Bivens, Biven, Bivins, of NC, TX., AR, etc.
How many ways can you spell it? There must be many, because in searching for our family ancestors they were spelled so many ways.
John William Bivens married Lorena Moore in Fannin, Co. Tx, 1858. He was 25 and had come to Tx. with maybe the Moores and his mother. We don't know her name, but stories were they came by covered wagon from NC after the Civil War.