Actual burial here

Son of General Nathan Evans, Jr. and Edith Godbold. He married Jane Beverly Daniel April 11, 1816 in home of Honorable Chesley Daniel, brother of the bride. Their children:

1) Chesley Daniel Evans, born January 10, 1817; died May 29, 1897.
2) Martha Serena Evans, born February 26, 1820; died in infancy.
3) Thomas Andrew Evans, born April 22, 1822; died April 03, 1879.
4) Nathan George Evans, born February 03, 1824; died November 30, 1868.
5) Beverly Daniel Evans, born February 06, 1826; died March 21, 1897 i
6) Andrew Jackson Evans, born January 01, 1828; died January 1862. Andrew never married. Member of South Carolina Conference M. E. Church, South.
7) Alfred Evans, born November 24, 1829; died July 1904.
8) James Evans, born September 12, 1831; died 1909.
9) Asa Louis Evans, born April 10, 1834; died April 1905.
10) William Edwin Evans, born December 17, 1835; died 1893 in Marion, SC.
11) Mary Jane Evans, born November 05, 1837; died May 4, 1839.
12) Sarah Jane Evans, born January 04, 1840.
13) Woodson Evans, born April 03, 1842; died January 10, 1859

"Thomas Evans was born on his father's plantation, near the village of Marion, on the 3d of September, 1790. He was married from the house of Hon. Chesley Daniel, on the 11th of April, 181 G, to Miss Jane Beverly Daniel, then residing with her brother. He died at "Tranquility," the old Daniel home in Granville County, North Carolina, while on his return from Old Point Comfort, Va., and lies buried in the family grave-yard there. [Buried in Marion, SC]

He was born and reared during a time and in a community which had not then recovered from the desperate partisan warfare of seven years' duration; in a country sparsely settled and but partially reclaimed from the wild state in which his fathers had found it, and which nourished more those hardier virtues and accomplishments of a strenuous rural life than the elegances and refinements which found their congenial abode within the more thickly settled parishes and towns of the coast.

When education was in that country rare, with determination and perseverance, he acquired, by wide and judicious reading, a liberal education. His handwriting, which was firm and regular, bears the marks of a strong personality, and his style of composition was excellent. In appearance he was of striking figure and distinguished manner, stand-
ing six feet one in height and of erect and alert carriage. He is said to have borne such a marked resemblance to John C. Calhoun as often to have been taken for him. His eyes were of an intensely deep blue, and his hair dark and worn brushed back from a massive forehead. His temperament was equable, but an indomitable will and gravity of expression gave him the appearance of austerity.

During early life he engaged extensively in mercantile pursuits, which proved highly profitable; but later he devoted his attention more particularly to planting, and was among the first of his community to undertake the extensive cultivation of cotton. The disastrous panic of 1837 involved him financially and he sustained an almost overwhelming loss from the great depreciation in the value of cotton, in which he had invested largely. From these losses he never entirely recovered and his untimely death in the fifty-fifth year of his age left his estate much depleted.

In 184-i, by some imprudence, he contracted a severe case of pleurisy which developed into tuberculosis. Seeking a change of atmosphere in the hope of prolonging his life, he traveled during the summer of 1845 among the Virginia Springs and watering places, taking with him his young son, James, then a lad of fourteen. Finally, despairing of an improvement of his condition, he set out from Old Point Comfort for his Carolina home, going by way of Granville County, N. C, to visit and rest among his wife's kindred, but there his strength failed him, and on the 9th of August he died at "Tranquility," the old Daniel homestead, and was buried in the family grave-yard. [Buried in Marion, SC]

Thomas Evans was a man of note in his day, and his high character won a tribute in his repeated election from his County to the State Senate, of which body he was a member from 1833 to 1840, and after his retirement from the Senate by his appointment as Master in Equity of Marion District, which position he filled until his death. In 1816, he was one of the Presidential Electors for South Carolina and cast his vote for James Madison; and again he was elector for Jackson, but became very bitter against Jackson when the latter took such a decided stand against Nullification. His residence is still standing in Marion village, and is now known as the "Moody" place. It is located to the south of the Court House and adjoining the public square. It was built originally for the Court House, for which purpose it was utilized until the erection of the present brick structure." - History of Nathaniel Evans of Catfish Creek