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Jane Meriwether "Jennie" Rivers

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• • Grandmother of Richard Byrd — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 5 
  • Father:
  • Robert Jones Rivers 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Cheatham   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Sep 1840 
  • Birth Location:
  • Tennessee 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Mar 1930 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Byrd
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Sep 1859 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Travis, Falls, Texas 
  • Child:

  Richard Evelyn Byrd (Ahnentafel No:2 )

• Sources for Jane Meriwether "Jennie" Rivers

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A052112.
  • ² Federal Census, TX, Colorado County, 1850, Colorado Subdivision, p. 6.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/10/2014).
  • ⁴ Texas Marriages, 1837-1973, Marriage record for William Byrd and Jennie Rivers.
  • ⁵ Bassett, John Spencer, ed., The Writings of "Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia Esqr.", New York: Doubleday, Page and Co. (1901), 451.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.", _Sr., (accessed 01/10/2014).