Martha Rivers1,2,3

Family Chart
ID# 16867, (1800 - 1827)
FatherCapt. Thomas Rivers4,5 (9 Jul 1757 - Oct 1827)
MotherElizabeth Edmunds Jones5 (10 Feb 1764 - )

Key Events:

Birth: 19 Feb 1800, Virginia6
Marriage: 12 Oct 1820, Malcom McNeill (18 Feb 1796 - 21 Feb 1875)7,8,9
Death: 5 Aug 18276

Copyright Notice

Narrative:

     Martha Rivers was born on 19 Feb 1800 in Virginia.6
     She moved to Montgomery Co., Tennessee with her parents about 1808, settling on Hopkinsville Pike about eight miles north of Clarksville.10,11
     The 1800 Virginia census, and the 1810 Montgomery Co., Tennessee, census, where she should have appeared in her father's household, have both been lost.
     She was probably the female age 16 to 26 listed in the household of her father in the 1820 Federal Census of Montgomery Co., Tennessee. The household also included one free colored male over age 45 and 29 slaves.12
     Martha married Malcom McNeill, son of Henry McNeill and Dorothy Pryor, on 12 Oct 1820.7,8,9
     Martha died on 5 Aug 1827 at age 27.6

Children:
     Children with Malcom McNeill:

Citations

  1. [S8718] Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, pg 237, shows name as Martha Rivers.
  2. [S74] Meriwether, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 67, shows name as Martha Rivers.
  3. [S3374] Boddie and Boddie, Boddie and Allied Families, pp 136, 166.
  4. [S74] Meriwether, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 67.
  5. [S3374] Boddie and Boddie, Boddie and Allied Families, pg 136.
  6. [S3374] Boddie and Boddie, Boddie and Allied Families, pg 166.
  7. [S3374] Boddie and Boddie, Boddie and Allied Families, pg 136, shows date, and her as his third wife.
  8. [S8718] Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, pg 237, shows as his third marriage.
  9. [S2665] Perrin, Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky, part I, pg 310, shows he had four wives, the second named Rivers.
  10. [S74] Meriwether, Meriwethers and Minors, pg 67, shows date as about 1808 or 10, and location.
  11. [S3374] Boddie and Boddie, Boddie and Allied Families, pg 165, shows moved about 1809, county, state, and location of residence.
  12. [S8976] Thos. Rivers household, 1820 U.S. Census, Montgomery Co., Tennessee.
  13. [S3372] Anderson, "some facts," e-mail to author, 31 Mar 2008, citing Bible located at "HempHill," Christian County, KY. compiled by Margaret Metcalf McNeill Ayers, Memphis, Tennessee.
  14. [S3374] Boddie and Boddie, Boddie and Allied Families, pg 137.
  15. [S8718] Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, pg 237.
  16. [S2705] Smith, Reported Deaths, The Nashville Christian Advocate, 1897-1899 vol, pg 50, citing 7 Jan 1888 issue, Martha Boddie notice.