Richard Milton RIVERS

• General Notes
  • apparently named after uncle (father's younger brother)
    
    b. Moulton, Lawrence, AL (WWI draft reg)
    residing on Phil Campbell Rd., Precinct 8, Franklin Cty, AL on 20 Apr 1910
    m. (AL) est. 1912 to Dorie LNU
    residing in District 25, Precinct 2, Russellville, Franklin, AL on 28 Jan 1920
    residing on Lake Road, Precinct 2, Russellville, Franklin Cty, AL on 18 Apr 1930
    
    note following death record (prob. uncle's, note county):
    Alabama Deaths, 1908-59
    Name:    Richard M Rivers
    Death Date:    30 Mar 1944 
    Death County:    Winston 
    Volume:    13 
    Certificate:    6445 
    Roll:    4 
    
    1930 US Census (Apr 18), residing on Lake Road (no house no.), Precinct 2, Russellville, Franklin Cty, AL, head of h/hold Richard RIVERS, tractor driver on the county roads, not a veteran, rents home, monthly rental 12.00, age 40, 22 at 1st marriage, living with wife Dorie 35 GA, father/mother b. TN/GA, 17 at 1st marriage, and five children, all b. AL: John 15, Grace 13, Leander (male) 11, Evelyn 9, James B. 7.
    
    record citation:
    Year: 1930; Census Place: Russellville, Franklin, Alabama; Roll: 17; Page:  ; Enumeration District: 2; Image: 674.0
    
    1920 US Census (28 Jan), residing in District 25, Precinct 2, Russellville, Franklin, AL, dw/fam 92/92, head of h/hold is R. M. RIVERS, male, white, age 30 (1890), able to read/write, b. AL, f/m b. AL/AL, laborer at "Premis," wage worker, (marginal notation) 086, living with wife Dorey 25 GA f/m GA/GA (cf. 1930), son John W. 5 AL, dtr "Pankie" 3 7/12 (alt 3 4/12) AL, son Leander 1 ?/12
    
    Image Source: Year: 1920; Census Place: Russellville, Franklin, Alabama; Roll: T625_16; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 25; Image: 1006.
    
    WWI draft registration:
    Richard Milton Rivers, age 27, residence Russellville, Ala, b. July 24, 1889, natural-born citizen, b. Moulton, Ala, occup miner, employer Ala Fuel & Iron Co., place of employment Russellville, dependents "wife & 2 children," married, Caucasian, claims exemption on grounds of "bad eye," (signed) Richard Milton Rivers, tall, medium build, gray eyes, brown hair, not bald, (registered in) Precinct 2-A, Franklin, Ala, (date) June 5 [1917]
    
    1910 US Census (Apr 20), residing on Phil Campbell Rd., Precinct 8, Franklin Cty, AL, head of h/hold John (B.) RIVERS, farmer on general farm, age 50 (est b yr 1860), b. AL, father/mother b. SC/SC, living with wife Clara J. race white, age 50, b. GA, father/mother b. SC/SC, married 32 years, 7/7 children surviving, and children Richard M. 20 AL, John H. 16, (Levant) B. 14 AL, all farm laborers.
    
    record citation:
    Series: T624, Roll: 14 
    Part: 1, Page: 143A
    
    Unable to locate any of John B.'s family members in the 1900 or in extant 1890 census records.
    
    However, In the 1900 census for Winston Cty, AL (just SE of Franklin), there is also Richard M.'s uncle Richard M. RIVERS (qv.).  Only other RIVERS enumerated in Winston Cty in 1900 is Scynthia M., ,b.SC Oct 1823, mother-in-law in h/hold of Reubin and Scynthia J. (b. AL 1860) WADE (prob. John B.'s mother)

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