Biography:

Writer. Born– August 26, 1857, Daphne. Parents– Thomas and Mary (Nugent) Henry. Married– Francis Gildart Ruffin, Jr., April 20, 1887. Children– Six. Education– Immaculate Conception School and Visitation Convent in Mobile, graduated from St. Joseph’s College, Emmitsburg, Md., 1877. President of Catholic Knights and Ladies of America, Branch No. 130.  Awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by St. Joseph’s College, 1907. Died December 19, 1941.

Source:

Owen’s History of Alabama; Baldwin County Genealogy website.

Publication(s):

Drifting Leaves. New York; Catholic Publishing Society, 1884.

Eden of the James.

John Gildart, an Historic Poem. New York; W. H. Young & Co., 1901.

The North Star; a Tale of Norway in the Tenth Century. Boston; Little, 1904.

Personal Memories of Father Ryan, the Southern Poet-Priest.  New York:  Funk and Wagnalls, 1899.

The Shield of Silence. New York; Benziger Brothers, 1914.