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Rives, Claudius Green, III (1889 AL - 1947 FL)

Rives, Claudius Green, III

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Rives, Claudius Green, III


Summary

Father: Claudius Green Rives, Jr
Mother: Fannie Ball

Birth: 6 July 1889, Gordonville, Alabama
Birth Source: Reliques of the Rives, WWI Draft Card

Death: 31 Oct 1947, Panama City, Florida
Death Source: Obituary

Spouse1: Daisy Pearl McLendon, m. 12 Nov 1912, Dallas County, Alabama

Narrative

Children of Claudius Green Rives and Daisy Pearl McLendon:
  1. Legrand Rives, b. 21 Jan 1914
  2. Burrell Randolph Rives, b. 10 Feb 1915
  3. Annie Rives, b. c1917
  4. Willie Dunklin Rives, b. 10 Nov 1919
  5. Lois M. Rives, b. c1922
  6. Claudius Green Rives, b. c1927

Reliques notes that at the time this "represents in his family the eldest recorded male branch of the Rives family in America."

The Selma Times-Journal, 2 Nov 1947
CLAUDIUS GREEN RIVES
Claudius Green Rives, 57, owner and Operator of the Panama City Lumber Company and a native of Collirene, Lowndes County, died suddenly at his home in Panama City at 1 a.m. Friday and will be buried at Collirene on Sunday at 1 p.m. Short funeral services will be held at Panama City prior to the departure of the family and friends, bringing the body back to Lowndes County.
Reared in Lowndes, Mr. Rives had a wide family connection and many friends in this section. He attended the public schools of the community and Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn. For some time past he had successfully engaged in the lumber business with his sons, LeGrande Rives, Rudulph Rives, Billy Rives and C. G. Rives, Jr.
Surviving also are his wife, Mrs. Pear McLendon Rives and two daughters, Mrs. Jimmie Ferguson and Mrs. Billy Johnson, both of Birmingham; and three brothers, G. W. Rives of Collirene ana Selma, where he conducts the Rives Appliance. R. P. Rives and M. G. Rives, Collirene. Jere Hardy is a brother-in-law. Funeral services will be attended by a number of friends and relatives from this area.

Sources

Birth:          FamilySearch - United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Marriage1:  FamilySearch - Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950
Death:        Obituary, The Selma Times-Journal, 2 Nov 1947

1920 Census:  Collirene, Lowndes County, Alabama
1930 Census:  Collirene, Lowndes County, Alabama
1940 Census:  Kendall, Montgomery County, Alabama

Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p104