Richard B. Ramsey was born in Franklin, Vanango County, Pennsylvania, December 26th, 1893. He came to Nevada with his father, Asa C. Ramsey, and made his residence in McGill, White Pine County, from which he entered the Service (September 21st, 1917). At Camp Lewis, Washington, where he was enrolled in the ranks, he became a member of Battery E, 348th Field Artillery, 91st Division. He served with that unit continuously thereafter until the time of his death, and was one of the best-known men in the regiment. Having crossed to France in July, 1918, the 348th was sent to Puy-de-Dome for school and field training, where they remained until the fall of the year. They then went north to join the rest of the division but did not arrive in the lines to take part in the fighting. However, they went into Germany with the Army of Occupation when the Allies took control of the Rhine.

On the 29th of November, 1918, Private, First Class, Ramsey, fell a victim of pneumonia. He had served long and well in the ranks of his regiment and left behind him the reputation of a good, brave, soldier. His father, Asa C. Ramsey, of McGill, now of Glenfield, Alleghany County, Pennsylvania, was left to mourn not only his loss but that of his younger brother. For, while Richard was serving with the Artillery, his brother, Lloyd, aged nineteen, had enlisted from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in Company E, 111th Infantry, 28th Division, and on the 8th of September, 1918, while fighting in the Aisne-Marne Offensive, northeast of Fisnes, between the Aisne and Vesle Rivers, the younger had fallen on the field of battle. Nevada deeply honors the name of Ramsey, not only on account of the son who gave his life in her name, but for the sake of his brave little brother Lloyd, and that of the bereaved father. No doubt the two soldiers are together now in a happier land, whither have gone a legion of the National Heroes.