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History 0/ NATHANIEL 
 EVANS o/Cat Fish Creek 
 and his Descendants :: :: :: 
 
 BY 
 
 JAMES DANIEL EVANS 
 
 OF THE PHILADELPHIA BAR 
 

 Gift 
 
 Author 
 (pane*) 
 
This book 
 
 is affectionately dedicated to my 
 
 Father and Mother 
 
Mrs. Jamfs Evans (nle Powell). 
 From a Daguerreotype iakoi in iSbr. 
 
LIBERTAS 
 
PREFACE 
 
 The writing and publication of this Httle History has been brought 
 about chiefly by the desire which I conceived long ago to afford to the 
 widely scattered members of my family an authentic and comprehensive 
 account of the origin of our house, the story of our early ancestors, and 
 in some measure chronicle the present history of its members. No 
 apology is necessary for having undertaken such a task, for while in 
 America the merit of the individual, whatever his antecedents, is, and I 
 trust ever will be, the measure of his position in society, yet an ancient 
 and honorable name is a priceless heritage and an inestimable influence 
 not only with the world at large but in shaping our own destinies — it 
 should be held constantly before the eyes of old and young, not for the- 
 purpose of engendering in them a foolish regard for their own import- 
 ance but to teach them the responsibility which its possession lays upon 
 them to live up to the standard which it has always borne, to entertain 
 and maintain that self-respect for which it is synonymous, and to realize 
 the obligations of high character and good citizenship. 
 
 Diligent research has enabled me to present in these pages extracts 
 from many old records which throw much light into those dim vistas of 
 the past in which have until now been hidden the stories of our early 
 forefathers, their homes and lives, and finally their immigration to the 
 New World. I have learned much of what they accomplished in sub- 
 duing its wilds to their own use, so that they might leave them to us for 
 our homes. I have found some account of the part they played in the 
 struggle for American Independence, and of the manner in which they 
 since have served their country in peace and war. All of this is here 
 set down with the hope that it may draw closer those ties of blood which 
 time and distance have so nearly destroyed, yet withal I know that there 
 must still be many imperfections which, however, I commend to the 
 
VIII PREFACE 
 
 charity of my kindred, in whose behalf my work has been gladly given. 
 One word more : I have most naturally found more accessible the 
 facts relating to my own branch of the family ; for my information upon 
 the other branches I have had to rely upon their own members — some 
 of the accounts furnished me of these have been very full and satisfac- 
 tory, others less so. If, therefore, some parts of this History should 
 seem less full than others, it is due to those causes rather than any desire 
 or intention to be partial on my part. 
 
 J. D. E. 
 
ffiBtorg nf 5^atl|antpl lEfaans. of (Sat JihIj (Htnk, 
 
 By JAMES DANIEL EVANS 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ^ The History of Nathaniel Evans, of Catfish Creek, and his Descend- 
 ants, has its written records chiefly in an old Welsh Church Register, 
 the early land grants and memorials preserved among the archives in the 
 Secretary of State's office at Columbia, the old Will Books and County 
 Records in Marion Court House, a few old family Bibles, from which 
 many dates and names have been supplied, and from some brief mention 
 made of the family by historians of the localities to which the early 
 settlers belonged. The narratives of the various collateral lines which 
 will receive notice have been based on similar records furnished by 
 members of respective families or from my own researches. The main 
 facts thus collected have been enlarged as far as possible and supplied 
 with the traditions and legends which were cherished by the first comers, 
 to be handed down from father to son to this day. 
 
 Diligence in research has added to the knowledge thus acquired many 
 other interesting facts which carry us back far beyond the advent of 
 Nathaniel Evans in the New World, or the occasion and manner of his 
 coming, and give us a glimpse of his native land and of the sturdy 
 Welsh stock from which he sprung. 
 
 As all histories must logically proceed from the past to the present, 
 this one must be no exception to the rule. Our narrative carries us 
 back to the gray dawn of the past, when the martial Legions of Caesar, 
 drove with irresistible force the Britons from the fertile valleys and 
 wooded hills of Albion to seek liberty and independence in the moun- 
 tains of the West, where under their indomitable chieftains they were 
 able to bid defiance to the Romans and successively to all of the conquer- 
 ing armies that>«wept in tides over the heart of England for a thousand 
 years. 
 
 The Welsh people were never conquered. With proud hearts and 
 matchless courage they maintained their independence against countless 
 
2 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 assaults, and finally consented to a peaceful union with their great neigh- 
 bor only under a promise that their common ruler should be a prince, 
 native born, of their own hills. How this was accomplished by the 
 crafty King Edward is one of the great incidents in English history. 
 No people among the nations of the world have been endowed with a 
 more independent spirit, with a deeper love of liberty or a greater pride 
 of race, than the Welsh. It is no uncommon thing for the gentry among 
 them to trace their lineage in unbroken lines from the ancient days of 
 the great King Arthur, and some of their manuscripts are coeval with 
 the Incarnation. 
 
 One of the remarkable characteristics of this remnant of the great 
 Cimbric race was their unerring devotion and loyalty to their chiefs, many 
 of whom, in those old days of chivalry, were powerful lords, skilled in 
 all of the arts of war, who, in those quiescent intervals when they were 
 not fighting some one else's battles in the Low Countries or on the Con- 
 tinent, regaled themselves with quarrels of their own at home. Those 
 were the days when might meant right, and when wars meant conquests, 
 so that those princes who by their martial prowess were able to maintain 
 their assumptions frequently assumed regal powers. 
 
 These regal powers were sometimes founded on such firm pretentions 
 that they extended by inheritance through long dynasties. Such was 
 the case of the renowned Welsh chieftain, distinguished as well for his 
 probity and justice in peace as he was for his valor and achievements at 
 war, Ethelystan Glodrydd, Prince of Furlys, the founder of the Fourth 
 Royal Tribe of Wales, whose domains lay between the Severn and Wye. 
 This Knight was the descendant of the most illustrious families in the 
 Welsh nation, and traced his descent from a Knight of King Arthur's 
 Round Table. That he was a lover of the royal sport of the chase there 
 is no doubt, for he bore arms: "Argent, a chevron between three boar's 
 heads couped sable ;" crest, "On a ducal coronet or a boar's head fess- 
 ways, erased, sable ;" motto — "Libertas." *This blazonry denotes the 
 most ancient lineage. 
 
 The princes of the line of Ethelystan had their seat at "Northope," 
 in the County of Flint, but later their descendants branched out into 
 Shropshire, Pembrokeshire and Caermarthanshire. In the early days 
 
 *Hume's History of England. Green's History of the English People. 
 Brooke's Welsh Gentry. The Royal Tribes of Wales. Burk's Landed Gentry, 
 1844. Burk's General Heraldry, 1844. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 3 
 
 the Welsh had no sir-names, but used the patronymic with the conjunc- 
 tive "ap;" thus Evan, a son of John, would be called "Evan-ap-John," 
 and Thomas, the son of Evan, would be called ''Thomas-ap-Evan." 
 Now when, in the days of "Good Queen Bess," the British Parliament 
 enacted a law requiring every citizen of the Realm to take a sir-name (a 
 measure directed against the turbulent Welsh), it was very common for 
 Welshmen to assume their fathers' names, dropping the use of the "ap." 
 This was the case of the ruling or head branch of the family descended 
 from the old Prince of Furlys, and they assumed the name of their 
 chieftain, Evan. By the rounding changes of time this came to be called 
 Evans and so it has remained, the proper Welsh pronunciation being 
 with the short "e" as in "ever." One branch of the family was recently 
 represented by Thomas Evans, Esq., of Hadley Park, Cambridgeshire, 
 a lineal descendant of the last Evans, Lord Culbery, an Irish peer in 
 1650.* 
 
 The temper of the seventeenth century was but a slight improvement 
 on that of its predecessor. England, like most of Europe, was still in 
 the throes of religious dissensions ; the Church of Rome had so long 
 impregnated in the minds of her disciples the ideas of intolerance and 
 subserviance of conscience, that the tide of the Reformation was unable 
 to dislodge their tenacious belief in established forms of worship. The 
 British Isles had been so torn by civil and religious dissensions, and 
 many of the people were so oppressed on account of their beliefs, that 
 they were willing to sever the ties of home to seek liberty and freedom 
 in the wild wastes of America. Those who first came sent back such 
 glowing accounts of the fertility of this country and of its vast resources, 
 and extended such eager and cordial greetings to new comers, that fre- 
 quently whole communities were induced to come over. Gregg, in the 
 "History of the Old Cheraws," tells us that "From the time of its first 
 settlement (South Carolina), it was esteemed a matter of the utmost 
 importance for the safety and prosperity of the Province that its popu- 
 lation should increase as rapidly as possible. To this end, every induce- 
 ment was held out to immigration. The royal bounty was promised, 
 in various forms, to the poor and oppressed of other lands to make 
 America their home. The unoccupied territory of the New World, fair 
 and fertile, and teeming in boundless resources, was declared to be open. 
 
 *Burk's Heraldry, 1844. 
 
4 HISTORY OP NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 * * * Thus encouraged, large accessions were made, at successive 
 periods, to our infant settlement."* 
 
 An ancient manuscript entitled "Materials towards a history of the 
 Baptists in Delaware State, Vol. III.," written by Morgan Edwards, 
 A. M. (a quondam fellow of R. I. College, 1722-1792,) gives the first 
 account of the Welsh settlers, who proceeded to the Peedee region of 
 South Carolina. It is so full of general interest that I quote the narra- 
 tive at some length : 
 
 "Delaware became a State independent of Pennsylvania at the Revo- 
 lution in 1776 ; it contains three little counties, viz : Newcastle, Kent and 
 Sussex. In the first was a Baptist Church as early as the spring of 
 1703. They settled near the Iron Hill ; from thence their religion took 
 a spread, * * * southward to Duck Creek on Peedee, in South Caro- 
 lina."! 
 
 "To come to the history of this church we must cross the Atlantic 
 "and land in Wales, where it originated in the following manner : In the 
 "spring of the year 1701, several Baptists in the counties of Pembroke 
 "and Caermarthen resolved to go to America ; and as one was a minister 
 "(Thomas Griffith) they were advised to be constituted a church. They 
 "took the advice. The instrument of their confederation was in being 
 "in the year 1770, but is now lost except one copy in possession of Mr. 
 "Isaac Hughes, and that without a date. The names of the Confeder- 
 "ates follow: Thomas Griffith, Griffith Nicholas, Evan Edmond, John 
 "Edward, Elisha Thomas, Enoch Morgan, Richard David, James David, 
 "Elizabeth Griffith, Lewis Edmond, Mary John, Mary Thomas, Eliza- 
 "beth Griffith, Jr., Jennet David, Margaret Mathias, and Jennett Morris. 
 "These 16 persons (which may be styled a church emigrant and sailant) 
 "met at Milford in the month of June, 1701, and embarked on board the 
 "good ship James and Mary, and on the eighth of September follow- 
 "ing landed at Philadelphia. The brethren there treated them courte- 
 "ously and advised them to settle about Pennepek ; thither they went 
 "and there continued about a year and a half. During their stay at 
 
 *History of the Old Cheraws, page 42. 
 
 fThe original of the above manuscript is now deposited in the archives of the 
 American Baptist Historical Society, No. 1420 Chestnut street, Phijadelphia, 
 and the above was published by the Historical Socieity of Pennsylvania, in the 
 Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. IX., p. 61, etc. (1885). 
 A very conservable part of this record is published in "The Old Cheraws," at 
 pages 45-46, etc. 
 
HISTORY Of nathanie;i, i;vans and his descendants. 5 
 
 "Pennepek the following persons joined them, viz. : Rees Rhydarch, 
 "Catherine Rhydarch, Esther Thomas, Thomas Morris, Hugh Morris, 
 "Peter Chamberlain, Mary Chamberlain, Mary Chamberlain, Jr., Mary 
 "Sorensee, Magdalen Morgan, Henry Davis, Elizabeth David, Samuel 
 "Griffith, Richard Seree, Rebecca Marpole, John Greenwater, Edward 
 "Edward, John James, Mary Thomas, Thomas John, Judith Griffith, 
 "and Mary John. 
 
 "But finding it inconvenient to tarry about Pennepek, they, in 1703, 
 "took up land in Newcastle County from Messrs. Evans, Davis and 
 "Willis (who had purchased said Welsh-Tract from William Penn, 
 "containing about 30,000 acres), and thither removed the same year and 
 "built a little meeting-house on the spot where the present stands. The 
 "same year were added to them from Wales, Thomas John and Rebecca 
 "John ; and by Baptism John Wild, Thomas Wild, James James, Sarah 
 "James, Jane Morgan, Samuel Wild, Mary Nicholas, Richard Bowen, 
 "David Thomas, Mary Bentley and Jane Edwards. 
 
 "In 1709 were added from Kilcam, in Pembrokeshire (Samuel John, 
 "pastor), John Devonallt, Mary Devonallt, Lewis Phillips, Catherine 
 "Edward ; and from East Jersey Philip Trueax and Elizabeth Tilton ; 
 "and from Pennepek, David Miles and Alee Miles. 
 
 "In 1710 the following Baptists were added from several parts of 
 "Wales, viz: from Rhydwilim (Jenkin Jones, pastor), Lewis Philips, 
 "Rees David (a deacon), Thomas Brans, Thomas Edmund, Arthur 
 "Edward, Eleanor Philips, Susanna David and Mary Wallis ; from said 
 "Kilcam, John Philips (an elder), Thomas Morris, Jenkin Jones (after- 
 " wards minister of Philadelphia), John Harry, John Boulton, Richard 
 "Edward, Eleanor Philips, Mary William, Elizabeth Harry, Susanna 
 "Owen, Mary Owen, Elizabeth John ; from Lantivy (James James, 
 "pastor), John Griffith (an elder), Rees Jones, Hugh Uvan, David 
 "Lewis, Samuel Evan., Rachel Griffith, Esther John, Mary Evan; from 
 "Langenych (Morgan John, pastor), Hugh David (afterwards minis- 
 "ter of the Great Valley), Anthony Mathew, Simon Mathew, Simon 
 "Butler, Arthur Melchoir, Hannah Melchoir, Margaret David; from 
 "Lanwenarth (Timothy Lewis, pastor), Jane James, Mary David; 
 "from Blaeneu-givent (Abel Morgan, pastor), Joseph James. 
 
 "In 1711 were added, from said Rhydwilim, Elizabeth John ; from 
 "Lanvabon (Morgan Griffith, pastor), William Miricks ; from said 
 
6 HISTORY OF NATHANIE;L EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 "Lanwenarth, James Jones, Ann Jones. The same year were added by 
 "baptism, Thomas Rees, Thomas David, Margaret Bvan, Sarah Emson, 
 "Rachel Thomas, Daniel Rees, William Thomas, John Thomas, Martha 
 "Thomas, John Evans and Lydia Evans. * * * 
 
 "In 1713 were added from said Pennepek, John Eaton, Jane Eaton, 
 "Joseph Eaton, Gwenllian Eaton. George Eaton, Mary Eaton ; and the 
 "same year from said Lantivy. Elias Thomas, Thomas Evan, Ann 
 "Evans, and from said Kilcam, Philip Rees.* *=!=*§ 
 
 "Having followed Welsh-Tract Church from Wales to Pennepek, and 
 from Pennepek to its present station, let us now attend to what has been 
 most remarkable in its progress down to the present time. (1) It has 
 existed for about ninety years and increased from 16 to 108, besides 
 deaths and large detachments to form other churches. (2) It is a 
 mother church; for that of Pedee, London-Tract, Duck Creek, Wil- 
 mington, Coimnarsh and Mispilion may be considered as daughters. 
 Pedee is a large river in South Carolina, remarkable for its meanderings, 
 so as to form many peninsulas ; on one of which settled the Welsh Bap- 
 tists in 1736, and, therefore, called the Welsh Neck. To form a church 
 on said neck the following persons were dismissed in the month of 
 November, 1736, viz: Abel Morgan (late minister of Middletown), 
 James James (a ruling elder), Thomas Evans (a deacon), Daniel James, 
 Samuel Wilds, John Harry, John Harry, Jr., Thomas Harry, Jeremiah 
 Rowell, Richard Barroe, James Money, Nathaniel Evans, Mary James, 
 Sarah James, Ann Evan, Mary Wilds, Elizabeth Harry, Eleanor Jen- 
 kin, Sarah Harry. Margaret William, Mary Rowell, Sarah Barrow. 
 The next year (April 30, 1737), Samuel Evan, Mary Evan (and No- 
 vember 4, following), Daniel Devonallt, Thomas James, Philip James 
 (late minister), David James, Abel James, David Harry, Simon Peer- 
 son, Mary Boulton, Catherine Harry, Elizabeth James, Elizabeth Jones, 
 Eleanor James, Mary Hugh. The next year (November 3, 1739), 
 Jane David, Mary Devonallt. And in 1741 (November 1), John Jones, 
 Philip Douglas, Oliver Alison, Walter Down, Elizabeth Jones', Lettice 
 Douglas, Rachel Allison, Rachel Down ; in all forty-eight souls. Pedee 
 Church had shot into seven branches in 1772. * * * 
 
 §The paragraphs marked with inverted commas are translations from the 
 records of Welsh-Tract, which have been kept in the Welsh tongue (with some 
 intermixture of English) down to the year 1733." 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 7 
 
 John Evans died in Pencader Hundred, Delaware, in 1717, leaving a 
 will recorded in Newcastle County, wherein he names his brother 
 Thomas as his executor, and mentions four sons, of whom Nathaniel 
 Evans was one. Thomas, the brother, was the one mentioned in the 
 document above as having- come in 1710 from Rhydwilim, Caermarthan- 
 shire, Wales, and is the same who afterwards in 1736, as a deacon went 
 to the Pedee and settled in Welsh Neck. He was the great-grand- 
 father of Judge Josiah Evans, of Marlboro. Thomas and John prol>- 
 ably the elder brother, were gentlemen, and belonged, it is believed to 
 the ancient family of Evans, mentioned above, which had its origin in 
 Fhnt, but had branched into Pembrokeshire and Caermarthanshire. 
 The arms borne by this family is borne still by descendants in that 
 region, and by marriage is quartered with the arms of many of the most 
 Illustrious families in the Realm. Original research in Wales will no 
 doubt, develop full information of the family.* 
 
 I am indebted to Mr. George Lindsey, of Newark, Del., the custodian 
 of the old Welsh Tract Church Recordsf referred to, for the followino- 
 excerpt from those papers : ^ 
 
 "Our brethren and sisters whose names are as followeth • Able Mor- 
 gan (Able Morgan is returned). Teaching Elder, James James, ruling 
 elder, Ihomas Evans, deacon, Daniel James, Samuel Miles, John Harry 
 John Harry, Jr., Thomas Harry, Jeremiah Powel, Richard Barson,' 
 Thomas Murray, Nathaniel Evans, Mary James, Annie Evans, Sarah 
 James, Mary Miles, Elizabeth Harry, Elenor Jenkins, Sarah Harrv 
 Margaret William, Mary Powel, Sarah Barron, are removed to Carolina 
 
 *"7H Arcade Bldg., Phila., Pa.. 
 
 "T\/r,, r.^ ^^/r T- ^. AuGUST 12, 1904. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Evans: There was certainly a large emigration to hnth nf fh« 
 
 the settlers from Wales to Pencadar Hundred, Delaware (some removed to 
 Chester County, Pa., and others to Carolinas), were nearly all fr^mXrmme 
 diate neighborhood of Lampeter, Cardiganshire, and were gent em^n by b rth" 
 They came 1700 or earlier to 1736-or so. They were all. or^nearl^all Bant Ss 
 Ir^r^'W^'r' ^'^^ °^,*'"^^ '" Cardiganshire, Wales, this Xer and Kfore' 
 trymg o find out something about them. Have enough to write a historv of the 
 
 two'* *°*"' ^"' "°'^'"^ ^'^"'^^ ^''°"* ^^"^^'°^ °f the se^tleJs except'^one or 
 "^^•■y ^'''^y' Thomas Allen Glenn." 
 
 tSince published by Delaware Hist. Society in pamphlet form. 
 
8 HISTORY Olf NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 and were recommended by letter to ye church of Christ in Charleston or 
 elsewhere in South Carolina, so they might constitute themselves into a 
 church from us, November, 1736." 
 
 Bishop Gregg, at another part of his history,* remarks : that "some 
 of those who are members of the colony on Pedee must have followed 
 the first emigration from Wales to Pennsylvania, as their names do not 
 appear in the foregoing list," and continues : 
 
 "The first visit of the Welsh to Pedee appears to have been made in 
 the latter part of 1735, or early in the following year. It led to a 
 remarkable act of favor on the part of the Council, to induce the colony 
 to come. Wishing, on their arrival, to settle in a body, and be possessed 
 of ample and exclusive privileges as to the occupancy of the soil, they 
 petitioned the Government that an extensive tract of land might be 
 appropriated to their sole benefit for a certain period. This appears 
 from a message of the Lieutenant Governor to the Lower House of 
 Assembly, 2d February, 1737, in which he said: 'The late Lieutenant 
 Governor, with the advice of his Majesty's Council, thought it would 
 greatly tend to the service and strengthening of this Province, to grant 
 the petition of several natives of the Principality of Wales, in behalf of 
 themselves and others of their countrymen, who intended to settle in 
 this Province from Great Britain and Pennsylvania, praying the lands 
 near the forks above the Township of Pedee River might be reserved 
 and set apart for their use, and Mr. John Auldfield, being thought a 
 very proper person, was employed for that service."f 
 
 "The petition here referred to bore date August 13, 1736, and having 
 been favorably received by the Council, his Majesty's Surveyor General, 
 James H. St. John, Esq., was instructed to have the said tract laid out. 
 Accordingly, he directed a precept to John Auldfield, bearing date 
 November 16, 1736, 'to admeasure and lay out, for the Welsh families 
 that were to be imported to this Province, a tract of land, containing in 
 the whole one hundred and seventy-three thousand eight hundred and 
 forty acres, situate and being in Craven County. Ten thousand acres, 
 being part thereof, lying within the limits of the Township of Queens- 
 borough, on the north side of Pedee River, the remainder of said tract 
 lying on the south side of said river, and butting and bounding to the 
 
 *History of Old Cheraws, p. 46. 
 f'Council Journal," No. 5, pp. 51-2. 
 
Hon. Thomas Evans, 
 From pdiuting by Gardner^ l8 ^2. 
 
HISTORY OP NATHANIEI. E:VANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 9 
 
 southeast on the reserve lands of the said Township of Queensborough, 
 and all other sides on vacant lands as are supposed.' " 
 
 "The survey was made, and a plot thereof returned twenty-ninth 
 November, 1736," which plot is now preserved in the State arch" 'es in 
 the State Secretary's office. This original grant was, in 1737, extended 
 up the Pedee River to the North Carolina line, and to the upper portion 
 in the neighborhoods of Society Hill and Cheraw most of the settlers 
 went, the rich alluvial bottoms in the bend of the river across from 
 Society Hill, known as "Welsh Neck," being a favorite location in the 
 early days. 
 
 "Nathan Evans" (the Nathaniel Evans mentioned in the Welsh 
 Tract record), Gregg tells us,* "was a Welshman, and settled on Cat 
 Fish. He either came from the Welsh Neck above, soon after his 
 arrival there, or was one of those who went first to the lower part of the 
 Welsh Tract, and remained there. Lands in the neighborhood of Tart's 
 Mill (about six miles above Marion C. H., and now called Moody's 
 Mill) were granted to Nathan Evans. 
 
 "David Evans, a son of Nathan, was a captain in the Revolution, and 
 a man of note. He died childless. About the same time, two families 
 of James' and Lucas' came down the river, and settled on Cat Fish. 
 With the latter of these the Crawfords' and Evans' intermarried.f 
 
 "Soon after, a family of Bakers came from Newbern, N. C, to Pedee. 
 One of the name married a daughter of Nathan Evans (Margaret). 
 William Baker was prominent in the Revolution, and marked for his 
 devotion to the cause of liberty." 
 
 In a foot-note to the above the same author says: "Nathan Evans 
 was the grand-father of the late Thomas Evans, and General William 
 Evans, of Marion. The father of General Evans was also named 
 Nathan, and was a man of upright character throughout life." 
 ^ The reverend chronicler, Gregg, gives us a very pretty picture of the 
 simple manners and characteristics of the Welsh settlers : 
 
 "Allusion has been made to the course pursued by the Welsh, with 
 reference to others coming in among them. The feeling was a natural 
 one, and under the circumstances, in such a chaotic state of society, 
 when people of different nations, and many of them doubtless of bad 
 
 ^History of the Old Cheraws, p. 75. 
 
 fl have never discovered any such connection. 
 
10 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 character, were flocking in as squatters and traders, not to be condemned. 
 The subsequent history of their colony, strongly and peculiarly marked 
 as it was in all the elements of substantial growth and vigorous progress, 
 will be found to have fully justified their exclusive policy. They planted 
 themselves, in most instances, immediately on the river, and made loca- 
 tions of lands in small parcels. 
 
 "The country being in a wilderness state, their positions isolated, and 
 their means limited, they selected such quantities of land as suited their 
 present necessities, influenced also, to some extent, by the consideration 
 of compactness which gratified their social propensities, and enabled 
 them besides to concentrate against the sudden incursions of the Indians, 
 by whom they were surrounded. Here, on a virgin soil, they peacefully 
 pursued their agricultural employments, being richly rewarded for the 
 common toils and hardships endured. 
 
