Grave marker for Sgt. Jackson T. Ramsey at Plot F Row 4 Grave 11 in Margraten American Cemetery, Holland.

Sgt Ramsey was killed in action on September 23, 1944.  His awards include the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster.

Mrs. Ada Bardwell of Graham received word that her brother, Sgt. Jackson T. Ramsey, was killed in Holland in September after returning to duty after recovering from a serious wound he received in Normandy. He was serving with the Airborne Infantry unit. Sgt. Ramsey's family is in Greenville, S.C. and were informed that he was among a group of 19 men who jumped from a plane over Holland. A radio announcer broadcasting from the plane itself listed the names of the men and their home states and Sgt. Ramsey's was included. This broadcast took place a week before his death. (Transcriber's note, this makes no sense, but was duly copied.)

Jackson T. Ramsey entered the service on December 2, 1942 at Fort Jackson, Columbia County, South Carolina, with enlistment in the regular army as a private. His service number was 14126358, and he was listed as aged 27, a member of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Airborne, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment had been a resident of Greenville County, South Carolina.

Sgt Ramsey was killed in action on September 23, 1944. His awards include the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster.

He had initially been interred at the Molenhoek Cemetery. Molenhoek was designated as the American temporary cemetery and all American war dead were either re-interred at Margraten when that formal cemetery was completed or sent home at the request of family. Although considered to be temporary, the grounds and neatly aligned wooden crosses evoked a sense of peace and dignity. Operation Market Garden. 

[Burlington, North Carolina Daily Times News, November 10, 1944]