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Amelia Rives of Mobile, AL now Princess Troubetskoy living in New York 1912

charbmoore1 — 2012-05-09 12:10:15Z

from the Mobile, Alabama Newspaper:

Wednesday, May 8, 1912:

• "So many of Mobile's most charming women are making their homes elsewhere and are making successful and happy homes. ... New York has been singled out by many who find the great metropolis delightful ...

"In this number is Miss Mattie Ross, one of Mobile's greatest belles and loveliest girls of just a few years back, who [has a tea room and frequently sees Mobilians there.]

"'Among these,' she writes, 'none is more charming than Amelie Rives,' now the Princess Troubetskoy, who not so many years ago was also pointed to with pride as one of Mobile's most beautiful girls. 'She possesses all her old charm, only greatly increased.'"

Not my line, just sharing.

Stephen H or M Rives

CHERYLHENNING64 — 2012-02-26 03:21:13Z

Married and had three children with my GGgrandmother, Martha S. Hopwood. Lost him after the 1880 census. Any info would be appreciated.

Rives, Wood or Woods family in Winona Minnesota 1890's

user1815 — 2011-11-28 23:20:50Z

I came across three portrait photos of the Wood family. Two of them a man and a woman taken 1892 in Winona Minnesota. The first two looks like perhaps wedding pictures by the way they were framed together in the old wooden original frame but are two cardboard style 5x7 approximate sized separate photos.
And one bigger female photo was under the others inside that same wooden old frame and it says R F K Rives in upper corner. It is over 10x13 size and looks to be a memorial photo of a different woman from the lady in the pther picture. This larger photo maybe pre 1892. I got them all at a secondhand store in a nearby town in Minnesota. I would like to return them to their family or anyone with that family name in that time and place. Random act of kindness. No reimbursements asked for.

Re: Thomas Summie Rives

rfilyaw — 2011-10-25 16:50:48Z

Parents were: William (Billy) Rives & Hannah Champion. Father of Hannah Champion was William "Buck" Champion. Nothing further on Hannah's line. Parents for William (Billy) Rives were: Thomas Rives & Susannah Thweatt. Parents for Thomas Rives, b. 1770, were: Thomas Henry Rives & Mary Edwards.

Re: Thomas Summie Rives

dbarcia — 2011-10-24 03:17:52Z

My husband's great grandmother was Ora Ellen Rives Smith. His grandmother (Her daughter) was Hughlene Smith Langston. I am interested in finding out information about Thomas S. Rives and Mary Ella Smith's parents. I am also happy to share any information that I have with you.
Thank you for your time.
Debbie Oney
Texas City, TX

Anthony George Barclay Rives

Li11ie — 2011-03-24 20:33:42Z

I am looking for the names of the children of Anthony George Barclay Rives (b. 9/16/1909) and Gwendolen Ella Rives Armstrong (b. 9/7/1911.) Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

Re: Frederick Rives dau...MARY RIVES married to JAMES BOTTOMS

jewel_wellborn — 2011-02-16 02:47:00Z

I have much of the detail on the Bottoms family you are researching. I have accurate and factual family documentation, verified by original documents I have been given by family members.
If you wish to know more of the Bottoms family - Burrell and wife Sarah (not Hartsfield), and sons James Madison Bottoms married 1) Elizabeth Lockhart, 2) Eliza McElroy Hartsfield and John Bottoms married to Nancy Marsh, and daughters Martha Patsey married to Thomas Watson, Nancy Bottoms married to Elvey Lewis, and Francis Bottoms(b 1800)(never married, but living in 1870 in AL next door to her nephews).
I have loads of data...I will share
Jewel

RIVES John A Jr - Vietnam Wall section 35W - our honor and thanks to those who put their lives on the line for us

t42Vietnam_ParkerCoTX — 2010-12-04 22:55:03Z

RIVES John A Jr - Vietnam Wall section 35W - our honor and thanks to those who put their lives on the line for us

Honor our Veterans. This is one of many photographs of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Parker Co, TX. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 218,982 photos free at http://teafor2.com where they are listed in order by state(Texas), county(Parker), cemetery(Vietnam) and Surname.

If you know more about this person please reply here instead of contacting me because this is not my family.

Re: Two Marriages for Daniel D. Reeves of Halifax VA

carolynsstuff — 2010-11-01 23:37:04Z

wow! I had to read that 3x in order for it to make sense(!). No wonder when I put Nancy Dodson and Daniel Reeves in for my Daniel's parents, no "hints" came up. I could not figure out why. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I was ready to give up for a while, because I felt I was going nowhere fast.

