Rives, Richard Bullard

Summary

Father: Stephen Turner Rives
Mother: Sophia Meeks Cannon

Birth: c1823, Warren Co., North Carolina
Birth Source: Reliques of the Rives

Death:
Death Source:

Spouse1: Unknown
Spouse2: Louis
Spouse3: Lucy Rodway, m. 18 Jan 1855, Shelby County, Tennessee
Spouse4: Rena C. Ladd, m. 13 Sep 1883, Christian County, Kentucky

Narrative

Children of Richard Bullard Rives and Unknown(1):

1. Sophia Rives, b. c1842, m. Mr. Odell
2. Stephen Rives, b. c1846
3. Mary Rives, b. c1848, m. Thomas Moseley

Children of Richard Buller Rives and Lucy Rodway:

1. Emily Rives, b. c1855, d. 1926
2. Nellie Rives, b. c1859, m. Knox Oldham
3. James Rives, b. c1860

Children of Richard Buller Rives and Rena Ladd:

1. Robert Rives
2. Knox Rives

From Reliques of the Rives:
He resided before the War Between the States near Greenfield in Illinois, and afterwards in Dickson county, Tenn., where he died. During the war he served as a private in Walker's Legion, Co. K, 2nd (Robinson’s) Tenn. Inf., while his only known son served in the Union Army. Richard B. Rives is said to have married four times but only the names of his third wife, Lucy Rodway, of Holly Springs, Miss., and his fourth wife, Mrs. Rena Ladd, are known. He is understood to have had children only by his first, third, and fourth marriages.

Sources

Marriage3:  FamilySearch - Tennessee Marriages, 1796-1950
Marriage4:  FamilySearch - Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954

1850 Census:  Macoupin, Macoupin County, Illinois
1860 Census:  Police District 3, Claiborne County, Mississippi

Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p167