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Dr. Redman Rim Ruff moved to Pocabontas (Arkansas) from Hollow Rock, Tennessee, in 1865. In 1870 he moved to Pitman Ferry. He was born at Hollow Rock. Tennessee April 25, 1831. His father, Major John Ruff, was born in North Carolina in 1770. The family originally came to Virginia from Scotland, in 1700, and then moved to North Carolina later.
Dr. R. R. Ruffs mother was Chloe Eason. The Easons were natives of Virginia. They moved to Tennessee about 1775. Dr. Ruff’s first wife was also an Eason. Four children were born to this union. Mrs. Leota Ruff Shemwell of Batesville, Arkansas, is the only one now living. She was born in June. 1860, at Hollow Rock, Tennessee. Dr. Ruffs
second wife was Amanda Wilson Legate, whom he married at Pitman in 1873. Her father was Rev. John Tarpley Legate, a Methodist preacher, born in Tennessee, October 15, 1818, died at Pitman. March 15, 1871. Amanda Legate’s mother was Isabella Jennings Reeves, born January 17, 1822, died March 21, 1860. Mrs. Ruff was born October 21, 1848, in Tennessee, and died at Pitman, May 28, 1920. Dr. Ruff died at Pitman, September 21, 1898.
Horace Ewing Ruff, son of Dr. R. R. and Mrs. Amanda Ruff, was born at Pitman, July 15, 1878. Attended common schools and Southern Illinois Normal University, Carbondale, Ill. Graduated from the Missouri Medical College now the Medical Department of Washington Universily, St. Louis, Missouri. March 26, 1894 with the degree of M. D.
Dr. Horace E. Ruff first married Charity Brown, daughter of Frank and Amanda Brown, October 6, 1895. She died at Pitman, December 11, 1905. To this union were born two children, Horace Ewing Ruff Jr. July 2, 1899. and Flavia. July 16, 1897. Dr. Raff was married a second time to Effie Agnes Lehman, daughter of John Milton Clayton and Tommie Harris Lehman at Maynard, December 23. 1906. To this union were born two sons, Lehman Len Ruff, November 3, 1907 at Pitman. He died at Heber Springs Arkansas November 13, 1913. John Legate Ruff, born at HeherSprings, June 15, 1913.
Dr. Horace Ewing Ruff was elected representative of Randolph county in the lower house of the General Assemblv and served the terms of 1905 and 1907. He was elected senator from the 26th district, composed of the counties of Cleburne, Conway, Van Buren, and Searcy, and served in the sessions of 1915 and 1917. In 1900 he was chairman of the Randolph County Democratic Committee, a member of the Arkansas State Democratic Central Committee and a delegate to, and attended every Democratic convention from Little Black township to the Nationa Democratic Convention at Kansas City. The Ruff family are good democrats and Methodists.
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