Lincoln-Marshall County TN Archives Biographies.....Rives, R. C. 1838 - 
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Author: Goodspeed

p.906-907.



RIVES, WOODARD, GILLIAN, CHRISTOPHER



R. C. RIVES, saddler, of Petersburg, was born in Marshall County March 12,

1838.  His father, Green RIVES, was of English descent, born in Virginia in

1773, and came to Tennessee in 1830.  He was a schoolmate and personal

friend of Winfield SCOTT, and was married three times.  Our subject is the

son of his wife Susan (WOODARD) RIVES, who was born in Virginia in 1810.

She died in 1850, as did her husband.  Our subject was reared on a farm and

March 12, 1862, married Rebecca J. GILLIAN, who was born in Alabama April

2, 1839.  To them were born twelve children, these five now living:  Anna,

Mary C., Sarah, Lutha G. and Bertie.  After his father's death our subject

resided with his brother twelve months, and then learned the saddler's

trade.  After some time he and his brother B. W. became partners in

business, continuing until the war, when he enlisted in Company C, Eighth

Tennessee Infantry, but after a short time was discharged on account of ill

health.  After the war he again opened a shop at Petersburg, where he has

since resided, with the exception of four years, when he had a shop at

Belfast, and spent one year at Lewisburg.  Since December, 1885, he and O.

S. CHRISTOPHER have been partners in business, and keep the largest stock

in the county.  Mr. RIVES is conservative in politics, but of late years

has voted the Democratic ticket.  He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and

he and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.



Additional Comments:
From Goodspeed's "History of Tennessee"





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