I am a Turney researcher, the family arrived Van Buren Co Arknasas ca 1835, where they settled later became Cleburne County Arknasas. They were in 1750s living near Woodstock, Virginia....by 1773 Henry Turney was north of the Holston River in what became eastern Tennessee.

I give you all of this because in those old records I keep falling over the Ramsey name. I wonder if it is the same family which later came to Van Buren Co Arkansas.
Daniel Ramsey born abour 1834 Tn married Hannah Potter in Van Buren Co, he was killed in the Civil War I think.

Anyway, thought I would pass on some of this early Ramsey info.

Land records near Woodstock, VA show Ramsey in the area - perhaps it would be Augusta County today.

A Josiah Ramsey as a very young boy was taken captive by the Indians. He was released on the Scioto in 1765 by Col. Bouquet the commander of Ft Pitt. Also in that group perhaps was a Turney, I am working on this one. This would be just after the French and Indian War. This Josiah Ramsey did not know he was a Ramsey, he had been taken captive at such a young age.

A petition to VA from men north of the Holston River, Washington Co Virginia 1777 (this would be area say around Abingdon, VA, Bristol, TN)
Henry Ramsey
William Ramsey
Thomas Ramsey
Josiah Ramsey
William Ramsey
Henry Turney

I have been told on the Ramsey:
"Josiah Ramsey taken prisoner by Indians as a young boy (Draper Manuscripts) was son of Thomas Ramsey of Augusta County, Virginia who is also found in Boetourt, Fincastle, and Washington County Virginia. Thomas Ramsey who is said to have served in the French and Indian War is listed as one of the earliest settlers of Washington County Virginia being there prior to 1770.
Henry and William Ramsey were also sons of Thomas Ramsey. He had daughters Mary Ramsey who married Colonel Anthony Bledsoe and Elizabeth who married Amos Heaton/Eaton.
Most of the members of this Ramsey family including Josiah, William and Henry removed to Cumberland Settlements near Nashville. Henry, William Ramsey and Anthony Bledsoe were killed by Indians in the late 1780s. Josiah survived and removed to Kentucky and finally to MO where he died at an advance age."

If you think this might be your Ramsey family, let me know because Henry Turney was also part of the Cumberland Settlement by June 1780 and rec. land for defense of Ft Nashborough North Carolina (Nashville, TN today). So I do have info on some of that.

Henry Turney later moved to near Liberty TN, where he died in DeKalb Co TN in 1843, after 3 of his sons had moved to NW Arkansas.

Glad to compare notes. I have info on the 1770s-1780s of these people, but just now working on the French and Indian War time - 1750s-1760s.

Mary hlm@qtm.net