Eleanor's Family Tree:Information about Richard Hardaway Rives
Richard Hardaway Rives (b. April 15, 1807, d. 1879)
Notes for Richard Hardaway Rives:
In 1823 Richard H. Rives came into possession, by testamentary bequest of his father, of 566 acres of land in Dinwiddie situated on Rocky Run.On February 3, 1829, he was married by the Rev. John Grammar, rector at that time of Old Saponey Church of Bath Parish in Dinwiddie, to his cousin, Harriet Rives at Cedar Green.
In 1836, he moved with his family and slaves, and accompanied by his mother, his brother William Augustus, his sister Julia, and her husband, to Fayette County, Tennessee; taking with him his household belongings, and traveling in his own equipages.
Richard Rives spent his life on his plantation near Mason, esteemed as a good neighbor and respected as a wise father and kind master.He died in July, 1879, leaving a will naming as legatees his son Lycurgus, to whom he gave the homestead tract of land called "Hopewell," and his daughter, Harriet Victoria Seay "who has always been kind and dutiful to me," and to whom he gave 200 acres called "Caspoon Place," and "my secretary, sofa, one pair of looking glasses, and two parlor tables."
More About Richard Hardaway Rives and Harriet Rives:
Marriage: February 03, 1829, Cedar Green, Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
Children of Richard Hardaway Rives and Harriet Rives are:
- Olivia Virginia Rives, b. Bef. 1833, d. date unknown.
- Leonidas O. Rives, b. 1833, d. date unknown.
- Lycurgus Rives, b. Aft. 1833, d. date unknown.
- +Harriet Victoria Rives, b. March 24, 1839, Fayette County, Tennessee, d. date unknown.