Philip Andrew Rivers and Lucile Julia Shook were married in Collins County Texas on 5 Sep 1915. Philip Andrew Rivers was born 13 Sept 1890, a son of William Isaac James Rivers and Eliza Delaney McDonough, William Isaac James Rivers grew up in Chesterfield County, South Carolina but moved to Collins County, Texas sometime before 1880.
Lucile Julia Shook was borne 9 April 1892 a daughter of Baird Donald Shook and Malinda Catherine Warden.
Their first borne child, Leonard P. Rivers, arrived in October 1916. They would have four additional children; 3 daughters and another son.
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SPIDER BITE FATAL.
Chamberville Lad Picking Cotton Is Bitten by Poisonous Insect.
McKinney, Tex., Sept 10 -- Little Leonard Rivers, four years and eleven months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Rivers, who resides at Chamberville, ten miles north of McKinney, had his mother to make him a little cotton sack so he could go to the field and help :daddy pick cotton.
The little fellow remained in the field for a few hours and then returned to his home with a few pounds of cotton in his sack and said to his mother: "Oh, mother, see what [where] a funny old bug bit me. I brought it for you to see." The bug proved to be a poisonous spider and a physician was called. The poison had gotten in its work and after hours of suffering he died.
The San Antonio Light; September 11, 1921; Page 4-A
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1. Obituary courtesy of Theresa Cloud Dancer Buchanan
2. "SPIDER BITE FATAL.," death notice, San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, September 11, 1921, Page 4A , Chamberville Lad Picking Cotton Is Bitten by Poisonous Insect.
3. Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave, database and digital images, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed January 2024); Memorial page for Leonard Philip Rivers; (October 1916–1 September 1921); Find a Grave memorial # 6490875, Citing Chambersville Cemetery; Chambersville, Collin County, Texas, USA.
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