 "In their new and yet wilderness home, drawn together more closely 
 than by the common ties of friendship and of blood, surrounded by 
 common dangers, against which they vigilantly guarded, the common 
 wants and necessities sufficiently supplied, and meeting weekly around 
 one consecrated altar to worship the God of their fathers, a more perfect 
 unity, or virtuous and manly life can scarcely be conceived. 
 
 "Such was the scene presented by this infant band of brothers in the 
 early days of their history; with no court of justice in their midst to 
 which conflicting claims and angry disputes might be referred, and no 
 frowning gaol for the reception of the criminal, nor were they needed. 
 Few contentions, probably, were known, and the voice of society, though 
 newly formed in this Southern home, was potent enough to silence the 
 voice of the blasphemer and make the evil-minded man pause in his 
 ways. 
 
 "Simplicity of character appears to have been one of the most marked 
 traits of this people — a virtue which has been transmitted, through suc- 
 ceeding times, to their descendants. They were open and sincere, mak- 
 ing no profession of feeling which did not exist. 
 
 "For sobriety and moderation, also, with what was more essential as 
 the foundation of all virtue, a deep religious feeling, they were distin- 
 guished. These virtues were strongly impressed upon the community 
 they established, presenting in subsequent times a striking contrast to 
 some other neighborhoods on the Pedee where dissipation and irreligion 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 11 
 
 SO much prevailed. The Welsh brought with them to a new country 
 those marked features for which their ancestors had been noted long 
 before. The Welsh are said to have been more jealous of their liberties 
 than even the English, and far more irascible, though their jealousy 
 soon abated. They were, from an early period, fond of carrying back 
 their pedigrees to the most remote antiquity, and some of their manu- 
 scripts they make to be coeval with the Incarnation."* 
 
 But while the Welsh were exceedingly tenacious of their liberties and 
 have even to this day maintained some of the characteristics that existed 
 among their fathers, unlike the English, French and other colonists 
 they perpetuated few of their Welsh names in their localities ; the only 
 ones which can be found being that of "Welsh Neck," "St. David's" 
 and the numerous surnames prevalent throughout the region of the Old 
 Cheraws. 
 
 The occupation of the Welsh colonists, and, indeed, of all the settlers 
 throughout the Pedee valley, was agricultural, the chief crop being the 
 staple mdigo, until the advent of cotton about 1800. Tobacco was more 
 extensively cultivated, but stock raising in the almost tropical jungle of 
 the river swamps was a very profitable pursuit, the product finding a 
 ready market in Charlestown, the Capitol, and not infrequently herds of 
 cattle were driven as far north as Philadelphia. 
 
 The isolated situation, before the cutting of the highways and when 
 travel by land or river was very precarious, and the intolerant system 
 under the Royal Government, which deprived the citizens of the Pedee 
 of representation in the Colonial Councils, and even of the ordinary 
 processes of justice, cultivated in these quiet folk a deep distrust of the 
 authorities and finally weaned them away from their allegiance to the 
 English King, for whom, remembering the causes of their leavino- their 
 homes in Wales, they doubtless cherished at any time only a conventional 
 regard. When, therefore, the final struggle came, it found the Welsh 
 to be the sturdiest and most stubborn patriots, ready to risk all in the 
 cause of American independence. The story of the part that they took 
 in the strife would consume more space than can be given in a work of 
 this character, but some idea may be gained by the single incident that is 
 
 *Guthrie, p. 39, Gregg's History Old Cheraws, pp. 66-67. The author feels 
 that no excuse need be offered for such copious quo^^tions, where the quo ations 
 are so pecuharly appropriate to the subject as those given here ^"°^'^t»o"s 
 
12 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 recorded in the annals of the Welsh Neck Church, that of the 220 white 
 male members left in 1779, only 48 were alive in 1793.* These mem- 
 bers were from the midst of the staunchest patriots of the colony. 
 
 *Slaves were all baptized and enrolled as members of the church. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANlElv EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 18 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 I. Nathaniel Evans, after establishing himself in the vicinity of the Cat 
 Fish Creek, took up more extensive grants of land nearer the present 
 site of Marion village. Although he and his kinsmen had come to 
 Carolina at the invitation of the Government, after their arrival they 
 experienced much annoyance and considerable delay in securing grants 
 to their land. This became so great a grievance that in 1742 the petition 
 of no less than thirty persons was addressed to his Majesty's Council, 
 setting out that : "Your Humble Petitioners hope your Honr. and Honls. 
 will take it into your serious consideration, what satisfaction it is to 
 every man to have his titles to land secure, and will fulfill the encou- 
 ragement given to us that we should have our lands granted us free 
 from all charge of surveying and granting ; and as we are in duty bound, 
 we shall ever pray, etc."* 
 
 The result of the petition was not so favorable as might have been 
 expected, but, nevertheless, we find that Nathan Evans' patents date 
 from 17-i6 to 1772, and aggregated eleven hundred acres, all told, of as 
 fertile lands as were to be found in the colony, much of which is still 
 owned by his descendants, never having passed out of the family. 
 
 Each tract of land, as it was taken up by the settler, was duly surveyed 
 and plotted by the Surveyor General of the Province, or his deputies, 
 and the plots, with full descriptions attached, were recorded in books 
 kept at the seat of government in Charlestown for that purpose. All 
 of these books, fully indexed, are preserved among the archives in the 
 Secretary of State's office at the Capitol and are accessible to the public. 
 
 The "Index Plots prior to 1784," in this office, gives the following list 
 of grants to Nathan Evans : 
 
 
 
 Location 
 
 Acres 
 
 Vol.-Page 
 
 
 Dates 
 
 Evans, 
 
 Nathan 
 
 Craven 
 
 250 
 
 4-375 
 
 26 
 
 December. 1746 
 
 it 
 
 a 
 
 a 
 
 300 
 
 5-443 
 
 9 
 
 March, 1754 
 
 t( 
 
 it 
 
 a 
 
 150 
 
 15- 66 
 
 10 
 
 March, 17G7. 
 
 « 
 
 <( 
 
 it 
 
 200 
 
 15- 66 
 
 10 
 
 February, 1772 
 
 tt 
 
 tt 
 
 a 
 
 200 
 
 15- 67 
 
 25 
 
 March, 1772 
 
 After the filing and recording of the surveys and plots, the grantees 
 presented their "Memorials" to the Governor and his Majesty's Council, 
 which when approved were likewise recorded in special books. Nathan 
 
 *Gregg, p. 59. "Council Journal," No. 8, pp. 455, 458. 
 
14 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL KVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Evans seems not to have memorialized his first grants, but the latter ones 
 are all indexed in volumes 9 and 11 of memorials, and the following is a 
 transcript of the grant which he received on 10 February, 1773: 
 
 "A memorial exhibited by Nathan Evans to be reg'd in the Audr. 
 Genr's. office of a plantation or tract of land containing 200 acres situate 
 in Craven County, on the N. E. side of the Pedee River on Smith's 
 Swamp ; bounded all sides on vacant lands. 2 £ 3 stag, or 4 £ pro. 
 money, pr. 100 acres to commence two years from date. In witness 
 whereof he hath hereto set his hand this 12 June, 1772. 
 
 "Nathan Evans. 
 
 "John Loveless, D. S. 
 
 "Deld. 3rd Aug., 1772." 
 
 It is probable that old Nathaniel Evans died prior to the outburst of 
 the Revolution. No mention is found of him after the date of the 
 memorials above noted. Nor is there any means of ascertaining what 
 his age was at the time of his death. He was, doubtless, well advanced 
 in years, however, as he was born in Wales, and came to Pencader prior 
 to 1711. It does not appear when he was married to his wife, Ruth 
 Jones, but it was probably after reaching the Pedee, for his eldest son, 
 Captain David Evans, was yet alive as late as 1825. 
 
 Nathaniel Evans and his wife, Ruth Jones, had issue : 
 
 2. i. David, b. Craven Co., S. C. ; d. 182 — , Marion County, S. C. ; 
 unmarried ; was probably eldest child of his parents and born prob- 
 ably soon after their coming to State. He was a man of note in his 
 section, served through the Revolution as a partisan captain of 
 Rangers, lost a leg by cannon shot during the siege of the city of 
 Savannah while serving under Maj. Gen. Nath. Green. In his 
 latter years he was a choleric old bachelor ; the late Chesley D. 
 Evans, of Marion, his grand-nephew, who was born in 1817, used 
 to relate how his great-uncle, David, upon riding up to his father's 
 door, commanded him, then a small boy, to hold his horse — "a d — d 
 little rascal." 
 
 3, ii., Margaret, b. Craven Co., S. C. ; d. same ; m. Major Wm. Baker, 
 of Newbern, N. C, who moved to the Pedee country about 1740, 
 and became a distinguished soldier of the Revolution and a man of 
 note in that section. I have been unable to find any record of their 
 descendants, but it is most probable that there was but one child, 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS 15 
 
 Mourning Elizabeth Baker,' mho m. first, Johnson,* and second, 
 James Godbold, Esq. 
 
 4. iii., Thomas, b. Craven Co., S. C. ; d. same. The only record 
 extant in reference to this Thomas is that contained in the will of 
 his brother Nathan, who died 1810. See infra. 
 
 5. iv., Nathan, b. cir 1760, Craven County, S. C. ; d. Marion County, 
 S. C, May, 1810 ; will dated , 1810, recorded May 23d, 1810 J 
 m. first, 1789, Edith, dau. Thomas Godbold, of Marion Co., S. C. ; 
 second. Miss Fore, of Marion Co. ; third, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of 
 Lot Rogers, of Marion Co. 
 
 5. Nathan 2 Evans (Nathaniel 1), the brief of whose record is 
 last above set forth, was probably the youngest child of his parents. 
 
 He was still a youth at the time of the outbreak of the Reolutionary 
 War, but burning with the fire of patriotism he shouldered his musket 
 and marched off with his brothers, David and Thomas, to fight his 
 country's battles. He served as a private under the intrepid Col. 
 Waters, one of Francis Marion's Lieutenants, throughout the horrible 
 and rapacious strife that characterized the war in South Carolina, where 
 the revengeful Clinton and his bloody satellites, Tarleton and Rawdon, 
 not only incited the bitterest partisan struggle, but with fire and sword 
 fought with savage determination to crush out the heroic men who had 
 pledged their lives for their State. 
 
 It is worthy of note that the soldiers of South Carolina, while few were 
 in Washington's army, yet under the Partisan Chiefs, Sumter, Marion, 
 Pickens, Horry, and a host of others, fought almost as many battles as 
 were fought during the whole war in all of the other twelve colonies 
 combined, and that these raw militia, single-handed, held in check the 
 combined forces of Sir Henry Clinton, Cornwallis and Howe after the 
 fall of Charleston and the disastrous defeat of Gates at Camden, until 
 General Greene with his regular continentals came to their support in 
 1780. 
 
 The story of how General Marion entertained the British officer who 
 had come to his camp in the hope of negotiating terms of peace, and 
 of how, when he saw the hardships which were endured and the high 
 spirit of the men, returned to his commander and resigned his commis- 
 
 *She was the grand-mother of Dr. Wm. Johnson, of Mar's Bluff, who married 
 Miss Gregg, sister of J. Eli Gregg, and who raised a large family. 
 
16 HISTORY OF NATHANIFX EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 sion rather than fight against patriots who would endure so much to be 
 free, is familiar, doubtless, to all who may read this, but it is always 
 interesting to have these tales at first hand. The entertainment occurred 
 in Marion's camp on Snow's Island, a little strip of swamp in the middle 
 of Santee River, and the dinner, which consisted of sweet potatoes 
 roasted in the ashes, and swamp water, was served on the stump of a 
 great cypress tree. The late General W. W. Harllee, who died in 1897 
 at the age of eighty-seven years, told the writer, a year or two before 
 his death, that when he was a boy, old Capt. Mathew Stanley, of Marion, 
 took him to the very spot on Snow's Island where the dinner was served, 
 that the old cypress tree and the stump were still there, and that old Capt. 
 Stanley told him that he was the man who had cooked the potatoes. 
 
 Capt. Mathew Stanley was from the same neighborhood as Nathan 
 and David Evans, and it is not improbable that they might have partici- 
 pated in the historic feast. 
 
 Bishop Gregg, in his "Old Cheraws," follows the fortune of the resi- 
 dents of the "Welsh Tract" through the great struggle, and his pages 
 are full of the thrilling incidents that thronged the period. Davic^ 
 Ramsey, the historian, graphically describes the hardships and terrors 
 of the partisan strife in his History of the Revolution in South Carolina. 
 For further details of the war, therefore, I refer my readers to those 
 more worthy authors. 
 
 It is to be greatly regretted that the rich storehouse of Revolutionary 
 documents that still lies in Columbia, in the old pay-roll and muster-lists, 
 as well as in the great bulk of correspondence and State papers of the 
 war, has never been thoroughly explored. It is believed that careful 
 search would afford much more complete accounts of the patriotic ser- 
 vices of those men in whom we are here most interested. The meagre 
 search that has been made has been abundantly satisfactory. Below 
 are presented a few certificates from the Secretary of State's office indi- 
 cating the service that Nathan Evans performed and of the feeble effort 
 which the State was striving to make to compensate her sons for the 
 great sacrifices she was demanding. 
 
 The State of South Carolina. 
 Executive Department. 
 To all to whom these presents come, greeting : This is to certify that 
 the records in this office show Indent No. 317, Book "O," to have been 
 
HISTORY Olf NATHANlElv EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 17 
 
 issued on the 14th day of April, 1785, to Mr. Nathan Evans for 4 pounds 
 steriing for mihtia duty 1778. 
 
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
 (l. s.) and the Seal of State, this, the 11th day of July, A. D. 
 1903. J. T. Gantt, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 The State oe South Carolina. 
 Executive Department. 
 
 This is to certify that the records in this office show Indent No. 2504, 
 Book "X," to have been issued to Mr. Nathan Evans for 4 pounds 5 
 shillings and 8 pence, half penny sterling, for militia duty. Col. Water's 
 Regiment. 
 
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
 (e. s.) and the Seal of State, this, the 11th day of July, A. D. 
 1903. J. T. Gantt, 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 The State of South Caroeina. 
 Executive Department. 
 
 This is to certify that the records in this office show Indent No. 320, 
 Book "W," was issued on the 13th day of July, 1785, to Mr. Nathaniel 
 Evans for 4 pounds, 11-5 sterling, for militia duty as private. 
 
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
 (l. s.) and the Seal of State, this, the 11th day of July,' A. D. 
 1903. J. T. Gantt. 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 The following item appeared in "The State" newspaper, under the 
 title "Revolutionary Rolls," 30 October, 1904: "Evans, Nathan, private 
 in militia after fall of Charleston, 4 pounds, 11 shillings, 5 pence, also 
 under Capt. Anderson Thomas, in 1778." 
 
 In 1788, long after the musket had been laid aside, by which time 
 Nathan Evans had raked together the shattered fortunes of his father's 
 estate, he was married to Edith, the youngest daughter of Thomas 2 
 Godbold (John 1) and his wife, Martha Herron, the sister of Lieutenaijt 
 Stephen Godbold, another of Marion's soldiers, who had foug-ht throuc-h- 
 out the war. She lived only a few years, and a second time he married 
 Miss Fore, a lady of very respectable family. She died likewise within 
 
18 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 a few years, and again he married Miss Elizabeth Ann Rogers, the 
 daughter of Capt. Lot Rogers, who came to CaroHna from Virginia 
 before the war and was a good patriot. - He took up much more land 
 from the State and prospered in his worldly affairs, leaving a considera- 
 ble estate to his children when he died in the year 1810. The following 
 is a copy of his will : 
 
 "In the name of God Amen, I Nathan Evans of the State of South 
 Carolina and District of Marion, do make, ordain and declare this instru- 
 ment of writing to be my last Will and Testament. Imprimis, All my 
 just debts and funeral expenses are to be punctually and speedily paid 
 and the legacies hereinafter bequeathed are to be discharged as soon as 
 convenience will permit and in the directed manner. Item to my be- 
 loved Son Thomas Evans I give and bequeath a tract of land to be laid 
 off to him from the lower part of my Two tracts, namely. One hundred 
 acres from the lower part of land I now live on and also One hundred 
 acres from the tract of land known by the name of the David Evans 
 land adjoining the land I now live on, also I give to my beloeved son- 
 Thomas Evans fifty dollars to be paid to him by my Executor when he 
 shall arrive at the years of Twenty-one. I give to my beloved Daugh- 
 ters Eddy and Zilphey one negro girl named Sarah, her and her issue 
 to be equally divided between them the time of marriage or twenty-one, 
 also two cows and one feather bed, but in case one of my daughters 
 Eddy or Zilphy Evans should die before they come of age or marry, the 
 survivor to have the whole of said property. Item I give to my beloved 
 wife Elizabeth Evans during her natural life one tract of land I pur- 
 chased of my brother Thomas Evans, and at her decease to my son John 
 Gamewell Evans, also one tract of land adjoining, known by the name 
 of the Jessie Godbold land, land on the upper side of the Branch, One 
 hundred and fifty acres more or less to my beloeved wife during her 
 life, or at her decease to my son John Gamewell Evans. Item I give all 
 the residue of my land on both sides of Catfish to my sons William 
 Evans and Nathan Evans to be equally divided between them at the 
 years of twenty-one or to their heirs in case either of them should die 
 under age. Item I give to my beloved wife Elizabeth one negro Girl 
 named Anne during her natural life and at her decease to my beloved 
 daughter Elizabeth Ann Evans. Item I give to my beloeved sons Wil- 
 liam Evans, Nathan Evans and John Gamewell Evans three negroes to 
 
Mrs. Jane Beverly Evans, (nee Daniel,) 
 Wife of Hon. Thomas Evans. 
 
 From painting by Gardner^ 18^2. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 19 
 
 be devided between them, names, Kate, Will and Venus, when my said 
 children shall come of age. Item I give and bequeath to my beloved son 
 Thomas Evans One feather bed. Item I give all my stock of horses 
 cattle and sheep and hogs together with all my household furniture,' 
 what provisions I have on hand to my beloved wife to be at her dis- 
 posal. Item I appoint my beloved friends Jesse Legett and Abner 
 Legett Executors of this my last will and Testament, and Jessie Legett 
 Guardian to my two daughters Edey and Zilphey. In the year of our 
 Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten, and in the thirty-fourth and 
 thirty-fifth years of the American Independence as witness my hand and 
 
 '^!!:. , ^ "Nathan Evans." 
 
 bigned. Sealed in the presence of 
 
 his 
 "John Dunnam, David Legett, Jonathan X Rogers." 
 
 mark 
 Recorded May 33d, 1810 (Will Book No. 1, page 62). 
 
 , , „ Thos. Hareeee. 
 
 Nathan Evans had by his first wife, Edith Godbold :* 
 
 6. i. Thomas, h. Sept. 3, 1790; d. Aug. 9, 1845; m. Apl. 11, 1816, 
 Jane Beverly Daniel, dau. George Daniel, of Oxford, N. C., and 
 Martha Daniel, of "Tranquility," Granville Co., N. C. Buried at 
 "Tranquility," in old Daniel grave-yard. 
 
 7. ii. Asa, b — ; d. inf. 
 By second wife. Miss Fore : 
 
 8. iii. Edith, m. Col. Levi Leggett.f son of David Leggett, a Scotch- 
 man and original settler. 
 
 *See Godbold Excursus. 
 
 A ri^^\}^^^^^^^.^''^.^^^^ ^^^"^' his first wife, had three daughters- (1) 
 nf nlH T i^'"^' '"u ^^^ ^'H'"''- ^""^ "^^''"^^ Ebben Rogers, I grind-son 
 of old Lot Rogers, who went to Lower Marion and was murdered her? in IsS 
 
 Marrthe'second'H^^^'h; "^°f TVH^ ^^^'^^^ J" ^-Pes, of Lower Marion; 
 Mary, the second daughter of CoL Legette, married Edward C. Collins, and 
 
 time, Jesse Rogers her first husband's cousin, but had no children by him 
 
 were the children of this marriage ^««a (Legette) Rogers, married" a second 
 
 had five sons and two daughters. The sons were Woodson, Luther Edward C 
 
 and Lawrence; the name of the fifth is not known. One daughter married 
 
 ',"w?r"''"vP"^'' ^"^^- ^^^'^'"^' the third daughter of Col. Legette nw 
 ried Wilham Lloyd, and had two daughters. ^egeiie, mar 
 
 ^hl^2^^'-^T^ Y^^^u^ had a son, Rev. David Legette (known as Capt. David), 
 who married a daughter of John Richardson (known as "Kin-^ John") and 
 settled at Legette's Mill, below Marion. He had two sons, Hannab^lt was 
 IJ:^'^^ 1) "' the Confederate Army, and died of his wounds in Virginia, 
 and Kossuth, now living at Britton's Feriy, on Pedee River. A daughter 
 Amelia, married James Hamilton Evans, elsewhere mentioned 
 
20 HISTORY OF NATHAN I EI. EVANS AND HIS DECENDANTS. 
 
 9. iv. Zilpha, m. Robert James Gregg4 of Marion. 
 By third wife, Elizabeth Anna Rogers :§ 
 
 10. V. William, b. Apl. 7, 1804 ; d. June 6, 1876 ; m. June 19, 1827, 
 Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of Gen. Thomas Godbold, of Marion. 
 
 11. vi. Nathan, b. Sept. 18, 1805 ; d. Feb. 12, 1884 ; m. first, Dec. 7, 
 1832, Ann Eliza Baker ; second, Jan. 3, 1850, Harriet Eliz. Brady. 
 
 12. vii. Elisabeth, b. Sep. 30, 1810 ; d. Feb. 6, 1836 ; m. 1831, Peter 
 McCollum, of Bennettsville, Marlborough Co., S. C.§§ 
 
 13. viii. John Gamewell, unmarried. Was thrown from horse and 
 killed. 
 
 itSee Gregg Excursus. 
 
 §Lot Rogers, the first of the family in CaroHna, was born Suffolk County, 
 Va., 12th September, 1755. He was a son of Timothy Rogers, and came to 
 South Carolina before the Revolution, through which he fought among the 
 South Carolina militia troops. He married Anna, daughter of John Bethea, 
 Jr., of Nansemond County, Va. She came to Carolina with her brother, William 
 Bethea, from Suffolk Countv. Va. Issue: i David; ii. Timothy, b, 23d De- 
 cember, 1709; iii. Elizabeth' h. 22d February, 1782, m., first, Nathan Evans; 
 second, Francis Wayne, Esq.; iv. Robert, b. 21st January, 1783; v. Jonathan; 
 vi. Sarah, b. 24th April, 1789; vii. EUsha, b. 1st September, 1791 ; vni. Noah; 
 ix Philip, b. 8th March. 1796 ; x. William, b. 20th June, 1799. After the death 
 of her first husband, Nathan Evans, in 1810, Mrs. Evans married 'Squire Wayne, 
 who was very harsh with her Evans' children. She had two daughters by the 
 second marriage ; only one grew up, who married Alexander Murdock, of Marl- 
 boro County, and had five children. 
 
 §§See McCollum Excursus. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 21 
 
 OloliboUi lExrursua 
 
 w/<f .^^ i ' the first was a native of Suffolk, or Kent Counties, England; 
 was a man of mnsiHerable means, a staunch Church of England man. He is 
 bel.eved to have belonged to the old and distinguished family of that name in 
 those counties, whose estates are still very extensive. The lineage is honorable 
 and ancient, running back to the days of William the Conqueror (1066). 
 
 ihe following account of the Godbold lineage is appended as an aid to future 
 research in England which for lack of sufficient means the author has been 
 unable to pursue. C A Durham, Esq., of Marion, had it from an eminent 
 genealogist of New York City— who, however, in his limited examination, was 
 unable to definitely connect the families: 
 
 The Manor of West Hall, in the County of Suffolk, was one of the many 
 estates held by the family of Godbold. John Godbold is supposed to have been a 
 lineal descendant of Robert Godbold, who was the first owner, after the Conquest, 
 ot Kivers-Hall, in the Hundred of Lexden, about three-quarters of a mile north- 
 east ot the church ; it stands high, and is a large and convenient mansion. It was 
 included in the Lordship of Neyland, and was not mentioned in the Dooms-day 
 Book on that account. The two parishes belonging to Rivers-Hall lay in both 
 Lounties of Essex and Suffolk. Robert Godbold had free warren here and at 
 Affeldeham, as it is set forth in a perambulation, of the Forest of Essex- his 
 son, Robert, founded the Priory here. ' 
 
 Relatives of John Godbold hold the following estates: West-Hall, in County 
 Suffolk; Topingho-Hall, County Essex; Hatfield-Peverell, County Es'^ex; 
 Manor of Terling, alias Terling-Hall, alias Margeries, and an estate at Tot- 
 tington, Suffolk County. John Godbold, of this last place, died, 1648, a Judge ; 
 was of the Suffolk family ; he was admitted a Member of Barnard's Inn on 2d 
 May, and of Gray's Inn 16th November, 1604, and was called to the Bar by the 
 
22 HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 latter Inn in 1611, and was Reader there in the autumn of 1627. He soon 
 obtained a good practice, and is frequently mentioned m Coke's Reports, in 
 1636 he became a Sergeant, and was promoted to the Bench of the Common 
 Pleas by vote of both Houses of Parliament, on 30th April, 1647, and was also in 
 the commission to hear Chancery causes. He died at his home in High-Hol- 
 born, 1648. A volume of reports of cases in the reigns of Elizabeth, James and 
 Charles I., revised by him, was published in 1635. , , . , . , _ , , 
 
 Terling-Hall came to the Godbold family through Annie, heiress of Edmond 
 Shaa Gent, a descendant of Sir Joh Shaa, who was Lord Mayor of London 
 in 1501 Terling-Hall is described as having ten messuages, 600 acres arable, 
 20 of meadow, 100 of pasture, 40 of wood, and 10 L. rent, in Terling, Fairstead, 
 Boreham, Great Leyes and Hatf^eld-Peverell. . 
 
