Marion W. Ruff and Euphemia Ross

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Husband Marion W. Ruff ^{1 2}

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           Born: 16 Feb 1857 - near Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: Samuel Ruff (1825-      ) 4 5 6 7
         Mother: Sybilla Rugh (      -      ) 8

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       Marriage: 30 Dec 1879 9

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Wife Euphemia Ross ³

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         Father: Alexander Ross (      -      ) 9
         Mother: Anna Hawkins (      -      ) 9

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Children

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1 F Anna S. Ruff ⁹

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2 M Ira D. Ruff ⁹

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3 M Orrin R. Ruff ⁹

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4 F Velma F. Ruff ⁹

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General Notes: Husband - Marion W. Ruff

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His birthplace was a log cabin, situated on the old Ruff homestead, near the site of the later handsome residence. This farm, which had originally been the possession of John Ruff, came into the possession of Mr. Ruff's father, Samuel Ruff, who added to it largely until it comprised above two hundred acres of the best and most fertile soil. Here Mr. Ruff, Sr., erected the house and barn and outbuildings in 1854. That part of the property on which the old log cabin stood was inherited by Jacob Ruff and was later been sold by his sons to the Jamison Coal Company.
The childhood and youth of Marion W. Ruff was spent in the wholesome tasks connected with farm life and in gaining his education at the local public schools. Upon attaining his majority he was placed in charge of the farm by his father, who removed to an adjoining one, which he had recently purchased, and the young man operated the old place for his father. Later all of the original farm was owned by him and his sister, Mrs. Welty. His father had already sold the underlying coal, the land being situated in a region particularly rich in this essential commodity and received a price of three hundred and fifty dollars per acre therefore.
Mr. Ruff devoted his attention to general farming and expended great efforts in the preservation of the soil fertility, a subject of which he made a careful and profound study, with the result that he obtained unusually abundant crop yields, which increased from year to year. He came to be regarded as an authority on agricultural methods and his advice was much sought after even in that community of progressive farmers.
He was well known as a man of profound religious feelings and convictions, and he and his family were very active in the work of the Jamison Methodist Episcopal Church.
The farm residence was situated only one-fourth of a mile away from the tipple of the Jamison Coal Mine No. One and was thus placed very near to the church. Mr. Ruff was superintendent of the Sunday school there for twenty years and during the same period taught the women's Bible class.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 693.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 746, 929.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 929.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 690.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 596.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 519.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 745.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 746.

9 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 930.