My name is Ben Reavis and I know how all my family have always pronounced it. I recently met a descendant of James Blount Reavis and he pronounced it the same as I did. We haven't connected James to the rest of our Reavis line as shown in the Reavis book. According to Elmo Reavis, everybody he met while reseaching Reavis history pronounced it the same, from NC to Ca. Ben (crevics) Reavis