Pacific Posts: Arnold's Story: September 18, 1944

Two letters from California arrive on September 18th, one from Arnold's sister Dolly and the other from their mother Hazel. Dolly is worried about being an "old maid" at age 22, and that reminds of something a Nevis cousin once said to me: "Nevises are slow to procreate". Bill Nevis was in nearly thirty when he married Hazel Wolfe; their son Arnold Nevis was thirty-one when he married Newlin Ashmore; their oldest son Leonard Nevis married his second wife Lucille Howard around age thirty-eight and started a family; their daughter Dolly did marry within a year or two of this letter; and their youngest daughter Laura Nevis married later in life as well.

Amelia Nevis Gomes is Bill's sister, so that her daughter Alice Gomes is Bill's niece as well as Dolly's cousin. I get the impression from these letters that Dolly is close to her Nevis cousins.

Bill Nevis had his tonsils removed only a month or two after his young daughter Laura did. Rally Day is apparently "Sabbath Rally Day", an event apparently involving the children of the church, or perhaps a special day to make offerings to their Sunday school.