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Christian Ruffner\u00a0<\/span> *The following information was submitted:<\/p>\n Headstones provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans\u00a0\u00a0 1879-1903 Now I don’t know if this is the elder Christian or a son. I did\u00a0 find a The name of the ship that the family came over on was Diana in\u00a0 October 1862 Morgan Co Tn Tax list \u00a0Submitted by:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Virginia Yeary Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Christian Ruffner\u00a0 served in\u00a0 Company F of the 5th Regiment of TN Infantry\u00a0 ~ ~\u00a0 Christian Ruffner, III was born 9\/17\/1834 in Maienfeld Switzerland. He came\u00a0 to Wartburg in 1846 with his parents Christian Ruffner, Jr. and Cordula\u00a0 Faller. He married Nancy Raby 12\/28\/1856 in Knoxville, TN. Christian and\u00a0 Nancy had 9 children who… Continue reading Ruffner, Christian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-390","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nserved in\u00a0<\/span>
\nCompany F of the 5th Regiment of TN Infantry\u00a0<\/span>
\n~ ~\u00a0<\/span>
\nChristian Ruffner, III was born 9\/17\/1834 in Maienfeld Switzerland. He came\u00a0<\/span>
\nto Wartburg in 1846 with his parents Christian Ruffner, Jr. and Cordula\u00a0<\/span>
\nFaller. He married Nancy Raby 12\/28\/1856 in Knoxville, TN. Christian and\u00a0<\/span>
\nNancy had 9 children who were all born in Morgan County. He died 5\/31\/1879\u00a0<\/span>
\nand is buried in Davis Cemetery in Coalfield.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nRuffner Christian
\nSgt
\nCO F
\n5th Regt
\nTennessee Infantry
\nCemetery: DAVIS at Coalfield Tennessee
\nDate of Death: May 31 1897
\nHeadstone supplied by:::Lee Marble Works
\nContract dated Aug 25 1902<\/p>\n
\ndeath certificate for a Peter Amos Ruffner<<father Christian ,,\u00a0 mother NANCY
\nCOBB Ruffner<\/p>\n
\n1846. Port of departure\u00a0 Le Havre France….They got off in New\u00a0 Orleans. On
\nthe ship was
\nChristian Ruffner age 39 listed as a farmer coming from\u00a0 Switzerland
\nCordula 42
\nAnna 9
\nChristian 7
\nPeter 6
\nMichael 3<\/p>\n
\nChristian Ruffner Sr had 500 acres Value 500-Tax 1.75-Penalty\u00a0 .80
\n” jr had 50 value 100 Tax .35 -Penalty .18<\/p>\n