This is a side note, but do you know anything about a Jemima J.Dodson (1830-1902)that went to MO or was born there (or IA) and married Andrew J. Davis? I just found out that she is on my dad's side of the family. Isn't that strange? I have seen a Jemima Dodson on someone's tree somewhere in my search for Nancy Dodson, but don't know where. It would be too weird if they are related.

Anyway, if I ever connect with any of my Reaves/Reeves relatives that are male, I'll work to get them to participate in the DNA study. I've never met any of them. Not even my Reaves g-mother who died when I was 2.

Thanks for all your help. I don't know if I could have connected all the dots.
Carolyn

Re: Two Marriages for Daniel D. Reeves of Halifax VA

watsonbeverly — 2010-10-31 17:10:45Z

Carolyn,

After I found the second Daniel Reeves, it took me a while to sort it all out but I found that your Daniel was the one who married Mary Ann Thompson. He was the son of Jesse Reeves (Rives) and Elizabeth Chaney. Jesse was the son of Daniel Reeves and Nancy Dodson. The other Daniel Reeves who married Mary W. Epps was the son of Daniel Reeves and Nancy Dodson so he was the brother of Jesse/uncle of your Daniel. GEEZ!

After we talked, I just kept making little diagrams sorting out all the children until I could tell by using the census records and the Halifax/Pittsylvania marriage and death records who belonged to who.

I was using the new "Record Pilot Search" feature at www.familysearch.org. (it's in the drop down "Search" menu). You can choose the "collection" you want to browse by area so I would can choose Halifax, Virginia marriage records or they have another collection that is birth and death records. A lot of the marriage records give the parents' names so I finally made sense of it.

I am working with some other Reeves' researchers on a database that will someday include ALL Reeves so I just kept working on your Pittsylvania/Halifax Reeves so I could sort them out and add them to the database.

As I mentioned before, Carolyn, if there are any male Reeves left in your family, it would be a great idea to ask them to join the Reeves DNA project. It certainly helps to determine which Reeves line you descend from. I have never been able to tell where these Reeves in Halifax came from before Halifax and Pittsylvania. My line ran out of Reeves' males a generation ago, but someone else from my ancestor's line did the DNA test so I now have the benefit of their test and know which lineage my Reeves belong to.

Good luck and let me know if I can ever help.

Beverly

Re: Two Marriages for Daniel D. Reeves of Halifax VA

carolynsstuff — 2010-10-31 09:21:21Z

Beverly,
I'm still trying to put the puzzle together...I have a 1880 Census that lists my Daniel D. Reaves with wife Mary A. Reaves with my g-grandfather as son. How do I find those death records you were mentioning with the other D. D. Reeves? I have the link if that would help. Then there is the dead end with Nancy Dodson. I have their marriage record, but no parents for her. Any suggestions?

Re: Two Marriages for Daniel D. Reeves of Halifax VA

watsonbeverly — 2010-10-14 15:53:03Z

Carolyn,

I think I figured out the 2 marriages - there were two D. D. Reeves. According to the Halifax death records, a D. D. Reeves, born 1820 son of Jessie and Bettie Reeves, died on 25 Feb 1884. The name of his wife was Mary A. Reeves.

When I looked at the Pittsylvania marriage records, it said a DAVID D. Reeves married Mary Ann Thompson on 3 October 1855 and that he was the son of Jesse and Elizabeth Reeves.

Your Daniel Reeves, son of Daniel and Nancy Dodson, was born 1817 and died 19 Dec 1890 according to the Halifax death records. It looks as if he was the one who married Mary W. Epps and his nephew, Jessie's David Dodson Reeves married Mary Ann Thompson.

Have fun with all your new Reeves information,
Beverly

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

carolynsstuff — 2010-10-14 12:13:12Z

Thanks. I haven't seen Jesse in any of the trees with Daniel or vice versa...It is really confusing. I do not believe that anyone in my family knows any of this.
Carolyn

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

watsonbeverly — 2010-10-14 00:55:40Z

Sorry if that was confusing, no I meant that Jesse Reeves was also a son of Daniel and Nancy Dodson Reeves.

You will probably always feel like you need to do more research. I've been doing this for 30 years and I'm still researching.

