1948 Notepad from Searcy Arkansas, 501 N 8th St. There is NO 8th Street! And no Ramsey Printing.

Barbara,  what was Eighth Street in the 1940s is now Birch Street.  Ramsey Printing was located at Eighth (Birch) Street and West Academy.  I have a copy of an old Searcy city map, which has been posted here before, I think.  I'll send it to both you and Don in case one of you want to re-post it.  I don't know when Ramsey Printing went out of business.

It's hard to believe but the old Searcy city map shows the entire extent of the town when many of us were growing up there.

Harold is right. But to nit pick a little, the Ramsey home and print shop was about 150 feet north of West Academy at the crest of the hill. If you now stand in front of the home (the old Grant place) on the northwest corner of Academy and Sowell, the Ramsey house/printshop would have been half way between Sowell and Birch. At one time a dirt driveway ran in front of house between the two streets. (Nothing was paved in that part of Searcy at that time.) There was a grove of Hickory trees behind their house and a huge Oak tree stood kitty cornered from the Grant home and on the east side of Sowell. 

I lived a little over a block away at the corner of Academy and Pear (7th) and played with the Ramsey boys in the mid 40's. I believe Mr Ramsey's  name was Ellis and know for sure that I called his wife "Mrs Ramsey". : )  Both of them ran the print shop.

Searching the Web, I found mention of Ellis Ramsey starting a weekly paper in Bald Knob and also one in Beebe in 1948. I'm guessing that he is one who printed the map.

Bob Collins

I totally agree with Bob(by) Collins:  there were two Ramsey boys as I remember, and one was Ellis and maybe his father was Ellis, too.  My memory is that they did move to Beebe and started a newspaper there.  Somewhere - either your blog, Barbara, or SearcyYesteryear, White County Historical Society,  or maybe Dorothy's column, there has been mention about the Ramseys and their newspaper.      Ask Jim Baugh, Barbara.

Anita Fuller

I don't think I ever mentioned that your husband's home place was really important to me growing up.  I loved to fish or just fool around a creek.  I spent many, many days along the little creek that ran through the farm.  I would go down Sowell and climb over the fence (I don't ever remember asking permission but I guess the statute of limitation has run out by now.) and start following the creek going west.  I could spend all day along the creek by myself.  Never caught anything worthwhile, just small sunfish and, once, a "large" catfish probably a foot long.  I would often come out near where the new high school is.  There was a small swimming hole there which we enjoyed even though it wasn't waist deep and muddy. 

No dangers on Deener Creek at all, Barbara. We kids made sure it was safe by always chasing the water moccasins out of the swimming hole before we went skinny dippin'.

But I do have scars on the retinas of my eyes which an Air Force opthamologist attributed to swimming in the natural waters in the Mississippi basin. While my eyes were dilated, he brought everyone in his department in to take a peek.

Hello Barbara,  I am the grandson of Elllis Ramsey Sr. and the son of Paul Ramsey from Beebe, AR.  I came across this article when researching the history of Ramsey printing and have sent the link to my dad to see this article.  He will be very interested to see pictures from my grandfather's work while in the printing business. Thanks for posting.

Aaron Ramsey