Husband: Colonel John EVANS
Birthdate: December 9, 1737
Birthplace: Loudoun County Virginia
Death date: May 18, 1834
Place of death: Monongalia County Virginia
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Father: John EVANS (1705-1747)
Mother: Margaret (    -    )

Marriage date: February 8, 1761
Marriage place: Alexandria Virginia

Wife: Rebecca MARTIN
Birthdate: April 11, 1738
Birthplace: Loudoun County Virginia
Death date: November 11, 1827
Place of death: Monongalia County Virginia
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CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Margaret EVANS
Sex: F
Birthdate: December 7, 1763
Birthplace: Loudoun County Virginia
Death date: November 23, 1851
Place of death: Dent's Run,Monongalia County Virginia
Burial: November 26, 1851 - Old Zoar Cemetery,Monongalia County Virginia
Spouse: Captain John DENT (1755-1840)
Marriage date: June 13, 1780
Marriage place: Charles County Maryland

Child No. 2: Dudley EVANS
Sex: M
Birthdate: March 30, 1766
Birthplace: Loudoun County Virginia
Death date: March 4, 1844
Place of death: Monongalia County Virginia
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Spouse: Anarah WILLIAMS (    -    )
Marriage date: March 24, 1787
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 3: Captain John W EVANS
AKA: Jack
Sex: M
Birthdate: July 31, 1768
Birthplace: Cumberland Virginia
Death date: May 19, 1849
Place of death: Monongalia County Virginia
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Spouse: Gilly STROTHER (    -    )
Marriage date: November 20, 1800
Marriage place: Culpeper County Virginia

Child No. 4: Nimrod EVANS
Sex: M
Birthdate: July 31, 1770
Birthplace: Augusta County Virginia
Death date: February 27, 1828
Place of death: Monongalia County Virginia
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Spouse: Eliza French STROTHER (    -    )
Marriage date: December 29, 1801
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 5: Enoch EVANS
Sex: M
Birthdate: April 23, 1773
Birthplace: Augusta County Virginia
Death date: 1844
Place of death: Missouri
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Spouse: Mary JENKINS (    -    )
Marriage date: November 21, 1807
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 6: Rawley EVANS
Sex: M
Birthdate: December 29, 1777
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: May 15, 1859
Place of death: Monongalia County Virginia
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Spouse: Maria DERING (    -    )
Marriage date: January 10, 1805
Marriage place: Monongalia County Virginia

Child No. 7: James EVANS
Sex: M
Birthdate: April 30, 1782
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: March 9, 1870
Place of death: Monongalia County West Virginia
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Spouse: Nancy BUCKNER (    -    )
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Child No. 8: Marmaduke EVANS
Sex: M
Birthdate: September 7, 1784
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
Death date: April 10, 1816
Place of death: Monongalia County Virginia
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Child No. 9: Dorcas Jane EVANS
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1785
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
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Child No. 10: Coleman EVANS
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1785
Birthplace: Monongalia County Virginia
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Notes:
* 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 under General 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.
* 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 man in 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.