Ellis County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Ruffin, Harrison And Laura 1925
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The Ennis Daily News
H. Ruffin 
Died at Alma
Monday Night

[12-14-1925]

Harrison Ruffin, 46 years old, died Monday night at 10:18 o'clock at his home at
Alma, following a stroke of paralysis, with which he was stricken Monday
afternnon at 3:30 o'clock.

Mr. Ruffin was well known in the community in which he lived. Surviving besides
his wife, is one daughter, Mrs. Ray Clark of Alma, and five brothers, Till
Ruffin of Wilburton, Okla; R.A. Ruffin of Howe; Bud Ruffin and Willis Ruffin of
Alma; and C.J. Ruffin of Ennis and two sisters, Mrs. W.F. Sands and Mrs. George
Collard of Alma.

Funeral services will be held from the family residence at 11 o'clock Wednesday
morning. Burial will be made in the cemetery in Rice.


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Mrs. Ruffin Died
[Mar 8, 1953]

Ennis, Texas. March 9
Funeral services for Mrs. W.H. Ruffin, 68,lifelong resident of Almas, who died
at the home of a daughtere, Mrs. C.E. Best of Gladewater, were conducted at the
community church in Alma.  Also surviving are four sisters: Mrs. T.G. Whitfill,
Ennis; Mrs. Archie Creager and Mrs. Leslie Floyd, both of Lockney, and Mrs. E.
Mills, Amarillo and two brothers, Ed Whitfill and Frank Whitfill, both of Lockney.


NOTE:



W.H. (William Harrison) was the 5th child of Henry J. and Winnie Virginia Jinks
Ruffin, who had come to Alma from Taylor Co, Georgia about 1886.  He was a
Blacksmith.

Married April 23, 1903 - Laura Whitfill.

Laura was the d/o William and Delima Whitfill.  The Whitfills were among the
very early settlers of Alma and had come from Kentucky around 1883.


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