Charlene, GREEN RIVES is called "the founder" of Collirine" under PIONEERS OF LOWNDES in the book, LOWNDES COURT HOUSE (the early name of Hayneville) by Mildred Brewer Russell. The only other mention of him in the index is under LETTERS REMAINING IN THE HAYNEVILLE POST OFFICE OCT 1, 1841. There are three TRAYLORS listed in the index: JOHN G. TRAYLOR, LOUISIANA E. TRAYLOR and MARGARET A. TRAYLOR. JOHN G. TRAYLOR, apparently was married to MARY CALLAWAY 17 Nov 1836 by D. Moore. Carole In a message dated 1/5/02 8:01:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, ALLOWNDE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > : "Charlene P" <charlenp@ih2000.net> > To: ALLOWNDE-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <00f501c19552$9e17c7a0$6d85ffcc@canxascom> > Subject: [ALLOWNDE] Rives/Traylor family in Collirene > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > I am new to the list. My husband is descended from a Rives family from > Collirene in Lowndes County. The Rives came to the area from SC in the > late > 1830s. His gg-grandfather was Green Rives. Green had a brother named > Robert > Rives. > What I am actually trying to find is a copy of a diary kept by an overseer > for the Rives family. His last name was Traylor. He kept his diary in the > late 1830s. My mother-in-law had a copy of it; unfortunately, she is quite > elderly and in ill health and cannot help us locate her copy. I believe > she > received it from a lady named Rosa Traylor in Collirene in about 1979. > Does > anyone know anything about this family or the diary? > Any info would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks in advance, > Charlene Patton >