmhouse)
Taught school in Templeton, NH
2.3.1 Gordon Tucker Born 19 December 1932
Graduated American School in Japan, 1950
Graduated University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), 1955
Married Marlene ???
Resided in California
--- later (1962--) in Billerica, MA (Bedford Air Base)
--- from 1968 in St. Louis, MO
Meterologist for U.S. Army
Worked in Greenland for a while
--- also stationed in Taiwan from 1968
2.3.1.1 Lois Tucker Born 1962
2.3.1.2 ??? Tucker Born 1964
2.3.1.3 Lori Sue Tucker Born 5 March 1968
2.3.2 Susan Findley Tucker Born 26 December 1933
Graduated University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), 1955
--- vacation in Scandanavia and British Isles with sister Karen, 1965
Married 30 October 1965
--- to Alfred James Frugoli
--- (son of Mr.&Mrs. M. Frugoli of South San Francisco, CA)
--- in Palo Alto, CA
Resided in Mountain View, CA
2.3.3 (Edwin) Byron Tucker Born 1 February 1935
Married 22 September 1956
--- to (Marilyn) Joy Rein
--- in Crawford, AL
Served in the Vietnam War as pilot in U.S. Air Force
--- had private plane
Resided in Pensacola, FL
--- and (from the late 1950s) in Mount Whittier, CA
--- in mid-1960s in San Diego, CA
2.3.3.1 Susie Tucker Born August 1957
2.3.3.2 Edwin Byron "Win" Tucker, Jr. Born 10 March 1959
Mount Whittier, CA
2.3.3.3 Eric Tucker Born ca. October 1960
California
2.3.4 Karen Tucker Born 11 July 1938
Graduated Munich American High School, Germany, 1956
Graduated University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), 1962
(Bachelor of Science in zoology)
Kept a horse
Did poetry readings in Amherst, MA
--- vacation in Scandanavia and British Isles with sister Susan, 1965
Schoolteacher
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