Beverly

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

watsonbeverly — 2010-10-14 00:52:02Z

Regarding Daniel D. Reeves' marriages, maybe Mary Epps died (perhaps in childbirth and the child Lucy died also). You find that happened a lot. Then because the given name was Mary it just looks as though it's the same Mary but really he has remarried. Maybe one of the children's death records will give the maiden name of the mother so you can figure it out. In those Halifax records I also noticed that sometimes the marriage records give the mother's maiden name, not always but sometimes.

I also ran across the reference to this deed which appears to be Daniel D. Reeves and his siblings selling their father's land after his death:
Halifax COunty, Virginia, Deed Book 51, page 212 - 14 Jan. 1846 - Jesse Rives and Betsy his wife of Pittsylvania Co., Rhoda Rives, Betsy Rives, John Chainey and Nancy his wife, Paramon A. Wilkins and Susan his wife, Letty Rives, Daniel Rives, and Geo. D. Rives and Mary Ann his wife of Halifax COunty, to Robert Moore...72-1/4 acres of land...

It looks as if one of the George Reeves in Halifax belonged to your Daniel and Nancy Reeves. There were 2 George Reeves, one was George K. and one George D.

No my Peter Reeves wasn't related as far as I know, I know who all of his brothers and sisters were.

Beverly

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

carolynsstuff — 2010-10-14 00:44:18Z

I was re-reading your post...this is a bit confusing to me.

Some of their children (born in Halifax) were Daniel D., Susan m. Perriman Wilkins in 1832, Nancy m. John Chainey in 1832 and Jesse Reeves.

Does this mean that Nancy married John Chainey AND Jesse Reeves?

Need to do more research, but it is nice that there are some Rives/Reeves/Reaves out there that know way more than I do. I know none of the Reaves side of my family.
Carolyn

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

carolynsstuff — 2010-10-14 00:29:04Z

Thank you so much! That sounds like the correct Daniel D. and Mary A. with the children that you mention. I know that there was a Bryd b. 1857, my g-grandfather John Henry b.1859, a Peter Samuel b.1873-4, and a Polley b. 1875. There was a Daniel Thomas b.1866, Jeremiah b.1868, George Thomas b.1870, and the other one was Charles H. b.1878. These I got from the 1870-1880 Census. I don't know about a Lucy. The one confusing thing is that I found a marriage certificate with Daniel Doson Rieves m. Mary Ann Thompson, 1855, Pittsylvania. I figure the spelling was wrong and it was Dodson. I found out about Nancy Dodson today, but haven't had too much time to search yet. Do you think his wife was a Thompson or this Mary W. Epps? Perhaps he married twice. The date is earlier than Mary Ann. Lucy A. must have been with Mary Epps as she is not on any of the Census that I saw. THANK YOU!

Is your Peter a son also? brother of my John Henry?

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

watsonbeverly — 2010-10-13 20:50:53Z

No problem, we Reeves descendants have to stick together and help each other.

My line is from DNA Group #6 and I've always been curious whether Daniel Reeves who came to Halifax about the same time as our Peter could have been a relative.

Carolyn, if you have any males with the surname Reeves in your family you might encourage them to participate in the DNA project to give you an idea of which family group they belong to.

Beverly

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

CBacon64 — 2010-10-13 20:33:30Z

Thanks very much for your excellent suggestions and help for Carolyn. You are very kind.

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

watsonbeverly — 2010-10-13 20:12:25Z

I believe you can find your Daniel Reeves in Halifax County, VA after he left Pittsylvania County. The Dodson middle name would be for his mother Nancy Dodson. Daniel Reeves and Nancy Dodson married in Pittsylvania County on 30 Sep 1799. Some of their children (born in Halifax) were Daniel D., Susan m. Perriman Wilkins in 1832, Nancy m. John Chainey in 1832 and Jesse Reeves.

Daniel D. Reeves married Mary W. Epps on 8 Oct 1851 in Halifax County. Some of their children listed in births and deaths are Byrd, b 1857, d 1882; Lucy A, b. 1853. There are more but I just looked for a few to share with you.

If you go to www.familysearch.org and use their new feature "Record Search Pilot". On the next screen click on "Search or Browse our Record Collections". Then next schreen has a map, click on North America, and in the list of locations and collections, choose Virginia Marriages or Virginia Birth & Deaths. Look in Halifax County VA from around 1790 to 1860 and you'll find practically your whole family. Just be careful because there are at least two other Reeves families in the area and I don't think any of the 3 are related.

