George Franklin Ransone (1870-1951) was born in Georgia to George Washington Ransone (1823-1880) and Delia Lou Wyatt (1838-1899). He was the third of four siblings, Robert W. (1849-1944), Mollie A. (1861-1944), and Edith L. (1874-?). In 1893, George Ransone married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Fox James (1873-1952) of Bloomfield, Kentucky. Lizzie earned a degree from Gordon County University. They had two children, Elizabeth Lou (1903-1989) and George Clifford (1894-1934), both born in Calhoun, Georgia. In 1928, Elizabeth Lou married E. Harris Kennedy (1903-1978), a pharmacist from Coolidge, Georgia. Kennedy served in the Navy during World War II and become a member of the Yaarab Shrine Temple. Elizabeth and Harris had one daughter, Carol Barr. George Clifford married Hazel Sheram Merritt (1898-1974) in 1917 and they had one daughter, Elizabeth Emily Ransone (1923-1998). In 1945, Emily Elizabeth married naval pharmacist Hugh Amos Wilson Jr. (1922-1995); one year later she graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor of science in home economics. She taught in the Atlanta Public School system for more than 30 years. Emily and Hugh had three children.