He was the eldest son of Edmund and Susan Travis Ruffin. “Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, the end of that man is peace.” 520On the 1840 census of Prince George County, Virginia, he and his wife are 20-30 years old and have one male and one female less than five years old. On the 31 May 1850 census of Prince George County, Virginia, he was a 36 year old farmer with real estate valued at $20,000 who lived with his family very near the T. Stanly Beckwith, Sr., M.D., family.413