Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameRev Andrew Jackson Madison Monroe Evans
BirthApr 1845, Marshall Co, TN
Census8 Jun 1870, Twp 6, Range 6, Prentiss Co, MS
Memoroll#746, pg 397
Census18 Jun 1880, Dist 3, Prentiss Co, MS
Memoroll#663, pg 212
Census4 Jun 1900, Pct #7, Wood Co, TX
Memoroll#1681, pg 3
Census2 May 1910, Pct #7, Wood Co, TX
Memoroll#1601, pg 227
Death18 Mar 1916, Wood Co, TX
BurialEnon Cem, Alba, Wood Co, TX
Misc. Notes
parents born in NC and Tenn
Shows up in 1870 census as Andrew Avans (24, TN) a farmer with his wife, 2 daughters and a month old unnamed son (Luther).
listed as A. J. Evans, a farmer in 1880, with his wife and 7 children.
Listed as Andy Evins in 1900.
Andrew J Evans and his wife are retired and living alone in 1910, after 45 years of marriage with 5 of their 9 children still living.
He completed a form for Soldiers in Indigent Circumstances in Wood Co, TX when he was 68; stating that he served in Co F of the 9th Tennessee Battalion of Cavalry from July 1861 until he surrendered at Greensboro, NC and was paroled at Charlotte, NC in May 1865. He was captured at Fort Donaldson, Tennessee in 1862 and remained in prison for 7 months. It lists his age as 68, birthplace as Marshall Co, TN and occupation as a Minister of the Gospel, having been in Texas for 25 yrs.
Spouses
BirthMay 1844, Tishomingo Co, MS
Death15 Mar 1927, Alba, Wood Co, TX
Burial16 Mar 1927, Enon Cem, Alba, Wood Co, TX
Misc. Notes
parents: Hamilton MURDOCH b. 15 Nov 1815 in Newberry Co, SC and Lucinda Amanda WATTS b. 1828 Tenn.
Her parents were listed next to them in 1870, after her marriage to Andrew Evans.
Marriage24 Jan 1866, Alcorn Co, MS
ChildrenLucy Lenora (1867-<1910)
 Carrie Amanda (1868-1939)
 Luther Robert Rex (1870-1941)
 Dollie (1872-<1910)
 James Hamilton (1875-<1910)
 Anne Burris (1877-1967)
 John Dorsey (1878-<1910)
 Melissa Pearl (1881-1966)
 Mary Essie (1884-1913)
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