Bettie Ellis Scyster
Wife of
J.M. Rives
Born Dec. 23, 1883
Died Jan. 27, 1912
Rives
Wife of
J.M. Rives
Born Dec. 23, 1883
Died Jan. 27, 1912
Rives
Buried Smithland Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 9 July 2010.
The obituary of Bettie Ellis Rives was published in the Paducah News-Democrat and reprinted in the Crittenden Record-Press 1 February 1912. It gives the following information: "Mrs. Jordan Rives died this morning at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.D. Scyster. She resided in Christian Co., but had been ill at the home of her parents of septic fever. She leaves her husband and a two weeks old baby."
The death certificate of Bettie Ellis Scyster Rives identifies her parents as George D. Scyster and Maggie Ellis, both born in Kentucky.
Published 27 December 2011, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/
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