Rieves, Elijah Napoleon Bonaparte

Summary

Father: Thomas Jefferson Rieves
Mother: Sarah Bernetta Murphy

Birth: 4 July 1839, near Columbia, Tennessee
Birth Source: Century Review, p248

Death: 12 Sep 1935
Death Source: Headstone, Obituary

Spouse1: Mary Catharine Anthony, m. 23 Dec 1869, Giles County, Tennessee

Narrative

Children of Elijah Napoleon Bonaparte Rieves and Mary Catharine Anthony:

1. Cora Evangine Rieves, b. c1872
2. William T. Rieves, b. 28 Jan 1874
3. James Dayton Rieves, b. 8 Dec 1875
4. Gus Nepoleon Rieves, b. 19 Apr 1878
5. Gracie E. Rieves, b. 19 Apr 1877, m. R. E. Caskey
6. Mary Myrtle Rieves, b. 26 May 1881
7. Sarah B. Rieves, 23 Mar 1883
8. Earl Nathaniel Rieves, b. 28 May 1888
9. Irvin Antony Rieves, b. 22 Jul 1889

From Century Review:
E. N. B. Rieves, b. 5 m. E. of Columbia, July 4, 1839, is son of Thos. and Sallie (Murphy) Rieves, and has been farming all his life, excepting 4 1/2 years in the Confederate army. He owns a farm of 265 a. 7 1/2 m. from Columbia, in Rieves' Bend. Mr. Rieves mar. Mary Catharine, dau. of Wm. and Mary A. (Kimrough) Anthony. Their children are Cora Evangine, d. at age 23, Wm. T., mentioned below; Jas. D., d. age 22; G. N., farming on Fountain Cr.; Gracie E., wife of R. E. Caskey; Mary M., wife of Melvin Lamar; Sarah B., Earl N., Irvin A., at home. Cora married John Shannon, and left Amelia and Eugene Shannon, who reside with grandfather Rieves.

Nashville Banner, 12 Sep 1935
E. N. B. Rieves Dies At Home in Maury
Confederate Veteran Had Been Ill or Three Days
Columbia, Tenn., Sept. 12 - E. N. B. Rieves, a confederate veteran who fought through four years of the War Between the States, died today at the age of 96. He had been ill for three days.
He succumbed at the farm home where he was born July 4, 1839, and had spent his entire life, except for the danger-fraught years of the sixties when he served as a private in the Southern infantry.
He participated in battle at Richmond and Terryville, Ky., the Battle of Chickamauga near Chattanooga, and other engagements near Atlanta.
Mr. Rieves was the oldest Confederate soldier in Maury County. His death left that distinction to Capt. Merritt Tomlinson who is 95 and one of four surviving Confederates in the county. He was also the oldest Mason in the county, having been active in Columbia Lodge for more than fifty years.
The father of six children, all of whom live near here, Mr. Rieves also had thirty grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the home with Masonic services to follow at the cemetery, a family burial ground.

Sources

Birth:      Robbins, Peter. Century Review 1805-1905 Maury County, Tennessee, 1905, p248
Marriage1:  Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950 (FamilySearch)
Death:     Headstone, Rieves Cemetery, Maury County, Tennessee

1880 Census:  Maury County, Tennessee
1900 Census:  Maury County, Tennessee
1910 Census:  Maury County, Tennessee

Obituary. Nashville Banner, 12 Sep 1935