My Reeves (Peter Reves) line moved to Halifax from Wake NC around 1800 and you'll see lots of marriages for his children and grandchildren in Halifax also. The other line is a George Reeves and I don't know where they came from but he seems to have been there before my Peter arrived in 1800.

Good luck to you,
Beverly

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

CBacon64 — 2010-10-12 15:26:57Z

Reliques is in the card catalog. Click "Search" at the top of the menu, scroll down to Card Catalog, type "Reliques" in the Database Title, and then click "Reliques of the Rives...etc.", then go to the index in the back and try to find your known Reeves names.
Sharland

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

carolynsstuff — 2010-10-12 15:21:52Z

Thank you sooooo much for your reply. This is just fascinating. The Reaves/Rives side of my mother's family is one BIG mystery to me. No one seems to know much as my g-mother did not talk much about it. I have been searching for her father's parents from VA (Dan River/Pittsylvania area), but the trail seems to go dry...due to the name change I am guessing. He used Rives in the 1870/1860 Census, but my g-grandmother used Reaves in the 1910/1920 Census. He had a brother named Edmund and one named Byrd W. His father's name was Daniel Dodson Rives/Reaves which I found his marriage certificate from 1855 in VA (using Rieves).

Would you have any suggestions? I plan to search by his siblings, but so many on this ancestry site mistakenly name John Harman Reaves from SC as my grandfather and then they name the wrong parents.

Help!

Do you think the Rives/Reaves I am looking for from Pittsylvania are in that book? I have also searched and searched the Dodson's and can not find any Daniel Dodson Reaves from 1825.

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

CBacon64 — 2010-10-11 14:39:57Z

I'm sure every family has a different story of how and when their spelling of Rives changed. The change from Rives to Reeves in my branch of Reeves happened from Thomas Rives b 1690 VA to his son George Reeves Sr. b 1722 VA. Within Group 8 of the Reeves DNA surname project, for one member the change from Rives to Reaves happened with Edmond Reaves b 1776 NC. For another member, the change from Rives to Reeves happened with Guy Kenneth Reeves b 1882 TN. For another member, the spelling never changed from Rives.

That said, early on within all Reeves/Reaves/Rives families, the spelling of the surnames changed frequently from one public record to the next depending on the phonetic spelling or best guess of the clerk who recorded legal documents and the census enumerator. Private records such as bible entries were also subject to various spellings. It's generally assumed that if the person wasn't literate, he/she was unable to maintain a consistent spelling because he/she was unable to correct the clerk or enumerator. However, we have to remember that this was long before driver licenses, social security cards, passports and identity theft. I was surprised to see land transactions signed by my literate g g great-grandfather b 1787 as John Reeves or John Reaves, seemingly depending on how the county clerk in Tishomingo Co. MS spelled his name within the document. John Reeves was a circuit court clerk and probate judge who was the third generation to spell his name 'Reeves'. It seems the spelling of the surname had little legal bearing in Tishomingo Co., perhaps because he, the clerk and everyone else in the vicinity knew who John Reeves was, and the spelling of his name didn't confuse the issue of what land he had bought and sold. I personally think busy families in 1820 or 1860 didn't consider how confusing it would be for future generations if they failed to insist on one vowel over the other to an enumerator.

My theory is that once literacy became consistent from one generation to the next the spelling of the surname that rhymes with 'leaves' became consistent. However, we can't rule out personal preference. 'Rives' is a name of French origin, and the 'i' is pronounced as a long 'e'. If a Rives family grew tired of correcting the pronunciation from a name that rhymes with 'lives' to a name that rhymes with 'leaves', the switch to Reeves or Reaves would have brought relief. How and why any of our families would chose its particular spelling - Revis, Reaves, Reves, Reeves, Rives, Rieves, Reives or Rives - is another question.

Re: Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

carolynsstuff — 2010-10-11 02:18:49Z

I am researching my Reaves family hx from VA. I have found that my grandmother's family used Reaves; however, her father's family used Rives and/or Rieves in the Census 1860/1870 and marriage records. Do you have any info on the change to Reaves? I never knew they changed the spelling.