 Arms- Az. two bows, strung in saltier, or. Crest: An arm in armor proper 
 wreathed about the arm or. and az, with the ends flotant, holdnig m the gaunt- 
 let an arrow sa. feathered and headed ar. ^ ,^ • ^ . i 
 
 The following is largely taken from Sellers' History of Marion County where 
 a full but rambling account may be seen of the Godbold and collateral families. 
 
 I. John Godbold, b. Suffolk Co., Eng., cir. 1664 ; d. Craven Co., 
 S. C, 1765, aet. 101 an. ; m. Elizabeth McGurney. Was in West 
 Indian service of English Navy prior to 1735. Had issue: 
 
 2. 1, John — took up 550 acres Craven County, 1737-54. 
 
 3. 2, /ow^.y— took up -400 acres Craven County, 1769. 
 
 4. 3, Thomas. 
 
 II. John 2 Godbold, b. Craven now Marion Co., S. C. ; d. same; 
 m. Priscilla Jones. Had issue : 
 
 5. 1, Zachariah—a. Capt. in Revolution. 
 
 6. 2, John. 
 
 7. 3, Jesse. 
 
 III. James 2 Godbold, b. Craven, now Marion Co. ; d. same ; m. 
 Mourning Elizabeth Baker, dau. of Maj. Wm. Baker, officer and 
 patriot in Revolution— she was the widow of Mr. Johnson, of 
 Mar's Bluff, ancestor of Dr. Johnson. Had issue : 
 
 8. 1, John — Eieut. in Revolution. 
 
 9. 2, James. 
 
 10. 3, Zachariah — Lieut, in Revolution. 
 
 11. 4, Cade. 
 
 12. 5, Abram. 
 
 13. 6, Thomas. Will dated 17 May, 1825, probated 1 Aug., 1825. 
 
 IV. Thomas 2 Godbold, b. Craven, now Marion Co., S. C. ; d. 
 same ; m. Martha Herron. Had issue : , ^ 
 
 14. 1, Stephen— Lient. and Capt. in Revolution. 
 
 15. 2, David (lost sight of). 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 23 
 
 16. 3, Thomas. 
 
 17. 4, Blly. 
 
 18. 5, Bdith—m. Nathan 2 Evans (see Evans Register). 
 
 XIII. Gen. Thomas 3 Godbold, b. Craven Co., S C Aug 22 
 1774; d. same, July 21, 182f ; m. Sarah, dau. Hem-y Fladger and 
 Ehz. Keene (dau. of Buckingham Keene and Miss Horry sister 
 of Peter Horry) ; was Senator from Marion County and donated 
 the pubhc land now the site of the public square on which Court 
 House stands. Elected Brig. Gen. of militia, served until his 
 death ; was buried with military honors. He married, as afore- 
 said, Miss Fladger, the daughter of a gallant patriot, and a grand- 
 niece of Gen. Peter Horry, Francis Marion's right hand man. 
 Had issue : 
 
 19 1, Charles F b. Dec. 3, 1798 ; d. April 15, 1827 ; single ; M. D. of 
 U. ot Pa., A. B. S. C. College. Fought first duel engaged in at latter 
 institution ; was a brilliant and polished man. 
 
 20. 2, James T., b. 1803 ; d. 1823 ; single. 
 
 21. 3, Hugh, d. 1859 ; m. Rhoda Crawford (see "Hist. Old Che- 
 raws") ; no issue. 
 
 22. 4, Blhabcth, m. John Haseldon. 
 
 23 5, Sarah Ann, b. 25 April, 1807; d. 2 April, 1885; m. Gen Wm 
 Evans, 19 June, 1827. 
 
 24^6, Mary Jane, b. 12 June, 1809 ; d. 30 May, 1874 ; m. Maj. James 
 Haseldon, b. 11 Feb., 1805 ; d. 9 Jan., 1864. 
 
 25. 7, John, d. 189 ; children not known. 
 
 XIV. Stephen 3 Godbold, the eldest son of Thomas 2 and Martha 
 Herron Godbold, was born in Craven County, near present site of 
 Marion C. H., before the Revolution. He was an ardent patriot 
 and served as a Lieut, during the struggle for liberty. He was 
 buried at Old Shiloh Church, near Pee Dee Ferry, about 1840 
 He married, and left one son, Stephen G. It is not known what 
 his wife s name was. Was well-to-do. Had issue : 
 
 26. 1, Stephen G., by first marriage. 
 
 ^^' l~T~. '/^"^^^^""' by second marriage; m. J. F. Spencer, 
 
 who had ten children, names, ages, sexes not known. 
 
 XVI. Thomas 3 Godbold, the third son of Thomas and Martha 
 
24 HISTORY OF NATHANIE;l EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Herron Godbold, was born at or near the present site of Marion 
 C. H. Whom he married is not known. He had three sons : 
 
 28. 1, Asa. 
 
 29. 2, Elly. 
 
 30. 3, Thomas, d. 1836 ; m. Ann Gasque. 
 
 XXII. Elizabeth Keene 3 Godbold, the eldest daughter of Gen. 
 Thomas Godbold, was married to John Haseldon, the third son 
 of William Haseldon, an Englishman, and his wife, Mary Re- 
 becca, dau. of Stephen and Mary (Gaillard) Bradley, of Charles- 
 ton, S. C. Had issue: 
 
 32. 1, Sarah Jane, b. 3 Dec, 1826 ; m. Chesly Daniel Evans, Esq., 9 
 December, 1847 ; lives Marion, S. C. 
 
 33. 2, Hugh G., died in prison during Civil War of C. S. A. 
 
 34. 3, Cyrus B., died in Arkanses since Civil War. Second marriage 
 to Miss Monroe. 
 
 35. 4, Col. James Monroe, killed in Mexico at close of war. 
 
 36. 5, Dr. Prank Monroe, C. S. A. Surgeon. 
 
 XXIII. Sarah Ann 3 Godbold, second daughter of Gen. Thomas 
 Godbold, was married to Gen. Wm. Evans, son of Nathan Evans 
 and Elizabeth Rogers. She lived and died at "Oak Hall,"* her 
 home near Marion. For children, see Nathan Evans Register. 
 
 XXIV. Mary 3 Godbold, third daughter of Gen. Thomas Godbold 
 (Register, pg. 23), was married to James Haseldon, the brother 
 of John Haseldon, mentioned in No. 22. James Haseldon was 
 elected Major of militia. Had issue : 
 
 37. 1, Charles, m. Julia Ellerbe, three daus. and six sons. 
 
 38. 2, Anna. 
 
 39. 3, Sarah, m. William Ellerbe, four sons and nine daughters. 
 
 40. 4, Jane, m. Elihu Berry, two daus. and one son. 
 
 41. 5, James G., m. Rebecca Dudley. 
 
 42. 6, Margaret. 
 
 XXVI. Stephen G. 4 Godbold, the son of Lieut. Stephen God- 
 bold of the Revolution, was born in Marion County ; he married 
 and lived in Marion, where he engaged in merchandising. Had 
 
 issue : 
 
 43. 1, daughter, m. Dr. Frank A. Miles, Clerk of Court. 
 
 *The present home of Capt. Wm. Thos. Evans was the home of his father, Gen. 
 Wm. Evans, and of his grand-father. Gen. Thomas Godbold. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 25 
 
 44. 2, Dr. Samuel A. C, d. 
 
 45. 3, Stephen G., Jr., a merchant in Marion. 
 
 46. 4, daughter, m. W. L. Durant, seven children. 
 
 47. 5, daughter, m. Lide, of DarUngton County. 
 
 XXX. Thomas 4 Godbold, third son of Thomas 2, was born in 
 Marion and married Miss Ann Gasque. He died about 1836, 
 leaving a large family. Had issue : 
 
 48. 1, Ann, m. Mr. Harrington. 
 
 49. 2, Asa, m., 1828, Miss Sarah Cox. 
 
 50. 3, John. 
 
 51. 4, Robert, left one daughter. 
 
 52. 5, Thomas E. 
 
 53. 6, Alexander. 
 
 54. 7, Charles. 
 
 55. 8, Wm. H., M. D., m. first, Miss Mendenhall, of N. C. (no issue) ; 
 second, Miss Mary E. Hunt, High Point, N. C. 
 
 56. 9, Martha Ann, m. McCall. 
 
 XXXH. Sarah Jane 4 Godboed Haseldon, the eldest child of 
 Eliza. Keene and Major John Haseldon, born in Marion Co., S. 
 C, Dec. 3, 1836 ; married, Dec. 9, 1847, Chesly Daniel Evans, 
 Esq., of Marion. In her youth she is said to have been very 
 beautiful. She lives still (1904) in Marion, with her son, Junius, 
 and her daughter, Elizabeth. See issue in Evans Register. 
 
 XXXVH. Charles 4 Haseldon, eldest son of James and Mary 
 Jane 3 (Godbold) Haseldon, was born and reared in Marion 
 County, and still resides there. He married Miss Julia, daughter 
 of John C. Ellerbe, and had issue : 
 
 57. 1, -, d. ; married. 
 
 58. 2, Ann, s. 
 
 59. 3, Mary, s. 
 
 60. 4, James, m. dau. C. F. Dew ; lives in Marion County. 
 
 61. 5, C. Edgar, m. Miss Dusenbury, of Horry Co. 
 
 62. 6, Samuel, removed to the West. 
 (.V3. 7, Thomas, d. 
 
 64. 8, Alonso, Hves Marion Co. 
 
 65. 9, Guy, removed to Florida. 
 
26 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 XXXIX. Sarah 4, eldest daughter of James and Mary Jane 
 Haseldon (see 37), was married to Wm. S. Ellerbe, of Marion 
 Co., a prosperous and influential planter, and had issue : 
 G6. 1, Gov. Wm. B. Bllerhe, m. Henrietta Rogers. 
 
 67. 2, /. B. Bllerhe, m. Millie Elford, of Spartanburg. Two terms in 
 S. C. lower House of S. C. Gen. Assembly ; elected to Congress 
 190-i. Prosperous farmer. Had issue, four children. 
 
 68. 3, Cash Bllerhe, s. 
 
 69. 4, Mary, m. Dr. Ellerbe, her cousin, of Marlboro, had issue: i.. 
 Thomas; ii., Wm.; iii., Bstelle. 
 
 70. 5, Herbert, d. 
 
 71. 6, , daug., m. Jas. H. Manning ; have children. 
 
 72. 7, , daug., m. Chas. Rogers ; have children. 
 
 73. 8, , daug., m. Stephen G. Miles ; have children. 
 
 74. 9, , daug., m. S. A. C. Miles ; have children. 
 
 75. 10, , daug., m. Wm. Godbold ; have children. 
 
 76. 11, , daug., m. T. C. Moody ; have children. 
 
 77. 12, Omega, s. 
 
 78. 13, Bva, s. V^liUX- i. 
 
 XL. Jane 4, third daughter of J-ehn Haseldon and his wife, Mary 
 Jane 3 (Godbold), married Elihu Berry, and had issue: 
 
 79. 1, Sallie, m. Willis Fore. Had issue: i., Limvood, m. Miss Dud- 
 ley; ii., Tracy, m. dau. of H. R. Hays; iii., Willis; iv., Janic, m. 
 James Dudley ; v., Rehecca, m. John C. Hays. 
 
 80. 2, Sue, m. Capt. Wm. B. Evans, son of Nathan 3 Evans. (See 
 Evans Register). 
 
 81. 3, James H., m. first, Mollie, dau. of Capt. E. T. Stackhouse, and 
 had seven children ; second, daughter of John H. Davis, of Marion, 
 S. C. 
 
 XLI. James 4 G. Haseldon, second son and fifth child of John 
 Haseldon and wife, Mary Jane 3 (Godbold) ; he died 1900. Had 
 issue: 
 
 82. 1. James Dudley, m. Mary Edwards ; was twice member of lower 
 House. S. C, and member State Bd. Control of Dispensary; had 
 issue: i., /. Dudley; ii., Wm. B. 
 
 83. 2, Carrie, s. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 27 
 
 84. 3, Luther, lawyer, Dillon, S. C, A. B. & LL. B., S. C. College; 
 d. s. 
 
 85. 4, Lazurence Brinton. 
 
 XLIX. Asa 4 Godbold, eldest son of Thomas (30), was married 
 to Sarah Cox, in 1838. He was Ordinary of Marion Co., in 
 1859. Had issue: 
 
 86. 1, Mary Jane, m. Capt. Mat. Stanley, of Mexican and Civil Wars. 
 
 87. 2, James, m. dau. of W. F. Richardson, 
 
 88. 3, Thomas W., d. s. 
 
 89. 4, Asa, Jr., m. Sallie. dau. of John Ellerbe, sister W. S. Ellerbe. 
 
 90. 5, Sarah, m. Col. E. B. Ellerbe ; lives in Horry ; children. 
 
 91. 6, Ann Eliza, m. Edwin S. Bethea. 
 93. 7, F. Marion. 
 
 LV. Wm. H. Godbold, M. D., eighth child of Thomas 3 Godbold 
 (30) ; married, first, Miss Mendenhall, of N. C, but had no 
 issue; second, Sarah E. Hunt, of High Point. N. C, and had 
 issue: 
 
 93. 1, Thomas N., m. 1888, Mary, dau. W. W. Sellers, Esq., had 
 issue: i., Thomas C; ii., Annie; iii., Mary B. 
 
 94. 3, Wm. H., Jr., m., 1886, Miss Beatty, dau. Hon. J. C. Beatty, of 
 Horry Co. ; had issue, four children. 
 
 95. 3, Mattie, m. J. E. Stevenson ; issue, three children. 
 
 96. 4, Mary L., m. Richard Davis. (His widow married J. C. 
 Finckley, Capt. C. S. A. Issue one child, d. infancy.) 
 
 LXVI. Gov. Wm. E. 5 Ellerbe, eldest son of W. S. and Jane 
 (Haseldon) Ellerbe, grand-son Mary J. Godbold and James 
 Haseldon, was born Marion County ; m. Henrietta, dau. Henry 
 Rogers, of Marlboro Co.; issue, five sons (1 d.), one daughter; 
 was educated Woflford College, Class of 1888. Comp. Gen. S. 
 C, 1890-93 ; Gov., 1896-98 ; died 3 June, 1899. 
 
 LXXXIX. Asa 5 Godbold, fourth child of Asa 4 Godbold; m. 
 Sallie, sister of Capt. Wm. S. Ellerbe. Had issue : 
 
 97. 1, Walter, m. Miss Williams. 
 
 98. 3, William, m. Lucy Ellerbe. 
 
 99. 3, James C. 
 
 100. 4, I^azvrence. 
 
 101. 5, Luther. 
 
28 HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 . 102. 6, Alice, m. Rev. Thomas Pate, D. D., Methodist Conference. 
 
 103. 7, Mattie, m. J. B. Moore. 
 
 104. 8, Ann, m. James Harrell. 
 
 105. 9, Victoria, m. W. H. Breeden. 
 
 106. 10, Bessie, s. 
 
 107. 11, Daisy, s. 
 
 XCI. Ann Eliza 5 Godbold, sixth child of Asa 4 Godbold, m. 
 Ed. S. Bethea ; had issue: 
 
 108. 1, daughter, m. Dr. Wm. C. McMillan, Columbia, S. C. 
 
 109. 2, Asa. 
 
 110. 3, Edwin S., Jr. 
 
 XVII. Elly 3 Godbold, son of Thomas 2 Godbold, married and 
 had three sons : 
 
 111. 1, Gen. Blly Godbold, m. Miss Flowers. 
 
 112. 2, Gapt. Stephen Godbold, lost sight of. 
 
 113. 3, Ervin M. Godbold, m. Miss Foxworth. 
 
 CXI. Elly 4 Godbold, first son of Elly 3 Godbold, married Miss 
 Flowers, of Marion ; an able man ; was elected Sheriff of Marion 
 County twice, then Col. and afterwards Brig. Gen. of militia : 
 died in Marion, S. C, shortly before the war. Had issue : 
 
 114. 1. Hnger, m. dau. Stephen White; issue, i. and ii., sons, went 
 
 West ; iii., Wates; iv., daughter, m. Mr. Game ; v., daughter, 
 m. Freeman Foxworth ; vi., daughter, single. 
 
 115. 2, Dai'id, killed in war. 
 
 116. 3, Zachariah, m. and had issue : i., D. Edward, m. Miss Young ; 
 
 ii., Linnie, m. Kendle Haynes ; iii., Evy, d. s. ; iv., Susie, still 
 living, s. Edward is merchant and Intendent of Mullins, S. C. 
 
 CXIII. Ervin M. 4 Godbold, third son of Elly 3 Godbold, married 
 Miss Foxworth, and had issue : 
 
 117. 1, Thomas. 
 
 118. 2, daughter, m. S. G. Owens, Esq., late Clerk of Court of Com- 
 
 mon Pleas in Marion County. 
 

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HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 29 
 
 (Srrgg iExrurBitB.* 
 
 Captain David Gregg was born in the Shire of Argyle, Scotland, and 
 belonged to the famous Clan McGregor. He was a Captain in Oliver 
 Cromwell's army in 1655, and after the civil wars settled near London- 
 derry, Ireland. In 1689, he was massacred by Irish Catholics, but his 
 wife and four sons, i., John, ii., Samuel, iii., David, and iv., Andrew, 
 who were away on a visit, escaped. In 1717, the four sons came to 
 America, landing in Boston. David remained in Watertown, Mass., 
 for some years, and removed thence to Londonderry, N. H. Soon after 
 landing John, Samuel and Andrew removed from Boston to the Quaker 
 settlements of Pennsylvania. Here Samuel and Andrew remained, but 
 John (2) went to South Carolina and settled in Williamsburg County, 
 where he became a planter, and raised a family of four sons, i., James, ii.i 
 John, iii., Robert, and iv., William (3), and three daughters, v., Margaret^ 
 vi., Janet, and vii., Mary. This family removed between 1740 and 
 1760, up the Pedee River, and occupied lands about Sandy Bluff and 
 Mars Bluff, and from it has sprung the very large connection living in 
 that region. They figured in the establishment of the old Indiantown 
 Church of Williamsburg, and later in building the old Aimwell and 
 Hopewell churches, where successive generations have continued to 
 worship. Ever lovers of liberty, the Greggs were of the staunchest of 
 Whigs, and the annals of their prowess in the cause of American Inde- 
 pendence are recounted by one of the most illustrious of their family, 
 the Right Rev. Alexander Gregg, late Bishop of Texas, in "The History 
 of the Old Cheraws." The glorious records that the Gregg family won 
 for themselves in those troubled times were reglorified by the brilliancy, 
 self-sacrifice and devotion of its sons in the succeeding struggles 
 through which our country has passed, and their names will be read in 
 future ages upon the tablets commemorating those who fought so vali- 
 antly upon the bloody fields of Mexico's hills and Virginia's plains. 
 3. WiELiAM Gregg was born in 1770, and married in 1799, Jean 
 Mcllvein, of Williamsburg County, also of Scotch-Irish descent. 
 He settled on the North side of Jeffrey's Creek, in the neighbor- 
 
 *I am indebted to Benjamin Cause Gregg, M. D., for valuable assistance in the 
 preparation of this excursus. 
 
30 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 hood of Hopewell Church, which he helped to establish, and became 
 
 a large planter. Issue : 
 
 i., Robert James, b. 10th Aug., 1800 ; d. ; m. 14th Oct., 1818, 
 
 Zilphy, daughter of Nathan Evans 2 ; ii., Gordon; iii., Gadsden; 
 
 iv., Elijah; v., Levi; vi., Boyd; vii., Samuel; viii., Susannah; ix., 
 
 Wilds; X., William. 
 
 4. Robert James Gregg, the oldest son of William Gregg, removed 
 when a young man to Marion Court House, then known as Giles- 
 boro, where he married Miss Zilphy Evans, daughter of Nathan 
 Evans, and his wife. Miss Fore. Though reared in the Presby- 
 terian faith, there being no church of that persuasion in Marion, 
 young Gregg soon identified himself with the Methodist Church 
 and became an exemplary Christian. Sellers' History of Marion 
 County gives a long account of "Uncle Jimmy Gregg," who for 
 more than thirty years was Tax Collector for Marion County, and 
 whom he describes as "the salt of the earth," imbued with the milk 
 of human kindness and beloved by his fellow-citizens, who all knew 
 and loved him. Issue: 
 
 5. i., niisabeth Jane, b. 11th Jan., 1819 ; d. 36th April, 1827. 
 
 6. ii., Wesley Washington, b. 10th Nov., 1820; d. 4th March, 1865; 
 m. 22d Dec, 1842, Eleanor Laurens Wayne, of Georgetown, b. 
 16th June, 1824; d. 26th Jan., 1903. 
 
 7. iii., Robert Evans, b. 3d August, 1822 ; d. 15th Oct., 1899 ; m. 
 Minnie Shaw, of Georgetown, S. C. 
 
 8. iv., John McNeill, b. 6th Feb., 1824 ; d. inf. 
 
 9. v., Martha Serena, b. 9th April, 1825 ; d. 26th April, 1900 ; m. 
 Wm. Capers Foxworth, of Marion, b. 1821 ; d. 4th March, 1897. 
 
 10. vi., Zilpha Ann, b. 29th Dec, 1826 ; d. 1897 ; m. John Woodberry, 
 b. 13th Feb., 1802 ; d. 19th Feb., 1886. 
 
 11. vii., Mary McPadden, b. 15th Jan., 1830 ; d. 1st Aug., 1869 ; m. 
 14th Dec, 1852, William James Dickson. 
 
 12. viii., Siisannah Eady, b. 21st April, 1831 ; m. first. Senator Ben- 
 jamin Cause, of Horry County; second, James M. Stevenson. 
 
 13. ix., Nathan Thomas, b. 31st March, 1831 ; d. 15th Dec, 1843. 
 
 14. X., Wm. James, b. 12th May, 1835 ; d. Dec, 1855. 
 
 15. xi., Sarah Jane, h. 14th March, 1837 ; d. inf. 
 
 16. xii., Rhody Caroline, b. 3d Sept., 1840 ; d. inf. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 31 
 
 6. Wesley Washington Gregg, the eldest son of R. James Gregg 
 and Zilphy Evans, though a husband and father, vokinteered at the 
 first call for troops in the Civil War, and served faithfully as a 
 member of Company I., 21st S. C. Volunteers. At the fall of Fort 
 Fisher, N. C, he was captured and imprisoned at Elmira, N. Y., 
 until broken in health, he was exchanged, but before reaching the 
 Confederate lines, died of his maladies at Richmond, Va. His 
 widow removed his remains to Marion and there they lie interred. 
 Issue : 
 
 17. i., William Wayne, b. 25th June, 18M. He enlisted in the gal- 
 lant First, Maxey Gregg's Regiment, when South Carolina seceded, 
 and by his dashing bravery won his brevet as Color Bearer of the 
 Regiment before it went into the Peninsular Campaign. At Seven 
 Pines, when but seventeen years old, he fell severely wounded, 
 struggled up and fell again, when the colors were seized by young 
 Taylor, of Columbia, who but a few minutes later fell mortally 
 wounded. A third young soldier of the same age fell that day 
 bearing Maxey Gregg's colors, and in memory of their undying 
 heroism the Daughters of the Confederacy have placed a tablet in 
 the State House at Columbia. Young Gregg was taken to Rich- 
 mond, and while still lying in a hospital, partially convalescent, he 
 heard of an approaching battle, and creeping out of his ward he 
 hurried to the field ; but failing to reach his regiment, he fell in 
 with an Alabama regiment, and fighting with them fell mortally 
 wounded at Gaines' Mill. His comrades laid him under a great 
 apple tree, and later his fond mother carried home all that was 
 mortal of her gallant son. 
 
 18. ii., Wesley Laurens, b. 14th Sept., 1845; m. 27th Jan., 1876, 
 Hattie H. Bell, of Columbia, b. 30th Aug., 1846. Issue: i., W. 
 Laurence, b. 16th Nov., 1876 ; m. Carrie Williams ; ii., CJias. M., b. 
 20th Aug., 1878 ; m. Willye Emmet, of Wilmington, N. C. ; iii., 
 Benjamin W., b. 29th July, 1880 ; iv., S. Bell, b. 10th Oct., 1882 ; 
 v., inf., dec. 
 
 19. iii., Annette Wafies, b. 26th Nov., 1846 ; m. 3d Dec, 1868, Wm. 
 Fox Carter, of Richland Co., S. C. ; resides at Macon, Ga. Issue: 
 l, Wm. Wesley, M. D., b. 23d Nov., 1869 ; m. Miss Hartsorn, and 
 resides in New York City; ii., Eleanor Lesesne, b. 19th Sept., 
 
32 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 1871 ; d. inf. ; iii., Nannette Gregg, b. 19th Oct., 1873 ; m. 
 
