Margaret (Ritchie) Ruffin
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Margaret (Ritchie) Ruffin

Margaret Ruffin formerly Ritchie
Born [date unknown] [location unknown]
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1803 in Virginia, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Died in Hanover, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Margaret Ritchie [1] [2] [3]

Marriage [4]
Ancestry provides an abstract (and no link to the original record) of marriages of Richmond and Essex counties, VA.

"1803, RITCHIE, MARGARET Daughter of Mary, sister of Thomas & Archibald, married William Ruffin." (The quote is from the abstract.)

Died March 1827 Hanover Co., Virginia, USA

Obituary
DIED.
At the house of her son, Albert G. Ruffin, in Hanover County, Va. Mrs. Margaret Ruffin, widow of the late William Ruffin, Esq. formerly of this City. In the fall of 1825, Mrs. R. lost in the short space of four days, her husband and a son; during the last fall she lost another son, a resident of the State of Mississippi, who breathed his last at Philadelphia. The affectionate wife and the venerable parent now follows them to the tomb; leaving behind her other children, many relations and a numerous circle of friends, to bewail her loss, [5]
In Hanover county, Virginia, on the 26th Feb’y, Mrs. Margaret Ruffin, the widow of the late William Ruffin, Esq. of Raleigh. In the fall of 1825, she lost, in the short space of four days, her husband and a son; and during the last fall, another son died. [6]

Parents

Husband: Archibald Ritchie
Wife: Mary Roane
Child: Margaret Ritchie
Child: Archibald Ritchie
Child: Thomas Ritchie
Marriage:
AUG 1753 [7]

Sources

  1. Source: #S4398
  2. Source #S1: Created through the import of indygrandma.ged on 02 January 2011
  3. As researched by Jen Lehr, enered Sunday, January 4, 2015.
  4. Ancestry.com. Essex County, Virginia, Marriage Index, 1655-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999. Original data: Wilkerson, Eva Eubank. Index to Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia, 1655-1900. Richmond, VA, USA: Clearfield Co., 1953. Source Citation: Book: W 16,; Page: 228
  5. Source #S2: Obit Mrs Margaret RUFFIN, widow of late William Ruffin Esq, mother of Albert G. Ruffin, Published in Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, North Carolina), March 9, 1827, p. 1. ; in bio of her Memorial #132920030
  6. The Fayetteville Weekly Observer, Fayetteville, NC, Thursday, 8 Mar 1827, p. 3, col. 4. Digital image at Newspapers.com
  7. Source: #S4443 Pg 307
  • Source S4443 The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume IV "Neville-Terrill" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.) Repository: #R51
  • Repository R51 Billings Family History Lilbrary (LDS)




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Still need to sort out dates /links for some of the sons
posted by Lorna Henderson
Confess I'm tying myself in knots trying to untangle these RUFFINs.

Margaret (Ritchie-94 supposedly born abt 1600 is married to a William (Ruffin-313 supposedly born abt 1630 They have a son Robert Ritchie (Ruffin-397 given as born 1600 and a son William H (Ruffin-331 dying abt 1825 who is married to a wife born 1798. This latter William's dth date fits the dth date of Margaret (RITCHIE)'s husband William according to the obit on FindaGrave "at the home of her son Albert G" in 1827 (which I've added to Albert G's bio - Ruffin-297. So I'm not confident of where to start adding dates and relinking! Anyone want to help tidy this family??? My interest? A dna match (20cMs+ for two of them) for 3 of my 2nd and 3rd cousins with a descendant of one of the William H RUFFINs.

posted by Lorna Henderson

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