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Born 1827
From History of Adair County, Iowa, and its people (1915)
CHARLES C. EVANS.
Charles C. Evans, a retired agriculturist and honored Civil war veteran of Adair county, has lived in Summerset township for the past half century and his present farm, which comprises one hundred and sixty acres on section 17, has been his home for about forty-seven years. His birth occurred in Evans Mills, New York, on the 29th of June, 1827, his parents being Amos and Sarah (Brown) Evans, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of New York. Both passed away in the Empire state. To them were born seven children, two of whom survive.
Charles C. Evans attended the common schools in the acquirement of an education and remained at home until twenty-eight years of age. He then removed westward to Livingston county, Illinois, and there carried on farming until the time of his enlistment for service in the Union army as a member of Company K, Fiftyninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which command he remained for two years. He participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee, and though often in the thickest of the fight, was fortunate in that he escaped even the slightest injury. He was mustered out at Nashville on the 17th of June, 1865, and then came to Adair county, Iowa, purchasing the tract of one hundred and sixty acres in Summerset township on which he has resided continuously since. He developed the raw prairie into a productive and valuable farm, erected thereon substantial and commodious buildings and planted a fine grove of maple trees some of which are now three feet in diameter. Mr. Evans taps the trees and makes an excellent quality of maple syrup. The active work of the fields, however, has been relegated to others and he is now practically spending the evening of life in well earned ease, enjoying the competence which has come through the wise and able direction of his interests in former years.
As printed in History of Adair County, Iowa, and its people (1915). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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