 Smith ; resides in Georgia ; iv., James Nottingham, M. D., b. 23d 
 May, 1877, Macon, Ga. ; resides in Savannah ; v., Theus Marion, b. 
 19th Aug., 1880 ; d. inf. ; vii., Benjamin Tyler, b. 17th Nov., 1885 ; 
 vii., Chas. Freeman, b. 17th Aug., 1887. 
 
 20. iv., Robert James, b. 21st June, 1848 ; m. 27th Nov., 1873, Mary 
 Bailey Mclntyre, of Rocky Point, N. C. ; is a planter and lives near 
 Marion, S. C. Issue: i., Bleanor Wayne, b. Norcross, Ga., 9th 
 Sept., 1874 ; ii., David Mclntyre, b. Marion, S. C., 26th Feb., 1876 ; 
 iii., Wm. Carter, b. 9th Nov., 1877 ; iv., Mary Bailey, b. 10th Aug., 
 1879 ; m. Mr. Hand, of N. C. ; v., Molier Mclntyre, b. 1st Aug., 
 1883; vi., Annie, b. Altoona, Fla., 24th Feb., 1888; vii., Jiarriet 
 Elisabeth, b. Fair Bluff, N. C., 30th June, 1891 ; viii., James Wes- 
 ley, b. Fair Blufif, N. C., 22d Feb., 1894. 
 
 21. v., Anna Jane, b. 16th May, 1851, Marion, S. C. 
 
 22. vi., Lisde Theus, b. 18th July, 1851, Marion, S. C. 
 
 23. vii., Dennis Simmons, b. 1st Sept., 1858 ; d. inf. 
 
 24. viii., Benjamin Cause, M. D., b. 19th May, 1860, Marion, S. C. 
 He entered Mercer University, from which he graduated in 1883. 
 Studied pharmacy, passing the State Board examinations in less 
 than two years, and removed in 1889 to Florence, where he engaged 
 in business for himself. The same year, 27th Feb., 1889, he mar- 
 ried Kate F., youngest daughter of Judge J. W. Green Smith, of 
 Staunton, Va. After three years he entered the Medical and Sur- 
 gical Department of the University of New York, from which he 
 received his degree in 1892. Every cent expended in his education 
 he earned himself. He now enjoys a flourishing practice in Flor- 
 ence, where he is one of the Surgeons of the Atlantic Coast Line 
 Railroad. Issue: [., Benjamin Cause, Jr., b. 21st Nov., 1889 ; ii., 
 Lucius Smith, b. 11th May, 1892 ; d. inf. ; iii., Jessie Chestnut, b. 
 2d Aug., 1896. 
 
 25. ix., William Tyler, b. 6th July, 1862 ; thrown from a horse and 
 killed, 5th Sept., 1885. 
 
 26. X., Frances Wayne, b. 28th Jan., 1864 ; d. inf. 
 
 27. xi.. Infant daughter (posthumous), d. inf. 
 
 7. Robert Evans Gregg married, in 1865, Miss Minnie Shaw, a 
 sister of Judge Shaw, of Georgetown County, and they resided in 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 38 
 
 Marion. I have been unable to procure full details of his ser- 
 vices in the Confederacy. He survived his wife two years. 
 Issue : 
 
 28. i., Annetta Walker, b. Marion, S. C. ; m. Henry E. Gasque, and 
 have issue: i., Sarah May; ii., Mable Grace; iii., Clara Bvalyne. 
 
 29. ii., Robert Evans, b. Marion, S. C. ; married, but left no issue. 
 
 30. iii., Thomas Shaw. 
 
 31. iv., Archibald Williatn. 
 
 32. v., Mary M. 
 
 33. vi., Legrand Guerry Walker, d. 
 
 34. vii., Susan Bdith. 
 
 9. Martha Serena Gregg, who married Wm. Capers Foxworth, 
 lived in Lower Marion County, and left issue : 
 
 35. i., Zilpha Elizabeth, b. 1852 ; d. 1861. 
 
 36. ii., Robert Evans, m. Mary W. Woodberry, of Briton's Neck, 
 and had issue: i., Harriet Julia; ii., Mary S.; iii., Edgar. 
 
 37. iii., James Edivin. 
 
 38. iv.. Win. Capers, Jr., m. Mary S. Mclntyre, and had issue: i., 
 George Duncan; ii., Emma Rena; iii., Sarah Jane. 
 
 39. v., Sarah Jane, m. Eli H. Gasque, and had issue: i., William 
 Herbert; ii., Rena Katherine ; iii., James Carroll; iv., Lucy Vir- 
 ginia. 
 
 40. vi., George Wesley, m. Virginia Watson Cook, and had issue: i.. 
 Derail Floride ; ii., Archie M.; iii., Catherine Elizabeth; iv., Maxey 
 Cook. 
 
 41. vii., Lticy Ann, m. Henry Hertoflf (both dead) ; had issue: i., 
 Sarah Lucile; ii., Charles Frederick. 
 
 42. viii., Maxey Gregg, s. 
 
 43. ix., Thomas Cobb, s. 
 
 10. ZiEPHA Ann Gregg married John Woodberry, and had issue: 
 
 44. i., John G., b. 26th Jan., 1861 ; m. Janie Elizabeth Davis, b. 12th 
 Dec, 1868, and had issue: i., Annie A., b. 6th Oct., 1895; ii., Sue 
 M., h. 23d Dec, 1898 ; iii., Lucile, b. 31st May, 1900 ; iv., Marion 
 Davis. 
 
 45. ii., Wattie G., b. 27th Nov., 1863 ; d. 30th April, 1899 ; m. R. Bell 
 Eaddy, b. 11th Aug., 1878, and had issue: i., John Henry, b. 22d 
 Feb., 1889 ; ii., Clarence, b. 11th Aug., 1891 ; iii., David L., h. 7th 
 
34 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Aug., 1895; iv., Sallie B., b. 10th March, 1898; d. mf. ; v., Wallie 
 Gamewell, b. 27th Aug., 1899. 
 
 11. Mary McFadden Gregg, who married Wm. J. Dixon, resided 
 in Marion, and had issue: 
 
 46. i., Ida Ann, m. Dr. D. S. Price, and had issue: i., Mary Eliza; ii., 
 Ann Rosalie. 
 
 47. ii., James, d. s., aet. twenty-eight years. 
 
 48. iii., William Ferdinand, d. s., aet twenty-six years. 
 
 49. iv., Alaxev, m. Mamie Robson, of Charleston, S. C. ; have one 
 child. 
 
 50. v., Laura H., dec. ; m. July, 1880, Geo. C. Walsh, had issue: i., 
 Wm. C. Dixon. 
 
 51. vi.. Sue Gibson, m. 1886, Geo. C. Walsh; had issue: [., Mary 
 Francis. 
 
 52. vii., Wesley Gregg, m. first. Elizabeth Bristow, dec. ; had issue: i., 
 Elizabeth; m. second. Genie Parrott ; had issue: {., Alice; ii., Nellie; 
 iii., James; vi., Maxey; v., William. 
 
 12. Susannah Eady Gregg, married, first, Benjamin Gause, of 
 Horry County, by whom she had a son, 
 
 53. i., Benjamin Gause, Jr., b. 18th Jan., 1860 ; m. Helen L. Nissen, 
 of Florence County, and had issue: i., Theodosia; ii., Edith (dead) ; 
 m., second, James N. Stevenson, of Horry County, and had issue: 
 
 54. ii., Robert G., b. 26th Jan., 1863, s. 
 
 55. iii., Samuel M., b. 28th April, 1864 ; m. Miss Bostick. 
 
 56. iv., Mary D., b. 13th Oct., 1865 ; d. 1901 ; m. L. F. Davis, and had 
 issue: i., Marie; ii., Susie; m., James; iv., Virginia, and four chil- 
 dren deceased. 
 
 57. v., Annie V., b. 17th Nov., 1866 ; d. Nov., 1904. 
 
 58. vi., James N., b. 21st Jan., 1868 ; m. Florence Graham. 
 
 59. vii., Wm. H., b. 18th June, 1869 ; d. inf. 
 
 60. viii., Martha S., b. 6th Oct., 1871 ; m. L. F. Davis, widower of 56, 
 no issue. 
 
 61. ix., Susannah E., b. 23d Feb., 1873 ; m. Dixie Gregg, of Florence, 
 no issue. 
 
 62. X., Charles E., b. 5th Aug., 1874 ; m. Bessie Alice Gregg, and has 
 issue: i., Robert Gray; ii., Alice Lucile. 
 
HISTORY OP NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 35 
 
 iirOIoUum lExrursits. 
 
 Peter McCoeeum was born in Bennettsville, S. C, in 1804.? ^ 
 His ^ther was a native Scotchman, who fled to America after the 
 defeat of the "Pretender" James, at the battle of Culloden, with many 
 of his countrymen, among them the Mclntoshes and Mclvers, who hke- 
 wise settled on the npper Pedee River, about 1740. His mother, Mc- 
 Iver Christian Campbell, was a daughter of a Highland chieftain and a 
 kmswoman of the then Duke of Argyle. Peter McCollum went to what 
 was then "the far West," in 1820. and was in business with Ezra Hill. 
 Returning to South Carolina, several years later, he was married to 
 Miss Elizabeth Evans, and, in 1835, moved with his family to Mobile, 
 Ala., where he went into copartnership with his old employer. In 
 1836 his wife died, and he was married again, some years later, to Miss 
 Catherine McLaurin, of Fayetteville, N. C. ; she, however, lived only a 
 short time, leaving three children— .l/an-, who married W. W. Leake, 
 Esq., of Dallas, Texas; Catherine, who married W. N.^^KennedyTof 
 Marshall, Texas, and Hugh, a gallant young fellow, who, at the age 
 of twenty-two, fell, mortally wounded, at the battle of Jenkins Ferr'^v, 
 Ark., while intrepidly leading his men through a hail of lead, and in 
 whose honor the camp of Confederate Veterans, of Camden, Ark., is 
 named. Peter McCollum was again married to Miss Rounsville, who 
 lived but a short time, leaving one son, Gustavus. His last wife, who 
 survived him, was Miss Fellows, of New York, a sister of Hon. D. W. 
 Fellows. He died in Camden, Ark., on the 7th of Feb.. 1871. which 
 sad event caused a deep and permanent regret to his great circle of 
 friends, and which elicited most copious encomiums of the State press 
 upon his many generous and manly qualities of heart and intellect. 
 Elizabeth Evans was born on the "Old Evans Homestead," near 
 the present village of Marion, S. C, on the 30th dav of September 
 1809. 
 
 She was the only daughter of her father by his third wife, 
 Elizabeth Ann Rogers. Upon her father's death, when she was an 
 infant, and the remarriage of her mother to Mr. Wayne, she was taken 
 to Marlboro County and there grew to womanhood. She attended an 
 excellent seminary at Rockingham, N. C, where she enjoyed the un- 
 
36 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 usual advantage of a complete education, and upon her return was very 
 soon married to Mr. Peter McCollum, of Bennettsville, then living in 
 Mobile, Ala. Two children were born of this union, John and Vir- 
 ginia, who were still in their infancy when their beautiful young mother 
 fell a victim to smallpox, which she had contracted from her family 
 physician. She died on the 6th of February, 1836, and her children 
 were taken to the home of her husband's brother, Daniel McCollum, of 
 
 Claiburn, Ala. Issue : 
 
 i., John Bvans McCollum, b. Bennettsville, Marlboro Co., S C, 
 
 ' Dec. 28, 1832 ; d. Dumfries, Va., Nov. 23, 1861, in hospital, C. S. 
 
 army ; m. Feb. 27, 1855, Octavia C. Moore, of Camden, Ark. 
 
 ii., Virginia Bvans McCollum, b. Bennettsville, Marlboro Co., S. C, 
 
 Oct. 19, 1834 ; m. April 15, 1857, George H. Stinson, of Bath, 
 
 Me. 
 Mr. Stinson went to Arkansas in 1848 and engaged in merchandising 
 at Camden. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he cast in his fortunes 
 With the South and volunteered in the Confederate Army. At Shiloh he 
 received a severe wound from a rifle ball which destroyed the sight of his 
 right eye and almost ended his life. After the war he resumed his busi- 
 ness and died in Camden on the 16th of May, 1898. Mrs. Stinson still 
 resides in Camden with her son, John McCollum Stinson. Issue : 
 
 i., Kate Augusta, b. Camden, Ark., 6th June, 1859 ; d. same, 6th 
 
 Nov., 1861. 
 
 ii., Elisabeth Ez'ans, b. Camden, Ark., 28th May, 1861 ; m. 15th 
 April, 1884, John B. McCaughey, of Camden; issue: i., Nelhe 
 Bvans; ii., George Stinson, d. 
 
 iii., Mary, b. Camden, Ark., 28th Feb., 1864 ; m. 3d Nov., 1886, 
 Walter W. Watts, a merchant of Camden ; b. Mt. Holly, Ark., 
 1861, d. 20th Sept., 1902; issue: i., Annie Chester; ii., Charles 
 Stinson; iii., Virginia McCollum. 
 
 iv John McCollum Stinson, b. Camden, Ark., m. Miss Alice Lov- 
 ing, of Pine Bluff, Ark. He is a prosperous busmess man of 
 Camden ; issue : i., Laura Virginia; ii., Catherine. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 37 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 6. Thomas 2 Evans (Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1), was born on his 
 father's plantation, near the village of Marion, on the 3d of Sep- 
 tember, 1790. He was married from the house of Hon. Chesley 
 Daniel, on the 11th of April, 181 G, to Miss Jane Beverly Daniel,* 
 then residing with her brother. He died at "Tranquility," the old 
 Daniel home in Granville County, North Carolina, while on his 
 return from Old Point Comfort, Va., and lies buried in the family 
 grave-yard there. 
 
 He was born and reared during a time and in a community which had 
 not then recovered from the desperate partisan warfare of seven years' 
 duration ; in a country sparsely settled and but partially reclaimed from 
 the wild state in which his fathers had found it, and which nourished 
 more those hardier virtues and accomplishments of a strenuous rural 
 life than the elegances and refinements which found their congenial 
 abode within the more thickly settled parishes and towns of the coast. 
 
 When education was in that country rare, with determination and 
 perseverance, he acquired, by wide and judicious reading, a liberal edu- 
 cation. His handwriting, which was firm and regular, bears the marks 
 of a strong personality, and his style of composition was excellent. In 
 appearance he was of striking figure and distinguished manner, stand- 
 ing six feet one in height and of erect and alert carriage. He is said to 
 have borne such a marked resemblance to John C. Calhoun as often to 
 have been taken for him. His eyes were of an intensely deep blue, and 
 his hair dark and worn brushed back from a massive forehead. His 
 temperament was equable, but an indomitable will and gravity of ex- 
 pression gave him the appearance of austerity. 
 
 During early life he engaged extensively in mercantile pursuits, which 
 proved highly profitable ; but later he devoted his attention more par- 
 ticularly to planting, and was among the first of his community to 
 undertake the extensive cultivation of cotton. The disastrous panic 
 of 1837 involved him financially and he sustained an almost overwhelm- 
 ing loss from the great depreciation in the value of cotton, in which he 
 had invested largely. From these losses he never entirely recovered and 
 his untimely death in the fifty-fifth year of his age left his estate much 
 depleted. 
 
 *See Daniel Excursus, p. 29. 
 
88 HISTORY Of NATHANIEL SVANS AND HIS DESCElNDANTS. 
 
 In 184-i, by some imprudence, he contracted a severe case of pleurisy 
 which developed into tuberculosis. Seeking a change of atmosphere in 
 the hope of prolonging his life, he traveled during the summer of 1845 
 among the Virginia Springs and watering places, taking with him his 
 young son, James, then a lad of fourteen. Finally, desparing of an 
 improvement of his condition, he set out from Old Point Comfort for 
 his Carolina home, going by way of Granville County, N. C, to visit 
 and rest among his wife's kindred, but there his strength failed him, and 
 on the 9th of August he died at "Tranquility," the old Daniel home- 
 stead, and was buried in the family grave-yard. 
 
 Thomas Evans was a man of note in his day, and his high character 
 won a tribute in his repeated election from his County to the State 
 Senate, of which body he was a member from 1833 to 1840, and after his 
 retirement from the Senate by his appointment as Master in Equity of 
 Marion District, which position he filled until his death. In 1816, he 
 was one of the Presidential Electors for South Carolina and cast his 
 vote for James Madison ; and again he was elector for Jackson, but 
 became very bitter against Jackson when the latter took such a decided 
 stand against Nullification. His residence is still standing in Marion 
 village, and is now known as the "Moody" place. It is located to the 
 south of the Court House and adjoining the public square. It was 
 built originally for the Court House, for which purpose it was utilized 
 until the erection of the present brick structure. 
 
 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 suf- 
 ferings 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 acci- 
 dent. While inspecting some repairs which were going on upon the 
 roof of her residence in Marion, a carpenter, one of her own slaves, not 
 
■ pleurisy 
 re in 
 1845 
 
 his 
 
 J J. an 
 
 s.;i ,j.i, 't for 
 
 ,.f rr.. . visit 
 
 ;. and 
 aquilit lome- 
 
 ~ ve-yard 
 
 I his high character 
 
 his County to the State 
 
 1840, and after his 
 
 in Equity of 
 
 ' - 1816, he 
 
 -ast his 
 
 but 
 
 ■ed 
 
 : -'Tl 
 
 as 
 
Brig. Gen. William Evans 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 39 
 
 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. 
 
 Thomas Evans 3 and Jane Beverly, his wife, had issue : 
 
 14. i., Chesley 4, b. Marion, S. C, 10 Jan., 1817; d. Marion, S. C, 
 May, 29, 1897 ; m. Sarah Jane Haseldon, Dec. 9, 1847. 
 
 15. ii., Martha Serena 4, b. Feb. 36, 1820 ; d. inf. 
 
 16. iii., Thomas 4, b. April 20, 1822; d. 1879; m. Mary E. Lawson, 
 of Ga., Aug. — , 1856.. 
 
 17. iv., Nathan George 4, b. Feb. 3, 1824 ; d. Nov. 30, 1868 ; m. A. 
 Victoria Gary, March — , 1860. 
 
 18. v., Beverly Daniel 4, b. Feb. 6, 1826 ; d. March 21, 1897 ; m. Isabel 
 Smith, of Ga., May — , 1856. 
 
 19. vi., Andrew Jackson 4, b. Jan. 1, 1828 ; d. Jan. — , 1862 ; bachelor; 
 member S. C. Conference M. E. Church, South. 
 
 20. vii., Alfred 4, b. Nov. 24, 1829 ; m. Jan. — 1872, Catherine Price, 
 of Mississippi ; d. July — , 1904. 
 
 21. viii., James 4, b. Sept. 12, 1831 ; m. Jan. 4, 1865, Maria Antoinette 
 Powell, of Virginia. 
 
 22. ix., Asa Lezms 4, b. April 10, 1834 ; m. , 1866, Tracy Mc- 
 
 Clennighan. 
 
 23. X., IVilliam Edwin 4, b. Dec, 1835 ; d. Dec. 21, 1893 ; bachelor. 
 
 24. xi., Mary Jane 4,,b. Nov. 5, 1837 ; d. inf. 
 
 25. xii., Sarah Jane 4, b. Jan. 4, 1840; m. Dec. 6, 1860, Capt. Robert 
 Legare Singletary. 
 
 26. xiii., Woodson 4, b. April 3, 1842 ; d. Jan. 10, 1859, while a stu- 
 dent at S. C. M. A., Charleston, S. C, buried Marion S. C. 
 
 10. General William 3 Evans (Nathaniel 2, Nathaniel 1). was 
 
 born on the "Old Evans Homestead," near the village of Marion, 
 
 then known as Gilesborough, S. C, on the 7th of April, 1804. 
 
 Due to the death of his father and the remarriage of his mother two 
 
 years afterwards, he was thrown much upon his own resources at a very 
 
 tender age. His step-father. Squire Wayne, was exceedingly harsh in 
 
 his treatment of William and his >x)unger brother, Nathan, and at the 
 
 early age of twelve and ten years, respectively, the two boys were torn 
 
40 HISTORY 01^ NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 from their mother's side and apprenticed to some journeyman mechanic 
 in Georgetown. William, a fine, sturdy lad, swore he would thrash the 
 cruel step-father, and he kept his word. Deprived thus in his youth of 
 the advantages of an education, he, nevertheless, by studious application, 
 overcame this loss, and his vigorous intellect and integrity of character 
 soon forced him into notice and position, while his energy and thrift 
 enabled him to amass a considerable estate. His strong personality was 
 not long in gaining recognition through his section and throughout the 
 State. While yet a young man he was elected to the command of a 
 regiment of militia and soon thereafter he received the appointment to 
 the command of the "Eighth Brigade of South Carolina" as Brigadier 
 General, under the hand of his Excellency, Governor Robert Y. Hayne, 
 his commission dating April 12, 1833, during that stern and troubled 
 period when South Carolina imminently approached the crisis which 
 finally did culminate in 1860 and plunged the nation into four years of 
 war. This commission is countersigned upon the back by Maj. Gen. 
 Joseph Alston, afterwards the Governor of the State, and upon the back 
 also appears the formal oath administered by the State to her officers to 
 "execute and enforce the Ordinance to nullify certain Acts of the Con- 
 gress of the United States, etc.," which was in pursuance of the famous 
 Ordinance of Nullification passed in Convention on the 24th of Novem- 
 ber, 1832, of which General Evans was a delegate from his native 
 County. 
 
 General Evans thrice represented his District in the General Assem- 
 bly of the State (1838, 1846-1850), and was a member of the Tax Pay- 
 ers Convention of 1874, which was the initial step taken by the white 
 citizens to throw off the odious yoke of carpet-bagger and negro rule. 
 During the war he was beyond the age limit for service, but was enlisted 
 with the reserves and was actively engaged in the last attempt to check 
 Sherman's hordes in their march to the sea. 
 
 From athletic exercises in his youth. Gen. Evans had developed his 
 naturally strong physique to almost gigantic strength, so that even in his 
 old age he was capable of enduring the greatest fatigue. In his social 
 nature he was most happily endowed. Possessed of ample dignity, his 
 geniality and courtesy of manner, with his mind well stored with the 
 interesting reminiscences of a long life and wide travels, and his conver- 
 sation sparkling with intelligence and humor, rendered him a most 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANISI, i;VANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 41 
 
 agreeable companion and estimable friend, and these charming- attributes 
 of his nature never showed to more advantage than when he was dis- 
 pensing the generous hospitalities of his house "Oak Hall," the beautiful 
 home which he had built upon the lands which his fathers had taken 
 from the Indians as the first grantees from the State. This old home, 
 so appropriately named, for it is surrounded by monarch oaks of a 
 beautiful variety, indigenous to that country, is still in the possession of 
 the family, the home of four generations, and is now owned by General 
 Evans' son and namesake, William T. Evans, Esq. 
 
 General Evans was a man of profound religious temperament, and 
 was for many years a staunch member of the Methodist Church in 
 Marion, doing much, in his quiet way, to establish that faith through his 
 section of the State. His death occurred from apoplexy, on the Cth of 
 June. 1876, causing the greatest sorrow throughout the community ; the 
 places of business were closed in his honor, and he was buried with 
 Masonic and military honors, the whole militia of the District turning 
 out to pay their last marks of respect to their late commander. 
 
 He was married, on the 19th day of June, 1827, to Miss Sarah Ann 
 Godbold, a daughter of General Thomas Godbold, of Marion District. 
 Mrs. Evans, who survived her husband, was a lady of rare beauty of 
 character and grace of manner, a devoted wife and mother. Even in 
 her old age her placid features disclosed traces of the beauty which she 
 is said to have been famous for in her youth. Issue : 
 
 27. i., Charles GameweU, b. May 30, 1828 ; d. March 4, 1829. 
 
 28. ii., Mary Elhabeth, b. June 8, 1829 ; d. July 29, 1859 ; m. March 
 1849, Judge Augustus Julian Requier, of Miss. 
 
 29. iii., Sarah Catherine, h. Aug. 29, 1830 ; d. Aug. 6, 1802. 
 
 30. iv., James Hamilton, b. March 11, 1832; d. June 19, 1891; m. 
 Amelia, daughter of Col. David Leggett, of Marion County ; was 
 educated at U. of N. C. Entered C. S. A. and served throughout 
 the war. No issue. 
 
 31. v., Elisa Jane, b. Feb. 4, 1834; m. Feb. 22, 1855, Dr. Dixon 
 Evans, of Fayetteville, N. C. ; hves in Marion, S. C. 
 
 32. vi., Annie Maria, b. Jan. 15, 183C ; m. Dec. 21, 1854, Colonel 
 John Gilchrist Blue, of Richmond Co., N. C. 
 
42 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 33. vii., Martha Louisa, b. April 30, 1837 ; m. first, Peter A. Mc- 
 Eachern, June 4, 1855 ; second, Rev. Wm. C. Power, March 20, 
 
 1867. 
 
 34. viii., Wm. Thomas, b. Dec. 1, 1838 ; m. Jan. 37, 1869, Lucy C. 
 
 Stith, of Wilson, N. C. 
 
 35. ix., Julia R., b. April 2, 1840 ; d. Oct. 12, 1862 ; m. Dec. 29, 1859, 
 Capt. Duncan Mclntyre, of Mar's Bluff, Darlington Co., S. C. 
 
 36. X., Margaret Bllen, b. July 25, 1842 ; m. May, 1864, Major 
 Solon A. Durham, of Marion, formerly of Shelby, N. C, stationed 
 at Marion when wounded and in charge of that Military District. 
 
