"Mrs. Thomas Evans was a woman of the most estimable character. After her husband's death she assumed the management of his heavily involved estate, and by her thrift and energy was able to educate in the best colleges her large family of sons; her unlimited hospitality came to be a by-word in all the region about the Pedee; her piety was of the purest kind, and it is said that she could never bear to hear of the sufferings of others without doing her uttermost to relieve their wants.
For long years every Sunday morning "Old Henry," her negro butler, carried to the county jail for the prisoners a tray laden with the greatest abundance of all the delicacies that were wont to grace the breakfast board of a Southern matron of those good old days.
She was killed on the 3d of September, 1861, by a most unusual accident. While inspecting some repairs which were going on upon the roof of her residence in Marion, a carpenter, one of her own slaves, not seeing any one below, let fall a beam of lumber, which struck her on the head, causing her death within a few hours. The poor slave was so distressed at his misfortune, for which he was in no wise molested, that he is said to have eventually lost his reason." - History of Nathaniel Evans of Catfish Creek
"Mrs. Thomas Evans was a woman of the most estimable character. After her husband's death she assumed the management of his heavily involved estate, and by her thrift and energy was able to educate in the best colleges her large family of sons; her unlimited hospitality came to be a by-word in all the region about the Pedee; her piety was of the purest kind, and it is said that she could never bear to hear of the sufferings of others without doing her uttermost to relieve their wants.
For long years every Sunday morning "Old Henry," her negro butler, carried to the county jail for the prisoners a tray laden with the greatest abundance of all the delicacies that were wont to grace the breakfast board of a Southern matron of those good old days.
She was killed on the 3d of September, 1861, by a most unusual accident. While inspecting some repairs which were going on upon the roof of her residence in Marion, a carpenter, one of her own slaves, not seeing any one below, let fall a beam of lumber, which struck her on the head, causing her death within a few hours. The poor slave was so distressed at his misfortune, for which he was in no wise molested, that he is said to have eventually lost his reason." - History of Nathaniel Evans of Catfish Creek
Family Members
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Chesley Daniel Evans
1817–1897
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Thomas Evans
1822–1879
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Nathan George "Shanks" Evans
1824–1868
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COL Beverly Daniel Evans
1826–1897
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Dr Alfred Evans
1829–1904
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Dr James Evans
1831–1909
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CPT Asa Louis Evans
1834–1905
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William Edwin Evans
1835–1893
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Mary Jane Evans
1837–1839
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Sarah Jane Evans Singletery
1840–1916
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Woodson Evans
1842–1859
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