Childs' Amendments of Reliques - first page

CBacon64 — 2010-09-08 19:02:24Z

Amendments to Reliques of the Rives by J. Rives Childs, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1957, page 350.
Twenty-eight years ago I published Reliques of the Rives (Lynchburg, 1929) and since that time certain corrections and additions have been made available by correspondents or as the results of subsequent research. As in all probability the original work will never be reprinted and as it had a fairly wide distribution, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography has offered me the hospitality of its pages to note the emendations which I would now make in my work if a new edition were ever issued.
When the book was written I offered the conjecture that William Rives was the emigrant ancestor. I have recently had occasion to question this assumption. The basis for the birth of William to Timothy Ryves and his wife of Oxford (pp. 74-75) was the slightest, and his presence in Surry County, Virginia, was made evident only as a tithable in 1684 and 1695. Mr. Laurence B. Gardiner, of Memphis, has recently put me on what I believe is a surer track. He has brought my attention to the discovery of a Charles City Cocunty Order Book for 1687-1695 where, on page 421, there is found: “Capt. Henry Batte ordered to assign and swear appraisers of Estate of Timothy Rieve” (the French pronunciation of the name apparently still persisting). I suggest now the likelihood that this Timothy “Rieve” or Rives was the emigrant ancestor and that he was identical with 206. Timothy Ryves, born 1625, son of Timothy and Mary Ryves of Oxford (p. 51), and that he was the father of George, Robert, John, and Timothy Rives, of Virginia. The William Rives living in Surry I 1684 and 1695 may well have been another son of this Timothy. At any rate I advance the hypothesis as one for future investigators to bear carefully in mind.

Rives in DNA project confirm Reliques

CBacon64 — 2010-09-08 18:59:14Z

My Reeves cousin is a participant in the Reeves DNA project, and among his matches in Group 8 is a Rives male whose pedigree is described in J. Rives Childs’ Reliques of the Rives and Herschel Edwin Rives’ The Rives and Allied Families of Greene Territory, Illinois: An Account of Rev. James Rives and his Descendants of Greene County, Illinois, 1982. He descends from George Rives b 1660, to Col. Wm Rives b 1683 VA, Wm Rivs b 1712 VA, Thomas Henry Rives b 1735, Wm McGuffey Rives b 1767 VA, James Hood Rives b 1826 NC, Andrew Jackson Rives b 1849, Edwin M. Rives b 1880 IL.
Five of seven members of Group 8 (four Reeves and one Rives) descend from George b 1660, one Reaves male descends from George’s brother John Rives b 1667, and one Reeves male descends from their brother Timothy b 1670. George is #2, John is #4 and Timothy is #5 on page 77 of “Part II the Virginia Family of Rives” of Childs’ Reliques. They are sons of William Rives b 1636 Oxford, England whom Childs identified as the emigrant ancestor (#1, page 73 of ‘Part II The VA Family of Rives’) In his “Amendments to Reliques of the Rives” published in The Virginia Magazine of History and biography in 1957, Childs wrote that it was more likely that Timothy Rives #206, page 51, was the emigrant ancestor and the father of George, Robert, John and Timothy. Robert died without issue.
Group 8 is fortunate to have genealogical and genetic evidence of our relationship to each other and the Rives emigrant ancestor as described by Childs. We urge our Rives cousins to participate in the DNA project and the ongoing research of our members’ family lines. The cost is reasonable and the benefits are vast. The website is at the following link, or google ‘Reeves DNA project’. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~reevesdna/

Sheridan Rives Rogers

ashleyjoh1 — 2010-06-06 16:51:48Z

Hi,

I have a Sheridan Rives Rogers (b. 1894, in Tennessee or Virginia, d. 1946 in Sacramento) who I am trying to find more information about. I thought the middle name was unusual, and then came across several of these Rives boards and am wondering if there is a Rives somewhere in our line.

His father was Robert Rogers (b. 1867 in Virginia), who married Anna English (born in North Carolina). I don't have any information further than that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Rives Family of Canada & VA

olclarke — 2010-03-06 02:54:54Z

Need info on these two Rives lines.
1. J. ( need his name ) b abt 1840 in Canada marr R. ( also need her name ) & the names of their parents & siblings. Their son Alfred b abt 1860 in East Canada marr Ida F. Clarke 20 Mar 1878 in Amelia Co Va. Need children for Alfred & Ida. She was the dau of George Rowland or Rowlett Clarke & Elizabeth Ann Lawson?Ice?
2. John b abt 1720 in Culpeper Co Va marr Margaret Grace Burgess. Need parents & siblings for them. Their dau Jemina b abt 1740 marr William Williams. Also need William's parents & siblings. Dau of William & Jemina was Mary Elizabeth b 22 Oct 1769. Mary marr Benjamin Franklin Young 20 Mar 1809. He was the son of John Young Jr. & Elizabeth Huffman. Dau of Benjamin & Mary was Emily Elizabeth Rives Young. She was b 27 Jul 1811 & marr Hiram Lorenzo Amiss 8 Nov 1827. Also need Hiram's parents & siblings. Have 11 children for him & Emily. Any info appreciated.
Ollie

