Clovis Dempsey Rivers~Spanish-American War Veteran

Clovis Dempsey Rivers

b. 12 February 1867

d. 27 Mar 1953

Spanish-American War Veteran

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Clovis Dempsey Rivers was born 12 February 1867 in Ft. Deposit, Lowndes, Alabama, a son of John Wesley Rivers and Eliza Jane Thurman. He was a grandson of Dempsey Rivers, born 13 December 1797 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina. His grandfather, Dempsey migrated with his brother Michael to Chattooga County, Georgia in the early 1830’s. ¹
The Spanish-American War broke out on April 25, 1898. War was declared against Spain for the sinking Battleship Maine in Havana harbor. Clovis joined the military enlisting into the U. S. Army. He was assigned to Company C, 2nd Regiment, Texas Volunteer Infantry. The war ended without him seeing any action and he returned to his farm in Texas where he was discharged from the military. ²



“Colonel Rivers up to the age of nineteen lived at home, did farm work and attended the public schools. He then took up the study of law under Judge John and Col. J. D. Taylor of Summerville,and in 1880 was admitted to practice by Hon. John W. Maddox, judge of the Superior Court of the Rome circuit. As a lawyer he began his work in Summerville and remained there until 1890. In that year he moved out to Texas and did a law practice at Hempstead from 1894 until 1898. Colonel Rivers in 1898 enlisted in Company C of the Second Texas Volunteer Infantry for service in the Spanish American war, and at the termination of his term of enlistment he returned to Texas and took up farming in the southeastern part of that state in Newton County”.³

Clovis Dempsey Rivers never married. He died on 27 March 1953 in Chattooga County, Georgia. ⁴












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[1] Knight, Lucian Lamar. (2013). pp. 369-70. A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians (Vol. 4). London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1917)
[2] Texas State Library and Archives Commission, "Spanish American War Rolls," database, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 14 April 2016), Clovis G. RIVERS; citing Texas, Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900; Enlistment Date: 3 May 1898.
[3]  Knight, Lucian Lamar. (2013). pp. 369-70. A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians (Vol. 4). London: Forgotten Books. (Original work published 1917)
[4] Indexes of Vital Records for Georgia: Deaths, 1919-1998, Images. Ancestry, (https://www.ancestry.com: 3 March 2013), State of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, Clovis D. RIVERS; Certificate number 8094, 27 March 1953.