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Husband: Colonel John Evans
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Born: December 9, 1737 - Loudoun County Virginia
Baptized:
Died: May 18, 1834 - Monongalia County Virginia
Buried:
Father: John Evans (1705-1747)
Mother: Margaret ( - )
Marriage: February 8, 1761 Place: Alexandria Virginia
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Wife: Rebecca Martin
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Born: April 11, 1738 - Loudoun County Virginia
Baptized:
Died: November 11, 1827 - Monongalia County Virginia
Buried:
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Children
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1 F Margaret Evans
Born: December 7, 1763 - Loudoun County Virginia
Baptized:
Died: November 23, 1851 - Dent's Run,Monongalia County Virginia
Buried: November 26, 1851 - Old Zoar Cemetery,Monongalia County Virginia
Spouse: Captain John Dent (1755-1840)
Marr. Date: June 13, 1780 - Charles County Maryland
Spouse:
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2 M Dudley Evans
Born: March 30, 1766 - Loudoun County Virginia
Baptized:
Died: March 4, 1844 - Monongalia County Virginia
Buried:
Spouse: Anarah Williams ( - )
Marr. Date: March 24, 1787 - Monongalia County Virginia
Spouse:
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3 M Captain John W Evans
Born: July 31, 1768 - Cumberland Virginia
Baptized:
Died: May 19, 1849 - Monongalia County Virginia
Buried:
Spouse: Gilly Strother ( - )
Marr. Date: November 20, 1800 - Culpeper County Virginia
Spouse:
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4 M Nimrod Evans
Born: July 31, 1770 - Augusta County Virginia
Baptized:
Died: February 27, 1828 - Monongalia County Virginia
Buried:
Spouse: Eliza French Strother ( - )
Marr. Date: December 29, 1801 - Monongalia County Virginia
Spouse:
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5 M Enoch Evans
Born: April 23, 1773 - Augusta County Virginia
Baptized:
Died: 1844 - Missouri
Buried:
Spouse: Mary Jenkins ( - )
Marr. Date: November 21, 1807 - Monongalia County Virginia
Spouse:
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6 M Rawley Evans
Born: December 29, 1777 - Monongalia County Virginia
Baptized:
Died: May 15, 1859 - Monongalia County Virginia
Buried:
Spouse: Maria Dering ( - )
Marr. Date: January 10, 1805 - Monongalia County Virginia
Spouse:
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7 M James Evans
Born: April 30, 1782 - Monongalia County Virginia
Baptized:
Died: March 9, 1870 - Monongalia County West Virginia
Buried:
Spouse: Nancy Buckner ( - )
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8 M Marmaduke Evans
Born: September 7, 1784 - Monongalia County Virginia
Baptized:
Died: April 10, 1816 - Monongalia County Virginia
Buried:
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9 F Dorcas Jane Evans
Born: 1785 - Monongalia County Virginia
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10 M Coleman Evans
Born: 1785 - Monongalia County Virginia
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General Notes (Husband)
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Col. John Evans: Applied for a Pension February 15,1833, at which time he
was 96 years old, and was residing in Monongalia County, Virginia. His
Pension was allowed for six months actual service as a Lt. Colonel in the
Virginia troops, Revolutionary War. Enlisted from Virginia. Part of the
time
he served under General Lachlan McIntosh and part of the time
underGeneral
George Washington. He was County Lieutenant of Monongalia County from1780
until 1789. He was also a member of the Convention of 1776. He was a
Delegate to the General Assembly of Virginia from Monongalia County in
the
session of 1790, 1791, 1794, 1795, 1797-8, and 1798-9.

Note: Colonel John Evans who married (Rebecca) Ann Martin, is first
encountered, in record of his daughter Margaret Evans b. December 7, 1763
who married Captain John Dent born January 20, 1757. Their son Enoch Dent
born March 21, 1796, married Judith Gapen born August 1, 1799, daughter
of
Stephen Gapen b. May 29, 1761 and Sarah Scott born March 5, 1774.

John Evans, Jr's. Bible states that Col. John Evans was born in Loudoun
County, Virginia on December 9, 1737 and died May 18, 1834 in West
Virginia
(Monongalia Co., VA = West Virginia 1863)

Evans Family In Wales-Unknown author: From History of Monongalia County,
S.T. Wiley, 1883, we takethe following, "In February 1752 the House of
Burgesses in Virginia offered any Protestant who would settle in Augusta
County, west of the Ridge, in the waters of the Mississippi, ten-years
exemption from public, county, and parish levies. In November 1753 the
exemption was extended to fifteen years, ending in1769. Braddock's Defeat
in 1755 stopped settling until 1763." It is doubtlessthis offer that led
John Evans to choose a home in the new county of Augustabut he was a
pioneer by nature and the tame routine of life in old Fairfax County
offered
little attraction to a man of his mold. He sought too a future uponthe
lovely Monongahela River. Wiley in his History of Monongalia County,
above
quoted gives these details: "Between 1762 and 1764, braving the dangers
incident to such an expedition, he crosses the mountains and secured a
tomahawkright by hacking the outlines of a fertile tract of land on the
Eastern side of the Monongahela River, about a mile north of the mouth of
Deckers Creek. Intheyear following, he again visited his land and built a
cabin and made an improvement on it. In the following year (1766) he
started
from his home in Loudon County with his family, consisting of his
mother,his
wife, two children, and afamily of negroes, intending to take them to the
new home he had preparedfor them West of the Alleghenies. Learning that
the
Indians still made occasional invasions into Northwest Virginia, he left
his
family at Fort Cumberland (now Cumberland, MD) where they remained until
1769, and where his son John was born. Col. John Evans, in the meantime
occasionally visited his new home.

"Col. John Evans' natural ability and education soon made him a prominent
manin the County, and caused him to be selected to fill positions of
trust
and responsibility. he provided for his sons even in this frontier
settlement the opportunity for a liberal education. His family was
composed
of seven sons and one daughter. His sons as well as himself were all fine
penmen, as the recordsof theCounty will show of most of them, and they
were otherwise qualified totransact business, and made useful and
prominent
citizens. The stockade was built around the cabin, the ready rifle hung
over
the door, brave hearts and willing hands planted and reaped their scanty
harvests, and strangest of all a strong love for the new home despite its
isolation and its dangers, grew day byday in their hearts. Space does not
allow any minute recital of their life ortheir many hair-breadth escapes
by
food and field. There were the usual fortsbuilt in the Settlement as a
refuge in case of

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