 II. Nathan 3 Evans (Nathan 2, Nathan 1), was born on the "Old 
 Evans' Homestead," near the village of Marion, S. C, on the 18th 
 of September, 1805. 
 He, like his brother, William, suffered the misfortune of losing in his 
 tender youth the fostering care of his father, who died when he was but 
 a child of five years of age. 'Twas he who with his elder brother, 
 William, was torn from his mother's side while yet a small boy and 
 apprenticed to a tradesman, who took him far away from his home, his 
 friends, and his kinsfolk. Thrown thus early upon their own resources, 
 the boys grew not only dependent upon each other, but touchingly 
 devoted in their relations and interests. This devotion lasted through 
 life, and has been in a large measure transmitted to their children, from 
 which has grown largely that clannishness of family ties that is pro- 
 verbial among their descendants. 
 
 Nathan Evans settled in early manhood upon the plantation which 
 had been left him by his father, and engaged in the pursuits of a South- 
 ern planter. By industry and good management he accumulated a com- 
 fortable fortune, extended his lands, which he cultivated with the labor 
 of his many slaves ; built for himself and his family a beautiful home, 
 after the Colonial style, not unlike his brother's place, "Oak Hall." 
 This beautiful old place was destroyed only a few years ago by fire. 
 Nathan Evans was a man greatly respected and beloved throughout his 
 neighborhood and represented his County one term in the General As- 
 sembly of the State (1858), but his nature was retiring, and he took 
 more interest in the management of his large estates and in his domestic 
 affairs than matters of public concern. He was twice married ; first, on 
 
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 ; au I . 
 
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 Kcv. h 20, 
 
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 12, 1840; d.' '. 
 re. of Mar's 
 
 . July 2.:. ', Major 
 
 of Marion, formerly c NJ. C, stationed 
 
 ■ J and in charge oi that ]\ District. 
 
 ?.v 1 > >\'as born on the "Old 
 
 , S. C, on the IP- h 
 
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 industry an- 
 
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 m 
 
Mrs. Sarah Ann Evans (nee (jOdbold). 
 Wife of Gen. Wm. Kvans. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 43 
 
 the 7th of December, 1832, to Miss EUza A. Baker,* the grand-nieGe of 
 Col. Wm. Baker, efc;:±iie_Eevolutk)n, a lady of great beauty and ample 
 estate, and second, to Miss Harriet Eliza Braddyf on Jan. 3d, 1850, his 
 first wife having died two years before, on the 18th of Oct., 1848. 
 Nathan Evans was too old a man to enter the Confederate service, but 
 late in the war he shouldered his musket to repel Sherman's invasion. 
 Universally beloved and profoundly regretted, he passed away in the 
 
 midst of his family, in his own home, on the 12th of February, 1884 
 
 his wife having preceded him by four years. Issue — first marriage: 
 
 37. i., Blicabcfh Onis, b. Sept. 10, 1833; m. W. W. Braddy, of 
 Marion, S. C. 
 
 38. ii., Caroline Louisa, b. Aug. 28, 1835 ; d. June 4, 1839. 
 
 39. iii.. William Baker, b. Oct. 29, 1837 ; m. first, Margaret Hasel- 
 don ; second. Sue Berry, both of Marion Co., S. C. 
 
 40. iv., Susan Ella, b. July 16, 1840 ; d. Aug. 3, 1855. 
 
 41. v., Nathan John, b. April 23, 1846; d. Oct. 12, 1883, in Florida. 
 
 42. vi., Ann Elisabeth Baker, b. March 13, 1848 ; d. Sept., 1891 ; m. 
 Samuel Coleman, of N. C. Jan., 1883. 
 
 Second marriage : 
 
 43. vii., Robt. Jilius, b. Nov. 2, 1851 ; m. 1880, Addie Ingerville, of 
 Florida, lives Tallahassee, Fla. 
 
 *Bishop Gregg gives the first account of the Baker family at page 75 They 
 came from Nortli Carolina about 1735, and Maj. William was a great patriot 
 and ardent m the American cause. He married Margaret, the daughter of 
 
 ATrn"'^ Evans, and had a daughter. Mourning Elizabeth, elsewhere mentioned. 
 
 Wilham Baker, the son or nephew of Alaj. William, married the widow of 
 Col. Hugh Giles, whose maiden name was Annis Philips, by whom he had two 
 sons, James and William J., and Eliza, a daughter, was the first wife of Nathan 
 Evans. 
 
 John, a brother of William Bakg-, marrieid Katie Evans. I do not know 
 whose daughter she was, but think that she must have been one of the Marlboro 
 family. A daughter of this marriage, Polly, married Hugh Giles, who was a 
 nephew of Mrs. Thomas Evans {nee Daniel). 
 
 tjohn Braddy, the first of the name in Marion County, married Martha, the 
 daughter of John Bethea, who came from Virginia; she "was the sister of Tris- 
 tram and Cade Bethea. John, the father, was a staunch Whig, and with his 
 sons did much to aid the cause of Liberty. John Braddy and Martha Bethea 
 raised a large family— John B., Luther C, Tristram B.. William W., Robert B., 
 Elizabeth, Harriet and Kitty. 
 
 William W. Braddy married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathan (3) Evans, and 
 their family is mentioned elsewhere. Harriet Braddy, the sister of William 
 W., married late in life Nathan Evans, who was then a widower, and their 
 family is elsewhere given. William Braddy was Clerk of Court in Marion from 
 1868 to 1872. 
 
44 . HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 44. viii., Martha K., b. Dec. 18, 1852 ; m. April 8, 1875, Richard Jor- 
 dan, of North Carohna. 
 
 45. ix., James Lazvrence, b. Aug. 25, 1854. 
 
 46. X., Harriet Frances, b. June 28, 1858 ; m. S. H. Applewhite, of 
 North Carolina. 
 
 47. xi., George Whiteford, b. March 22, 1860 ; d. July 24, 1879. 
 
 48. xii., Benjamin Lewter, b. April 5, 1863; m. Nellie Russell, of 
 Tennessee. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 45 
 
 Santrl lExruraus 
 
 V 
 
 Daniel Family, of Wigan, Co. Lancaster, England, 1623-64, Mid- 
 dlesex County, Virginia, and Granville County, North Carolina. Arms: 
 "Arg. a pale gusilly sa." Crest: "A unicorn's head, erased ar., armed 
 or." ("Virginia Genealogies," by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, ed., 
 1891 ; Granville Co., N. C, and Marion Co., S. C, records.) The origin 
 of the Daniel Family of Virginia and North Carolina is not so authenti- 
 cally established as to admit of no doubt, nor is the connection between 
 the branches of the family in these States definitely known. There is in 
 existance no heir-loom of old silver, bearing the engraved coat of arms, 
 nor any document which would definitely indicate their English descent, 
 except a notice of the death of Travers Daniel, which appeared in the 
 Richmond Enquirer, in 1824, viz : 
 
 "Died, January 28th, 1824, ae. 83, Travers Daniel, St., descended 
 from an ancestor who was a Captain in the Royal Army in the civil wars 
 and came to Virginia." 
 
 This statement made of one who was born in Virginia in 1741, the 
 great-grand-son of one who appears in the Middlesex Co. records in 
 
46 
 
 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 168-i, immediately after the close of the wars mentioned, together with 
 the resurrence of the name "Peter Daniel" in the Virginia family in 1706, 
 and the traditions handed down from father to son, would seem to sus- 
 tain the correctness of the claim which the Daniels have made of descent 
 from the family of that name in Lancaster Co., England, of which the 
 following charts are taken from the English Visitations of Lancaster 
 Co., 1623-64: 
 
 "Daniel of Wigan, Co. Lancaster, Eng., 1623. Arms: 'Arg. a pale 
 fusilly sa.' Crest: 'A unicorn's head, erased ar., armed or.' " 
 
 Thomas Daniel, of Om., Tabley- 
 in Com. Pal. Cestrae, 13 Edw. 
 IV., 1474. 
 
 Blanche, dau. of 
 Piers Warburton. 
 
 Piers Daniel — Julianne Newton. 
 
 Thomas — Alice Foulk, 
 of Chester. 
 
 William- 
 
 -dau. of Christopher 
 Secondary of 
 Court. (1) his 
 maid. (2) William. 
 
 Peter, b. 1561 — Ann Mainwaring, 
 of Tabley Co. 
 Cest., Esq. 
 
 Visitation of 1664: 
 Peter Daniell, of Tabley, Co. Cest. Eng.— Sarah Wilcocks, dau. of Richard, Esq. 
 
 1. Peter Daniel, a Captain 2. Henry, 
 of foote in the Army of 3. Richard, 
 
 his late MajestieK. Charles 4. Robert, 
 the first, anno 1643. 5. Thomas. 
 
 6. John. 
 
 3. Thomas Daniel, a Lieut, 
 in the late K.'s Army, 
 slayne at Bruinsford, 
 anno 1642. 
 Alice Smith. 
 
 Peter, living in 1666. 
 
 William Daniel, of Wigan Co., Lancaster, Eng., act. 40. anno 8 April, 1665. 
 Colonel of a regt. of foote in Scotland, upon the restoration of his now 
 Majestic, King Charles the Second, and Governor of the garrison and 
 citadel of Ayre, Scotland, and afterwards by special comd. of his sd. 
 majestic conveyed his regiment into Portugal, where he was instrumental 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 47 
 
 in obtaining that signal victory in the playne of Evora, against Don John 
 of Austria. General of the King of Spaine's Army, in anno 1G63. He and 
 md. Dorathy, dan. and heir of Hugh Forth, of Wigan Co. Lane. 
 
 1. William, aet. 14 an. 8 Apl., 1665. 1. Dorathv, ob. inf. 
 
 2. Henry, aet. 18 ann. 2. Dorathy, aet. 13 ann. 
 
 3. Elizabeth, aet. 11 ann. 
 
 4. Mary, aet. 10 ann. 
 
 5. Ann, ob. yng. 
 
 6. Helen, aet. 5 ann. 
 
 (Signed) William Daniel, Ormeskirke, 
 
 8th April, 1665. 
 
 William Daniel, of Wigan, Esq., was living 1673. 
 
 "The Parish records in the County of Middlesex, Virginia, contain no 
 mention of the name of Daniel prior to 1684, on Jime 3d, of that year, 
 Mr. William Daniel and Mr. William Churchill were made vestrymen, 
 and on the 5th January, following, Mr. Daniel was made Warden of the 
 church, the entry on the vestry book of this time being: 
 
 " 'It is ordered by this vestry that Mr. Wm. Daniel present Church 
 Warden for the Middlesex Parish for the ensuing year, &c., &c.' 
 
 "These records also mention him as 'Capt. William Daniel.' He died 
 in 1698 (probably 1 William, act. 14 anno 8 Apl., 1665,' in above 
 Chart.) From William Daniel are descended the families in Virginia 
 and North Carolina, although the parish records do not show this to be 
 the fact. James Daniel, succeeded Capt. Wm. Daniel in the vestry of 
 Middlesex Parish, and from him the Virginia family trace direct de- 
 scent. He was probably the son of William. 
 
 "Travers Daniel, of whom the notice appeared in the Enquirer, was 
 the son of Peter, the son of James (supra), and was born at Mount 
 Pleasant, Va. He named his country Summer seat 'Tranquility,' after 
 an ancestral seat in England. Chesley Daniel, of Granville Co., N. C, 
 born about the same time as Travers Daniel, of Middlesex Co., Va., 
 also named his country seat 'Tranquility,' and this name is among the 
 strong indicia of a common descent, and may afford aid in further inves- 
 tigation of the family origin." 
 
 James Daniel, the first of the North Carolina branch of the family, 
 was b. prob. Middlesex Co., Va., cir. 1700, prob. gr. son of Capt. Wm. 
 Daniel ; will probated Albermarle Co., Va., 12 Feb., 1761 ; J. P. with 
 John Woodson, of Goochland Co., Va., 1737-43. Sheriflf, same, 1743- 
 4 ; J. P. Albermarle Co., Va., 1754-5 ; Sherifif, same, 1756 ; m. cir. 1736, 
 
48 HISTORY Olf NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Elizabeth 4, dau. Benjamin (3) and Sarah (Porter) Woodson, of 
 Goochland Co., Va., issue : 
 
 i. Chcsley 2, b. Goochland Co., Va., cir. 1740 ; m. Judith, dau. 
 Charles (3) Christain, of Goochland Co., Va., cir. 1760. Had : 
 i., James 3, m. AnnVenable ; ii., John Granville 3, m. Susan Wat- 
 kins ; iii., Woodson 3, m. Elizabeth Milton ; iv., Beverly 3, bache- 
 lor, Atty. Gen., N. C, v., Martha 3, m. George Daniel, of Oxford, 
 N. C, her cousin, cir. 1790 ; vi., Judith Christian 3, m. David 
 Hughes ; vii., Gano 3 ; viii., Susan 3, m. John Watkins ; ix., Elisa- 
 beth 3, m. Saml. G. Hopkins ; x., Mary 3, m. Key, of Tennessee. 
 
 ii. Abraham; iii., Josiah, m. Key (descendants live in Gran- 
 ville Co., N. C.) ; James, m. (descendants live in Parson Co., 
 N. C.) ; V. John, minor in 1760, m. Elizabeth Morton, his cousin, 
 by Woodsons ; vi., Mary; vii., Nancy; viii., Susannah, m. Brad- 
 ford. 
 
 Martha 3 and Geo. Daniel had : 
 
 i., Chesley 4, b. 1792, d. 1850 ; m. Elizabeth Weightman, of Wash- 
 ington, D. C, no issue ; lawyer ; member House of Representa- 
 tives, S. C, 1812-18 ; Chairman Ways and Means, from Marion ; 
 died Abbeville Co., S. C. ; ii., Jane Beverly 4, b. 29 Jan., 1795 ; 
 d. 3 Sept., 1861 ; m. 11 April, 1816, Thomas Evans, of Marion, 
 S. C. ; iii., Martha 4, m. Dr. Hugh Giles, son Col. Hugh Giles, of 
 Revolution, had Chesley Giles; iv., Blisa 4, m. Rev. Thos. Wil- 
 liams ; v., Anna 4, b. 10 Apr., 1804 ; d. 25 May, 1880 ; m. 1832, 
 Rev. Thomas Turpin ; had first, Alfred B., b. 1833; d. 1859; 
 second, Annie Evans, b, 24 Aug., 1836 ; d. 30 Dec, 1901 ; m. 15 
 Dec, 1859, Frank R. Calhoun, M. D. ; left two children, residing 
 Cartersville, Ga. 
 
HISTORY 01^ NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 49 
 
 Salus per Christum. 
 
 Christian : Isle of Man. "Ewanrigg Hall," Co. Cumberland, Eng., 
 New Kent, Charles City and Goochland Counties, Va. Arms: "Az. a 
 chevron humette between three covered cups, or." Crest: "A unicorn's 
 head, erased, ar., armed and gorged with a collar, invected> or." Motto: 
 "Salus per Christum" (Berk's Landed Gentry— The Christian Family, 
 W. & M. Quart. V., p. 261, VIII., p. 70). The family of Christian, of 
 the House of Keys, Isle of A/[an, have held the hereditary position of 
 Dempsters from 1422. (See App. No. 1, Peveril of the Peake.) 
 
 "Mr. Thomas 1 Christian," the first to appear in Virginia, secured 
 patents in Charles City Co., 21 Oct., 1687, for 1,080 acres. The de- 
 struction of county records by fire in New Kent Co., prevents tracing 
 his connection with the English or Manx family, but family silver, two 
 hundred years old, in possession of Judge Chas. Christian, of Richmond, 
 Va., bearing the family crest above recited, establishes the connection. 
 He had : 
 
 i., Thomas 2, m. Rebecca, dau. of Drury Stith ; ii., Charles 2, of 
 "Charles City," locating lands there in Westover Parish, 1714- 
 1727, and in Goochland Co. (see deeds of Gift (1750) to Stephen 
 Watkins, and to Charles 3 Christian, June (1754), of Gooch- 
 land) ; iv., James 2 ; v., John 2 ; Charles 3 Christian, Jr., of 
 Goochland, was twice married, will probated Goochland Co., 16 
 Feb., 1784; mentions, i., William; ii., Walter; iii., George; iv., 
 
50 HISTORY O^ NATHANIE;L EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Charles; v., John, m. Judith Leek (1771) ; vi., BUjah; vii., Tur- 
 ner, m. Anna Payne (1778) ; viii., Elizabeth, m. John Hunter, 
 St. Paul's Parish; ix., Mary, m. James Grayson (1770); x., 
 Judith, m. Benj. Lacy (1774) ; xi., Mourning. 
 As was frequently the case with half-blood sisters, another child by 
 his first wife bore the same name as "x." above, viz : Judith, who mar- 
 ried cir. 1760, Chesley 2 Daniel, of "Tranquility," Granville Co., N. C. 
 (Private letters from Miss Josephine Cox, Charlottesville, Va., grand- 
 daughter of both viii. and x. above.) 
 
 Woodson Family, of Dorsetshire, Eng., and Virginia. 
 In the "Original Lists of Persons of Quality" (Hotten, p. 216), John 
 Woodson, "chireogeon," and Sarah, his wife, are mentioned as living 
 in Henrico Hundred, in 1619. He was the surgeon of a company of 
 foot soldiers under command of Sir John Harvey, in the service of the 
 Virginia Company of London. Issue : 
 
 i., Robert 2, m. Elizabeth, dau. Richard Ferris, of Curies, Henrico 
 Co., had: i. John 3 ; ii., Richard 3 ; iii., Benjamin 3 ; John 3, m. 
 Judith, dau. Stephen Tarleton, and had : Josiah 4, m. Mary Royal, 
 and had : John 5 Burgess, J. P. and Sheriff of Goochland Co., will 
 probated 18 Jan., 1790; m. Dorothy Randolph, 1751, aunt of 
 Thos. Jefferson; Richard 3, m. Ann Smith, had: Richard 4, of 
 Poplar Hill, Henrico, called "Baron Woodson," on account of 
 his vast estates ; Aggy 4, m. Col. James Morton, and had : Elica- 
 beth, m. John Daniel; Benjamin 3, m. Sarah Porter, had: Eliza- 
 beth 4, m. Hon. James Daniel, of Goochland Co. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 51 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 14. Chesley Daniel 4 Evans (Thomas 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 was born in Marion, S. C, Jan. 10th, 1817; he received his early 
 education at the Marion Academy, entered the South Carolina 
 College and graduated with the degree of A. B., in the class of 
 1840. 
 
 He read law and wasadmitted to practice about 1843, when he opened 
 his office in his native County. In 1850 he was appointed Com. in Equity, 
 and discharged the duties of his office until the change in the State 
 Government in ISGG. During the Civil War he was an officer of the 
 reserve guard of Marion, and saw duty in the latter years along the 
 coast. He was chosen by his County in 1860, with Gen. William W. 
 Harllee, as a delegate to the Convention which framed the Ordinance pf 
 Secession, and his name is subscribed to that famous document. He 
 was married on the 9th December. 1847, to Sarah Jane Haseldon,* and 
 died May 29th, 1897, act. 80. Greatly beloved and venerated, he lived 
 out a long and useful life in the home of his father's, a type of the old 
 school gentleman of a passing regime. Issue : 
 
 49. i., Thomas Charles 5, b. Dec. 30th, 1848 ; d. inf. 
 
 50. ii., Junius Henry 5, Lawyer and J. P. ; b. Nov. 16th, 1849 ; m. 
 Florence Durant. Issue: Edith 6; Ruth 6; Diana 6; Junius H 
 Jr., 6. 
 
 51. iii., Chesley Daniel, b. Oct. 24th, 1851 ; d. Jan. 18th, 1892 ; m. Ida 
 Wells. Issue : Fannie 6 ; Leon C. 6 ; /. Wells 6. Merchant. 
 
 52. iv., Elizabeth Jane 5, h. Dec. 4th, 1853 ; unmarried. 
 
 53. v., IValker Williani 5, b. Dec. 26th, 1856 ; m. Effie McMurtrie, 
 and has several children. A son, John, is a student of the S. C. 
 College. 
 
 54. vi., Samuel 5, b. Aug. 29th, 1858 ; d. Dec. 19th, 1899 ; m. Jan. 1st, 
 1887, Clara Sophia Stowe Lightburne, of Bermula Islands. Issue : 
 
 ■Sarah Jane Haseldon was one of the three children and on!}- daughter of 
 Maj. John Haseldon (?A son of Wm. Haseldon, an Englishman, and INiary Re- 
 becca daughter of Stephen and Mary (GaiUard) Bradley), and his wife, Eliza- 
 beth Keen, the eldest daughter and sixth child of Thomas and Mary (Fladger) 
 Uodbold. (See Godbold Excursus.) Sarah Fladger was daughter of Hem-v 
 ^ladger Esq of Revolutionary fame, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Buckmgham Keen and his wife, Elizabeth Horry, a sister of Gen. Peter Horrv, 
 of the Revolution. 
 
52 HISTORY OF NATHANIE;l EVANS AND HIS DE;SCENDANTS. 
 
 Chesley Lighthoiirne 6, b. Jan. 29th, 1888 ; Marjorie 6, b. Feb. 19th, 
 1892; Helen Beverley 6; b. Nov. 25th, 1894; A. B. University 
 of Nashville, 1881 ; teacher and farmer. 
 
 55. vii., Frank 5, b. May 8th, 1861 ; m. June 30th, 1886, Lucy W. 
 Barksdale, Laurens, S. C. Issue: Marion 6, b. Nov. 25th, 1888; 
 Lucy Beverly 6, b. April 6th, 1896 ; A. B. University of Nashville, 
 Tenn., Supt. City Schools, Spartanburg, S. C. 
 
 56. viii., Leon 5, b. March, 1864; d. March 25th, 1876. 
 
 57. ix., JohnBelamy 5, b. May 16th, 1866; d. inf. 
 
 58. X., Nathan 5, b. July 27th, 1867 ; grad. chemical course, Univer. 
 of Va., 1890 ; druggist and chemist, Chicago, 111. ; hospital corps, 
 Span. Am. War, 1898. 
 
 59. xi., David Evans 5, b. Oct. 16th, 1874; m. Aug. 30th, 1899, 
 Emma Hardy, daughter of Samuel and Maria (Emery) McAllis- 
 ter, of Toronto, Canada. Issue : Chesley McAllister 6, b. Aug. 
 6th, 1900. Educated S. C. M. A. and Oakridge Ins., N. C. ; broker 
 in iron, steel and coke, Chicago, 111., Capt. Reg. Staff 1st 111. Cav- 
 alry, Span. Am. War, 1898. 
 
 i6. Thomas 4 Evans (Thomas 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) was born 
 in the village of Marion, S. C, on the 20th April, 1822. 
 
 He received his early education at the Marion Academy and com- 
 pleted his collegiate course at William and Mary College, of Williams- 
 burg, Va. He read law and was admitted to practice at the bar of his 
 State. For a number of years he resided in Marion, where he attained 
 a high reputation as a lawyer and orator. Such was his standing in 
 his profession and influence in South Carolina, that he received the 
 appointment, from President Pierce, of District Attorney of the United 
 States for the District of South Carolina, and took up his residence in 
 Charleston. He was a man of great cultivation, broad and scholarly 
 mind, and sparklingly brilliant wit. On the occasion of one of the 
 society functions in Charleston, it is said that he was presented to a 
 very charming and beautiful widow by the name of Mrs. Evans. "Ah, 
 Madam," said he, "you are the lady in search of whom I have spent all 
 but the best years of my life. I am most happy to meet you." During 
 the Civil War he was engaged as the Purchasing Agent of the Confed- 
 
Hon. Thomas Evans, Jr. 
 U. S. Dist. Attorney for S. C, /cV^/. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 58 
 
 f \ r .? Government. On the (5th of August, 185G, he was married 
 to Miss Mary E. Lawson, the daughter of a wealthy Georgia planter * 
 and after the close of the war he moved to Georgia, where he renewed 
 the practice of his profession, in which he was engaged to the time of 
 his death in Sandersville, Ga., on the 30th of April, 1879 Issue- 
 
 60. i., Lucy, b. June 18th, 1857 ; d. Aug. 10th, 1877 ; m. C. N. North- 
 ington, no issue. 
 
 61. ii., Isabella, b. July 31st, 1860 ; d. Nov. 5th, 1884 ; m. Jan 1878 
 James K. Hines, ex- Judge of Ga. Courts, and now a prominent 
 lawyer and statesman of Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 63 iii., Thomas, 3d., b. March 8th, 1862; bachelor; resides with 
 Judge Hines m Atlanta, Ga. He is the present Warden of the city 
 of Atlanta. ^ 
 
 63. iv., Roger Alexander, b. March 13th, 1864; bachelor; engaged 
 m journalistic work in Atlanta. 
 
