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font-family:Verdana'>, farmer, Banks county, Ga., (postoffice, Gillsville, Hall county), son of David and Mary(Toney) Evans, was born in Jackson county, Ga., in 1833.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>His paternal grandparent, John Evans, was a native of North Carolina, migrated to Georgia in 1800, and settled in Franklin county.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>He was a farmer and served as a soldier in the patriot army during the revolutionary war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>Mr. Evans' father was born in North Carolina and was a small child only a year or two old when the family came to Georgia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>He followed farming all his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>His mother was a daughter of John and Nancy Toney, early settlers in Franklin county.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>He served as a wagoner during the revolutionary war .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>ýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿ </span>Mr. Evans was raised on the farm and received a very limited education at the old-time log school-house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>On reaching manhood he commenced farming and continued it until the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>In 1862 he enlisted in Company E, Capt. A.T. Bennett, Thirty-fourth Georgia regiment, and participated with it in all it's campaigns and battles until the Vicksburg campaign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>In that he was very severely wounded and had to use crutches eighteen months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>When he came home from the war he was very poor and had to borrow meal for his family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>But he bravely met the emergency, went to work earnestly, worked early and late and saved what money he could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>In 1872 he bought his first &quot;patch&quot;, to which he has gradually added until he owns 650 acres; is in comfortable circumstances and is regarded as one of the most reliable citizens of the county. He is a justice of the peace and has held the office very many years.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'>ýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿýÿ </span>Mr. Evans was married in 1860 to Miss Mary A(born in Mississippi in 1845), daughter of James and Saltania(Brooks)Bell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>He was born in Hall county, was a well-to-do farmer and moved to Mississippi, where he died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>Of the children which blessed this union three survive; Erastus P., James and Sandy F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">ýÿ </span>Mr. and Mrs. Evans are devoted members of the Baptist church.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'>Source: Memoirs of Georgia, Volume I, Southern Historical <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'>Association, 1895<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'><![if !supportEmptyParas]>&nbsp;<![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Verdana'>Copy and Copyright 2003 by Jacqueline King</span><o:p></o:p></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><o:p>BACKGROUND BY DONNA BRAND</o:p></font></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS"><o:p><img src="Images/logorhio2.gif" width="85" height="68"></o:p></font></b></p> </div> </body> </html>