Re: WILLIAM RIVES

GailLamaster — 2010-02-19 00:46:16Z

I have this William Rives in my line through his son John, mrd Grace LNU. I know they were in Isle of Wight, Va. in late 1600s, I am trying to find out the ship they came on and what port.

Re: SARAH CATHERINE RIVES

jowoodwilson — 2010-01-03 20:34:44Z

Since I placed that original inquiry, I have obtained more info.I have learned that Hamilton Rives/Reeves was my great-great grandfather and Sarah Catherine was indeed his daughter. He had another daughter and a son. I would love to discuss this more with you.
Please e-mail me at joannw42@insightbb.com

Re: SARAH CATHERINE RIVES

cadotonc — 2010-01-03 01:55:10Z

Hamilton Rives was my great-great-great grandfather (I believe that is enough greats, and lived in Butler county Kentucky. I am trying as well to find out more about this family. At some point my family name became Reeves. My grandfather was killed when my father was a baby, so not much is known about this side.

Re:Green Rives

BDavis577 — 2010-01-01 22:40:00Z

If you still have a copy of the book I will gladly pay for it and the postage to be sent to me........

Thanks you......email me davisab2@verizon.net for my address

Re: Amendments to Reliques of the Rives

ladybaltimore — 2009-12-11 12:12:02Z

Anne, I was in New York Public Library yesterday and got a copy of the article you asked about. As soon as I can scan it in, I would be happy to send you a copy. Please let me know if you still want it. My email is ladybaltimore@comcast.net. My husband's grandmother was a Rives, so I was interested in the article as well.
Joanne

Amendments to Reliques of the Rives

eabahan17 — 2009-11-06 20:37:16Z

I am looking for a copy of the "Amendments to Reliques of the Rives" by James Rives Childs, published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, July 1957, vol. 65, no. 3, pages 355-362. Does anyone have access to a copy of this article?

Thanks!
Anne B.

Re:Green Rives

BDavis577 — 2009-10-24 19:08:25Z

yes........I would love a copy ........after they came to Texas almost nothing is recorded....and house fire destroyed the pictures.......I will gladly pay you postage and the cost of the book.

Re:Green Rives

janann27 — 2009-10-24 18:51:18Z

I have a little green book entitled Green Rives of Dinwiddie County Virginia and his descendants. it has the previous names listed in it. Are you you familiar with this book? I am not from this direct line but my great grandfather Rev James Rives' line was also from Dinwiddie. If interested I will send you a copy.

Ruthann Rives Hellemeyer

Re:Green Rives

AnitaMcDowell500 — 2009-10-24 02:53:59Z

I know that Green Rives was married to 1st Mary Hardaway, 2nd to Frances Hardaway (sister of Mary) and 3rd Susan Woodward, Susan is my connection she is mother of Littlebury William Rives my gggrandfather My ggrandmother was Ada Belle Rives Cobb who was supposed to have died in childhood but lived to a ripe old age. kDo any of these mean any thing to you?

Re:Green Rives

BDavis577 — 2009-10-22 01:56:11Z

I also am a descendent of Green Rives.......my Great Grandfather was Thomas Summerville Rives who left Georgia to come to Texas.....His daughter (my grandmother) was Charley Emma Rives.
Thomas' father was William "Billy" Rives....

Do any of these names mean anything to you?

Re: Rives who left Georgia for Texas

BDavis577 — 2009-10-22 01:46:37Z

My great grandfather Thomas Summerville Rives was another who left Georgia for Texas....his father William "BIlly" Rives and mother Hannah Champion.
Henry "Boss" Rives is the father of an Irvin Rives. Henry is Thomas's son.........I have pictures of Thomas, Henry, and tombstone data......
My grandmother was Charley Emma Rives. (daughter of Thomas)

DUNIVAN Eale RIVES 1888-1980

t42RoseHill — 2009-07-06 11:03:31Z

DUNIVAN Eale RIVES 1888-1980

I photographed this gravestone in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 204,880 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com .

