Bertie County NcArchives Obituaries.....Ruffin, Thomas (Lieut) 1864
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DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER
DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER
27 October 1864



DIED.

Among the valiant patriots of North Carolina who have fallen in the 
cause of Southern Independence, it becomes our painful duty to
record the sad and untimely death of Lieutenant THOMAS RUFFIN,
Company D, Fourth regiment North Carolina cavalry, who died on 
the 23d day of September at Johnson’s Island, Ohio.  Seldom have 
our hearts been saddened by the fall of a more worthy and promising
young man.  Entering the service at the commencement of the war, 
he well sustained the character of a noble soldier; and his amiability
and gallantry endearing him in bonds of love to his company and all 
with whom he associated, won for him the bright exemplification of a 
good and true officer.  Lieutenant Ruffin was captured in Pennsylvania
on the 4th day of July, 1863, and was held prisoner up to the time of
his death.  He died far from his home and relatives in an inhospitable
clime, yet friends were present who performed the burial rites and
marked the grave of the patriot hero.  His eminent character and exalted 
virtues deserve to be long remembered and cherished, and his kind
generosity and in-swerving magnanimity to be respected and
imitated.  While we mourn his fall, sympathize with his numerous
friends and relatives upon the blight of their hopes, and deeply
commiserate his family upon the extinquishment of a light which once
gladdened and brightened their home, yet we hope the event which
has shaded us in sorrow has awakened him in a brighter land, where 
his noble virtues shine forth with a more refulgent luster.      AMICUS”



02 March 2008 transcription by Lynn McCarthy of microfilmed copy
as found in GenealogyBank.com.
 



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