Wake County NcArchives Obituaries.....Ruffin, John J. S. August 28, 1825
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The Raleigh Register
The Raleigh Register Tuesday August 30, 1825 (Raleigh, North Carolina)
DIED	
In this city, on Sunday Evening last, after a few days illness of 
bilious fever, Mr. John J. S. Ruffin.
Is there a heart attuned to virtuous feeling, that can with the cold
rules of philosophy contemplate the chasm made in society,
by the loss of those suddenly cut off in the prime of manhood?
Can frail humanity gaze upon the victims of the fell monster, 
Death, and with stoic apathy view the wreck of human nature?
No! -- Death even in it's mildest form, with the aspect of slow
and lingering disease, is appalling to our feelings, but when 
with scarce an intimation of his purpose, he robs us of those
who have just started in life, it is a calamity which sets at
naught the cold dictates of reason. Not a week has elapsed
since the deceased appeared in all the glow of health -- now,
the cold clod of the valley rests on that bosom, that throbbed
with every manly feeling. Mr. Ruffin was affable in his manners,
frank and generous in his disposition, and in his friendship
steadfast and firm. None was more ready that the subject of
this notice, when others were sick, to sooth the fretfulness of
disease and alleviate the pains of affliction, by kind attentions.
None more willing to administer to the necessities of the 
unfortunate, than he, whose death we now lament.

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