 /;, Nathan George 4 Evans (Thomas 3, Nathan 3, Nathaniel 1 ) 
 was born in Marion, S. C., on the 3d of February, 1884 
 
 He received his early education at Marion Academy, under Mr 
 Jerry Dargan. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College Va 
 before he reached his eighteenth birthday. Returning to his home he 
 soon received from Senator Calhoun an appointment to a cadetship at 
 West Point, which he accepted against the wishes of his father He 
 graduated from the Academy in June of 1848 and was commissioned 
 brevet Second Lieut, of the famous 3d Dragoons-Col. Albert Svdney 
 Johnson, Et. Col. Robert E. Lee-and was assigned duty at' Fort 
 bniith. Ark. The daring incursions of the Pawnee and Comanchee 
 tribes of Indians in that vicinity prompted Lt. Evans to request the 
 command of a detachment to drive the marauding bands back from the 
 frontier. His request having been acceded to, he inaugurated the cam- 
 
 i7lJ''°^7^°'!, Lawson of Washington County, Ga., was born Tannarv 2od 
 
 TheVhadtt/T "T ''f' '^- ^'^'^ -' ^1^^^'^d Februar; 2St^8~2l: 
 
 Connw r. Q . ' ,^^"'««f''- d. 1871; n. Roger S. Lazvson, b. Washington 
 
 D^Set 6th I'K?"'^''' ^''\ '!''' /•, ^^'"^' ''''' "^- Harriet S. HitchS 
 SS Marf VSl.ri V^k"'"' °1>'^' "^'^"^ '" Washington County. Ga 
 issue. Ma y t,lizahcth, b. February 2d, 1839; d. June 22d 1870- m Thotna<5 
 Evans ; ^.a^,^^,, Thompson, b. October 27{h. 1840 ; d. October "7th 1S« 
 
 ^Vm Hitgh, b. May 28th, 1841; d. ; Laura; Martha LLawson\ sfste^ 
 
 of Thompson Lawson, d. September 23d, 1822. Thomp on Lawson was 
 wounded m the defense of the town of Augu ta against the Brk sh/in 1781 
 
54 HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 paign which resulted in the battle of "Wichita," where he totally routed 
 the greatly superior force of Indians opposing him — he himself killing, 
 in a hand to hand conflict, two of their greatest chiefs and capturing 
 their flag, which was used for the first time by any tribe in battle and 
 supposedly in imitation of the United States colors. During this cam- 
 paign Lt. Evans displayed the presence of mind and courage which gave 
 promise of his soldierly attainments in later years, and a single circum- 
 stance illustrates his prowess: The Indians had surprised his pickets 
 and stampeded his horses. His own horse, a thoroughbred, which he 
 had raised from a colt, was so terrified that it broke its halter and ran 
 almost over him; when, catching it, he vaulted to its bare back and, 
 guiding it only by its halter, he darted off to lead the stampeded drove, 
 and after a run of a few miles over the prairie, in which he had drawn 
 them round in a horse-shoe curve, he led them back to camp, thus saving 
 his troops from destruction. 
 
 His able conduct of the campaign gained him a promotion to a Cap- 
 taincy from the then Secretary of War, Jefiferson Davis ; nor was his 
 gallantry less appreciated in his native State, where he was voted the 
 thanks of the General Assembly and presented with an elegant and rich 
 sabre, the scabbard of which was heavily embossed with gold, bearing 
 engravings of the State Arms, an inscription, the Indian flag and a 
 scene representing the victory of Wichita. 
 
 Returning to South Carolina in 1860, on a furlough,* he was married 
 to Miss Ann Victoria Gray, a daughter of Dr. Thomas R. Gray, of 
 Abbeville District, and a sister of the late Gen. Martin Witherspoon 
 Gary, of Edgefield. He immediately returned, with his young wife, to 
 the Texas frontier, where he was engaged in a desultory warfare 
 against the Indians until the breaking out of the Civil War. Upon 
 learnins: of the secession of South Carolina, he at once sent in his resig- 
 nation to the War Department, and with it went a letter addressed to 
 Gov. Pickens, offering his services to his native State. Upon taking 
 leave of his fellow-ofiicers, Col. Lee said to him: "Good-bye, 'Shanks;' 
 I suppose they will make you a General" — little thinking that he would 
 so soon follow suit to become again his commander. Setting out with- 
 out delay, he reached Montgomery during the sitting of the Confeder- 
 ate States Congress. He was by that body commissioned a Major of 
 Cavalry, and detailed for special duty as Adjutant of the regular forces 
 
Thomas Evans 30. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 55 
 
 in South Carolina. Subsequently he was appointed Colonel and or- 
 dered to Virginia. Reaching Beauregard's camp shortly before the first 
 battle of Manassas, he was upon that occasion assigned to the com- 
 mand of the extreme left of the Confederate Hne, to cover the passage of 
 the Warrenton Turnpike at the Stone Bridge. His command was com- 
 posed of the 4th S. C, Col. J. B. E. Sloan; 1st Special Battalion, La. 
 Maj. Robert Wheat (Wheat's Louisiana Tigers) ; a squadron of cav- 
 alry, Capt. Terry, and a section of Latham's Battery, Lt. Davidson. 
 Beauregard expected to attack the enemy on his right and center, but 
 due to some miscarriage of orders and a counter-movement to turn his 
 flank by Gen. McDowell, the attack was not executed as designed, and 
 the battle was fought upon his extreme left. In his "Life of Stonewall 
 Jackson," Col. Henderson, the brilliant British Army strategist and 
 historian, graphically describes the part that Evans took in that first 
 great battle of the war : 
 
 "Sunday morning. July 21st, broke clear and warm. Through a 
 miscarriage of orders, the Confederate offensive movement was delayed, 
 and soon after 6 o'clock the Federals opened their musketry and artil- 
 lery against the small brigade commanded by Col. Evans, which held 
 the Stone Bridge on the extreme left of the Confederate line. An hour 
 later the Shenandoah Brigades, Bee's, Bartow's and Jackson's, together 
 with Banham's, were ordered up in support. The attack was feebly 
 pressed, and at 8.30 o'clock, Evans observing a heavy cloud of dust 
 rismg above the woods to the north of the Warrenton Road, became 
 satisfied that the movement to his front was but a feint, and that a 
 column of the enemy was meanwhile marching to turn his flank by 
 way of Sudley Springs, about two miles northwest. Sending back his 
 information to the next brigade, he left four companies to guard the 
 bridge; and with six companies of riflemen, a battalion called the 
 Louisiana Tigers, and two six-pounder howitzers, he moved across 
 Young's Branch and took post (9.00 A. M.) on the Matthews Hill, a 
 long ridge which, at the same elevation, faces the Henry Hill. 
 
 "Evans' soldierly Instincts had penetrated the design of the Federal 
 commander, and his ready assumption of responsibility threw a strong 
 force across the path of the turning column, and gave time for his 
 superiors to alter their dispositions and bring up the reserves. 
 
 "The Federal force opposite the Stone Bridge consisted of a whole 
 
56 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 division, and its commander, Gen. Tyler, had been instructed to divert 
 attention by means of a vigorous demonstration, from the march of 
 Hunter's and Heintzleman's divisions to the ford near Sudley Springs. 
 
 * * * At last, however. Hunter and Heintzleman crossed Sudley 
 Springs,* and after marching a mile in the direction of Manassas Junc- 
 tion, the leading brigade struck Evans' riflemen. The Confederates 
 were concealed by a fringe of woods, and the Federals were twice 
 repulsed. But supporters came crowding up and Evans sent back for 
 reinforcements. The fight lasted for an hour. It was near 11 o'clock, 
 and the check of the enemy's advance had given time for the Confeder- 
 ates to form a line of battle on Henry Hill. Bee and Bartow, accom- 
 panied by Imboden's Battery, were in position. Hampton's Legion 
 
 * * * was not far distant, and Jackson was coming up * * * 
 
 "The wide and beautiful landscape lay before Bee's command; 
 Evans' small command was nearly a mile distant on the Matthews Hill, 
 and on the ridge of the far northwest he saw the glitter of many bay- 
 onets. 
 
 "Rapidly placing his men in position near the Henry House, Bee 
 formed a line of battle on the crest of Young's Branch ; but very shortly 
 afterwards, according to an appeal from Evans, he hurried his troops 
 forward to Matthews Hill. His new position protected the rear of the 
 companies which held the Stone Bridge, and so long as the bridge was 
 held the two wings of the Federal Army were unable to co-operate. 
 But on the Matthews Hill the enemy's strength, especially in artillery, 
 was overwhelming ; and the Confederates were soon compelled to fall 
 back to Henry Hill. McDowell had already sent word to Tyler to 
 force the Stone Bridge, and Sherman's brigade, of that division, passed 
 the stream by a ford and threatened the flank of Bee and Evans as they 
 retreated across Young's Branch." 
 
 Col. Henderson further relates at some length, that the enemy 
 swarmed over Matthews Hill, upon the retreat of Evans and Bee's 
 brigades, in such overwhelming numbers that Hampton's Legion and 
 Imboden's Battery, which Bee had again planted on Henry Hill, were 
 unable to withstand the attack. It was at this time, about noon, that. 
 
 *Hunter and Heintzleman. officers and men, 13,200; Evans, officers and men, 
 700 on Matthews Hill, 200 at Stone Bridge ; Bee and Bartow, officers and men, 
 3 200 • Hampton, officers and men, 630 ; Jackson, officers and men, 3,000. 
 
Brigadier General Nathan George Evans, C. S. A. 
 From a deguerreotype taken in i860 as Captain 2^ Dragoons^ U. S. A. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 57 
 
 fighting doggedly every foot of ground with Evans and Hampton, but 
 almost overcome, Bee galloped up to Jackson and reported, "General, 
 they are beating us back!" "Then give them the bayonet!" was the 
 reply, and galloping back to his shattered command, the gallant Caro- 
 linian cried, "Look ! there stands Jackson like a stonewall ! Rally be- 
 hind the Virginians !" and dashing to their front, with his sabre flash- 
 ing, crying, "Follow me," he fell from his horse mortally wounded. 
 Gen. Beauregard, in his official report of the battle, pays Col. Evans 
 the highest tribute for his brilliant service, and "Fitz" Lee, an old 
 comrade-at-arms. in his account of the battle, speaking of Col. Evans, 
 says : 
 
 " 'Shanks' Evans, as he was called, was a graduate of the Military 
 Academy, a native South Carolinia, served in the celebrated old 2d 
 Dragoons, and was a good type of the rip-roaring, scorn-all-care ele- 
 ment, which abounded so largely in that regiment. He has never re- 
 ceived the credit to which he was so justly entitled in this battle. ~It 
 was fighting his handful of men to a 'frazzle' that enabled the Confeder- 
 ate commanders to change their line of battle, and form a new one to 
 retard the Federal flanking force, and his action, as will be seen, was 
 based upon his own military judgment, and undertaken upon his own 
 responsibility. Evans had the honor of opening the fight, we may say, 
 fired the first gun of the war. With his little line of battle, made up of 
 700 soldiers, he marched away to fight McDowell's turning column of 
 over 18,000. It was a brave little line but accomplished its purpose ; 
 for over an hour he held in check the overwhelming forces of the enemy, 
 until Jackson and Hampton could arrive to save the day." 
 
 In the disposition of the Confederate Army, after the victory at Ma- 
 nassas Junction, Col. Evans, ranking as Brigadier, was given the com- 
 mand of a brigade stationed along the Potomac River, above Washing- 
 ton, with the headquarters at Leesburg, the capital of Loudoun County. 
 There was a determined effort made on the part of the Federal com- 
 mander to gain a footing on the Virginia shore in this vicinity, and a 
 strong force, consisting of a division, was dispatched for that purpose 
 under the command of Gen. Stone. Col. Evans, for his commission as 
 a Brigadier had not yet reached him, took up a strong position at Ball's 
 Bluff, on the Loudoun Heights, and overlooking the Potomac. His 
 whole effective force did not exceed 1,700 officers and men. Early in 
 
58 HISTORY OF NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 the morning of the day of the battle of Ball's Bluff, Evans observed an 
 unusual demonstration of strength among the Federals, and anticipat- 
 ing an attack from a superior force, he attenuated his lines to make as 
 good a show of strength as possible, which, due to the elevation of his 
 position, proved most illusive to the enemy. Major Lamar Fontaine, 
 of Mississippi, thus describes the battle which ensued: 
 
 "We killed, wounded and captured or drowned about four Federals 
 to each man we had in the field. We had about 1,100 muskets, and 
 from 11 o'clock A. M. until 8 o'clock P. M., we kept up a steady fire of 
 nothing but musketry ; not a single cannon shot was fired along our 
 line. The Federal loss, not including a single wounded man, was 
 4,545. The Federals, some 10,000 strong, were already in position on 
 our side of the river, where we discovered them later in the day. About 
 8 o'clock (P. M.), I heard the voice of our commander ring out clear 
 in the words: 'Attention all! Drive them into the Potomac!!' Our 
 men gave a yell ; the charge was made, and the enemy were in the river 
 yelling for quarter all along our line, at the point of the bayonet." 
 
 The Oregon Senator, Brig. Gen. Baker, was among the slain on the 
 Federal side. The great loss of life sustained by Stone's forces caused 
 the greatest excitement in Washington and raised a clamor in the Fede- 
 ral Congress. Roscoe Conkling offered a resolution demanding an 
 investigation into the great loss of life at Ball's Bluff. Secretary of 
 War, Stanton, could offer no satisfactory explanation, but to hush the 
 clamor of Congress for a victim. Gen. Stone was relieved of his com- 
 mand and was imprisoned for a year without having a hearing. 
 
 The South Carolina Legislature again voted Evans the thanks of his 
 State, and accompanied this gracious action with the presentation, in 
 the name of the State, of a gold medal, struck in commemoration of his 
 valor and ability at the battle of Ball's Bluff. 
 
 Upon the invitation of the Governor and many prominent citizens of 
 the State of South Carolina, Gen. Evans was relieved of his Virginia 
 post and placed in command of the coast defences of South Carolina, 
 with headquarters at Charleston. Here he remained until the latter 
 part of the campaign of 1863, but returned to Virginia in time to join 
 the Maryland Campaign. At the battle of Sharpsburg, he had com- 
 mand of Hood's division, that General being temporarily disabled, and 
 held the centre of Lee's line. Here again, by hard fighting, he saved 
 
HISTORY O? NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 59 
 
 the day, by holding in check the overwhelming onslaught of the Fede- 
 rals until Longstreet could unite with Jackson and save the army from 
 utter defeat. But his dogged bravery cost him dear ; out of 900 effect- 
 ive men who went into the fight under him, only 300 marched out whole, 
 yet none of them had been captured. Four-fifths of his command were 
 killed or wounded, which was the greatest loss sustained in a single 
 division, during the war. 
 
 While participating in most "of the great battles of the following years 
 of the war, his next independent command was at or near Kingston, N. 
 C, where he met and defeated the threatening uprising of Abolitionists. 
 He was with Johnson at the close of the war, and after the fall of Rich- 
 mond he accompanied President Davis to South Carolina as far as 
 Cokesbury, where Mr. Davis was entertained at the old homestead of 
 Dr. Thom. Gary, by Mrs. Gary and her daughter, Mrs. Evans. 
 
 Gen. Evans remained for a short time, after the war, in Cokesbury ; 
 then he engaged in business in Charleston, but soon he accepted a posi- 
 tion as principal of the High School at Midway, Ala., where he died on 
 the 30th of November, 1868, as a result of a serious injury which he had 
 received while Stationed in Charleston, having been violently thrown 
 from a runaway carriage to the pavement, which had wrecked his con- 
 stitution. Issue : 
 
 64. i., Nathan George, b. at Cokesbury, S. C, 14th March, 1861; 
 read law under his uncle. Gen. Mart Gary, at Edgefield, S. C, 
 where he has remained in the practice of his profession. Repre- 
 sented Edgefield County in General Assembly. Married Bessie 
 Walker, of Beaufort, S. C. ; no children. 
 
 65. ii., John Gary Bvans, was born at Cokesbury, in Abbeville 
 County, S. C, on the loth day of October, 1863. 
 
 He was the second son of General Nathan George Evans. As a boy, 
 he attended the Cokesbury Conference School, a celebrated preparatory 
 school for the old South Carolina College. He afterwards entered the 
 class of 1883 of Union College, Schenectady, New York, where he was 
 elected class president, in his junior year, although the youngest mem- 
 ber of his class by several years. Upon the death of his distinguished 
 uncle and guardian, General Martin W. Gary, he left college just before 
 his graduation, and entered the law office of his uncle. Major William 
 T. Gary, at Augusta, Georgia. In 1887, he opened an office at Aiken, 
 
60 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 S. C, for the practice of law. In 1888, he was elected a member of 
 the Legislature, from Aiken County; and again returned, in 1890 He 
 was identified with all the important measures before the House, and 
 introduced a bill repealing the old Civil Rights Law, which was intended 
 to humiliate the white people of the State by the carpet-bag government. 
 As a member of that body he introduced the resolution calling a Con- 
 stitutional Convention. In 1892, he was elected to the State Senate, 
 from Aiken County, for the term of four years ; but served only two, 
 having received the nomination of his party for Governor, in 1894. 
 He was elected to succeed Governor Tillman, and his administration 
 was a stormy one, as the Dispensary Law, which he had fathered while 
 a member of the Senate, was being fought most bitterly by the opposi- 
 tion. Every effort was made to set the law aside calling a Constitu- 
 tional Convention, and the United States Courts were appealed to by 
 the Republicans and the opponents of the Dispensary Law. Judge 
 Nathan Gofif granted an injunction against the Governor and State 
 officials, which brought forth from Governor Evans a scathing de- 
 nunciation of the Court's action, and the statement that "The Constitu- 
 tional Convention would be held. Judge or no Judge." The Convention 
 was held, and Governor Evans was elected as its President. This 
 Constitution has been attacked by the Republican party for the reason 
 that it disfranchised the negro ; but the Supreme Court of the United 
 States sustained it ; and its practical operation and effect has been to 
 disfranchise 200,000 ignorant negro votes, and to place the State for- 
 ever in control of the intelligent and property-owner citizens. Gov- 
 ernor Evans was opposed to the waging of war against Spain, but after 
 it was declared by Congress, he offered his services to President Mc- 
 Kinley in any capacity he might see fit to accept them. He was 
 commissioned a Major, and assigned to duty as Inspector General on 
 the staff of Major General Keifer, of General Lee's Seventh Corps. 
 Upon reaching Cuba, Major Evans was detached from the Seventh 
 Army Corps, and attached to the staff of General Wm. Ludlow, Gover- 
 nor of the department of Havana. He assisted in organizing the civil 
 government of Havana, and instituted the first Court, on the island, 
 formed upon American ideas and principles. Upon the expiration of 
 his term, he returned to South Carolina, and has since been engaged in 
 the practice of law, at Spartanburg, S. C. On the 15th of December, 
 
Cjovernor [ohn Gar^ Kvans. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 61 
 
 1897, he married Emily Mansfield Plume, daughter of Hon. David S. 
 Plume, of Waterbury, Connecticut, an" influential manufacturer and 
 banker, as well as statesman. Governor Evans has a daughter, Emily 
 Victoria, born August 10, 1S99. He is a member of the Spartan City 
 and Elks Clubs of Spartanburg, the Commercial Club of Augusta, and 
 Waterbury Club of Waterbury, Conn., and the Union Alumni of New 
 York. 
 
 66. iii., Barnard Bee, b. Sept., 18G4, at Cokesbury, S. C. ; now prac- 
 ticing law at Saluda C. H., S. C. ; unmarried. 
 
 67. iv., Mary Martin, b. at Midway, Ala., 12th October, 1868; re- 
 sides at Edgefield, S. C, with her mother; unmarried. 
 
 i8. Beverly Daniel 4 Evans (Thomas 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 was born in the village of Marion, S. C, on the 6th of February, 
 1826, and received his early education at the Marion Academy. 
 He read law and was admitted to the Bar of South Carolina about 
 1848. Subsequently, having removed to Georgia, he was admitted to 
 the practice of that State at Dublin, in 1854. At the outbreak of the 
 war he enlisted at Lieutenant in the Washington Rifles ; became a Cap- 
 tain of same, and finally attained the rank of Lt. Col. of the 2d Reg. Ga. 
 State Troops. In these several capacities he served during the whole 
 war, and upon the return of peace he took up the practice of his profes- 
 sion in Sandersville, Ga., where he lived, greatly beloved and respected 
 by the people of his vicinity until his death there, on the 23d of March, 
 1897. During the war he married Miss Sallie Smith, of Sandersville, 
 who still survives him. Issue : 
 
 68. i.. Woodson W., b. 1863 ; d. inf. 
 
 69. ii., Beverly Daniel, b. Sandersville, Ga., May 21st, 1865; m. first, 
 May 15th, 1885, Bessie W. Worthen ; d. Jan. 23d, 1893 ; second, 
 Emily Virginia Irwin, July 11th, 1894 ; lives Atlanta, Ga. 
 
 He was graduated with honor from Mercer University in 1881, at the 
 age of 16, having the distinction of being the youngest graduate ever 
 sent out by that institution. His decided legal talent determined his 
 thorough equipment for that profession. Accordingly, after studying 
 in the office of his father, the late Col. B. D. Evans, he completed his 
 professional studies at Yale College, during 1883-4— and few "sons of 
 EH" have done greater honor to their alma mater. Nominated for the 
 General Assembly before he was 21, he had barely attained his majority 
 
62 HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. ElVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 when he took his seat in the legislative halls of the State, where his 
 statesmanship won ready recognition from older and maturer law- 
 makers. In 1888 he was a delegate to the National Democratic Con- 
 vention which nominated Grover Cleveland for the Presidency at St. 
 Louis. 
 
 In 1891 he was appointed Solicitor General of the Middle Circuit and 
 served six years in that capacity, making a record for signal ability as 
 prosecuting attorney for the State. Elected to the Judgeship of the 
 Middle Circuit in 1898, and again in 1902, both times without opposi- 
 tion, he proved himseilf such an able jurist that he was in 1904 elevated 
 to the honorable position of Assistant Justice of the Supreme Court 
 of Georgia. 
 
 In addition to his thorough mastery of all branches pertaining to the 
 law. Judge Evans is noted for broad general scholarship and familiarity 
 with all subjects of current importance that engross the public mind 
 to-day. His knowledge of men as of things is profound. Safe, clean. 
 Christian and cultured, it would be difficult to find a man of surer poise 
 and more thorough preparation for the responsibilities of the Supreme 
 bench. Issue by 1st wife: i., Tom Warthen, b. 19 Oct. 1887; ii., Julia 
 R., b. 2 Dec, 1890; by 2d wife: iii., Beverly Daniel, b. 24 Jan., 1896; 
 iv., Bmily B., b. 21 Oct., 1897 ; d. inf. ; v., George R., b. 13 Nov., 1899. 
 
 70. iii., Julian H., b. May 13th, 1867, Sandersville, Ga. ; educated 
 Mercer University, Ga., 1883, Vanderbilt University, 1886, M. D. ; 
 m. 1890, Tina Hopkins, of Savannah, Ga. Issue: Mabel, h. 1891 ; 
 d. 1898 ; Dorothy Beverly, b. 1900. 
 
 71. iv., George Clinton, b. Oct. 29th, 1869, Sandersville, Ga. ; gradu- 
 ated Mercer Univer., 1886, Univer. Ga. Law School, 1890; m. 
 Daisy Worthen, 1898 ; Mayor of Sandersville, Ga., for two terms. 
 No issue. 
 
 72. v., Harry T., b. Sandersville, Ga., 1872 ; d. inf. 
 
 73. vi., Andrew Willis, b. June 16th, 1875, Sandersville, Ga. ; gradu- 
 ated Mercer Univer., 1894 ; m. Lillian Booz, of Cartersville, Ga., 
 Jan., 1899. Issue: Lillian Beverly, b. Feb., 1901. 
 
 74. vii., Sarah Alice, b. Sept., 1877, Sandersville, Ga. ; educated Lucy 
 Cobb Institute, Athens, Ga. ; graduated 1894 ; m. 1902. 
 
 75. viii., Albert Louis, b. Oct., 1879, Sandersville, Ga. ; educated 
 IVIercer Univer. ; unmarried. 
 
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HISTORY OF NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 63 
 
 20. Alfred 4 Evans, M. D. (Thomas 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) was 
 born in Marion village, S. C, on the S-tth day of November, 1829, 
 
 He received his early education at the Marion Academy, under Mr. 
 Jerry Dargan. He studied medicine and attained his degree of M. D., 
 went to the Southwest, and practiced his profession until the outbreak 
 of the Civil War, .when he volunteered in answer to the first call for 
 troops for the Confederacy. He joined a Mississippi regiment, and saw 
 active service for more than a year in the Virginia campaigns, where 
 it was his misfortune to be taken prisoner of war. He was taken to 
 one of the Federal prisons on the great lakes, and there detained until 
 after the surrender at Appomattox. Upon receiving his parole, broken 
 in health and spirits, and wasted terribly in body, he started on foot 
 to his Southern home. Upon his way through North Carolina, for 
 some unexplained reason, he was again seized by the Federal authori- 
 ties and again incarcerated for almost a year before he was again re- 
 leased. Again he was forced to set out on foot for the South, and after 
 many weeks of weary marches he reached members of his family. A 
 strong constitution, however, restored him to health and strength, and 
 he soon was able to mend his fortunes in his Mississippi home. In 
 January of 1872 he was married to Miss Catherine Price, of Mississippi, 
 and since lived on his plantation at Crane P. O., near Central, Miss., 
 where in late years he retired from active practice and devoted himself 
 to farming, in which he was very successful. In July, 1904, he passed 
 away in the midst of his family. Issue : 
 
 76. i., Beverly, b. June 14th, 1874 ; m. Oct. 12th, 1892, W. A. Mc- 
 Carty, of Crane, Miss.; issue: 1, Alfred; 2, Alex.: 3, Charlie; 4, 
 Katie Lee. Mr. McCarty is a successful farmer of the Crane sec- 
 tion of Mississippi. 
 
 77. ii., Raphael S., b. March 29th, 1875 ; m. Miss N. J. Rowell ; no 
 issue. 
 
