T. Bibb Rivers' full name was Thomas Bibb Rivers. He was the son of William Stratton Jones Rivers, and his wife Sarah "Sallie" Dandridge Nickels Rivers. He was a river boat engineer. At the time of his death he was living in Wewahitchka FL (Calhoun, now Gulf County).
From "Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928", by Edward A. Mueller, (Eufaula AL: Historic Chattahoochee Commission), 1990, pp. 203-204:
"In mid-March [1901], the J. W. HIRES was the scene of a homicide. A Negro deckhand, Theo Jackson, killed the engineer, T. B. Rivers...
"Rivers' body was found a month later near Pitts Landing, 30 miles below the place where he went overboard and seven miles below Eufaula. The body was brought to Columbus and placed in a casket, purchased by the Federation of Marine Officers Association to which he belonged, and later interred at his home in Wewahitchka, Florida."
From "Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928", by Edward A. Mueller, (Eufaula AL: Historic Chattahoochee Commission), 1990, pp. 203-204:
"In mid-March [1901], the J. W. HIRES was the scene of a homicide. A Negro deckhand, Theo Jackson, killed the engineer, T. B. Rivers...
"Rivers' body was found a month later near Pitts Landing, 30 miles below the place where he went overboard and seven miles below Eufaula. The body was brought to Columbus and placed in a casket, purchased by the Federation of Marine Officers Association to which he belonged, and later interred at his home in Wewahitchka, Florida."
T. Bibb Rivers' full name was Thomas Bibb Rivers. He was the son of William Stratton Jones Rivers, and his wife Sarah "Sallie" Dandridge Nickels Rivers. He was a river boat engineer. At the time of his death he was living in Wewahitchka FL (Calhoun, now Gulf County).
From "Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928", by Edward A. Mueller, (Eufaula AL: Historic Chattahoochee Commission), 1990, pp. 203-204:
"In mid-March [1901], the J. W. HIRES was the scene of a homicide. A Negro deckhand, Theo Jackson, killed the engineer, T. B. Rivers...
"Rivers' body was found a month later near Pitts Landing, 30 miles below the place where he went overboard and seven miles below Eufaula. The body was brought to Columbus and placed in a casket, purchased by the Federation of Marine Officers Association to which he belonged, and later interred at his home in Wewahitchka, Florida."
From "Perilous Journeys: A History of Steamboating on the Chattahoochee, Apalachicola, and Flint Rivers, 1828-1928", by Edward A. Mueller, (Eufaula AL: Historic Chattahoochee Commission), 1990, pp. 203-204:
"In mid-March [1901], the J. W. HIRES was the scene of a homicide. A Negro deckhand, Theo Jackson, killed the engineer, T. B. Rivers...
"Rivers' body was found a month later near Pitts Landing, 30 miles below the place where he went overboard and seven miles below Eufaula. The body was brought to Columbus and placed in a casket, purchased by the Federation of Marine Officers Association to which he belonged, and later interred at his home in Wewahitchka, Florida."
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