Rives, Henry Archer

Summary

Father: Stephen Turner Rives
Mother: Sophia Meeks Cannon

Birth: 26 Dec 1816, Warren Co., North Carolina
Birth Source: Reliques of the Rives

Death: 22 Dec 1892, Montgomery Co., Tennessee
Death Source: Reliques of the Rives

Spouse1: Eleanor Tillottson, m. 15 May License 25 Apr 1838, Montgomery County, Tennessee

Narrative

Children of Henry Archer Rives and Eleanor Tillottson:

1. Mildred Elizabeth Rives, b. 2 Feb 1839, m. Robert Wilson Garrott
2. William Marshall Rives, b. 12 Dec 1841, d. 10 Nov 1863
3. Stephen Edward Rives, b. 25 Oct 1843
4. Horace Plummer Rives, b. 20 Jan 1845

Reliques states that he accompanied his father to Montgomery county, Tennessee, where he became a large landowner, acquiring the old home place of his parents where he died Dec. 22, 1892.

A stone with the following information was erected in the Rosedale Cemetery, Christian County, Kentucky:

In Memory of Members of the Rives Family Originally Interred in The Family Cemetery on Fort Campbell Reservation.
Eleanor Tillottson Rives Feb. 20, 1820 - June 21, 1881
Henry Archer Rives Dec. 26, 1816 - Dec. 22, 1892
Nancy Garrott Rives Dec. 23, 1854 - Dec. 1, 1890
William Marshall Rives Dec. 12, 1841 - Nov. 10, 1863

Sources

Birth:        Findagrave - Memorial Stone, Rosedale Cemetery, Christian County, Kentucky
Marriage1:  FamilySearch - Montgomery County, Tennessee Marriage Book 1, p2
Death:       Findagrave - Memorial Stone, Rosedale Cemetery, Christian County, Kentucky

1840 Census:  Montgomery County, Tennessee
1850 Census:  Montgomery County, Tennessee
1860 Census:  Montgomery County, Tennessee
1870 Census:  District 4, Montgomery County, Tennessee (H E Reaves)
1880 Census:  District 4, Montgomery County, Tennessee (Henry H Rives)

Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p161