If you know more about this person please reply here,instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family.

Re: Hazel O., 1908-1980; m. CAST; Oklahoma

Mickie_Taylor — 2009-07-05 15:52:25Z

Correction: After rereading your message I was mistaken. I thought you were Donald and Faye's daughter. I see you are their grandaughter, so Edmond and Marie are your greatgrandparents. If you see this please contact me.

Re: Rives who left Georgia for Texas

trives1 — 2009-07-01 18:21:44Z

Hi,
I am related to the Rives on my husband's side. We live in MS. His father was Braxton William Rives son of William Braxton Rives (Will). Will's father was Walter Terry Rives Sr. born June 24, 1830 in Georgia and died June 18, 1868 in Texas. Will was born in Texas after his father's death and his mother moved back to Ga. They later moved to MS. Walter Terry's father was Irvin Rives born 1786 in South Carolina, died January 1847 in Randolph Co. Ga. His will states he had 5 children, Walter Terry, Braxton R., Irvin,Sarah W. and Susan R. Irvin Rives was the son of Nathaniel Rives, born 1753 in Prince George Co. Va. died 1789 in Chester Co. South Carolina. He was married to Lucy Robinson. Reliques of the Rives (Ryves) does not trace Nathaniel's and Lucy's children. There is mention of them on page 317.

I have other information on the family and different families that married Rives. I am interested on how you are related to Walter Terry Rives. Feel free to contact me if you want more info.

Toni Rives

Re: Hazel O., 1908-1980; m. CAST; Oklahoma

Mickie_Taylor — 2009-06-28 16:00:54Z

Jennifer, Your Grandpa, Edmond Cecil Rives and my mother, Hazel were brother and sister. Your father, Donald was my first cousin. I knew them all well. I have a lot of the family information. I have been trying to find some of Donald and Bobby's descendents. I did find Rhonda who is Bobby's daughter. Contact me at taylor8753@att.net.

Re: Hazel O., 1908-1980; m. CAST; Oklahoma

Etniegirl171 — 2009-05-25 21:52:51Z

Im 100% positive im related Or my mother Velma Fay Rives is related to Hazel, my moms parents were Donald Edmond Rives and Joann Rives, Donald parents were Edmond and Marie Rives.

Re: Hazel O., 1908-1980; m. CAST; Oklahoma

Etniegirl171 — 2009-04-04 03:41:01Z

Im not sure if I can help or not, but i know that i am related to these people. write back

CATES Julia RIVES 1889-1921

t42Thurmond — 2009-03-24 13:17:51Z

CATES Julia RIVES 1889-1921

I photographed this gravestone in the Thurmond Fairview Cemetery, Fairview, Wise Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 202,215 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com .

If you know more about this person please reply here,instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family.

Re:Green Rives

AnitaMcDowell500 — 2009-03-06 17:17:22Z

I have a correction for Littlebury's mother it was Susan Woodward I believe.

Re:Green Rives

AnitaMcDowell500 — 2009-03-06 17:15:53Z

I too am a decendent of Green Rives. My great great grandfather was Littlebury William Rives son of Green Rives and 3rd wife Susan Woodman, Littlebury's dtr my great grandmother was Ada Belle Rives Cobb. She was reported in Relics of the Rives to have died in infancy as well as her sister Virginia however I have a picture of them as young women and as women in their 6o's or 70's. So I know there are things in the book which are not correct most likely due to the date the book was researched, I guess if you lost track of someone you assumed they were deceased. I would love to know if the later book corrected that mistake. My grandfather was William Thomas Cobb. My research on the Cobb line is somewhat sketchy but I have a lot on theRives line and would be happy to share any thing I have someone might need. Anita

Re:Green Rives

AnitaMcDowell500 — 2009-03-06 17:15:45Z

Green Rives

AnitaMcDowell500 — 2009-03-06 03:54:38Z

I too am a decendent of Green Rives and 3rd wife Susan Woodward. My great great grandfather was Littlebury William Rives, great grandmother Ada Belle Rives Cobb (reported to have died in childhood in relics of the Rives as well as sister Mary Virginia I have a picture of them as ladies in their 60's or later) My grandfather Ada Belle's son William Thomas Cobb, My mother Alice Almeya Cobb. I would love to know if the updated book corrects the misstatements. I have a lot of information on branches of the family I would share if you want, just let me know which you would be interested in.