Evans, William G.
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Evans, William G.
| Celia Davis (View posts) | Posted: 7 Sep 1999 12:00PM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Evans, Rider, Riley, Sifrit
from reprint of “Clarke Co. History”, Lewis Pub., Chicago, 1886. p 6
WILLIAM G. EVANS, one of the pioneers of Clarke county, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, November 21, 1828, a son of Owen Evans, who was a native of Cambria County, Pennsylvania. He was reared and educated in the common schools of his native county, and has made farming the principal avocation of his life.
May 16, 1850, he was married to Elizabeth J. Rider, a native of New York State, and a daughter of William Rider, deceased. Of the six children born to this union five are yet living--Mitchel L., Marshall O., Mary E., Sarah C. and Lewis, all married but the last named. Mr. Evans located in Farmington, Iowa, in the fall of 1850, and in 1851 located in Appanoose County. In August, 1851, he came to Clarke county, and entered 160 acres of land in Washington Township, this being the third entry made in the township. In August, 1852, he removed his family to his land in Washington township, having at that time but 50 cents, an ox team and his 160 acres of timberland. He subsequently entered another tract of 200 acres of prairie land. When he first came to this county Mr. Evans found the inhabitants to be principally Indians. His first residence was a round log cabin with puncheon floor and clapboard roof, and his nearest neighbor lived in a rail pen, one and a half miles away. Ox teams were the usual modes of conveyance in those early days, and their journey to mill, forty miles distant, was made by the same way.
Mr. Evans was bereaved by the death of his wife, May 29, 1882. In October, 1883, he was again united in marriage to Mrs. Mary A. (Riley) Sifrit, of Martin County, Indiana, who had three children by her former husband--Delphia, Clyde A. and Carrie P. Since the war Mr. Evans has paid special attention to stock-raising. In the spring of 1881 he removed to Murray, where he was engaged in general merchandising one year, when he sold out and has since devoted his attention to the breeding of fine horses, in which he is meeting with success. He has on his farm two fine Clydesdale stallions. Clyde, sixteen and a half hands high, weighting 1,600 pounds, and Punch, sixteen hands in height, also weight 1,600 pounds. He still owns a good farm of 180 acres. Mr. Evans has been elected to hold various township and other local offices. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church.
WILLIAM G. EVANS, one of the pioneers of Clarke county, was born in Morrow County, Ohio, November 21, 1828, a son of Owen Evans, who was a native of Cambria County, Pennsylvania. He was reared and educated in the common schools of his native county, and has made farming the principal avocation of his life.
May 16, 1850, he was married to Elizabeth J. Rider, a native of New York State, and a daughter of William Rider, deceased. Of the six children born to this union five are yet living--Mitchel L., Marshall O., Mary E., Sarah C. and Lewis, all married but the last named. Mr. Evans located in Farmington, Iowa, in the fall of 1850, and in 1851 located in Appanoose County. In August, 1851, he came to Clarke county, and entered 160 acres of land in Washington Township, this being the third entry made in the township. In August, 1852, he removed his family to his land in Washington township, having at that time but 50 cents, an ox team and his 160 acres of timberland. He subsequently entered another tract of 200 acres of prairie land. When he first came to this county Mr. Evans found the inhabitants to be principally Indians. His first residence was a round log cabin with puncheon floor and clapboard roof, and his nearest neighbor lived in a rail pen, one and a half miles away. Ox teams were the usual modes of conveyance in those early days, and their journey to mill, forty miles distant, was made by the same way.
Mr. Evans was bereaved by the death of his wife, May 29, 1882. In October, 1883, he was again united in marriage to Mrs. Mary A. (Riley) Sifrit, of Martin County, Indiana, who had three children by her former husband--Delphia, Clyde A. and Carrie P. Since the war Mr. Evans has paid special attention to stock-raising. In the spring of 1881 he removed to Murray, where he was engaged in general merchandising one year, when he sold out and has since devoted his attention to the breeding of fine horses, in which he is meeting with success. He has on his farm two fine Clydesdale stallions. Clyde, sixteen and a half hands high, weighting 1,600 pounds, and Punch, sixteen hands in height, also weight 1,600 pounds. He still owns a good farm of 180 acres. Mr. Evans has been elected to hold various township and other local offices. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church.