Rives, Samuel Edwin

Summary

Father: Robert Paisely Rives
Mother: Sophia Martha Ulmer

Birth: 22 Jan 1871, Collirene, Alabama
Birth Source: Reliques of the Rives

Death: 21 Aug 1931, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina
Death Source: Death Certificate

Spouse1: Mary Houser Gaskin, m. 24 Jun 1903
Spouse2: Lois Cain, m. 16 Aug 1914

Narrative

Children of Samuel Edwin Rives and Mary Houser Gaskin:

1. Edwin Samuel Rives, b. 15 Mar 1905
2. May Gaskin Rives, b. 6 Jan 1907

Children of Samuel Edwin Rives and Lois Cain:

1. Lois Cain Rives, b. 29 Sep 1916
2. Ruth Cain Rives, b. 9 Feb 1921

Augusta Chronicle, 22 Aug 1931
Edwin S. Rives Dies in Greenwood
Will Be Buried in Aiken This Afternoon
Greenwood, S. C., Aug. 21. - Edwin S. Rives, 60, died in a Columbia hospital this afternoon after illness of a year from paralysis. Funeral services will be conducted at Bethlehem cemetery at Aiken tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock by his pastor, Rev. Walter Lee Coker, of South Main Street Baptist church, Greenwood.
Mr. Rives for a number of years was in the mercantile business at Aiken and Edgefield with his brother under the firm name of Rives Brothers. He also was in business at Greenville before removing to Greenwood several years ago.
Surviving are his widow, who was Miss Lois Cain, of Sumter, and two daughters, Misses Lois and Ruth, of Greenwood, and two children by a former marriage, Mrs. James Brice, of Easley, and E. S. Rives, Jr., of Washington D. C. He also leaves a sister, Mrs. O R. Meyer, Tampa, Fla.

Sources

Death:        FamilySearch - South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1973
Burial:       Findagrave - Bethany Cemetery, Aiken, Aiken County, South Carolina

1920 Census:  Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
1930 Census:  Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina

Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p110
Obituary, Augusta Chronicle, 22 Aug 1931