When Raymond/Ray Elbert/Robert Nevius aka Nevins was born on October 24, 1887, in Enterprise, Oregon, his father, Elbert Wilberforce Nevius and his mother, Samantha Rosetta Smith. He married Bernice Marjory Warner and they had two children together. He then married Maybelle/Mabel/May Helen Schwiers and they had 11 children together. He died on July 18, 1946, in Roseburg, Oregon, at the age of 58, and was buried in Roseburg Memorial Gardens, Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon.
Research Notes
This is where he is known as Robert R Nevins.
He was born as Raymond Elbert Nevius. In 1924 when married to Maybelle Helen Schwiers (2nd wife), he changed his name to Raymond Robert Nevins per Marriage License, 4 Jun 1924.
The Certification from State of California, Marriage License, states Maybelle Helen Schwiers, marries Raymond Robert Nevins. Marriage Maybelle/Mabel/May Helen Schwiers (1904–1989) 5 Jun 1924 • Fairfield, Solano, California, USA
Sources
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115816348/robert-nevins: accessed 18 December 2022), memorial page for Robert Nevins (Oct 1887–18 Jul 1946), Find A Grave: Memorial #115816348, citing Roseburg Memorial Gardens, Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon, USA; Maintained by Whitfield (contributor 47786265).
"Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZW3-WBW : 11 December 2014), Raymond R Nevins, 18 Jul 1946; from "Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2000); citing Douglas, Oregon, certificate number 4726, Oregon State Archives and Records Center, Salem.
"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6ZP-ZRR : 24 December 2021), Raymond Elbert Nevius, 1917-1918.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCX8-9BH : accessed 18 December 2022), Robert Nevins, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 177, sheet 34A, line 19, family 31, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 107; FHL microfilm 2,339,842.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K98J-VXK : 6 January 2021), Robert Nevins, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 38-123, sheet 6B, line 42, family 132, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 302.
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