The son of John & Catherine Isabella (Todd) Evans, in 1860 he was a boatman living with and/or working for the Casper Bishel family in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. By 1864, he stood 5' 8" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes. He is in the 1863 draft registration as Welsh-born and living in Columbia, Lancaster County.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-five [sic] in Middletown, Dauphin County, February 25, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg February 26 as a private with Co. I, 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company June 27, 1865. Despite the age variation, there is no doubt this is the same man as there was only one David Evans in that company and regiment.
He married Catherine Kulp Weidner March 8, 1864, in Marietta and fathered Emma (b. @1868), Mary Jane (b. 10/26/69 - married Henry Louis Embery), Catherine May "Kate" (b. 05/03/73 - married Harvey Walter Wright), Casper Abraham (b. 11/29/75), William Henry (b. 12/15/76), and Ida Bell (b. 10/06/78 - married Harry E. Getz).
A month after his marriage, he was convicted in court of fornication and bastardy with Anna Heintzelman. The court fined him $1.00, ordered him to pay Anna $22.00 in court costs, give her $.625 per week until the child's fifth birthday, and required him to put up securities with Directors of the Poor to guarantee payment.
He died in Marietta where he had been a member of Child Post No. 226, G.A.R. His grave is reportedly unmarked, and no obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
Typical of the times, his birth year is a question mark. He is in the 1850 census as an eight-year-old, the 1860 census as a seventeen-year-old, and subsequent censuses agree with a ca. 1843 birth year. The enlistment age found in the company register may be a clerical error, or Evans, as did many other Civil War recruits, may have thought it beneficial to pad his age.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
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From The Cemeteries of Marietta by James Landis © 2012
Used with permission
Born 1843 - Died 06/15/1891
Co. I 93rd Regt. PA Vol. Inf.
1890 Veterans Census
Member of Lt. Wm. H. Child Post #226, G.A.R.
Destitute Veteran Burial
* * * Buried in unmarked grave * * *
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-five [sic] in Middletown, Dauphin County, February 25, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg February 26 as a private with Co. I, 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company June 27, 1865. Despite the age variation, there is no doubt this is the same man as there was only one David Evans in that company and regiment.
He married Catherine Kulp Weidner March 8, 1864, in Marietta and fathered Emma (b. @1868), Mary Jane (b. 10/26/69 - married Henry Louis Embery), Catherine May "Kate" (b. 05/03/73 - married Harvey Walter Wright), Casper Abraham (b. 11/29/75), William Henry (b. 12/15/76), and Ida Bell (b. 10/06/78 - married Harry E. Getz).
A month after his marriage, he was convicted in court of fornication and bastardy with Anna Heintzelman. The court fined him $1.00, ordered him to pay Anna $22.00 in court costs, give her $.625 per week until the child's fifth birthday, and required him to put up securities with Directors of the Poor to guarantee payment.
He died in Marietta where he had been a member of Child Post No. 226, G.A.R. His grave is reportedly unmarked, and no obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
Typical of the times, his birth year is a question mark. He is in the 1850 census as an eight-year-old, the 1860 census as a seventeen-year-old, and subsequent censuses agree with a ca. 1843 birth year. The enlistment age found in the company register may be a clerical error, or Evans, as did many other Civil War recruits, may have thought it beneficial to pad his age.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From The Cemeteries of Marietta by James Landis © 2012
Used with permission
Born 1843 - Died 06/15/1891
Co. I 93rd Regt. PA Vol. Inf.
1890 Veterans Census
Member of Lt. Wm. H. Child Post #226, G.A.R.
Destitute Veteran Burial
* * * Buried in unmarked grave * * *
The son of John & Catherine Isabella (Todd) Evans, in 1860 he was a boatman living with and/or working for the Casper Bishel family in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. By 1864, he stood 5' 8" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes. He is in the 1863 draft registration as Welsh-born and living in Columbia, Lancaster County.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-five [sic] in Middletown, Dauphin County, February 25, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg February 26 as a private with Co. I, 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company June 27, 1865. Despite the age variation, there is no doubt this is the same man as there was only one David Evans in that company and regiment.
He married Catherine Kulp Weidner March 8, 1864, in Marietta and fathered Emma (b. @1868), Mary Jane (b. 10/26/69 - married Henry Louis Embery), Catherine May "Kate" (b. 05/03/73 - married Harvey Walter Wright), Casper Abraham (b. 11/29/75), William Henry (b. 12/15/76), and Ida Bell (b. 10/06/78 - married Harry E. Getz).
A month after his marriage, he was convicted in court of fornication and bastardy with Anna Heintzelman. The court fined him $1.00, ordered him to pay Anna $22.00 in court costs, give her $.625 per week until the child's fifth birthday, and required him to put up securities with Directors of the Poor to guarantee payment.
He died in Marietta where he had been a member of Child Post No. 226, G.A.R. His grave is reportedly unmarked, and no obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
Typical of the times, his birth year is a question mark. He is in the 1850 census as an eight-year-old, the 1860 census as a seventeen-year-old, and subsequent censuses agree with a ca. 1843 birth year. The enlistment age found in the company register may be a clerical error, or Evans, as did many other Civil War recruits, may have thought it beneficial to pad his age.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From The Cemeteries of Marietta by James Landis © 2012
Used with permission
Born 1843 - Died 06/15/1891
Co. I 93rd Regt. PA Vol. Inf.
1890 Veterans Census
Member of Lt. Wm. H. Child Post #226, G.A.R.
Destitute Veteran Burial
* * * Buried in unmarked grave * * *
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-five [sic] in Middletown, Dauphin County, February 25, 1864, mustered into federal service at Harrisburg February 26 as a private with Co. I, 93rd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company June 27, 1865. Despite the age variation, there is no doubt this is the same man as there was only one David Evans in that company and regiment.
He married Catherine Kulp Weidner March 8, 1864, in Marietta and fathered Emma (b. @1868), Mary Jane (b. 10/26/69 - married Henry Louis Embery), Catherine May "Kate" (b. 05/03/73 - married Harvey Walter Wright), Casper Abraham (b. 11/29/75), William Henry (b. 12/15/76), and Ida Bell (b. 10/06/78 - married Harry E. Getz).
A month after his marriage, he was convicted in court of fornication and bastardy with Anna Heintzelman. The court fined him $1.00, ordered him to pay Anna $22.00 in court costs, give her $.625 per week until the child's fifth birthday, and required him to put up securities with Directors of the Poor to guarantee payment.
He died in Marietta where he had been a member of Child Post No. 226, G.A.R. His grave is reportedly unmarked, and no obituary was found in any online newspaper archive.
Typical of the times, his birth year is a question mark. He is in the 1850 census as an eight-year-old, the 1860 census as a seventeen-year-old, and subsequent censuses agree with a ca. 1843 birth year. The enlistment age found in the company register may be a clerical error, or Evans, as did many other Civil War recruits, may have thought it beneficial to pad his age.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From The Cemeteries of Marietta by James Landis © 2012
Used with permission
Born 1843 - Died 06/15/1891
Co. I 93rd Regt. PA Vol. Inf.
1890 Veterans Census
Member of Lt. Wm. H. Child Post #226, G.A.R.
Destitute Veteran Burial
* * * Buried in unmarked grave * * *
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