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R. C. RIVES, saddler, of Petersburg, was born in Marshall County March 12, 1838. His father, Green Rives, was of English descent, born in Virginia in 1773, and came to Tennessee in 1830. He was a schoolmate and personal friend of Winfield Scott, and was married three times. Our subject is the son of his wife Susan (Woodard) Rives, who was born in Virginia in 1810. She died in 1850, as did her husband. Our subject was reared on a farm, and March 12, 1862, married Rebecca J. Gillian, who was born in Alabama April 2, 1839. To them were born twelve children, these five now living: Anna, Mary C., Sarah, Lutha G. and Bertie. After his father’s death our subject resided with his brother twelve months, and then learned the saddler’s trade. After some time he and his brother B. W. became partners in business, continuing until the war, when he enlisted in Company C, Eighth Tennessee Infantry, but after a short time was discharged on account of ill health. After the war he again opened a shop at Petersburg, where he has since resided, with the exception of four years, when he had a shop at Belfast, and spent one year at Lewisburg. Since December, 1885, he and O. S. Christopher have been partners in business, and keep the largest stock in the county. Mr. Rives is conservative in politics, but of late years has voted the Democratic ticket. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and he and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.