Bertie County NC  Ruffin-Smallwood - Lewiston, NC

 Ruffin/Smallwood Gravesite

Located on Joe Green Whitehead, Jr.'s "Parker Farm" on Jack Branch Road,
Lewiston-Woodville,NC.  Information on tombstones provided by Joe G. Whitehead, Jr.

Directions:
From Windsor, follow NC 308 West towards Lewiston-Woodville.  A mile before you reach Lewiston-Woodville, turn left  onto Jack Branch Road, drive 1.5 miles then turn left (just opposite Vance Lane on the right )  onto a dirt road, with white house at end of road.  Cemetery is on the left in middle of field.


From Tarboro, or US 64, follow hwy 11/42 to Lewiston0Woodville.  Just after Grace Episcopal Church , turn R onto Jack Branch Road, fo 1.4 mile to dirt road on the right (just opposite Vance Lane on the right with white house at end of road.  Cemetery is on the left in middle of field.


#1 very interesting, very tall and shaped like Washington monument in
D.C. with this writing on the 4-sided column.
        side 1    George Thomas Ruffin
        side 2    Penelope Winborne Ruffin
        side 3    Cella Winefred Ruffin
        side 4    in memory of William Henry Ruffin
        base of stone   Children of John and Rachel S. Ruffin
        stone maker    M.P.Butcher  Norfolk
        no dates anywhere on this marker

#2    flat, upright, standard stone
      John Ruffin Jr. son of William and Penelope Ruffin
      no dates

#3     
        Dr. Thos. J.P.Smallwood (Thomas John Pugh Smallwood) son of
                John S. and Mary L.P. Smallwood  (John Smaw and Mary Lockart Pugh Smallwood,)
                (also brother to Charles Smallwood,MD)
                March 30, 1819   Sept 14, 1876

#4    
        Ann Ruffin
        wife of J.P. Smallwood
        July 3, 1847  June 15, 1911

#5      Largest stone of all - 
        Sally Ann Ruffin Smallwood
        wife of Dr. Thos. J.P. Smallwood
        Jan 10, 1827    married Oct 9, 1844    July 14, 1858


Cooper, Sylvester T.
? 9/22/1875
(note from St. Thomas' Register of Burial - Dr. Thomas Smallwood's Farm)


Smallwood, Fr. T.J.P.
? - 9/14/1876
(note from St. Thomas' Register of Burial - Ruffin burying ground)

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