PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – Rives Family Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, The Robert G. Rives family graveyard:
                  1937 Sep. 15
                  Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin

Cemetery Location:  4.6 miles south of Petersburg on Route #301; thence 2.2 
                    miles east on Route #626; thence about .75 mile south of 
                    Route #626, in the woods.
                    Prince George County, Virginia


DATE:

Prior to 1865.

OWNERS:

John P. & Catherine Moore
Henry & Josephine Wyborny    1889 to 1902
Mrs. Jennie Zajick           1902 to 1917
Mrs. Helen Rott              1917 to present [1937]

We could not trace the property back to the  Rives family as the records were 
destroyed during the War Between the States.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is about twenty feet square and is grown up in bushes and trees.  
There are no tombstones.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

There are no tombstones and the family Bible has been misplaced, so the exact 
dates are not known.  Mrs. Lonnie Baird says that the following of her relatives 
are buried here:

Robert G. Rives
Harriet Heath Rives
Ida Rives

The site of the home of Robert G. Rives, who was a prominant man of Prince 
George County, is about fifty yards from the graveyard.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. Lonnie Baird, Route #2, Disputanta, Virginia

Court Records, Clerk’s Office.
Prince George County
Deed Book, Vol. 69, page 269
Deed Book, Vol. 37, page 140
Deed Book, Vol. 46, page 96

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