Rives, George Edwin
Summary
Father: George RivesMother: Ann Paton Pollard
Birth: 11 Nov 1843 (or 1842), Virginia
Birth Source: Death Certificate, Census
Death: 28 Apr 1929, Beaufort, Carteret, North Carolina
Death Source: Death Certificate
Spouse1: Mary Virginia Loudon, m. 13 Sep 1865, Portsmouth, Virginia
Narrative
Children of George Edwin and Mary Virginia Loudon:- George Hubert Rives, b. 30 Nov 1866
- Edwin Montgomery Rives, b. 24 Jul 1868, d. 3 Mar 1871
- Blanche Loudon Rives, b. 25 Apr 1870, m. Charles Pond
From Reliques of the Rives:
George Edwin Rives was born November 11, 1842, in Petersburg, Virginia, and now resides at Wakefield in Surry county. He served four years in the Confederate Army as a private with Co. C, 5th Virginia Cavalry, and Co. H, 13th Virginia Cavalry, part of the time as a courier for Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. He married September, 1865, Mary Virginia Loudon, of Portsmouth, Virginia, daughter of Herbert Farrand Loudon, 1819-1857, and his wife, Missouri Jarvis, of Washington, D. C, 1826-1856, daughter of James Jarvis (son of John Jarvis and his wife, Anne Green, John being a son of John Jarvis and his wife, Elizabeth Meecham) and his wife, Mary Powell Pullin.
Death Certificate says he was born in 1843. Census seems to imply 1842.
George lived later in life with his daughter Blanche Pond's family.
Research Notes
Sources
Birth: North Carolina Death Certificate, George Edwin Rives, 1929Marriage1: Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 (Ancestry)
Death: North Carolina Death Certificate, George Edwin Rives, 1929
1870 Census: Sussex County, Virginia
1880 Census: Norfolk County, Virginia
1900 Census: Surry County, Virginia (Charles Pond HOH)
1910 Census: Sussex County, Virginia (Charles Pond HOH)
1920 Census: Nansemond County, Virginia (Charles Pond HOH)
Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p448