 78. iii., Lee, h. Dec. 20th, 1876 ; unmarried. 
 
 79. iv.. Price, b. Dec. 20th, 1876 ; married Miss Boykin ; no issue. 
 
 80. v., Alfred, b. Dec. 6th, 1878 ; unmarried. 
 
 81. vi., Allen, b. Feb. 14th, 1884 ; d. inf. 
 
 21. James 4 Evans, M. D. (Thomas 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) was 
 born in the village of Marion, S. C, on the 12th day of Sept.. 1831. 
 
 He received his early education under Mr. Jerry Dargan, at the 
 
64 HISTORY OF NATHANIEIv EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Marion Academy, and in his seventeenth year entered the S. C. Military 
 Academy, in the class of 1853. This class entering upon their first year 
 with about 150 members, and dwindling to twenty-seven by the third 
 year, a number of men who in after life attained distinguished careers, 
 notably among whom were a great mathematician, a railroad builder 
 and president, a member of the Confederate States Congress, and the 
 distinguished subject of this sketch. By the middle of the term of their 
 third year, this class had covered half of the prescribed course for the 
 senior year, and from its members were chosen five students to act as 
 adjunct instructors in the institution, though these positions had formerly 
 always been filled from the senior or first class. The result of this action 
 was a friction between the first and second classes, which culminated 
 in an interference from the commandant and the resulting rebellion of 
 the second class, that of 1853. The Trustees of the institution, while 
 recognizing the justice of the cause of the class, deemed their action 
 an intolerable breach of military discipline, and its members were ex- 
 pelled. 
 
 Upon reaching his home, young Evans immediately tendered his ser- 
 vices as an engineer to the Cheraw and Darlington Railroad Company, 
 which was then constructing its roadway; and he with his classmate, 
 Robt. L. Singletary, who afterwards became his brother-in-law, and 
 who also attained distinction as the builder of the Florida Keys Rail- 
 road, and became President of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, 
 served through the construction work of that line. Evans, then taking 
 the sage advice of Horace Greeley, went West. He taught school for 
 a term at Carroll County, Miss., and then, attracting the attention of 
 Gen. Tilghman, who was at that time engaged in the building of the 
 Little Rock and Napoleon, now New Orleans and Mississippi Railway, 
 he joined the corps of engineers employed in that work, with his head- 
 quarters at the famous and notorious town of Napoleon, then known as 
 the wickedest place on the Mississippi, and, therefore, in the world. 
 
 In 1857 the Governor of Arkansas gave Mr. Evans the appointment 
 of State Civil Engineer, with charge of the building of all of the great 
 levees along the Mississippi, Arkansas and Red River fronts. During 
 his services on the Mississippi, he lived through the terrible scourge of 
 yellow fever of 1856 — the only companions to breast it with him being 
 two Catholic priests, whose devotion to the sick and dying has 
 
Hon. Beverly Daniel Evans, 
 dissociate "Justice of Supreme Court of Georgia. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEIv EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 65 
 
 always been one of the sweet recollections of that terrible period. In 
 the spring of 1859, Mr. Evans entered the University of Pennsylvania 
 to pursue the study of medicine. From that institution he was gradu- 
 ated in the spring of 18(!1. This he did by a system of private instruc- 
 tion, which he engaged in under the able masters, Dr. Pepper, the elder, 
 and Dr. J. M. Da Costa. He immediately went to New York, intending 
 to sail for Europe, where he expected to complete his professional 
 studies in the great universities and hospitals of London, Paris and 
 Berlin ; but before his departure, the sailing of the "Star of the West" 
 to Charleston ignited the blaze which was to ravage his country with 
 war, and he hastened South to volunteer as a soldier under South Caro- 
 lina's banner. Perceiving, however, that Virginia was to be the battle 
 ground, he hastened thither, arriving only in time to volunteer his pro- 
 fessional services upon the field of First Manassas. After that battle 
 he was placed in charge of the Division Hospital at Leesburg, Va. 
 While stationed at Leesburg, Dr. Evans met and fell in love with Miss 
 M. Antionette Powell, the daughter of a distinguished family of the Old' 
 Dominion. He was, however, soon detached from service at Leesburg 
 and made an assistant to Dr. Fred. Giddings, at the hospital established 
 at Adams Run, S. C. Here he suffered a severe attack of hemorrhagic 
 fever, and upon his recovery he repaired again to Virginia, where he 
 received the appointment as Regimental Surgeon, with the rank of 
 Major, to the 3d South Carolina Regiment of Volunteers — Col. James 
 Nance, Kershaw's Brigade, McClaw's Division, Longstreet's Corps, A, 
 N. Va. With this regiment he shared all of the campaigns, hardships 
 and privations of the long and bloody war. His campaigns under 
 Cupid's command were more availing than those under Mars, and he 
 was married, on the 4th day of January, 1865, at the home of her 
 brother. Col. D. Lee Powell, of Richmond, to Maria Antoinette, daugh- 
 ter of Wm. Alexander Powell, Esq., of Leesburg. 
 
 Upon the conclusion of the war. Dr. Evans, with naught of worfdly 
 possessions but a wife, a gold watch and a silver Mexican dollar — one 
 of five which he received at the surrender — all three of which precious 
 possessions he has still preserved, set out for his native State. He 
 bought a plantation in Marion County on long credit, and sat down to 
 make a living by the joint efforts of his profession and husbandry. In 
 these he made shift to pay for his place and to add to the two-roomed 
 
66 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 house in which he and his young city-bred wife had commenced Hfe. 
 In 1873 he removed to the neighborhood of Mars Bluff, and in 1877 to 
 Florence, where he still resides. 
 
 Always a great student of his profession. Dr. Evans soon became 
 prominent in medical circles in his State and in the South. In 1887 
 he was elected President of the State Medical Association, and upon 
 the expiration of his term was appointed by the Governor a member of 
 the State Board of Health, to fill the vacancy caused by the death, in 
 that year, of Dr. Frank F. Gary, the President. In 1895, upon the 
 death of Dr. Ed. Frazer, the Secretary of the Board, and practically 
 its administrative officer. Dr. Evans was elected to that position, which 
 he still retains. In this capacity he has been instrumental in obtain- 
 ing the passage of laws for the development and classification of vital 
 statistics and the establishment of local township boards of health, and 
 he is the author of the bills introduced for those purposes. It was 
 through his untiring efforts that laws for the enforcing of sanitation 
 and the regulation of infectious and contagious diseases, with adequate 
 appropriations for their efficient enforcement, were passed. The re- 
 ports of vital statistics, contained in his annual report, are fuller and 
 more complete than those of any other Southern State. 
 
 Dr. Evans has written voluminously upon matters pertaining to his 
 profession, and his writings appear in the journals of the various socie- 
 ties to which he belongs. Notably among these are articles on "Puerpal 
 Fever" and "The Sanitary Uses of Plants and Flowers," read before 
 the South Carolina Medical Association ; "Shock," "Multiple Cancer" 
 and "Uses of Normal Saline Solution in Shock," read before the South- 
 ern Surgical and Gynneological Society, at their respective meetings 
 in Louisville, Ky., Charleston, S. C, and Nashville, Tenn. A number 
 of health tracts, issued by the State Board of Health, and now intro- 
 duced into the school course of every public school in the State, upon 
 "Typhoid Fever," "Diphtheria," "Consumption, and Methods of Preven- 
 tion," "Cholera," "Prevention of Infectious and Contagious Diseases," 
 and many other subjects, are the product of his pen. He is a member, 
 besides the medical societies mentioned, of the "American Medical As- 
 sociation," "National Conference of State and Provincial Boards of 
 Health," "Pan-American Medical Congress," of the "American Social 
 Science Association" and the "Institute of Art, Science and Letters," 
 
James Evans, M. D. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 67 
 
 by invitation extended "in recognition of distinction attained by you in 
 Medicine." He is also a member of the United Confederate Veterans, 
 United Confederate Surgeons, and South Carolina Chapter of Sons 
 of the Revolution. 
 
 Dr. Evans still maintains his great vitality of mind and interest in 
 new matters, professional and casual ; he preserves an elasticity of 
 frame and robustness of health and appearance that very much belie 
 his years. His disposition has ever been one of modesty and reserve, 
 his manners gentle, gracious and refined — a gentleman of the old South- 
 ern school — with a genuine unobtrusive piety, a true love of honor, and 
 a hatred of anything small, sordid and mean. Issue : 
 
 82. i., JcDie Beverly, b. 3d June, 1866, Marion Co., S. C. ; graduated 
 Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va. ; studied art Boston Con- 
 servatory of Music and Art, Corcoran Art School, Washington, 
 D. C, New York Art League, and from Mrs. Nichols, water color 
 artist, and Josiffi, miniature artist, both of New York, miniature 
 artist, S. C. and N. Y. Sing'le. 
 
 83. ii., Pozvell, b. 1st June, 1868, Marion County, S. C. ; A. B. Hobart 
 College, Geneva, N. Y., 1888; civil engineer, electrical engineer; 
 President and Manager Merchant & Evans Co. ; President and 
 Manager International Sprinkler Co. ; University Club, Southern 
 Club of Philadelphia ; Penn. Chap. Sons of Revolution ; Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society, Sigma Phi Fraternity, Philadelphia, Pa. ; m. Nov. 
 26th, 1898, Miss Julia Estelle, dau. Clark Merchant, Esq., Phila- 
 delphia, Pa. ; b. Oct. 4th, 1877.* 
 
 Issue: Anita Merchant Evans, b. 20th March, 1900. 
 
 *Mr. Clark Merchant was born at Oglethorpe Barracks, Savannah, Ga., 
 son of Gen. Merchant, first Cadet at U. S. Military Academy, from Albany, 
 N. Y., and of U. S. A., and his wife. Miss Lovekin, of Newbnryport, Mass., 
 both of English ancestry. He entered the U. S. Naval Academy, at Annapolis, 
 and graduated therefrom 1857 ; served throughout Civil War, becoming a com- 
 mander in the Navy under Admiral Porter; resigned commission in 1S67, and 
 engaged in business in Philadelphia, Pa., where he resided until his death, in 
 the spring of 1904, having become one of that city's wealthiest and most influ- 
 ential citizens. He was President and owner of Merchant & Co., Ltd., and 
 Interuational Sprinkler Co., Philadelph a; Pa , and President of the Schinlkill 
 Traction Co. ; m., 1863, Sarah Watts, dau. of Henry Miller Watts and Sarah 
 Shombery, of Philadelphia, Pa., the latter a schoolmate and intimate friend 
 of the late Empress Elizabeth of the Austrians, by whom she was presented 
 with a beautiful oil portrait of herself, which is now owned by Mrs. Merchant. 
 Mr. Merchant died in Philadelphia, after a brief illness, of pneumonia. May 
 7th, 1904. 
 
68 HISTORY 01'' NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 84. iii., Wm. Alexander, b. 3d November, 1870, Marion Co., S. C. ; 
 A. B. Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., 1893 ; B. L., New York City 
 Law School, 1902; journalist, N. Y. Stm, Brooklyn Bagle; attor- 
 ney at law ; resides city of New York ; member of St. Nicholas 
 Club, New York Chapter Colonial Society ; Sigma Phi Fraternity. 
 Single. 
 
 85. iv., Maria Lee, b. Marion Co., S. C, Nov. 18th, 1873 ; educated 
 Richmond Female Seminary, Richmond, Va. ; m. Jan. 6th, 1897, 
 Hon. Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville, S. C, then Speaker of the 
 House of Representatives of South Carolina, and ex-member of 
 Constitutional Convention of S. C, 1895 ; son of Dr. F. F. Gary, 
 late Chairman of State Board of Health. Issue: Frank Boyd 
 Gary, Jr., b. Oct., 1900. 
 
 86. v., Marie Antoinette, b. Mars Bluff, S. C, Dec. 37, 1874 ; edu- 
 cated Richmond Female Seminary, Richmond, Va. ; m. Oct. 33d, 
 1901, Henry Carrington Riely, Esq., of Richmond, Va., of firm 
 of McGuire & Riely, son of late Justice John William Riely, of 
 Va. Supreme Court of Appeals.* Resides 14 E. Grace street, 
 Richmond, Va. Issue : James Evans, b. 23d Feb., 1904. 
 
 87. vi., James Daniel,'' b. Mars Bluff, S. C, Dec. 11th, 1876 ; under- 
 graduate class 1898, South Carolina College; B. L. same, 1900; 
 admitted S. C. Bar, 13 June, 1900 ; resides and practices law 
 Philadelphia, Pa. ; member Historical Society of Pedee, Maxey 
 
 *Justice Riely was bom in neighborhood of Smithfield, Va. (now W. Va.), 
 February 26th, 1839, son of George H. Riely and Frances Grantham, dau. of 
 Capt. James Grantham, of Jefferson County, Va. His great-grand-father was 
 John Riely, an Irishman, who came to Virginia early in the 18th century, and 
 one of the first settlers of the valley of Virginia. He married, October, 1867, 
 Emma Carrington, dau. of Henry Carrington, Esq., of "Ingliside," Charlotte 
 County, Va. (grand-daughter of Judge Paul Carrington and Judge Wm. H. 
 Cubell, both of Virginia Court of Appeals). Justice Riely graduated, 1861, 
 Washington and Lee University, maxima cum laude. Volunteered C. S. A., 
 4th Va., Stonewall Brigade; rose Captain; served on staff of Maj. Gen. G. W. 
 Smith and Maj. Gen. Longstreet, at Gettysburg; rose Major and Lt. Col.; ap- 
 pointed Assistant Adjutant General, and served to end of war. Studied law 
 and admitted to Bar, 1867 ; appointed Commonwealth's Attorney, 1871 ; re- 
 elected till 1894, when he was elevated to position of Va. Ct. of Appeals; d. 
 August 20th, 1900. Henry Carrington Riely was educated at the Episcopal 
 High School, and is an A. B. and LL. B., maxima cum laude of the University 
 of Va. For Carrington family, see "Cabells and their Kin," Brown. 
 
 *Author of this History. 
 
Powell Evans. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 69 
 
 Greg-g Chapter Sons Confederate Veterans, University and South- 
 ern Club, Philadelphia. Single. 
 
 88. vii., Lucy Peachy, b. Florence, S. C, July 23d, 1879 ; graduate 
 Fairmount School, Tenn., June, 1898 ; m. 21st June, 1904 Rey 
 Caleb B. K. Weed,t of East Orange, N. J., Rector of St. John's 
 P. E. Church, Fort Smith, Ark. Issue : James Bvans, b. Florence 
 S. C, 11 July, 1905. 
 
 89. viii., Thomas, b. Florence, S. C, July 16th, 1882 ; educated Flor- 
 ence Graded Schools, A. B. and A. M., University of the South 
 Sewanee, Tenn.; Signa Alpha Epsalon Fraternity; Student of 
 Law; resides Chicago. Single. 
 
 90. Lleivellyn Stuart, b. Florence, S. C, March 10th, 1887 ; d same 
 May 27th, 1888 ; interred Mount Hope Cemetery, Florence, S. C. 
 
 f J-^°"#' T^^a"^^' x'^f ^"""'^ ancestor, who first came to this country sailed 
 frorn England in July^ 1630, ui a fleet of twelve ships, with 840 pa se^rs Sir 
 Richard Saltonstallbenig m charge. The name of the ship was '^Arfbefra ''' -md 
 
 shT' r^^f^ '"//": If'""^^ "'■" ^°™^ ^"^°"g t'^^ li^^t °f passengers of Tat 
 ship. They landed at Charlestown, or at Salem, Mass., and settled at Water 
 
 own Mass. Jonas Weede was made "Freeman" ^t wL^ertow in eJT In 
 1635 he moved to Wethersfield, Conn.; here he was one of the founders of the 
 Congregational Church, the first founded in the Colony. In 1642 he moved to 
 Stamford, Conn and with him the minister, the Rev. Mr. Denton, and they 
 took their records, and the first seat in the church was awarded to Jonas Weede 
 because of his position and wealth. wteuc, 
 
 Jonas Weede, one of the founders of the town of Stamford, Conn is said to 
 come from the town of Stamford. England. The name Weede is a contraction of 
 Weedon, or Weeden, or Weton ; Ralph de Weedon, or Ralph of Weed en Bee 
 settled in Buckinghamshire, England, A. D. 1307. He bnre arms, argent two 
 bars gules ; m chief three martlets sable. Crest : a martlet sable ' 
 
 Jonas Weede (first), d. at Stamford, Conn., 1676. His wife's sir-name is not 
 known— her first name was May. The record of his children is preserved He 
 had : 
 
 Jonas Weede (second), date of birth not known; he married Bethia Holly 
 in Stamford, Conn., November 16th, 1670; had: 
 
 Jonas Weed (third), b. July 26th, 1678; d. October 24th, 1753; m. Sarah 
 Waterbury, January 20th, 1703 or 4. He was called the rich Jonas, and was 
 titled Mr. He gave the land of the Weed private cemetery, and is buried in 
 the same, in Darien, Conn. ; had : 
 
 Epenetus Weed, b. September 20th, 1712 ; d. 1763 ; m. Sarah Slason, February 
 22d, 1658 ; had : ^ 
 
 Benjamin Weed (third), b. December ISth, 1758; d. January 11th, 1845; m 
 Mary Waterbury, December 19th, 1784; had: 
 
 John William Weed, b. February 21st, 1792; d. January 7th, 1875; m. Mar- 
 garette Macumber Mix, of New Haven, Clonn., September 5th, 1825; had: 
 
 John Richard Weed, b. August 18th, 1831; m. Elisabeth Ann Conant [For 
 Conant family, see "History and Genealogy of Conant Family"!. February 
 26th, 1857; had: 
 
 Calbe Brintnall Knevals Weed; b. December 6th, 1870; m. Lucy Peachy 
 Evans, June 21st, 1904. 
 
70 HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. I^VANS AND HIS DESCEINDANTS. 
 
 22 Capt. Asa 4 Louis Evans (Thomas 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 was born at Marion C. H., S. C, on the 10th April, 1834, and died 
 in April, 1905. 
 He received his early education at the Marion Academy, under Mr. 
 Jerry Dargan ; later he attended the S. C. Military Academy. He read 
 law and was admitted to practice at the Bar of the State ; entered upon 
 his profesional life in Marion, where he resided until the outbreak of 
 the Civil War. He volunteered his services to the Confederacy and 
 received the appointment of Adjutant on the staff of Gen. N. G. Evans, 
 his .elder brother, with the rank of Captain. He was actively engaged 
 in all of the campaigns of the latter and retained his commission after 
 the retirement of Gen. Evans, and served on the staff of Gen. Stephen 
 D. Elliott, who succeeded to the command of Evans' Brigade; in^this 
 capacity he served with conspicuous gallantry at the battle of "The 
 Crater," at Petersburg, Va., in 1865, there leading the attack at the head 
 of a company of Georgians, whose commanding officers had been killed. 
 For his splendid performance there he received the highest commenda- 
 tion in the report of Gen. Elliott. After the conclusion of the war he 
 returned to Marion and again engaged in the practice of his profession, 
 which, however, he forsook when the Radicals came into power, saying 
 that he would not practice at a Bar where negro lawyers were admitted. 
 He thereupon retired to his plantation on the western side of the Peedee 
 River, where he resided for many years ; finally, returning to Marion, 
 he became deputy Clerk of Court, which position he held until, suffer- 
 ing almost totarblindness, he was forced to give up active business. 
 For many years he filled the highly responsible office of Clerk of the 
 Senate of the State. He married, in 1865, Miss Tracy Howard Mc- 
 Clenaghan, then in her twentieth year and a great beauty, the daughter 
 of an eminent divine of the Marion section, Rev. Horatio Nelson Mc- 
 Clenaghan, who was born in 1805, in Belfast, Ireland, and with his 
 brother, John McClenaghan, came to South Carolina directly from 
 Ireland. He was a member of an old Scotch-Irish family ; his wife was 
 Miss Howard, of South Carolina, born 1812. Issue : 
 
 91. i., Thomas Horatio, h. 1866 ; d. inf. 
 
 92. ii., John McClenaghan, b. 1868 ; d. inf. 
 
 93. iii., Sarah, b. 1870 ; m. 1895, Charles Richard James, son of 
 Joseph G. and Susan Elizabeth (Farrell) James. Mr. James is 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 71 
 
 descended from the distinguished James James, Esq., who led the 
 Welsh settlement to South Carolina in 1735 ; is a prosperous planter 
 and resides now in Clarendon County, S. C. They have- 1 
 Howard Evans, b. 1896 ; 2, Charles Richard, b. 1899. 
 
 94. iv., Emily Seymour, h. 1873. Resides with her mother in Marion 
 
 95. v., Charles Heivard, b. 1874; m. 1901, Nellie Bailey Dorrell 
 daughter of Wm. Dorrell, of Georgetown, S. C. ; thev have one 
 child, William Dorrell, b. 1903. Served through Spanish-Ameri- 
 can War in 1st S. C. V. Regt. as Corporal. 
 
 96. vi., Constance, b. 1877, who has entered the profession of trained 
 nursing, having received her instruction in the private sanitarium 
 of Dr. Daughty, of Augusta, Ga. 
 
 97. vii., Peter Cooper, b. 1885 ; now occupying a responsible position 
 of trust in the Bank of Marion. 
 
 23.^ Capt. WilliaxM Edwin 4 Evans (Thomas 3, Nathan 2, Nathan- 
 iel 1,) was born in Marion, S. C, on the 17th dav of Dec, 1835, 
 and there received his early education. 
 
 He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at 
 Annapolis, and graduated high in his class; as a midshipman in'the 
 Navy he visited Japan soon after its ports were opened to the world, 
 and continuing his cruise visited many of the ports and capitals of 
 Europe. He was commissioned Master in the United States Navy a 
 short time prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, but upon the secession 
 of his native State, resigned his commission Feb. 2d, 1861, and was 
 commissioned in the Navy of the newly-formed Confederate States, 
 March 26th, 1861, as 1st Lieutenant, and assigned to duty on C. s! 
 Cruiser Sumter. He sailed with Admiral Raphael Semmes, on the 
 memorable cruise that wrought the first great havoc in the Federal 
 commerce. He was ordered to embark with Admiral Semmes on the 
 C. S. Cruiser Alabama, but was detained in England by a severe illness 
 until she had cleared port ; subsequently he shipped as 1st Lieutenant 
 on the C. S. Cruiser Georgia, and in 1864 was elevated to the rank of 
 commander of that vessel. Upon her sale by the Confederate Govern- 
 ment, Captain Evans was given one of the fleet little craft which did 
 such valuable service as blockade runners of Southern ports and made 
 many cruises, successfully eluding the watchful squadrons of the United 
 States. His last voyage was through the blockade of Wilmington bar- 
 
72 HISTORY Olf NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 bor, N. C, which port he succeeded in reaching during a heavy gale by 
 running between the Federal cruisers lying almost abreast within the 
 harbor, evading the consequences of his daring by the fact that in firing 
 upon him his enemies would have sunk their sister ships. *After the 
 close of the war Capt. Evans went to Charleston and later to St. Louis, 
 Mo., where he was engaged in business, but suffering a severe injury, 
 which caused concussion of the brain, he returned to South Carolina 
 much impaired in health. His death occurred in 1893, and he is buried 
 in Marion. 
 
 25. Sarah Jane 4 Evans (Thomas 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) who 
 has always been known to her family and friends by the charming 
 and quaint name "Sallie," was born in Marion, S. C, on the 4th of 
 January, 1840. 
 After receiving her early schooling there, completed her studies at the 
 then fashionable school for young ladies in the South, Barhamville, near 
 Columbia. Returning from Barhamville glowing with beauty and ac- 
 complished beyond the usual degree in music and languages, she was 
 allowed to remain but a short time in her old home, but as the guest of 
 her brother, Capt. N. George Evans, of the 2d Dragoons, on long leave 
 from the West, where he had covered himself with glory in the Coman- 
 chee War, she visited the Virginia and Saratoga Springs, West Point, 
 during the gay season, returning by New York and the great Eastern 
 cities after many months to Marion, where she was the admiration of 
 her friends and the toast of the County. Mr. Robert Legare Singletary, 
 the young engineer, who had, by building the Florida Keys and the 
 Charleston and Savannah Railroads, won both fame and fortune for 
 himself, now in a spirited campaign, won this lady's hand, and they were 
 married in Marion, in 1861, just on the eve of the terrific struggle in 
 
 *The following account, written by his distinguished friend and commander, 
 giving some idea of Capt. Evans' attractive personality, is taken from "Service 
 Afloat," by Admiral Raphael Semmes, C. S. N., p. 125: "Lieut. William E. 
 Evans, the fourth and Junior Lieutenant of the ship (Sumter), is not more 
 than twenty-four years of age, slim in person, of medium height, and rather 
 delicate looking, though not from ill health. His complexion is dark, and he 
 has black hair and eyes. He has a very agreeable, riante expression about his 
 face, and is somewhat given to casuistry, being fond of an argument, when occa- 
 sion presents itself. He is but recently out of the Naval Academy, at Aijnapolis, 
 and like all new graduates, feels the freshness of academic honors. He is a 
 native of South Carolina, and a brother of Gen. Evans, of that State, who so 
 distinguished himself, afterwards, at the battle of Manassas, and on other bloody 
 fields." 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANlElv EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 73 
 
 which, as Captain of Company K, of the 8th South CaroHna, Mr. Sin- 
 gletary soon after went to the front, leaving- his bride in Marion with 
 her mother, where she was occupied during those terrible four years in 
 all of the charities instituted for the relief of the Southern armies. 
 After the close of the war, Capt. Singletary took his family to Charles- 
 ton, where he became the President of the Charleston and Savannah 
 Railroad. In 1868, however, with much of his fortune dissipated as a 
 result of the war, he retired to his plantation at Mars Bluff, where they 
 have ever since lived. Issue : 
 
 98. i., Mary, b. 10th Feb., 1865 ; m. 21st Oct., 1885, at Mars Bluff, 
 S. C, Rev. Edgar G. Smith, at that time the minister of old Hope- 
 well Church, but now the minister for many years of the Presby- 
 terian Church of Greensboro, Ga. Mrs. Smith was educated at 
 Peace Institute, Raleigh, N. C, where were also her younger sis- 
 ters. Mr. Smith has been a leading member of the Southern 
 Synod for many years, his scholarly attainments being exceptional 
 even in that exceptionally able body of the Church. Issue: i., 
 Sidney Legare, b. 9th Dec, 1886; d. June, 1888; ii., Archibald 
 Geddings, b. 9th Sept., 1889 ; d. 11th May, 1891 ; iii., Foster, b. 2d 
 April, 1892 ; iv., Marie Bvans, b. 22d June, 1895 ; v., Sarah Louise, 
 b. 23d April, 1898. 
 
