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John 6 Ruffin Family
John Ruffin 5
Born: 24 Aug 1776 Bertie Co NC
Married: Abt 17 ? Bertie Co NC Rachel S.(Sutton?) Harrell
(Rachel: 1 Oct 1792 - 26 Sept 1869 Tombstone: St. Francis Meth Cem)
(John Died: 28 Nov 1844 (Tombstone: St. Francis Meth Cemetery, Lewiston,NC)
Will dated Nov 1844
Rachel's 1/3 allotment of 2,000 acres of land Bertie Co 1845.
Census 1810 1830
Parents: William 4 and Penelope
John's tombstone says "son of William and Penelope Ruffin"
Children:
- Penelope Winborne (died young-probaby named for John's mother)
- Celia Winefred (died young)
- George Thomas (possibly named for Rachel's family)
- William Henry (died young)
One obelisk monument with all names.
At bottom: In memory of Children of John and Rachel Ruffin
- Sally Ann (10 Jan 1827 - 14 July 1858)
age 31 yrs 60 mo 4 days (Tombstone: St. Francis Meth Cem)
married: Oct 9, 1844 Dr. Thomas J(ames) P(ugh) Smallwood
(T.J.P. Smallwood: Tombstone:
In memory of Dr. Tho J.P. Smallwood,
son of John S(maw) and Mary L.P(ugh) Smallwood
b. Mar 30, 1819 d Sept 14,
1876 aged 57 yrs 5 mo and 14 days)
- John Thomas (7 June 1829 - 20 Dec 1851)
Will Dec 20, 1851
- William Julia (4 April 1832- 3 Dec 1917)
married: 1) 22 Oct 1851 (Bertie Co) Dr. John Hill of Wilmington
2) 23 Nov 1857 Robert B. Hamlin
Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, NC
- Willie Ruffin Hill (11 Feb 1853 - 4 Sept 1943)
married: Dr. John H. Tucker of Henderson
Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, NC
Quotation from Recollections of Woodville by Charles Smallwood"
Thomas [brother, Thom.J.P. Smallwood] read medicine,
practiced medicine 10 years in Woodville, then moved in the Indian
Woods, married Sally Ruffin and died September 1875. His wife died
about 1858, left several children.
Mr. John Ruffin's family consisted of his wife and several children; two
of his daughters died of scarlet fever.[Cella Winefred and Penolope Winborne]
Sarah married my brother Dr.Tom Smallwood and died on the farm.
Willie Ruffin married Dr.John Hill (of Wilmington) {on Sunday 23 Oct 1851 in the Jumping Run Church Woodville(per Charles Smallwood diary). Performing the ceremony was Joseph Blount Cheshire, the Rector of Calvary Church, Tabroro, NC. }They moved to Halifax County, near
Littleton, and there Dr. Hill died, leaving one daughter, Willie Ruffin.
Mrs. Hill
afterwards married Bob Hamlin, and after a few years they, separated.
Bob has since died and she is now living with her daughter, Mrs.
Tucker, in Henderson. {Willie R. Hill married W.H. Tucker.
The son, John Ruffin, died young unmarried,
leaving his property to the son of my brother, John Ruffin Smallwood,
and the only good it ever did him was to ruin him.
Obituary of Willie Julia Ruffin Hill Hamlin
Charlotte Observer, Tuesday,December 4, 1917.
Mrs Hamlin Dies at Home of Her Daughter
Has Been Resident of Charlotte Three Years
Funeral This Afternoon
Mrs Willie Ruffin Hamlin, for three years a resident of Charlotte, died
yesterday morning at 6 oclock at the home of her daughter, Mr. W.H.
Tucker, in Myers Park.
The funeral service will be conducted at the residence this afternoon at
3 oclock. The Reverend R.B.Owens, rector of the Church of the Holy
Comforter [Episcopal] will officiate. Interment is in Elmwood Cemetery. Pallbearers
are W.W. Robard, James W. Jones, J.M.Hill, F.H. Chamberlain, Thomas
Haughton, Robert Lassiter, George M. Price and C. D. Taliaferro.
Mrs Hamlin was born in Bertie County in 1832 - she was 85 years old. She
was the daughter of the late John Ruffin a prominent citizen of
Bertie Countie. From 1846-49, Mrs. Hamlin attended St. Mary's school in
Raleigh. She was important in the life of the Church of the Holy
Innocence in Henderson where she lived for many years.
She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. W.H. Tucker and grandchildren: Mrs.
W.M. Chalmers of Toledo, Ohio, Dr. John Hill Tucker, Miss Julia Marie
Tucker and Cadet Fred C. Tucker with the U.S. Cadet Flying Squadron.
Thomas J. Pugh and Sally Ann Ruffin Smallwood
Children
- John Ruffin Smallwood
- Mar 12, 1848 - Dec 27, 1910
Married Ann Dawson Ruffin (d/o Henry Ruffin) June 10, 1869
- Ruffin Smallwood (April 11, 1870-Sept 24, 1871)
- Sallie Tom (Sept 2, 1871 - Mar 1, 1906. Married Charles Smallwood (1888) who was son of Piladees Smallwood and wife Mollie Shine)
- Annie Ruffin Smallwood (Jan 18, 1875 (Lewiston,Bertie Co - June 19, 1910 at Rich Square, Northampton Co. Married Mar 15, 1899 John Henry Baugham of Rich Square)
- Willie Smallwood (Feb 2, 1880 - May 1943. Married Mar 15, 1899 W.R. Baugham Rich Square, NC.
- Charles Smallwood (Oct 10, 1882 -? Married Marie Harris of Norfolk,VA)
- Mary Winnefred Smallwood (Oct 9, 1883. Married Nov 1916 A.A. Bryan Rich Square)
- George Lockhart Smallwood (Nov 11, 1849-Dec 31, 1898 Baltimore MD. Married Jemmie Watson Groves of Bertie Co)
- Thomas Pugh Smallwood (April 26, 1852-?. Married Margaret Mitchell Raynor, widow of Thomas J. Raynor.
- Charles Smallwood (Oct 26, 1855 - May 30, 1880)
- William Marcus Smallwood (May 15, 1858 - Sept 26, 1899. Married Annie Sue Askew)
Source of information: Some Colonial and Revolutionary Families of North Carolina, Vol I pg 272 by Marilu Burch Smallwood. Excellent series on North Carolina families.
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