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| Birth: | 16 Jun 1879 in Unaka, Cherokee, NC |
| Death: | 18 Sep 1932 in Tellico Plains, Monroe, TN |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | John Bayles Evans b. 10 Feb 1846 in Monroe Co, TN |
| Mother: | Sarah Etta Moore b. 15 Nov 1847 in Cherokee, NC |
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Individual:
The Highlanders
from "Our Heritage: The People of Cherokee, North Carolina"
Chapter 4
The Highlanders
WHO WERE THE NATIVES - It is indeed hard to know who were the natives an d who were the pioneers of Western North Carolina. There was the red man who held dominion over the land for centuries. Then whites came to the country. These were teh Spanish who came for a time. Then last there is the coming of the Highlander. Who were these people, and from whence did they come? Much has been written about the mountain people and much of it has been wrong. Many have lived in theis land - the red man, the miners, the traders and the scientist. But they are not out ancestors. They are not our heritage. No, the traders, the hunters, the scientist, the travelers, did not settle our mountains. Our heritage is the best blood of the world. It is Scotch, Irish, English and Dutch, but mostly Scotch. Our heritage comes from the land where the sun never sets on the possesions - England. Our heritage comes from that country with its inborn love of land - Ireland. But mostly our heritage comes from Scotland, a land of warriors and patriots; a land that loved country and liberty; a land of Robert Bruce and William Wallace; a land of legend, heraldry and pagenatry. In fact so many of the Scotch and Scotch-Irish came to the North Carolina mountains they have given the dominant note to the character of the mountain country.
WHY THEY CAME - The people who settled our country had left the Old Worl d and their homeland in search of freedom. They had left because of political and religious persecution. They were hunting liberty in a country where there was individual and religious freedom. They did not tarry lond intheir orifinal settlements, but pushed south or westard in the mountain country - which was like their homeland. They were brave, God fearing people. Their love of country and liberty is evidence that in two of our nations's great wars our mountain men were credited with truning the tide. The battle of King's Mountain, and the Thirtieth Division is credited with breaking the Hindenburg Line in World War I.
WHERE THEY CAME FROM - In 1830 the pioneers began coming to Cherokee Coun ty. The majority came from adjoining or near counties - Wilkes, Caldwell, Buncombe and Macon. Some few came crom Pennsylvania, Virginia and Tennessee. They came by families and by groups. They came on foot, on horseback, and sleds, and later ones by covered wagons; traveling by day and camping by night. They came by buffalo and Indian trails.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT - The pioneers coming in this way could not bring a gre at deal in worldly goods. Most of them had a few bed-clothes, and what they wore.
They carried a large iron pot, a pair of pot hooks, an oven and lid , a frying pan or
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