Letter to her sons, 1857.

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Letter to her sons, 1857.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49323652

The last letter written before her death contains family news and instructions for the boys' reading and chores. A postcript in an unidentified hand informs her husband Francis Gildart Ruffin of the death of his sister-in-law Martha Jefferson Randolph Taylor.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Ruffin, Wilson Nicholas, 1848-1915,

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Ruffin, George Randolph, 1849-1915,

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Ruffin, Cary Anne Nicholas Randolph, 1829-1857.

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Ruffin, Frank G.

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Francis ("Frank") Gildart Ruffin (1816-1892), was a planter of Chesterfield County, Va., Confederate colonel, 2nd auditor of Virginia, editor, and political writer. Ruffin served as chairman of the Virginia Sinking Fund Commission, secretary of the Miller Manual Labor School, and editor of the Richmond (Va.) "Dispatch." Other prominent family members represented in the collection include Ruffin's uncle, Albert G. Ruffin (d. 1829), lawyer in Mississippi and Alabama and planter in Hanover County, ...

Ruffin, William Roane, d. 1899.

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Ruffin, Jefferson Randolph, 1847-1908,

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Ruffin family.

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Taylor, Martha Jefferson Randolph, d. 1857.

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