RULIFF, TEXAS. Ruliff is on the Kansas City Southern Railway 1½
miles south of Deweyville and thirty-five miles northeast of
Beaumont in extreme southeastern Newton County. The Ruliff
station was established on the Texarkana and Fort Smith Railway
to serve Deweyville shortly after the line's construction
through the area in 1898. Henry C. Braddock was appointed
Ruliff's first postmaster in 1899. The Ruliff office was briefly
relinquished to Hartburg in late 1900 and moved to Deweyville in
1908. However, it was reestablished at Ruliff from 1921 until
1928, when it was again moved to Deweyville. Ruliff had a
population of 100 during the 1920s, but by the mid-1940s the
number had fallen to forty. One business served the community at
that time. Widely scattered buildings on the road to Deweyville
and along the railroad, acquired by the Kansas City Southern in
1943, marked Ruliff in 1982. The following, adapted from the
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation
for this article.Robert Wooste