Thomas Edward BEVAN was born in Clayville, Oneida County, New York, 30 January 1854. He was the son of Edward and Phoebe (Jones) Bevan.

Edward, the father, a native of Wales, was born 1830. His wife, Phoebe, was born in Illinois, also to Welsh parents. At age fifteen, Edward, was apprenticed to a blacksmith. In 1849 he came to the US with his brother, and in 1861 emigrated to California, via Panama, locating in Nicolaus, Sutter County, where he ran a blacksmith shop until 1873. That year he moved his business to Wheatland, Yuba County, and continued to work at his trade until he died, 1 July 1893. Two other children were born to Edward and Phoebe: Charles, who died in 1887, and Nellie, born 1864 in California and died at age fifteen.

Phoebe left New York on the steamer 'Golden Gate' on February 1, 1862 with her sons to join Edward in California. They arrived in San Francisco 4 March 1862. They arrived in Nicolaus on 7 March, after taking a steamer up the Sacramento and Feather Rivers.

Thomas E. Bevan attended school in Nicolaus, then learned the blacksmith business from his father. In 1871 Bevan accompanied McNamara and Brewer overland through Nevada, Utah, and Idaho to Montana with a herd of 486 horses, starting on 1 May 1871, and arriving in Helena, 27 August 1871, where the band was sold to Travers Bros., stage operators.

Edward moved his family and the blacksmith shop to Wheatland in Yuba County in 1873, and Thomas continued for a time to work there for his father. Thomas graduated from Heald's Business College in San Francisco 17 May 1875, and returned to Wheatland where he became salesman and bookkeeper for the Towle Lumber Company, remaining with them for twelve years. During this interval he served as city marshal of Wheatland in 1877-1878, and as constable in 1873.

Thomas Bevan married Sarah Ann Shields of Mendocino County in 1877. Five children were born to them, but all of them died in childhood, and Sarah, too, died in 1886 at age 27. During the period of his first marriage, Thomas, in addition to his work at the lumber company, was also deputy sheriff and for one term served as mayor of Wheatland.

In 1888, Bevan married Cameron May Mauzey, of Missouri, and they also had five children, two who survived childhood.
Phoebe J. Bevan, was born 11 Sep 1887 married a man named Murray and died 1 Feb 1970 in Marysville. Eleanor E. Bevan, born 29 Jun 1893, during the 1920s was a nurse at St. Francis Hospital, San Francisco, she married Joseph Daneri, and died in San Francisco, 14 Nov 1967.

In 1889, Thomas Bevan moved to Marysville to continue his public career. He was under-sheriff for four years, then deputy assessor for two years; and in 1894 he was elected to the office of county assessor for Yuba County, and served eight consecutive terms.

I have been unable to determine the date of Thomas Bevan's death, but believe it was 6 Jan 1929.