Rives, George Stith

Summary

Father: Thomas Peterson Rives
Mother: Martha Ann Nicholson

Birth: 1832, Virginia
Birth Source: Headstone

Death: 25 Feb 1887, Portsmouth, Virginia
Death Source: VA Deaths

Spouse1: Ms. Ellis (Mrs. Williamson)
Spouse2: Virginia Saunderson, m. 28 Nov 1861, Nansemond County, Virginia

Narrative

Children of George Stith Rives and Ms. Ellis:

1. Ada Anne Rives, b. 2 Jul 1855, m. J. A. Tinker
2. Agnes Rebecca Rives, b. 2 Jun 1858, m. Lewis E. Benster

Children of George Stith Rives and Virginia Saunderson:

1. Hattie Birdsong Rives, b. 28 Jun 1863, m. Jacob Eley Kelly
2. Robert Stith Rives, b. 19 Jul 1867

From Reliques of the Rives:
Colonel George Stith Rives was born in 1832 and resided in Nansemond county. He enlisted as a private in 1861 and served in Co. C, 5th Va. Cavalry, C. S. A., and subsequently as a 1st Lieutenant in Co. K, 13th Va. Cavalry. At the Battle of Gettysburg he commanded a regiment, of which there is said to have remained only one survivor after the engagement beside himself. During the closing days of the war he was Provost Marshal on the staff of Gen. W. H. F. Lee. Two negro body servants served him faithfully throughout the war. Col. Rives died in Portsmouth on February 12, 1887. His first wife was a Mrs. Williamson (born Ellis) ; his second, Virginia (daughter of Robert J. Saunders), born November 30, 1840, died December 9, 1906, who was educated at the C. M. and F. C. Institute.

Research Notes

Note from Reliques: son Robert "studied law at Richmond College; became a successful criminal lawyer in Richmond, Va., where he attained local renown as an orator and where he d. unmarried Apr. 1912." He doesn't appear to have married or had children.

Sources

Birth:          Headstone, Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Petersburg City, Virginia (Note: Late Headstone)
Marriage1:  Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940 (Ancestry)
Death:        Virginia, Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917 (Ancestry)

1860 Census:  Sussex County, Virginia
1870 Census:  Nansemond County, Virginia
1880 Census:  Nansemond County, Virginia

Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p446