Transcript and original of letter from H. N. Ruffner to their cousin, providing information on Immanuel the receivers Uncle, as well as their own family history. Transcript includes some handwritten note

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Longwood University Digital Commons @ Longwood University Ruffner Family History Records Ruffner Family Association Collection, LU-163 1-24-1910 Correspondence from H. N. Ruffner to Cousin - January 24, 1910 H. N. Ruffner Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/ruffnerfamily_records Recommended Citation Ruffner, H. N., "Correspondence from H. N. Ruffner to Cousin - January 24, 1910" (1910). Ruffner Family History Records. 69. https://digitalcommons.longwood.edu/ruffnerfamily_records/69 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Ruffner Family Association Collection, LU-163 at Digital Commons @ Longwood University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Ruffner Family History Records by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Longwood University. For more information, please contact alwinehd@longwood.edu. COPYMason, Effman Co., Jan 24, 1010.Dear Cousin:Your letter received. Your Uncle Immanuel, that you spoke of, has been dead ovefi fifty years. He had three sons, all dead, and one daughter. She is living in Iowa.She married a man by the name of Damunde. I think your uncle was a cousin of mine. He was a very large man and a blacksmith by trade.My grandfather came from Virginia, the same county you did. My father’s name was Andrew. He had three brothers:- Datid, BenaPety~Noah. Uncle Ben lived on a farm .close to Hebron. Had a still house on the canal south of Hebron. My father died in Fairfield sixty^eight years ago.My mother moved to this country the next year. I have a sister living here and a brother in New Orleans. Uncle Ben has a son living in Shelby County. His name is Frank. Martin Ruffner, who was killed by the Indians. His son lives in Cumberland County close to Greenup. He is dead. His children are living there. One of the sons is living there, Martin Ruffner. If you want to get anything more about them, write to Greenup, Cumberland County.We have five children living, two sons on farm close to town; two sons in Arizona and a daughter in Denver, Colorado. There is a Ruffner in Prescott, Arizona in the „ mining business. Have you any relations there? ' WWe are sorry that your reunion is in August. If it was the last of September, we might be able to attend.We have all of our arrangements made to spend the coming summer in Arizona, with our son. Would be delighted to be with you all.If you couls come to see us anytime, you write to Bertha Howell at Christianburg, Ohio. Her father is a cousin of mine. Will be pleased to have a copy of the history of the Euffners.We are having a very cold winter. I enjoy this kind of weather. It is pretty hard on old folks. We are all alone. The children are all married and are living in town.We have a very nice little cottage and are very comfortably fixed. Will close. Hope to hear from the reunion, if we are not fortunate enough# to be there.Your cousin,H. N. Ruffner.If you should wish to write to us after the first of March, write to Prescott, Arizona.1#wm

Correspondence from H. N. Ruffner to Cousin - January 24, 1910

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Correspondence from H. N. Ruffner to Cousin - January 24, 1910

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