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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: William Horace Rivers Born: 1817 Married: 15 Nov 1838 Died: 1861
WIFE
Name: Sarah Bailey Jenkins Note Born: 1816 at South Carolina, , , Died: 3 Jul 1895 Father: Benjamin Jenkins Mother: Martha Reynolds
CHILDREN
Name: William Horace Rivers Born: Abt 1840 Died:
Name: Charles H. Rivers Born: Abt 1842 Died:
Name: John Douglas Rivers Born: Abt 1845 Died:
Name: Susan Rivers Dr. Born: 1847 Died: 1887 Husband: John P. Thomas Dr.
Name: Sarah P. Rivers Born: Abt 1849 Died:
Name: Lula Rivers Born: Abt 1851 Died:
Name: Emily Rivers Born: Abt 1855 Died:
NOTES
2). Sarah B. Rivers adm. of Wm. Horace Rivers who died the lat ter part of Oct. 23, 1861 in the city of Charleston leave s 7children. She had dark complexion, dark hair, dark eye s was 5 high and 48 years of age by profession a planter . This was signed inYorkville, SC on Sept. 8, 1865. Personally appeared before me E. Marion Fre er who being duly sworn saith that he was well acquainted with the lat e William Horace Rivers and that he is also well acquainted with his famil y that Mr. Rivers was the owner of a Plantation on James Island and at tended to his planting thereon in person until his death which occured so metime in the latter part of the month of October 1861 in the City of Cha rleston where he resided before the war that he left a widow Mrs. Sarah B . Rivers and seven children surviving him and that Mrs. Rivers administe red upon his Estate, that he has read carefully the petition of Mrs.Sara h B. Rivers the administratrix of said estate praying for a restoration o f said property that theplantation there in described is the one owned b y the Estate of Mrs. Rivers that this deponent was in charge of the plant ing interest of said Estate at the time the negroes were removed from the I sland that they were taken from the plantation in themanner and at the tim e therein stated by her and placed in Jail in the City of Charleston whenc e they were carried for safety to a plantation on Ashley Ri ver that about the same time a written order from the mil itary authorities of the so called Confederate States was s erved upon all of the inhabitants of James Island .. . On e of the affidavits in this was signed by John E. Rivers w ho has been a practicing attorney in the City of Charlesto n for more than twenty years he acted as the legal adv isor of Mr. Rivers at the time of its purchase in 1847 an d examined the title therfor and that since the death of Mr . Rivers he has acted and is still acting as counsel for Mr s. Rivers The Petition of Mrs. Sarah B. Rivers a loyal citizen o f the United States who has taken the amnesty Oath as presc ribed by the Proclamamtion of the President of the United S tates issued on the 19th May 1865 a certified copy of which is hereunto annexedrespectfully sheweth that sh e is the administratrix and one of the Heirs of the Estat e of her husband the late William Horace Rivers who died on or about the 23rd day o f October 1861 leaving Your petitioner his widoe and seven children surviv ing himThat among other property belonging to Yur Petitioners intestate d Estate is a plantation on James Island containing three hundred acres o f land, bounded north by lands of the late Thomas H. Grimball East by a roa d called the Savannah Road, South by creeks and marshes and by lands o f Solomon Legare and west by lands of the said Thomas M. Gr imball that Your Petitioner s intestate with his family res ided in the City of Charleston before the rebellion that the planting interest on the Island was ca rried on by her said husband until his death and afterward s by friends until some time in the early part of the mont h of June 1862 when upon the approach of the Federal Army t he Confederate General in command of James Island sent an d armed force upon the said plantation who captured all o f the negroes thereon sent them to the City and placed the m in Jail, whence your petitioner by her agents removed the m to a place of safety Your petitioner further sheweth th at about the same time an order was issued by the militar y authorities of the so calle Confederate States requirin g all of the inhabitants to remove with their negroes fro m James Island and Your Petitioner further sheweth that o n or about the 16th June 1862 the said plantation became th escene of a battle when as she is informed and believes all of the buildings theron were destroyed by th e Federal Forces that the Federal forces took possession of the said plantat ion on or about the 18th of February 1865 and still hold th e same. . .

						

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