The Rives Cemetery is located about a mile south of Belmont on a hill across from the Tucker Temple Church. This was apparently the home site of William Rives. The only markers are to William Rives, a Mrs. Campbell, and two Smith children. Others such as Rives’ mother, Mrs. Ann River Rives, and his brother, Richard Rives, are surely buried there also.
Marshall, John Walker. The Early History of Mason. John Walker Marshall, 1985.
When I tried to find this cemetery, I discovered that it had been destroyed. This cemetery is in Fayette County.
William Augustus Rives was born in 1802 in Virginia and died in 1875 in Tipton County, Tennessee. His father was Rev. Richard Augustus Rives, an early Methodist minister of Dinwiddle county, Virginia, and his mother was Ann Rivers Rives.
William Augustus Rives was one for the more prominent planters of the Belmont neighborhood. His plantation of 1,500 acres was between Belmont and Longtown. Between 1850 and 1860 his wealth decreased somewhat due to gifts of land and slaves to his son. A trustee of the Belmont Methodist Church, Rives was also a magistrate. Richard Rives, a brother to William, also settled near Belmont and was the father of Victoria Rives Seay. William Rives was married first to Dionetia Whitmore and second to Mary P Rogers. He had no children by his second wife.
His children were Richard Hardaway, Virginia, William Augustus “Gus”, Jr., and Lucius. Richard and Virginia died early. Gus married Virginia Scales and they later moved to Cotton Plant, Arkansas. One of their daughters, Jennie, married Dick Hendrick. Their grandson is William Rives Hendrick of Mason. Lucius Rives married Mollie Cole and had one daughter, Lillian.
Marshall, John Walker. The Early History of Mason. John Walker Marshall, 1985.
William was probably buried in Rives Cemetery.