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Gwendolen Ella <I>Armstrong</I> Rives

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Gwendolen Ella Armstrong Rives

Birth
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Death
23 Oct 1972 (aged 61)
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Burial
Albemarle County, Virginia, USA GPS-Latitude: 38.0724641, Longitude: -78.4756033
Plot
Garden Beside The Church
Memorial ID
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Philanthropist, Heiress, Preservationist, she was the widow of Anthony B. Rives. Mrs. Rives made her home in Kingscote, the mansion on Bellevue Avenue in which she was born. She was a director of the Preservation Society of Newport County, the Redwood Library and Atheneum, the Newport Historical Society, the Newport Public Library and Operation Clapboard, which restores pre‐Revolutionary houses.
Philanthropist, Heiress, Preservationist, she was the widow of Anthony B. Rives. Mrs. Rives made her home in Kingscote, the mansion on Bellevue Avenue in which she was born. She was a director of the Preservation Society of Newport County, the Redwood Library and Atheneum, the Newport Historical Society, the Newport Public Library and Operation Clapboard, which restores pre‐Revolutionary houses.

Gravesite Details

Moved from Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cismont, Va in 1980



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