Cumberland-Wake County NcArchives Obituaries.....Ruffin, William September 8, 1825
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Fayetteville Weekly Observer
Fayetteville Weekly Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina) Sept 8, 1825
FROM THE RALEIGH REGISTER.
"Man is but a shadow, and life a dream."
Of the truth of this, we have had, during the past week,
a most melancholy illustration. In our last paper we
mentioned the death of Mr. John J. S. Ruffin, and now
it is our mournful tasks to record the decease of his
father, our venerated friend, Mr. William Ruffin. -- He
died on Tuesday last, after nine days illness, brought on,
doubtless, by a fatiguing journey to Virginia, which he
had just accomplished.
Our city has lost one of it's most valued inhabitants;
has been deprived of a citizen, whose private virtues
secured the affection, and whose general conduct 
commanded the respect, of every one who had the
pleasure of his aquaintance. Mr. Ruffin was a soldier
of the Revolution, and was present at the capitulation
of York-town. When General Lafayette visited Raleigh,
he called upon his associate in arms, and when the 
deceased spoke of the service in which he was engaged
in that affair, so honourable to our county, the General,
(whose active memory seems to grasp every thing,) 
remembered perfectly every incident, and recounted
every particular of the achievement in which they had
been connected. Mr. Ruffin possessed the talents of
the first order, though he was placed in no situation
during his residence in this City fairly to develope them.
He was a distinguished member of the Virginia
Legislature, for many years, previous to his removal
from that State, of which he was native. His political
information was perhaps surpassed by few, and his
memory was a perfect chronicle of events connected
with the history of the United States. He was an 
inflexible Republican and in no breast did the amor patrie
glow with more purity and fervor. In addition to the
other traits in the character of this excellent man, he
was an exemplary Christian, and one of the brightest
ornaments of the Methodist Church, of which he was
an old and most influential member; and in his dying
moments, he bore testimony to the efficacy of that
Religion which he had so zealously espoused.
It was singular, and to him and them a truly gratifying
circumstance, that his children, some of whom lived
in extreme parts of our country, were, at the time of
his death, all collected together at his house, and were
thus afforded an opportunity of administering to his
wants, and receiving the blessing of their beloved
and highly revered Parent.

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