Ruffner Family Association

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Ruffner families who descended from Peter Ruffner (1713-1778) and Mary Steinman (1714-1798) and their eight children, Joseph, Benjamin (Sr.), Catherine, Peter Jr., Reuben, Tobias, Elizabeth, and Emanuel. In 1731, Peter (Sr.) left Maienfeld, Switzerland in the Upper Rhine Valley and settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1739, he married Mary Steinman and moved to the Shenandoah...