Cadwallader Jones Ruffin

Biographical Data

Relatives

• Parents: Peter Browne Ruffin (1821-1900) [1] and Mary Rebecca Jones (1823-1878)  [1].
• Paternal grandparents: Thomas Carter Ruffin [1] (1787-1870) and Annie McNabb Kirkland (1794-1875).
• Maternal grandparents: Cadwallader Jones, [Jr.] (1788-1861) and Rebecca Edward Long (1795-1881).
• Siblings:
  • four brothers, Allen Jones Ruffin (b. 1857), Thomas Ruffin [3] (1852-1922), Sterling Ruffin [3] (1857-1932) and Joseph Roulhac Ruffin.
  • seven sisters, Annie Kirkland Ruffin (1860-1960), Rebecca Edwards Ruffin (1846-1899) , Mary Browne Ruffin (b. 1850), Susan Brodnax Ruffin (b. 1852), Sarah Lillie Jones Ruffin (b. 1860), Sarah Jones Ruffin (1856-1859) and Anne K. Ruffin (b. 1848).
• Uncles: Pride Jones (b. 1815) and Cadwallader [III] Jones (1813-1899).
• Aunts: Susan Mary Ruffin (1827-1851) , Alice Roane Ruffin (1815-1873) 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) .
• Others: Browne Ruffin Webb (nephew, 1881-1935), James Webb Jr. (brother-in-law, b. 840s), James Webb, III (nephew, b. 1878), John Cox Webb (nephew, 1883-1965), Mary Jones Webb (niece) and Charles Lockhart Pettigrew (brother-in-law).

References

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