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Document Details
| Title: | Ruffin, Sarah H. |
| Document type: | Oral history |
| Accessibility: | Free Only |
| Repository: | University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage |
| Collection: | Mississippi Oral History Project |
| Description: | Mrs. Sarah Harris Ruffin was born on April 15, 1914. Her parents, Douglas Hams of Selma, Alabama, and Fannie Parker of Vossburg, Mississippi, came to Hattiesburg in the early 1900s. The family lived at 913 Mobile Street. Mrs. Ruffin had one brother, Douglas, and three sisters, Leola and twins, Elizabeth and Idella. She and her husband, James Martin Ruffin, were married in Hattiesburg in January 1944. At the time of the interview, she lived in Brooklyn where her family consisted of a niece, Fannie Cole Dickerson; Mrs. Dickerson's husband, Bennett, and her two children, Tracy and Matthew; and the wife of a deceased nephew, France Cole. Mrs. Ruffin's niece, Vivian Sue Cole Route Dyess, lives in Hattiesburg, as do Mrs. Dyess' two sons, Jeffrey and Jesse Route. |
| URL: | http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohruffins.html |
| Original Language: | English |
| Time span: | Not indicated ... to 1995 (Year of interview) |
| Speaker: | Ruffin, Sarah Harris, 1914- |
| Speaker gender: | Female |
| Speaker date of birth: | 15-Apr-1914 |
| Speaker race: | White |
| Speaker occupation: | Nurse; Nursing assistant |
| Age at speaking: | 81 |
| Document date: | 23-Nov-1995 |
| Interviewer: | Dickerson, Fannie Cole |
| Locations discussed: | Mississippi; North America; United States |
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: | Agriculture; Cities and towns--Mississippi; City and town life--Mississippi; Community; Local history; Mississippi; Mississippi--History; North America; Oral history; United States |
| ASP release: | 2005-06 |
| Document code: | OHI0025711-27630 |