Mary Rives

The book "Relics of the Rives" by James Rives Childs includes the following:

"It has been stated that William Rives married a Miss Pegram, and to this I am disposed to give some credence on the strength of the unusual authentic testimony preserved by his descendants of the family relationships, and which whenever tested has disclosed none of the customary chaff of the untrustworthy tradition."

Dr. Simmons included the following addition comments about William Rives and Mary Pegram:

"Records in Amelia County show William Rives patented some land. When he sold the land his wife signed with him, and her given name was Mary . In the 1782 personalty tax list of Dinwiddie County the only titheable of William Rives was a man by the name of Thomas Parham. In Hughes' book on Dinwiddie County, Thomas Parham is listed in the records of a doctor in Dinwiddie, as a son-in-law of E. Pegram. This was in the 1780s. Edward Pegram married Ann Harper Parham, after his first wife, Mary Lyle, died. Actually Thomas Parham was not a son-in-law of E. Pegram, but was the son of Edward's wife, who had previously been married to a Parham . This is additional information of the relationship between William Rives and the Pegram family."

Was this Mary Pegram the daughter of Daniel? The evidence indicates that she was. There was simply no other Mary Pegram of record that would have been old enough to have had children in the 1740s. This fact places her in the same age bracket as Daniel and Edward, her brothers, sons of Daniel...

Based on the foregoing, it appears that Mary Pegram, the daughter of Daniel, married William Rives, and lived in the Dinwiddie-Amelia County area, as did her brother Edward, and her brother Daniel. It is also likely, that her brother George and sister Sarah lived there. "