PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, VA - CEMETERIES – George E. Rives Cemetery

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, George E. Rives graveyard:
                  1937 June 23
                  Research made by Elsie D. Hamlin

Cemetery Location:  9.5 miles south of Petersburg, Virginia, on Route #301; 
                    thence .1 mile west on private road; thence 200 yards north 
                    of private road.
                    Prince George Co., Virginia


DATE:

1829.

OWNERS:

Timothy Rives III, the present owner [1937].  The property has been in the Rives 
family for many years.

DESCRIPTION:

This graveyard is about ten feet square, and is grown up with bushes and pine 
trees.  There are a number of graves, but only two have tombstones.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:

This is the family graveyard of Dr. George E. Rives, prominent in Prince George 
County for many years.  Over his grave is an imposing marble shaft bearing this 
inscription:

George E. Rives, M.D.
Born June 17, 1829
Died Nov. 4, 1884
Dulce et Decorum
Est Pro Patria Mori
Erected by the Democrats of the Fourth Congressional District of Virginia


The other tombstone has the following inscription:

In memory of
Alice V.
wife of Richard H. Marks
and daughter of Dr. G.E. Rives
Born March 14, 1859
Departed this life Dec. 5, 1882
Resting in hope of a glorious resurrection


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Informant:  Mrs. Timothy Rives II
            1682 Monticello Ave., Walnut Hill, Petersburg, Va.
            Mother of the present owner. [1937]

Tombstone Inscriptions

Visit by worker.

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