Catherine Roane Ruffin

(1810-1880)

At a Glance

She was born at Ayr Mount, which was the home of her mother's family, the Kirklands.

Story

In 1836 Catherine Roane Ruffin married Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac, Sr. (1795-1856). In 1837 they moved to Windsor, Bertie County, NC. Many letters she wrote to her father are in the Thomas Ruffin Papers, Southern Historical Collection, UNC. She is the mother of William Sterling Roulhac (1851 - 1884) who married Susan Mary Ruffin’s daughter Nannie Brodnax.

Catherine and Joseph's other children are Annie Roulhac (1837), Frances Gray “Fannie” Roulhac (1839-1897), Joseph Blount Gregoire Roulhac, Jr. (1842-1861), Elizabeth Ruffin Roulhac (1843-1865), Thomas Ruffin Roulhac (1846-1894), and John Blount Gregoire Roulhac (1849-1883) Today the Ruffin-Roulhac House is the Town Hall for the Town of Hillsborough.

Biographical Data

Important Dates

Catherine Roane Ruffin was born on November 12, 1810, in Ayr Mount in Hillsborough, NC. She died on April 30, 1880, and was buried in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Hillsborough, NC.

Relatives

• Parents: Thomas Carter Ruffin [1] (1787-1870) and Annie McNabb Kirkland (1794-1875).
• Siblings:
  • one brother, Peter Browne Ruffin (1821-1900).
  • two sisters, Susan Mary Ruffin (1827-1851)  and Anne Ruffin (1814-1897).