Identified as "A relative" it is speculated that Ransom's wife Sarah, is possibly the daughter of William Blakely and Nancy (McDonald). Should this be the case, Ransom would be the uncle of Hannah's husband, William Blakely Peters and his sister Elizabeth Mitchell, the wife of Sarah's brother, Goldsborough Banyer Blakely.

Ransom and his wife Sarah were enumerated in the 1850 and 1860 census residing in the town of Meredith. In 1870 Ransom and his wife are residing at the hotel owned by Sidney and Olive Bullard in Oneonta, Otsego Co., New York which is approximately ten miles from the town of Meredith. They continued to reside in Onenta through 1880 and lived until at least 1900 when they were enumerated in that census in June and according to that record, had never had children.

According to the Delaware County, NY - Genealogy and History site, Ransom and his wife Sarah A. (Blakely) were laid to rest in the Woodland Cemetery in Delhi, Delaware Co., New York.