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Jack W. Bruce, 79, of Sperryville, died Saturday, Oct. 15 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.
Bom and reared in Rappahannock County, Mr. Bruce was a fox hunter. He was a member of the Rappahannock Hunt, but he rode after hounds on the trail of a fox even before the hunt was established. “Fox hunting is a disease. Once you get it, you never get over it. You can quit but you never get over it,” Mr. Bruce once said. And he called the sound of a baying pack “the greatest music of all.”
Mr. Bruce knew hounds, and he raised some of the best, twice retiring the hound race trophy at the Rappahannock Hunt’s annual pointto-point races with three consecutive victories.
He knew horses, and he continued to ride the good ones well past the age when most horsemen find they’re too old to spend eight hours at a time galloping over rough terrain.
But most of all, he knew the countryside and the people of Rappahannock County. He could name every mountain, every hollow and every creek within the county’s boundaries, and he was a treasure trove of stories about the old days. His memory was amazing: just a glance at a ledger giving the essential facts — who was riding, the date, and whether the hounds got a
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