Salt Lake County UT Archives Obituaries.....Rives, Henry W. [Judge] February 21, 1906 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ut/utfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Debra Crosby http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002467 November 8, 2017, 7:16 pm Various newspapers listed below News of illness and death listed below from several newspapers. Salt Lake Telegram Thur Feb 8, 1906 Judge H. W. Rives Dying in Hospital Judge Henry W. Rives, at one time one of the best-known lawyers of the Utah bar, is dying at the St. Mark's hospital. Yesterday he became unconscious and has not revived since. His physician Dr. J. N. Harrison, gives but little hopes of the man's recover. He is suffering from a complication of diseases Judge Rives was taken from his room a week ago and removed to the hospital. Since he has been there it is said he has been failing fast. He is 53 years old. -------------------------------------------------------- The Salt Lake Tribune Mon Feb 26, 1906 RIVES FUNERAL Services Over Body Held at St. Paul's Church Funeral services over the remains of the late Judge Henry Rives were held at St. Paul's Episcopal church Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. There were present many of the prominent attorneys of the city, a liberal representation of former Nevada residents who had known the deceased in that State and a number of the member of the Daughters of the Confederacy. "Lead, Kindly Light," was sung by the choir, after which the services were conducted by Rev. Charles E. Perkins according to the Episcopalian ritual. "Art Thou Weary. Art Thou Languid?" was sung at the conclusion of the services. The interment followed at Mt. Olivet cemetery. The pall-bearers were Judge W. H. Dickson, M. L. Ritchie, W. C. Hall, Dr. J. N. Harrison, J. R. Letcher and M. Shauzhnessy. ------------------------------------------------------ Goodwin's Weekly (Salt Lake City, UT) Sat Feb 24, 1906 Judge Henry Rives The death of Judge Rives makes a sorrowful closing of a brilliant life. With superb natural talents polished with all the graces of the schools, naturally generous and loveable, his life should have been a grand success, but save the little rough rule of a military camp he never was dis- ciplined, he never would submit to outside or self control. Then his surroundings had their influence. From the army he went to the mining camps of Nevada; a finished lawyer he made money rapidly and easily; of fine family stock and reared in select society he was at home among gentlemen and scholars--he seemed to have all the elements within himself to forge out fame and fortune. The his winsome personality drew to him a multitude of friends he had less enemies than most men, but he had one great enemy. That was himself. He would break away and burn life's candle at both ends and laugh as he saw it burn. This took from him his natural, steady judgement, his natural prudence, though it never caused his industry to abate or broke his spirits or chilled his hopes until his physical frame broke down. For a year past he has been failing. Sometimes he would rally for a few days, but it was clear to all his friends that the golden bowl was broken, that soon the windows would be darkened. A multitude of his old friends will sorrow greatly over the news of his death, and their keenest grief will be that with his splendid faculties he did not secure for his name's sake all the honors that a few years ago were almost within his grasp. For forty days past he has been hovering between life and death. The rest that has come to him must be most welcome. --------------------------------------------------------------- Salt Lake Telegram Thur Feb 22, 1906 DEATH OF JUDGE HENRY RIVES The death of Judge Rives is most sorrowful, in the sense that an acute and cultivated mind has gone into the shadows, that a naturally high and brave soul has taken it's flight. On the other hand there is a sense of relief that one who has been so long a sufferer that life had become a burden has found rest. Judge Rives was one of the best stock of the South; he had all the accomplishments of the schools, he was a trained lawyer, an able judge. When in his youth the war came he fought it through; he had a wonderful faculty of drawing to himself friends; he was one of the most genial of men; he had the face and bearing of a thoroughbred; he loved his friends; he wanted to be on good terms with all the world; his weaknesses were those of a genial nature, and he never had an enemy half so cruel to him as he was to himself. He has been failing in health for several years; for a year past his decline has been most marked, and his infirmities progressed, until at last he looked upon approaching death as upon a welcome friend that would bring to him a surcease of sorrow and of pain. He came from the battlefield of the East to the battlefield for fortunes in the deserts of the West. He served for two terms, if we remember correctly, on the District bench of Nevada; he came here as the attorney for the De La Mar company some twelve years ago, and this has been his home since. He has many friends here, a great host of friends in Nevada, but of late years he has passed through that most sorrowful period of a proud man's life, wherein the admiration of friends turns at length into into pity, and he has had to walk around for years, and feel that pity when he looked in familiar faces, and knew that for his own sake those friends would feel a relief when they knew that his battle of life was over. -------------------- Salt Lake Telegram Thur Feb 22, 1906 SOLDIER, PIONEER AND JURIST DEAD Judge Henry Rives Succumbs to Gastritis at St. Marks. Judge Henry Rives died at St. Mark's hospital at 8:30 last night. The immediate cause of death was gastritis. Judge Rives had been a resident of Salt Lake since 1898 and a resident of the West since 1870, having come West from Missouri where he was born. He was 15 years old when the Civil war broke out and took and active part in the four years struggle in a uniform of gray. Shortly after the close of the war news of the Great West reached the boy and he decided to cast his future in the then little known country. He went to Carson City, Nev., and started to study law in the office of Col. A. C. Ellis, now a well-known member of the local bar. A year later he joined the rush to the gold fields of Pioche, where he resided for a number of years practicing his profession. He was a local counsel for the Raymond-Ely company in the famous mining suit between that company and the Hermes property owned by J. B. Haggin and Senator George Hearst. A large amount of the detail work of that case devolved on Judge Rives. Later he was selected as District Judge his jurisdiction being over Lincoln, White Pine and Eureka counties. Since coming to Salt Lake Judge Rives has done little in his chosen profession on account of ill health, though he has gained a host of friends on account of his uniform kindness to all with whom he came in contact. ------------------------------------ The Ogden Standard Thur Feb 22, 1906 HENRY RIVES PASSES AWAY Salt Lake, Feb, 22 -- Judge Henry Rives, at one time rated one of Utah's brightest lawyers, conspicuous in the history of the west and a Confederate Veteran, died in St. Mark's hospital at 8:30 o'clock last evening from a complication of maladies. He was taken to the hospital about three weeks ago, and since that time his condition became worse gradually until the end came. Gastritis was the immediate cause of death. Three daughters are living in California. The eldest daughter is the widow of Dr. Dalby, who died in Salt Lake several years ago. Judge Rives was a widower, his wife having died in Salt Lake in 1898. 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