Rives, Blanche Hardee, 1887-1973
Americans,
English,
Biographical notes:
Blanche Hardee Rives (1887-1973), daughter of James Washington Hardee and Anna O. Lucas, resided in Enfield, Halifax County, N.C. She attended the Littleton Female College (1906-1908), after which she taught in the Hardee School, a small school near the plantation of her father. She married Ralph Cooper Rives in 1942. Throughout her life she participated in Methodist Protestant (United Methodist Church after 1939) activities. Other organizations in which she was active were the Hardrawee Home Demonstration Club, the Halifax Co. Home Demonstration Club, Order of the Eastern Star, Halifax County Historical Association, Northeastern North Carolina Branch of the English-Speaking Union, Frank M. Parker Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Littleton College Memorial Association. Her son, Dr. Ralph Hardee Rives, is professor of English at East Carolina University.
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Subjects:
- Farm life
- Methodists
- Private schools
- Women
Occupations:
- Teachers
Places:
- NC, US
- North Carolina--Halifax County (as recorded)
- Congo (Democratic Republic) (as recorded)
- Halifax County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- North Carolina--Enfield (as recorded)
