This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JeB.2ACE/590 Message Board Post: My GGG grandfather was Newton Franklin Ruff b 1840 in Marshall county, MS. he moved to Decatur county, TN to be near relatives after the war. He and his wife and their 2 children were on the 1870 Decatur County, Tennessee census. They both died about 1875 of an illness leaving their children orphans. Anyone with any additional information about this family, please contact me, Thanks, Marie