Rives, William Alston

Summary

Father: William Alston Rives
Mother: Lydia Reid

Birth: 8 Oct 1840, Pedlars Hill, Chatham County, North Carolina
Birth Source: Death Certificate

Death: 13 Aug 1917, Siler City/Hickory Mountain Township, Chatham County, North Carolina
Death Source: Death Certificate

Spouse1: Eliza Henry Harris, m. 27 Oct 1868, m. Chatham County, North Carolina

Narrative

Children of William Alston Rives and Eliza Henry Harris:

1. Annie McBride Rives, b. 22 July 1869, m. Wilbur Fiske Moses
2. Jarvis Eugene Rives, b. 25 Aug 1871
3. Carrie Burgwyn Rives, b. 11 Oct 1873, m. Robert Lee Pugh
4. Henry Alston Rives, b. 15 Feb 1876
5. William Edward Rives, b. 10 Nov 1878
6. Arthur Reid Rives, b. 26 Nov 1880
7. Eliza Harris Rives, b. 18 Jan 1883
8. Stella Victoria Rives, b. 15 May 1885, m. Charles Monroe Andrews
9. Blanche Edna Rives, b. 9 Sep 1887, m. Henry Harrison Stout
10. Oran Stedman Rives, b. 10 Mar 1890
11. Carl Jackson Rives, b. 18 Dec 1892
12. Kenneth Guy Rives, b. 27 Oct 1894

From Reliques of the Rives:
William Alston Rives received a common school education and was a farmer throughout his life, serving for a time also as postmaster. Born October 8, 1840, at Pedlars Hill, Chatham county, North Carolina, his life was largely spent in the vicinity of Siler City, N. C, where he died August 13, 1917. In 186 1 he volunteered for duty in the Confederate Army and served about eighteen months as a private with Co. E, 26th N. C. Inf., taking part in the battle of Malvern Hill. He subsequently hired a substitute and received an honorable discharge. Mr. Rives, who was always considered a man of superior mental capacity and ability, married October 27, 1868, Eliza Henry Harris.

Death Certificate names parents as W. A. Rives and Lydia Reed. It also states she died in Hickory Mountain township, which is right by Siler City, where Reliques states she died.

Sources

Birth:       North Carolina Death Certificate, William A. Rives, 1917
Marriage: North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 (FamilySearch)
Death:       North Carolina Death Certificate, William A. Rives, 1917
Census:     1880 Census - Chatham County, North Carolina
                   1900 Census - Chatham County, North Carolina
                   1910 Census - Chatham County, North Carolina
History:   Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives, p243