DeSoto County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Rives, Judson C July 23, 1896 - 

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Author: Henry E Chambers

Judson C. Rives, proprietor of the Rives Motor Company, representing the Buick 
and other makes of cars at Mansfield, is a veteran of the World war and member 
of a family long and favorably known in De Soto Parish.

He was born at Mansfield, July 23, 1896, son of Green and Jessie (Durhal) 
Rives.  The father carried on extensive operations as a lumberman in Louisiana, 
making his home at Mansfield.  One of the chief Centers of his lumbering 
operations was in Grant Parish, where he owned a large tract of virgin timber 
and a mill at Lincecum.  He died in 1898.  He was the father of four children:  
Carrie, who is the wife of W. C. Nabors, Ford agent and inventor and 
manufacturer of the Nabors trailer at Mansfield Green, associated with W. C. 
Nabors and a Ford representative at Many, Louisiana; Judson C.;  and Henry, 
also associated with W. C. Nabors in the automobile business.

Judson C. Rives was liberally educated, doing Preparatory work in the Gulf 
Coast Military Academy at Gulfport, Mississippi, and finishing his education in 
Tulane University, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.  His 
brother, Henry also attended time Gulf Coast Military Academy, while Green is a 
graduate mechanical and electrical engineer from Tulane University.  Judson C. 
Rives on leaving school at the age of eighteen, became bookkeeper in the Bank 
of Commerce at Mansfield.

On May 6, 1917, a day after America entered the war with Germany, he 
volunteered his services, being not then twenty-one years of age.  He was in 
the service two and a half years, stationed at various places, including Camp 
Pike, Arkansas, Austin, Texas, New Orleans and finally with the Tank Training 
Corps at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  He received his honorable discharge at Camp 
Dix with the rank of first sergeant in the Tank Corps.  Soon after leaving the 
army Mr. Rives with his brother Henry engaged in the automobile business, but 
for the past year has been proprietor of the Rives Motor Company alone.  He 
married in January, 1924, Miss Maida Smith, daughter of N. W. Smith, of Camden, 
Alabama.  She is a graduate of the Woman's College of Montgomery, Alabama.  
They are Baptists, and Mr. Rives has held several official posts in the church 
organization and has taught a class in time Sunday School.  He is a member of 
the Mansfield Lodge of Masons, and belongs to the Scottish Rite Consistory and 
El Karubah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Shreveport.


Additional Comments:
A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 23, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published by 
The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 



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