Virgil Alphonso Rives

  General Notes:

From www.findagrave.com
Pvt Virgil Alphonso Rives
Birth: Mar. 14, 1837 - Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Death: Jul. 15, 1904
Disinterment from the Rives Family Cemetery, Dinwiddie County during the 1941-42 expansion of Fort Pickett.
"Rives Cemetery".
This family cemetery was located east of Pelham Road and north of Wilcox Road in the controlled access danger area in what was Tract H-279 owned by John W. Rives

Virgil A Rives - Death date: 15 Jul 1904
Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Applications for
Headstones for U.S. military veterans, 1925-1941
Source: Ancestry.com. U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Spouse:
Bettie D Davis Rives (1858 - 1940)
Children:
Annie Birdie Rives Webb (1885 - 1971)
Aubrey T Rives (1892 - 1928)
John William Rives (1896 - 1980)
Inscription:
CO I
3 VA CAV
C.S.A.
Burial: Butterwood Cemetery, Darvills, Dinwiddie Co., VA
Created by: George Seitz
Record added: May 28, 2007

Virgil married Bettie Porter Davis, daughter of James William Davis and Martha Ann Rebecca Tucker, on 20 Dec 1881 in White's Chapel Church, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. (Bettie Porter Davis was born on 3 Oct 1858 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia, died on 8 Feb 1940 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia and was buried on 9 Feb 1940 in Butterwood Cemetery, Darvills, Dinwiddie Co., VA.) The cause of her death was Uremic Poisoning.

  Marriage Notes:

Marriage an location taken from Bettie's Confederate Veteran widow's pension application ... see research notes on Bettie.