Anne Ruffin

(1814-1897)

Story

Anne Ruffin married Paul Carrington Cameron (1808-1841). They lived at Stagville and at Fairntosh. Their daughter Anne Ruffin Cameron (1842-1915) married George P Collins of Somerset Place; the Collins family lived in the Burwell School during the Civil War. Anne and Paul's other children were Jean Cameron (1838-1842), Rebecca B Cameron (1840-1883), Mary Amis Cameron (1844-1855), Margaret M Cameron (1848-1896), Duncan Cameron III (1850-1886), Paulina Carrington Cameron (1853-1892), Bennehan Cameron (1855-1925), and Mildred Coles Cameron (1855). Annie Ruffiin Cameron was President of the St. Matthew’s Churchyard Society [1].

Biographical Data

Anne was called Annie.

Important Dates

Anne Ruffin was born on June 3, 1814. She died on May 29, 1897, and was buried in St. Matthew's Churchyard in Hillsborough, NC.

Relatives

• Parents: Thomas Carter Ruffin [1] (1787-1870) and Annie McNabb Kirkland (1794-1875).
• Spouse: Paul Carrington Cameron (1808-1891) [2].
• Other children: one daughter (Annie Ruffin Cameron [2] (1842-1915) ).
• Paternal grandparents: Sterling Ruffin (1767-1822) and Alice Roane (1767-1829).
• Siblings:
  • six brothers, Peter Browne Ruffin (1821-1900), William Kirkland Ruffin (1812-1880), Sterling Ruffin [2] (1817-1907), George McNeil Ruffin (1819-1820), Thomas Ruffin [2], [Jr.] (1824-1889) and John Kirkland Ruffin (1834-1903).
  • seven sisters, Susan Mary Ruffin (1827-1851) , Elizabeth Margaret Ruffin (1823-1838), Alice Roane Ruffin (1815-1873), Catherine Roane Ruffin (1810-1880), Jane Minerva Ruffin (1829-1893), Martha Phoebe Ruffin (b. 1831) and Sarah Nash Ruffin (2006-1879).
• Others: Alice Ruffin Collins (granddaughter, 1874-1958), George William Kent Collins (grandson, 1869-1946), Henrietta Page Collins (granddaughter, 1870-1955), Mary Arthur Collins (granddaughter, 1866-1871) and Paul Cameron Collins (grandson, 1877-1961).

References

1. St Matthews Episcopal Church Ladies Sewing Society Minute Books.
2. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).