Ruff

Submitted by Larry G. Ruff

Nancy Elizabeth Mathis Pitman Ruff, wife of Erasmus D. Pitman and second wife of James Gray Ruff.  The grandchild is Evelyn Ruff.  James Gray Ruff was born in Greene County, NC in 1823 and died at Pitman, AR, in 1901.  Married Catherine Lashlee in Carroll Co., TN in 1846.  She died and James married "Lizzie" Mathis in 1871, Ripley County, MO.  They lived near Pitman.  Lizzie was born 1845 in Claiborne Co., TN and died in 1924.  Both are buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery at Pitman.

Dr. James Gray Ruff, circa 1875

Ruff Family Photo, 1914.

From left to right, starting with back row:  John Ferdinand Ruff, Grandma "Lizzie" Pitman Ruff (Ma), Rebecca "Kate" Lewis Ruff, Jessie Ruff Swan, Troy Dell Ruff, Dessie Odessa Scates Ruff, Flora Hale? (a neighbor), Eva Rodella Hunsinger Ruff--Grandmother ( look behind and right and you can just make out a
face -- Bryan Jennings Ruff??), Leota Gardolia Ruff (Shemwell)?, Don Mason Ruff, Myrtle May Brightwell Ruff, Lute Victor Ruff (Dad said that Myrtle and Lute fought like cats and dogs and Myrtle had quite a mouth on her.), Pharis Shepard?, a Shemwell or a Hale?, Fred Desha Ruff?, Robert Lee Ruff (Uncle Bob)--on far right, Troy Eugene Ruff (Uncle Gene), Don Niles Ruff, Wilma Ann, Ruff Jordan Agar, Sterling Edwin Ruff, Vernon Longworth Ruff, Elmer Raphael Ruff