Rives, Richard Augustus

Summary

Father: Robert Rives
Mother: Martha Peterson (Hardaway)

Birth: c1780
Birth Source: Reliques of the Rives

Death: c1822
Death Source: Tax Lists

Spouse1: Ann Rivers

Narrative

Children of Richard Augustus Rives and Ann Rivers:

1. William Augustus Rives, b. 1802
2. Julia Rives b. c1804
3. Richard Hardaway Rives, b. 15 Apr 1807
4. Eliza Rives, b. c1810, m. Dr. Frank Manson

From Reliques of the Rives:
Rev. Richard Augustus Rives, born about 1780, and died 1819, was an early member of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church; making his home on his farm in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, and serving churches as there was need. He is described as a man of great dignity and reserve, and maintained, after the customs of those times, an almost spartan discipline among his children. His son Richard, though only a lad of some twelve years when his father died, never dared take his seat in his father’s presence until permission had been expressly given him.
Rev. Richard A. Rives evidently received one-fourth of his father’s landed estate; for, in 1810, he paid taxes of $2.34 on 48 1/2 acres of land situated on the Rocky Run in Dinwiddie county; to which, there were added by acquisition, 473 1/4, acres in 1816 and 224 acres in 1817. His slave holdings of three negroes in 1802 had been increased to twelve before his death.
Mr. Rives married Ann Rivers (b. about 1784, d. Nov. 14, 1844, daughter of William and Sarah (Neal) Rivers, of Dinwiddie county). She was one of five daughters, her only brother, William, dying of pneumonia at William and Mary College. Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Ann (Rivers) Rives removed with her children to Fayette county, Tennessee. In her will she made bequests of “six green painted chairs” to her son William; to her son Richard, “all my part and interest in a [cotton] gin now on the plantation of said Richard Rives,” as well as 170 acres of land. To her granddaughter, Ann Eliza Boisseau, she left her best bed, a curtain bedstead, a four-post bed; while to her grandson, Richard Hardaway Rives, she left a clock, and to another grandson, Lycurgus Rives, $100.

Although Reliques states he died in 1819, he appears in the tax lists through 1822 and in 1823, his name is listed with a note "From the Est of Rich Rives by will."

Research Notes

Sources

1820 Census:  Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1830 Census:  Dinwiddie County, Virginia (Ann Rives)
1840 Census:  Fayette County, Tennessee (Ann Reeves)

Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p256
1810B Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1811B Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1813A Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1814A Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1815B Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1816B Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1817B Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1818B Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1819B Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1820A Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1821A Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1822A Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1823A Land Tax List - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
1844 Will - Ann Rives - Fayette County, Tennessee Will Book A, p231