Rebecca Edwards Ruffin

(b. 1846)

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Rebecca Edwards Ruffin was born on September 15, 1846.

Relatives

• Parents: Peter Browne Ruffin (d. 1900) [1] and Mary Rebecca Jones (1823-1878)  [1].
• Paternal grandparents: Thomas Ruffin and Annie M. Kirkland.
• Maternal grandparents: Cadwallader Jones, [Jr.] (1788-1861) and Rebecca Edward Long (1795-1881).
• Siblings:
  • five brothers, Allen Jones Ruffin (b. 1857), Cadwallader Jones Ruffin, Joseph Roulhac Ruffin, Thomas Ruffin, [Jr.] (b. 1852) and Sterling Ruffin, [Jr.] (b. 1857).
  • five sisters, Anna Kirkland Ruffin, Mary Browne Ruffin (b. 1850), Susan Brown Ruffin (b. 1852), Sarah Jones Ruffin and Sarah Daisy Jones Ruffin.
• Uncles: Pride Jones (b. 1815) and Cadwallader [III] Jones (1813-1899).
• Aunts: Susan Mary Ruffin (1827-1851) , Alice Ruffin and Sally Rebecca Jones (1833-1892) .
• Cousins: Althea Collins, Cadwallader Jones Collins, Lizzie Jones Collins (1871-1900), Mary Riggs Collins (1861-1912), Rebecca Allen Collins, Josiah Collins, V, Eliza Adam Jones (1839-1911) , Mary Cameron Jones (1843-1924)  and Frances Iredell Jones (b. 1837) .

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).