Southampton County-Petersburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rives, Anna Pollard, 1877 

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Anna POLLARD RIVES 


PETERSBURG. 

EMPLOYEES PAID OFF - 
  DEATH OF A GOOD WOMAN - 
  THE PRESIDING-ELDERSHIP - 
  FARMERS' COUNCIL - 
  MOTION OVERRULED - 
  THE CATHOLIC FAIR - 
  RAILROAD TRAIN INTERRUPTED - 
  THANKSGIVINGS-DAY. 
   [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] 
                        November 24, 1877. 
  The employés of the Atlantic. Mississippi and Ohio railroad all along the 
line have I been paid off for the month of October.  They also received their 
back wages, such as had not been assigned, for November, 1875.  This leaves 
only four months of back wages unpaid.  The pay-train, in charge of Captains 
J.B. Gregory and G.F. Schooler, left for Norfolk at an early hour this morning. 

  A telegram received last evening from Southampton county announced the death 
on yesterday of the wife of Rev. George Rives, of the Virginia Conference. 
She was about fifty years of age, and a daughter of the late Captain John 
Pollard, of this city. 
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PETERSBURG. 

A MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH - OTHER ITEMS. 
[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] 
                        November 26, 1877. 

  A remains of the wife of Rev. George Rives, of Southampton county, will 
reach the city on the train from Weldon to-night at 6:12 o'clock, and will 
be taken to Blandford Cemetery for interment.  The ceremonies at the grave, 
which will take place after nightfall, will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Riddick. 
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Anna (POLLARD; Mrs. George) RIVES, of Southampton Co., 
d. 23 Nov 1877, Southampton Co., age circa 54*, 
interred in Blandford Cemetery**, Petersburg, 26 Nov 1877, 
"The (Richmond, VA) Daily Dispatch," Mon., Nov. 26, 1877, p. 2, col. 2; 
"The (Richmond, VA) Daily Dispatch," Tues., Nov. 27, 1877, p. 2, col. 2 

**Find a Grave Mem. #9453597.  Her husband & parents are marked on the same 
   stone.  

*The {recopied} Southampton Co. D.Recs. give d. age 55. (p. 366; orig.p. 6 #25) 


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