sentences:  Amélie Louise Rives was born in 1863 in Richmond, Virginia to Alfred L. Rives, an engineer, and the former Sadie MacMurdo.She was named after her aunt, Amélie, a goddaughter of French Queen Marie-Amélie.She was a goddaughter of Robert E. Lee and a granddaughter of the engineer and Senator William Cabell Rives, Minister Plenipotentiary to France in the early part of the 19th century.