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Laura Dean Ramsay is the daughter of the late Charles Alexander Dean, Jr. and Mildred Eugenia Wall Dean. Born in Birmingham, Mrs. Ramsay was raised in Alexander City, Alabama, and is a sixth generation Alabamian. She is married to Erskine Ramsay, II, and they have two sons and four grandchildren. Mrs. Ramsay received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art and English from Birmingham-Southern College and did post graduate work at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. She taught at The Altamont School before retiring to raise her children and becoming a community volunteer where she was very involved with the Mountain Brook School System. 

Memberships

  • Colonial Dames of America (Registrar General)

  • National Society of the Colonial Dames of America

  • Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors (2nd Deputy Governor General)

  • Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

  • National Order of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

  • One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal

  • Order of the Crown in America

  • Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/25

  • National Society Americans of Royal Descent

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Councilor 2018-2022)

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (3rd Vice President General)

  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America (Recording Secretary General)

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety Class of 2025)

  • Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (1st Vice President General)

  • Jamestowne Society (Alabama Governor 2020-2022)

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

  • Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Honorary President General 2017-2019)

  • National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861 (Secretary General 2016-2018)

  • Order of the First Families of Maine (Former 2nd Vice President General; Former 1st Vice President General)

  • Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680

  • National Gavel Society

  • Descendants of Knights of the Garter (Secretary General 2020-2022)

  • Huguenot Society Founders of Manakin (Former Alabama President)

  • First Families of Alabama Genealogical Society

Other Notes

Mrs. Ramsay served on the Boards of The Women’s Committee of 100 for Birmingham, The Antiquarian Society of Birmingham, The Fine Arts Council of Birmingham-Southern College, the General Sumter Chapter of the DAR, The National Society Colonial Dames of America, The Alabama Company of the Jamestowne Society, and Chapter XXXIX of The Colonial Dames of America, to name a few. Mrs. Ramsay has also been involved with the Birmingham Botanical Gardens where she worked with the Native Plants Division and did botanical illustrations for various conferences held at the Botanical Gardens.

Mrs. Ramsay is currently on the Council of American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) and serves on the Board of Trustees of The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

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