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www.childers-shepherd.org, 19 Jun 2010
             Bailey Bruce + Barbara Moss
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Benjamin Perry Bruce             +                Mary Ann "Polly" Pruitt
                  
1849       -          1907                                                                         1853     -     1923
                       
Greenville SC       Ivy, Bunc Co NC                                                                   SC          Ivy, Bunc Co NC
                                                                                                          
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                                                               Frances E. Bruce (William Alphonso "Fons" Hopson), 1872 - 1954    
                                                               John Dean Bruce (Alice Malinda Elkins), 1874 - 1938   
                                                               Geneva Bruce (Sylvester Cole), 1877 - 1948
                                                               Mary Jane Bruce (John Elkins), 1878 - 1967
                                                               Zebulon H. Bruce (Harriet Webb), 1879 - ?
                                                               Joanna Teekie Bruce (J. W. Honecutt), 1883 - 1968   
                                                               Georgia Pearl Bruce, 1887 - after 1909
                                                               
William Arthur Bruce (Sara Elizabeth Gentry), 1889 - 1979
                                                               Rosa L. Bruce, 1892 - after 1899
                                                               Mattie S. Bruce, 1893 - after 1909

Benjamin and Mary Ann "Polly" Pruitt Bruce are buried at Morgan Hill Baptist Church.
Sources: Ancestry.com's Plemmons family tree; Find-A-Grave database; Bruce family tree;
           US Census 1850, Greenville, SC;
           US Census 1880, 1900, 1910, Ivy, Bunc Co NC;
           NC Death Certificate, Mary Jane Bruce Elkins, 1967;
           NC Death Certificate, Geneva Bruce Cole, 1948.