Rivers family.
Biographical notes:
South Carolina family. John Elijah Rivers (1793-1850) was a plantation owner of James Island, S.C. His second wife was Sarah H. Rivers, and their children included Elias Lynch Rivers (1838-1911) and John Edward Rivers (1819-1878), a Charleston attorney. George Lamb Buist (1838-1907), a Charleston, S.C. attorney and South Carolina legislator, was related to the Rivers family through the marriage of his daughter Eliza Ingraham Buist to Moultrie Rutledge Rivers (their son was George Lamb Buist Rivers, 1896-1963).
From the description of Rivers family papers, 1825-1883. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 35916212
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