SARAH F. RIVES, born Feb. 28, 1842, married Charles B. Metcalf, May 2, 1859 at Petersburg, Tennessee.CHARLES B. METCALF, son of Barnett and Lettia Metcalfe, born Dec. 11, 1836 at Fayetteville, Tennessee, and died at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, June 1896.

He served in the Confederate Army as 1st Corporal, Company (B) , Eighth Tennessee Regiment, Infantry.

Issue of Sarah and Charles Metcalf:

(1) Charles B. Endsley, infant son died January 27, 1889, Malden, Missouri.
(2) Curtis Endsley, born Malden, Missouri, April 17, 1890, died Jan. 3, 1893.

Kate H. Metcalfe, born October 8, 1867, Petersburg, Tenn. Married C. E. McGee, Sept. 28, 1890, died July 29, 1896—no children.

Sallie Birdie Metcalfe, born May 2, 1871, Petersburg, Tenn. Married Aug. 4, 1889, Green N. Davis, son of Robert Washington and Susan Green.Sallie B. (Metcalfe) Davis and her husband lived in Poplar Bluff, Mo., for over 50 years.

His son, Henry Daniel Rives, furnished the following: James Dand- ridge was attending college at Lynchburg, Virginia. He was seventeen. He and the majority of the student body at Lynchburg withdrew from their classes and all joined the Army; some the Confederate Army and some the Union Army. He traveled overland, back to Tennessee, making speeches as he went,  arousing the young, advising them to join the Confederate Army. Also, arriving in Tennessee he volunteered his services and joined the Confederate Army, enlisting in Company E, First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers, and was immediately sent to Virginia; was mustered into Robert E. Lee's Division, Stonewall Jackson's Brigade. At the close of the war he was mustered out at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, when Lee surrendered."

According to the Archives and History, Nashville, Tennessee, "James D. Rives served as a private in Company E, First Tenn. Infantry (Turney's) ." His life was spent in middle Tennessee as a public school teacher and a Baptist preacher. He was a teacher of unusual ability and, like other members of the family, a forceful and eloquent public speaker.

(2) Darlyne Delores Clark, born Nov.1, 1928, m. William Nevills Seawell, Nov. 4, 1949. Resides at 238 Fox Run, Candlebrook, Bridgeport, Penn. Issue: Matthew William Seawell, born April 28, 1954. Lucinda Lee Seawell, born April 20, 1956.

Morris Sheppard (Carlisle) Clark, married second, A. Edwin Moberly, Sept. 2, 1949. Resides at 1831. Naylor Dallas 28, Texas. (She has been most helpful in furnishing record of her mothers family.)

HENRY DANIEL, born March 8, 1867, at Lincoln County, Tenn.; married Ida Carleton, April 1, 1896, at McGee in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) ; she was the daughter of Joe Bratton Carleton and his wife, Sue Moses, who lived at Eastland, Texas, and McGee, Indian Territory.
 

JOE BRATTON RIVES, lives at 1211 So. Florence, Tulsa 4, Oklahoma, born February 28, 1897, at McGee, Indian Territory, County of Pontotoc, Oklahoma. Early education was Frisco Elementary School and Holdenville High School, both in Oklahoma. Attended Central State College and East Central College, with B. S. degree, in 1927; M. A. degree Oklahoma University, 1937, and A. & M. College, 1941-42; did special work in Industrial Arts at University of Tulsa and A. & M. College. Teaching in Elementary Schools o f Oklahoma, 1921 to 1927; Superintendent of Schools 1927 to 1943, and Industrial Arts Teacher in Tulsa 1943 to date. A member of the Oklahoma Educational Association and Tulsa class room teachers. A Democrat in Politics and Baptist Church member. Teacher of Men's Adult Class, ordained Baptist Minister and does supply for churches; a Master Mason, Member of Merrimack Lodge No. 517 AF&AM, Merrimack, Oklahoma. Initiated Nov. 13, 1932, passed Dec. 13, 1932 and raised Jan. 10, 1933. Is Past Master of his lodge. Married Cecile Meda Kessee, July 25, 1924, at Ada, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Montie Allen Kessee and his wife, Lillie May Keeling, who lived at Lead Hill, Ark., and Wewoka, Oklahoma. Cecile Rives has a degree and is a Tulsa County school teacher. Joe Bratton was Second Class Seaman in the Navy during World War I. Issue of Joe Bratton and Cecile (Kessee) Rives:

I. James Allen Rives, son of Joe. B. Rives, born August 29, 1936, at Cushing, Okla.; finished High School at Tulsa, 1954. Received B. S. degree at Tulsa University in 1957. Made Eagle Rank in Scouting; Majored in College in Music; plays several instruments in Church Choir and active in Sunday School and Church program.

