| Cousin Margaret Bevan
31 Cwmbath Road -1930 Morriston, Swansea 8 - 4 - 30 Glamorgan, Wales [1930] My dear Cousin John, I received your ever welcome letter but was extremely sorry to learn by it the loss you have sustained in the evening of your days by losing a good wife & helpmate. The parting is only temporary before a great reunion and I know your children will be all in all to you. It's very strange too in your letter you asked about Aunt Amelia's children and wanted to know how many survived. Only two, Mary & John and funny dear Mary, always glad to hear about you, sickened and died suddenly, end of March. She was older than I. She had been more sisterly or motherly to me than a cousin. So I will miss her terribly. I shall enclose a little account of her demise. On my mother's sampler which she worked when 19 years of age, she has worked a verse on it, about the grave. These are some of the words: "The appointed house by Heaven's decree will receive us all at last." Well, cousin John, my Son is beginning to get reconciled now, he felt it very much. I tell him sometimes if we could but fly & drop upon you, unawares. I don't tell him this; it would be a meeting! There would not be much left of you after the hugs and kisses. I often picture you with your violin that last evening here. As a young girl, I was very sensitive and emotional. I could not say Good-Bye to you. And when I came in from school you were missing and I felt it keenly. You and I have only two cousins alive now in Wales: Aunt Ruth's daughter, Mrs. Richard Evans and John Walters. With much love and fond remembrances and sympathy, I remain your ever loving cousin, Margaret Bevan [the rest of the letter got cut off when I xeroxed the original, but it was signed "Your ever loving cousin, Margaret Bevan"] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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