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Rivers of South Carolina and Texas

Rivers Coat of Arms
Early coat of arms once associated with
a bearer of the surname Rivers

Rivers surname origin

From Ancestry.com and houseofnames.com

The surname Rivers is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Spelling variations of this family name include: Rivers, Ryvers, River, Ryver and others.

  1. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Riviéres, from the plural form of Old French riviére 'river' (originally meaning 'riverbank', from Latin riparia). The absence of English forms without the final -s makes it unlikely that it is ever from the borrowed Middle English vocabulary word river, but the French and other Romance cognates do normally have this sense.
  2. Common Americanized form of French Lariviére

 

Frederick C. Rivers

FREDERICK C. RIVERS was born 13 May 1800 in SC and died 24 June 1878 in SC. He married SARAH ANN HURST bef. 1830, daughter of ISAAC HURST and HENRIETTA (RITA) RIVERS. Sarah was born 28 Feb 1811 in SC and died 18 Sep 1877 in SC.

Descendants of Frederick C. Rivers

Children of FREDERICK C. RIVERS and SARAH ANN HURST are:

  1. WILLIAM JASPER RIVERS, b. 1831, SC; d. 17 Apr 1894, SC; m. LYDIA
    JANE MASSEY.
  2. ISAAC RIVERS, b. abt. 1834, SC; d. 1893, SC; m. MARY JANE RIVERS,
    dau. of Malachi Rivers and Sarah Ann Boatwright; burial Hurst Cemetery, near
    Ruby, SC.
  3. PHILIP PARKER RIVERS, b. 7 Oct 1837, Chesterfield Co., SC; d. 22 Apr
    1923, Chesterfield Co., SC; m. 1) Mary Ann Jane Massey; m. 2) Hulda Massey; burial Elizabeth Baptist Church Cemetery.
  4. JOHN RIVERS, b. abt. 1838, SC; d. abt. 1854 (never married).
  5. CHARLOTTE RIVERS, d. infancy, SC.
  6. ELIZA JANE RIVERS, b. 1 Mar 1838, SC; d. 20 Sep 1919, Gulledges, Anson Co., NC.; m. Thomas Tucker.
  7. MALACHI J. RIVERS, 20 Aug 1841, SC; d. 24 Apr 1904, SC.; m. SARAH BOATWRIGHT RIVERS
  8. JACOB RIVERS, b. 27 Feb 1843; d. 16 Feb 1904, SC.
  9. LEWIS J. RIVERS, b. abt. 1845, SC; d. 2 Mar 1865, Charleston Co., SC; burial Magnolia Cemetery. (Pvt 26th SC Volunteers Co B, CSA; taken prisioner; died of disease.)
  10. FRANCES E. RIVERS, b. abt. 1846; d. unknown.
  11. SARAH ANN RIVERS, b. abt. 1847, SC; d. 2 Nov 1932, SC; m. DREW L. LISENBY.
  12. LAURETTA (LAURA) RIVERS, b. abt. 1849, SC; d. unknown.