The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
EDWARD EVANS, farmer; Sc
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Leonardsburg ; the subject of this brief biography was born in 1816, in the province of Wales, and emigrated to Columbus, Ohio, in 1841, and there worked at any honest work he could get to do, continuing under such disadvantages until he married, in 1845, Mary, daughter of John Lewis; she was born in 1825, in Wales, and came to America when 9 years old. Mr. Evans and his companion began a lonely life — financially poor — in Morrow Co., Ohio, soon after marriage, and, in 1S47, they had concluded to risk their means on a wider field of laboi, and bought fifty acres of land in the green woods, which received the strictest attention of their willing hands, until now, in their old days, it presents a beautiful little, arable farm which blesses them yearly for their early days’ labors. Perhaps but few have undergone the trials, that this old couple have ; they have devoted almost a lifetime to Christian- ity, having joined the Baptist Church at an early day, to which they have devoted their lives and their share of finances. Mr. Evans has been Town- ship Trustee and Supervisor, and held many other offices; they have had one child — John E., mar- ried Rose N. Shultz, daughter of Benjamin Shultz; he died April 10, 1877.
Source: Biographical Record of Delaware County, Ohio. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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