HARDAWAY CABELL RIVES, son of Henry D. Rives, born June 10, 1900, in State of Arkansas; died August, 1931, at Stonewall, Okla. Was never married. He was a Poultryman by profession, a Democrat in Politics, and a member of the Methodist Church.

PAULINE NANNA, born March 29, 1909; mar ried Lee Freeny, December 26, 1933, in Oklahoma City. He was the son of Reuben Freeny and his wife, Martha Layton Freeny, of Bromide, Oklahoma. Reuban Freeny was the son of Robert Freeny and Elizabeth Ellis Freeny of Mississippi. They came west with the removal of the Choctaw Indians from Mississippi, and settled at Boggy Depot, Indian Territory. The Freenys were all Ranchers. Pauline Nana Rives Freeny's early education was at Frisco, Okla., and Stonewall, Okla.; college education as B. S. degree in East Central State College, Ada, Okla., and M. A. degree of Tulsa University. A member of Greek Sorority, Kappa Delta Pi. Received the B. S. degree in 1937 and M. A. degree in 1946. At the end of the school year 1955-56 she had taught thirty years; 17 years in Oklahoma Consolidated schools, one year Assistant Supervisor at Horace Mann Training School, at Ada, Okla.; twelve years in Tulsa, Okla., public schools. She has been very active in educational movements and legislation for same, and has done extensive work in the Tulsa Reading Clinic. She is the Secretary-Treasurer and a Board Member of the Tulsa Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, and also an officer in the Oklahoma Reading Council; a Democrat in Politics, a Baptist in Religion: Teacher of Sunday School, Training Unions and Religious Training Courses. She has written several articles in the field of education that were printed in County, State and National papers and magazines. Pauline Nanna Rives Freeny and Lee Freeny had only one child, a daughter: (Pauline Nanna Rives was the daughter of Henry D. Rives.)

(1) Martha Ann Freeny, born Oct. 3, 1934, married Lon Michael Pickens May 21, 1955, and  lives at 1228 So. Florence Place, Tulsa, Okla. Elementary School record shows an I. Q. of 161. She graduated from Central High School, Tulsa at the age of 15 and was rated the second best student in a class of 888. (The Tulsa Daily World, Friday, May 22, 1953 stated: "Coed Genius at 18 Due T. U. degree.") She was the youngest to ever graduate from Tulsa University. She won a scholarship at Tulsa University and received her A. B. degree at the age of 18. She has worked for the Producers Pipe & Supply Co., of Tulsa, Okla., for the past three years. She is a member of the Kappa Delta Pi Sorority.

JAMES DANDRIDGE RIVES, JR.

James Dandridge Rives, Jr., was born at Hollow Rock, Tennessee, September 12, 1871; son of Rev. James Dandridge Rives, Sr., d. May 12, 1946. He was educated in the Common Schools of Tennessee and was graduated from Terrell College, Dec her d, Tenn., June 16, 1898. For several years he was a teacher in schools and colleges in Tennessee. Later, he made his home at Holdenville, Oklahoma, where he was active in Democratic Politics, having served on various State and County Committees and as Mayor of Holdenville 1918-1925. He married January 1, 1901, Mattie Avant, adopted daughter of Dr. Alvin and Addie Avant of Smithville, Tennessee, by whom they had issue:

JACK STONE RIVES, SR.

Jack Stone Rives, born April 2, 1876, at Delina, Tenn., son of James Dandridge, Sr. He was educated in the Common Schools of Tenn., and Terrell College at Winchester, Tenn., graduated B. A. 1898: also Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas: University of Texas, Austin, Texas; University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Tenn. Be was the public school administrator. Member of Odd Fellows, W.O.W. and K, of P., member of Elk Lodge and the revived Ku Klux Klan; married Annie Williams, June 7, 1904, at Dallas, Texas; she was the daughter of Venus Houston Williams and his wife, Sarah L, Hays, who lived in Alvarado, Texas; Venus Houston Williams was the son of Lankton Pace Williams of Summer Shade, Kentucky, whose grandfather settled in Kentucky in1800, a descendant of Roger Williams of Rhode Island. Sarah Lou Hays was the daughter of James A. Hays and Julia Ann Harland of the well-known Harland family of Kentucky. Began career in 1898 in Smithville, Tennessee; came to Texas in 1903 as principal of Alvarado High School; also, Jacksonville, Austin, Abiline, Throckmorton, and Sweetwater, Texas and devoted remainder of his career to Texas Public School System. Ordained as minister of the Christian Church 1925 at Jacksonville, Texas; devoted spare time to Church, and in 1947, after retirement from public school service, became full time District Evangelist at Jacksonville, Texas; to Elder for Life of First Christian Church of Jacksonville, Texas. He died November 7th, 1956, at Jacksonville, Texas. Issue: