The inscription reads:
Peter Ruffner
1713-1778
and
Mary Steinman Ruffner
1714-1798
On this site are buried these ancestors of the Ruffner Family in America who homesteaded here on the Hawksbill Creek in 1739 at this
place they called "Big Spring." Peter, born in the Upper Rhein Valley, immigrated to America in 1731, married in 1739 Mary Steinman in
Lancaster, PA, daughter of Joseph, holder of the Hawksbill Patent of land from Stoney Man to the Shenandoah River. Here were born their
children, Joseph 1740, Benjamin, Sr. 1742, Catherine 1744, Peter Jr. 1746, Reuben 1748, Tobias 1752, Elizabeth 1755 and Emanuel 1757. To
honor their memory, this monument was erected by their descendents who gathered here to celebrate their common heritage
June 8, 1997