 99. ii., Sarah, "Little Sallie," was born 4th Aug., 1866, at Charleston, 
 S. C, and was educated with her sisters at Peace Institute, at 
 Raleigh, N. C, where she became quite an accomplished artist in 
 china painting. She was married on the 29th October, 1890, to 
 Mr. Duncan Davis, the second son of Mr. Ezra Davis, oue of the 
 most prominent planters of the Mars Bluff neighborhood, and 
 highly connected by blood and marriage with the most distinguished 
 families of the State. They have but one child ; i., Jane Beverly 
 Evans Davis, born 31st Dec, 1892. 
 
 100. iii., Blla Stokes, b. Mars Bluff, S. C, and educated at Peace 
 Institute, Raleigh, N. C. ; she has never married, and resides par- 
 tially with her parents and partially with her sister, Mrs. Davis. 
 only a few miles away. 
 
74 HISTORY OF NATHANIE;l EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Ovarii ?£xr«rB«2. 
 Sfotu iEttgf n? H. Ciiarg. 
 
 The oldest lineal ancestor from whom we are to trace our family was 
 Martin Gary, He was the father of Thomas Gary. Thomas Gary 
 was the father of eight sons and three daughters. Capt, Jesse Gary was 
 the oldest of the sons, and was born 22d Oct., 1782, and died in 1844. 
 
 At the close of the War for American Independence some of the 
 Garys were members of the Bush River Baptist Church, in Newberry 
 District (now County), under the pastorate of Elder Norris, who was 
 imprisoned at Ninety-Six for preaching the doctrine of non-resistance. 
 
 Soon after the War of 1812, Thomas Gary, with his sons — Thomas 
 Gary, Arthur Gary, Marvel Gary, William L. Gary, and Isaac Gary — 
 and at least one daughtc- — Mrs. Charles Davenport, with her husband 
 and children — moved to Alabama. Two of the sons — Capt. Jesse Gary 
 and Dr. Martin Gary — remained in South Carolina. Isaac Gary be- 
 came a Baptist preacher, and moved to Texas. 
 
 William L. Gary left three children, who have families : Dr. Thomas 
 P. Gary, of Selma, Alabama ; Col. Robert H. Abercrombie, of Gadson, 
 Ala., and Mrs. John F. Hardin, of New Orleans. 
 
 West Gary, a younger brother of Thomas Gary, married Francis 
 Griffin, a sister of Gen. John K. Griffin and Col. B. F. Griffin. Gen. 
 John K. Griffin was a member of Congress. Of their children, only two 
 have descendants — Charles Griffin Gary and Dr. John K. Gary. The 
 Garys in Florida are descended from Charles Griffin Gary, while those 
 in Newberry County, S. C, are the descendants of Dr. John K. Gary. 
 
 Absalom Gary, a brother of West Gary, married Hetty Griffin, sister 
 of Francis, leaving one son, Archibald, who moved to Texas. 
 
 Old deeds and records show that as early as 1767 Charles, John, 
 William, Thomas and Uriah Gary, were living in South Carolina. They 
 came from Virginia. 
 
 Dr. Thomas R. Gary, son of Capt. Jesse Gary, was born in Newberry 
 County, 23d May, 1802, and died at Cokesbury, S. C, 19th March, 
 1852. He was a graduate of Jefferson Medical College, and was a 
 wealthy slave owner and planter. He represented Abbeville County 
 twice in the Legislature, and was a Director of the Greenville and Co- 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL i;VANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 75 
 
 lumbia Railroad. He was highly public-spirited, and took a deep 
 interest in religion, education and masonry. His wife was Mary A. 
 Porter. Issue : 
 
 i., Col. S. M. G. Gary, C. S. A., d. 
 
 ii., Dr. Prank F. Gary, Surgeon C. S. A. ; married Mary Caroline 
 
 Blackburn, dau. of Stephen Blackburn, of Newberry Co., S. C. 
 
 They had three sons and one daughter : Eugene B. Gary, Asso. 
 
 Justice Sup. Ct. of S. C. ; Ernest Gary, Judge of the 5th Judicial 
 
 Circuit of S. C. ; Frank B. Gary, for six years Speaker of the 
 
 House of Representatives of S. C. 
 iii., Maj. Gen. Martin T. Gary, C. S. A. 
 iv.. Dr. Thomas P. Gary, Surgeon C. S. A. 
 v., Capt. John H. Gary, C. S. A., killed in battle, 
 vi., Maj. William T. Gary, C. S. A., and Circuit Judge of Superior 
 
 Court, Augusta, Ga., U. S. Dist. Atty. under Cleveland, 
 vii., Ann Victoria Gary, m. Brig. Gen. Nathan George Evans. 
 viii., Louise Gary. 
 
 Six of his sons took an active part in the War between the 
 States — Col. S. 1\I. G. Gary, Dr. F. F. Gary, Surgeon of his regiment, 
 Maj. Gen. M. W. Gary, Dr. Thomas P. Gary, Surgeon of his regiment. 
 Capt. John H. Gary, who was elected Capt. of the South Carolina Col- 
 lege Cadets, and killed at Battery Wagner. He took an active part in 
 the capture of the Isaac P. Smith, a Northern gunboat, and a battery 
 was named in his honor. Maj. William T. Gary, who was a Circuit 
 Judge in Georgia, and died in May, 1904, was the first President of the 
 South Carolina Club, which was organized at Columbia in 1869, he 
 was appointed U. S. District Attorney by President Cleveland, repre- 
 sented his County twice in the Legislature, and was one of the most 
 cultured lawyers in the South. 
 
 Dr. F. F. Gary was twice elected a member of the Legislature ; was 
 President of the State Medical Association, Chairman of the State Board 
 of Health, and Chairman of the Medical Committee of the House of 
 Representatives. He contributed to the literature of his profession, 
 and was a well read and exceedingly successful physician. He died in 
 December, 1887. He married Mary Caroline Blackburn, daughter of 
 Stephen Blackburn, of Newberry County, whose ancestors fell fighting 
 for American Independence at King's Mountain. They had: 
 
76 
 
 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL KVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 <"■' — 
 
 
 1. Eugene B. Gary, A. J. Sup Ct., was elected Lieut. Gov. of S. C in 
 1890. He married Miss Eliza Tustin and has several sons and daugh- 
 ters. He resides at Abbeville, S. C. 1^ ^.^^ ^Oi^ %lMk^ fi, 
 
 n., Judge Ernest Gary Remarried. He was for many years a num- 
 ber of the General Assembly, and has been on the Circuit Bench for - 
 about ten years. He resides at Columbia. '^^ 
 
 iii., Frank B. Gary was six years Speaker of the House of Representa- 
 tives, and has since his retirement from the General Assembly served 
 many times as Special Judge at Special terms of Court by nomination / 
 of the Chief Justice and appointment by the Governor. He married 
 Maria Lee, daughter of Dr. James Evans, of Florence, S. C. They 
 have one son, Frank Boyd Gary, Jr. 
 
 iv., Marie, m. James Eason, of Charleston, and has several children. 
 
 Notes from Rev. David Walker Woods, son of the youngest daughter 
 of John Witherspoon, of Princeton, and given by him to Miss Caroline 
 Solomons : 
 
 1. King Robert II., born 2d March, 1310, only child of Walter, High 
 Stewart of Scotland, by his wife, Marjory, daughter of Robert the 
 Bruce. 
 
 2. Robert, Earl of Fife and Monteith, afterwards Duke of Albany; 
 m. in 1399 Margaret, only daughter of Murdock, Earl of Mon- 
 teith. Their son : 
 
 3. Murdock Second, Duke of Albany, was Governor of Scotland until 
 the Restoration of his cousin, James L (of Scotland), when he and 
 his two sons, Walter and Alexander, were beheaded in Sterling, 
 1424. He married Isabel, daughter and co-heiress of Duncan, last 
 Earl of Lennox. Their third son : 
 
 4. James Stewart, on the imprisonment of his father and brothers, 
 with the assistance of the Bishop of Argile, assaulted and burned 
 the town of Dunbarton, and killed Sir James Stewart, Governor of 
 the castle of 1424 ; proclaimed a traitor, he sought refuge in Ire- 
 land, where he married a lady of the family of McDonald, and died 
 in 1441. They had two sons, Andreiif Stewart, who was brought 
 from Ireland by James II. and created Lord Avondale (he was also 
 Lord High Chancellor of Scotland) and 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 77 
 
 5. Walter Stewart, of Murphie, married Elizabeth, daughter of Arnot 
 of Arnot. Their son : 
 
 6. Andrew Stewart, second Lord Avondale, married Margaret Ken- 
 nedy, daughter of Sir John Kennedy, of Blairguhan, in Ayrshire. 
 Their son : 
 
 7. Andrew, third Lord of Avondale, having made an excambeor of 
 the Lordship of Avondale with Sir James Hamilton of Finnert for 
 the barony of Ochiltree, he was, by Act of Parliament, 1542, or- 
 dained to be called Lord Ochiltree. He married Lady Margaret 
 Hamilton, daughter of James, first Earl of Arran, and Beatrice 
 Drummond, his first wife. Their son :* 
 
 8. Andrew, second Lord Ochiltree, commonly called "The Good," 
 took a prominent part with the leaders of the Reformation ; mar- 
 ried Agnes, daughter of John Cunningham, of Caprington, by 
 whom he had four sons and two daughters. Of these the youngest 
 was : 
 
 9. Lady Margaret Stezmrt, who became the second wife of John 
 Knox, the Reformer, 1564. They had three daughters — Margaret, 
 wife of Rev. Mr. Pont ; Martha, wife of Rev. Mr. Flemming, and 
 
 10. Elisabeth Knox, who married Rev. John Welch, of Ayr. They 
 had two sons and one daughter, Lucy. Mr. Welch died in 1623. 
 His wife thereafter removed to Ayr, where she died 1625. Her 
 will was confirmed by the Commissary of Glasgow. 
 
 11. Lncy Welch married Rev. Mr. Witherspoon, one of the parish 
 ministers of Scotland. Of this marriage there were David and 
 James. 
 
 12. James Witherspoon, also parish minister, married Helen , 
 
 as appears from her tombstone. They had a son, James, and a 
 daughter, Janet. 
 
 13. James Witherspoon in 1720 was minister of Yester, in Lothran. 
 He married Ann Walker. Their son, the Rev. John Witherspoon, 
 D. D., was the eminent divine and theological writer. Principal of 
 Princeton College, etc. ; their daughter, 
 
 14. Ann Witherspoon, married Rev. James French, Rector of the 
 High School of Edinburg. They had a son. Rev. James French, 
 
 ^This genealogy, at this point, joins the Orr genealogy, p. 83. 
 
78 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Rector of East Killride, and two daughters; Susan, married Mr. 
 
 McCunn, and 
 15. Ann French married Mr. James Todd, of New York. They had 
 
 three daughters — Susan, Mary and Isabellc. Susan married 
 
 Gabriel Walker. 
 Now to go back to the twelfth generation. James Witherspoon had 
 a brother — 
 
 12. David Witherspoon, married and had a son, 
 
 13. John Witherspoon, who married his cousin, Janet, daughter of 
 James Witherspoon. He went to Ireland in 1695 and remained 
 there thirty-nine years, then removed to America and settled in 
 Williamsburg County, S. C, in 1734. They had David, James, 
 Robert and Gavin. 
 
 14. James Witherspoon married Elizabeth McQuoid in Ireland. Her 
 mother was a Campbell. They had five sons and three daughters— 
 Sarah, Elisabeth and Ann; the sons were David, Robert, John. 
 James and Gavin. 
 
 15. James Witherspoon married five times, as follows: Jane Mat- 
 thews, Ann Presley, Jane Patterson, Eliza Raphael and Eliza Bland. 
 Jane Presley bore him a daughter, 
 
 16. Mary Elizabeth, who married Rev. Hugh Porter; they had two 
 daughters, Mary Ann and Elisabeth. She married again, after 
 his death, Mr. Torrant. 
 
 17. Mary Ann married Dr. Thomas R. Gary, son of Capt. Jesse Gary 
 (of Thomas, a Scotch-Irish immigrant from Virginia), b. 23d 
 May, 1802, Newberry Co., S. C. 
 
HISTORY Olf NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 79 
 
 JPnhiril lExrurHUB. 
 
 GXSXSO 
 
 Una Anima in Amicis 
 
 Among the first adventurers who landed in Virginia with Capt. New- 
 port in 1607 was Capt. Nathaniel Powell. He had been a Captain in the 
 Low Countries, and was one of the most renowned of the first Vir- 
 gmians. In 1619 he was Deputy Governor, and served until Sir George 
 Yeardley returned the same year, when he became a member of his 
 Majesty's Council. He was killed by the Indians in 1633 at "Powell 
 Brook," on York River. His estate was inherited by the children of his 
 brother. Sir Thomas Powell, who was knighted at Theobald's, in 162-t. 
 Another brother, Capt. Wm. Powell, of James Town, was Burgess for 
 Jamestown at the first Assembly in 1619.* He came with Gates^n 1611 
 with his other brother, Sir Stephen Powell, who with him was a sub- 
 scriber for the Second Charter of the Virginia Company of London. 
 These four brothers were the grand-sons of Dr. David Powell, who 
 belonged to the family of Powell of Castle Madoe, County Brecknock, 
 Wales,t which derived its descent through a long line of Welsh nobility 
 
 *Capt. John Smith's "A True Relation," 1632. 
 tjones' History of Brecknock. 
 
80 HISTORY 01-' NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 and gentry from a contemporary of the last Cymbric Kings of England 
 about the fourth century. With Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George 
 Somers from Plymouth, in 1609, sailed another brother or relative of 
 Capt. Nathaniel, Thomas Powell, in the ill-fated ship "Sea Adventure," 
 which was wrecked on the Bermudas, and whose history afforded 
 Shakespeare his plot for "The Tempest." In 1610, in small ships newly 
 built, the shipwrecked crew arrived at Jamestown. Hotten gives 
 Thomas Powell as living at "Dale's Gift," on the Eastern Shore, in 
 1618, where he was dispatched to make salt for the Colony.* He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Pearsons in Berumda during the passage, and their son, 
 John, is mentioned in the Northampton County Records of Virginia. 
 Walter Powell, probably the son of John, went in 1668 to Somerset 
 County, Md., where his wife, Margaret Beere, died in 1679. He had six 
 children, whose births are entered in the Somerset County records ; the 
 oldest son was William, born 1673, who married Miss Levin. Walter 
 died, leaving a will, in 1695, William died in 1715. In his will, William 
 mentions his son, William ; this son went to Prince William County, Va., 
 and married Elinor, daughter of Col. Valentine Peyton. His son, 
 Leven Powell, born 1737, went to Loudoun County in 1760, after marry- 
 ing Sarah, daughter of Hon. Burr Harrison, of "Chappawamsic," 
 Prince William County. In 1771 Leven Powell was elected Major of 
 Loudoun Minute Men, and wrote the "Loudoun Resolutions ;" in 1775 
 he operated against Lord Dunmore. He was commissioned Lt. Col. of 
 the 16th Virginia Continentals in 1777, and served in the Morristown 
 campaign and Valley Forge. He was a member of the Virginia Con- 
 stitutional Convention of 1788 and Presidential Elector in 1796. In 
 1799-1801 he served a term in Congress as a Federalist. He died in 
 ISlO.f Two of his sons, Cuthbert and William Harrison, were also 
 for many years in Congress. Leven, Jr., his third son, married in 
 1797 Susannah Elizabeth, d^aughter of Hon. John Orr and his wife, 
 Susannah Monroe Grayson, of "Waterside," and died in Kentucky in 
 1807, leaving his eldest son, William Alexander, and three other sons. 
 William was a lawyer, and married, in 1830, Lucy Peachy, daughter of 
 Hon. Daniel Lee and Sarah, daughter of Capt. Henry Nicholson, his 
 wife. The children of this marriage who lived to marry were, Col. D. 
 
 *Hotten's Original Lists of Persons of Quality. Brown's "Genesis of the 
 
 United States." 
 
 •{•"Virginia Genealogies," Heyden. 
 
HISTORY O^ NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 81 
 
 L. Powell, of Richmond ; Rev. John Dalrymple Powell, of Norfolk ; Dr. 
 Alfred H. Powell, of Baltimore ; Hugh Lee Powell, of Leesburg ; Mrs. 
 Frederick Lloyd, of Maryland, Mrs. Frank F. Jones, of New York; 
 Mrs. Wm. Brookf^^of Alexandria, Va., and Maria Antoinette, wife of 
 Dr. James Evans, of Florence, S. C. 
 
 Arms: Sa. a chevron or. between three spear heads guttc de sang. 
 Crest: A boar's head guardant. Motto: Una Anima in Amicis. 
 
 The family of Orr is very ancient in Scotland, the name dating in 
 Renfrewshire Records from 1100, where it was most respected. Rev. 
 Alexander Orr, of Burrowfield, married Lady Barbara Crawford, of 
 Anchinames. He was an ardent Covenanter, and suffered martyrdom 
 for his faith. His son, Rev. Alexander Orr, of "Hazelside," married 
 Lady Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Hon. John Dalrymple, Laird of 
 "Waterside" and writer to the signet. The Dalrymples of Waterside 
 were of the family and bear the arms of Stair ; the Earle of Stair, the 
 present head of which house, very kindly gave the writer the informa- 
 tion necessary for this sketch. John Orr, the younger son of Rev. 
 Alexander Orr and Lady Waterside, came to Virginia in about 1750, 
 and married Susannah Monroe Grayson, an aunt of James Monroe, 
 fifth President of the United States. John Orr was a signer of the 
 Revolutionary Resolutions drawn by Richard Henry Lee in protest 
 against the Stamp Act in 1766. His daughter, Susannah Elizabeth, 
 married, in 1794, Leven Powell, Jr.* 
 
 Arms: (Lyon Reg. 1-199) Gules, three piles conjoined in point arg., 
 within a bordure of the second, on a chief or a Torteaux of the first, 
 between two cross crosslets azure. Crest: A Cornucopia proper ; motto: 
 fortuna virtute comes. . '" 
 
 RoYAE Descent of Orr Family.! 
 
 First. From Egbert, first King of England, and Alfred the Great, 
 William the Conqueror (and through these from the Saxon and Norse 
 
 *"A Few Old Families." McCall, Glasgow, 1893. 
 
 fBrowning's "Americans of Royal Descent." "A History of the Shire of 
 Renfrew," Craufurd and Seton, 1782, Glasgow. 
 
82 
 
 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 royal houses from the first invasions) : Henry I., Henry H., John, Ed- 
 ward I., Edward n., Edward HI., of England, James I., of Scotland, 
 and Philip IV., of France ( and through him from Charlemagne), 
 through : 
 
 i.. Princess Jean, daughter of King James I., of Scotland and Queen 
 Joan (Beaufort), great-grand-daughter of Edward HI. of Eng- 
 land, and great-great-grand-daughter of Philip IV. of France, 
 who married Lord James Douglas, third Lord Dalkeith, first Earl 
 of Morton. Had : 
 
 ii., Lady Janet Douglas, m. Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Both- 
 well. Had : 
 
 iii.. Lady Janet Hepburn, m. George, 5th Lord Seton. Had : 
 
 iv., Lady Mariota Seton, m. Hugh Montgomery, 2d Earl of Eglin- 
 
 ton. Had : 
 v., Hugh Montgomery, 3d Earl of Eglinton, m. Lady Agnes, 
 
 daughter of Sir John Drummond, of Innespeffry. Had : 
 vi., Lady Agnes Ann Montgomery, 1st cousin of Mary Queen of 
 
 Scots ; m. Robert, 4th Lord Semple. Had : 
 vii.. Lady Beatrix Barbara Semple, m. Sir Colin Lamont, of In- 
 
 neryne. Had : 
 viii., Lady Ann Lamont, m. William Craufurd, Laird of Auchi- 
 
 names. Had : 
 ix.. Lady Barbara Craufurd, m. Rev. Alexander Orr, descended 
 
 from the Orrs of Barrowfield, Renfrewshire. Had : 
 X., Rev. Alexander Orr of Hazelside, m. Lady Agnes Dalrymple 
 
 of Waterside. Had : 
 xi., John Orr, b. Waterside, Renfrewshire, Scotland, 25th July, 
 
 1726 ; came to Prince William County, Va., about 1750; married 
 
 Susannah Monroe Grayson. Had: 
 xii., Susannah Elizabeth Orr, m. 1794, Leven Powell, Jr. Had: 
 xiii., William Alexander Pozvell, m. Lucy Peachy Lee. Had : 
 xiv., Maria Antoinette Powell, m. Dr. James Evans, of South Caro- 
 lina. 
 
 Second. Through Erskine from James I. of Scotland : 
 
 i.. Sir Robert Erskine of Erskine, m. Lady Beatrix Lindsey. Had : 
 
 ii., Sir Thomas Erskine of Erskine, m. Lady Janet Keith, daughter 
 
 of Lord Keith, Marischal of Scotland, by his wife, Christian, 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. KVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 83 
 
 daughter of Monteith, Lord of Arraii, and Lady Elyne Marr, 
 daughter of Gratney 11th Earl of Marr. Had : 
 
 iii., Sir Robert Erskinc, m. daughter of Robert, Lord Lorn and 
 Inmeath. Had : 
 
 iv., Thomas, 1st Lord Erskine, properly 2d Earl of Marr, m. Lady 
 Isabella Douglas (see Douglas Peerage), daughter of James 
 Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton, and Princess Joan, daughter of 
 King James L of Scotland and Queen Joan Beaufort. Had : 
 
 v., Lady Mar\< Erskine, m. Sir William Livingston of Kilsyth. 
 Had: 
 
 vi., WiUiam Livingston, Laird of Kilsyth, m. Lady Margaret Gra- 
 ham. Had : 
 
 vii., William Livingston, m. Lady Janet Bruce, daughter of the 
 Laird of Aerth. Had : 
 
 viii.. Sir William Livingston of Kilsyth ; m. Lady Mary, daughter 
 of Sir Duncan Forrester, Controller of the Household. Had : 
 
 ix.. Lady Elizabeth Livingston, m. Gabriel Cunningham, Laird of 
 Craigends. Had : 
 
 X., Lady Janet Cunningham, m. Sir Patrick Houston. Had : 
 
 xi.. Lady Margaret Houston, m. William Craufurd. Laird of 
 Auchinames. Had : 
 
 xii., Patrick Craufurd, Laird of Auchinames, m. Jane, heiress of 
 James Craufurd of Crosbie. Had : 
 
 xiii., William Craufurd, Laird of Auchinames, m. Lady Ann La- 
 ment, daughter of Sir Colin Lamont of Inneryne, whose daugh- 
 ter. Lady Barbara Craufurd, was the grand-mother of John Orr, 
 of Virginia. 
 Third. From King James H. of Scotland : 
 
 i., James IL, King of Scotland, m. Princess Mary, daughter of 
 Arnold, Duke of Gueldres, and his wife, Catherine, daughter of 
 Adolph, Duke of Cleves. Had: 
 
 ii.. Princess Mary, m. James, 1st Lord Hamilton. Had : 
 
 iii., James, 2d Lord Hamilton and 1st Earl of Arran ; m. Janet, 
 daughter of Sir Daniel Beaton, of Creich. Had :* 
 
 iv., Lady Jane Hamilton, m. Alexander Cunningham, 5th Earl of 
 Glencairn. Had : 
 
 *See Note, p. 77, supra. 
 
84" HISTORY OF NATHANIE;i, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 v., William Cunningham, 6th Earl of Glencairn ; m. Lady Janet 
 Gordon, of Lochinvar family. Had : 
 
 vi., Lady Elisabeth Cunningham, m. James Craufurd, Laird of 
 
 Corsbie. Had : 
 vii., Lady Jane Craufurd, heiress of Corsbie, m. Patrick Craufurd, 
 
 Laird of Auchinames. Had : 
 viii., William Craufurd, Laird of Auchinames ; m. Lady Ann, 
 
 daughter of Sir Colin Lamont of Inneryne. Had : 
 ix., Lady Barbara Craufurd, m. Alexander Orr, grand-father of 
 John Orr, of Virginia. 
 Fourth. From King James HL, King James IV. of Scotland, and 
 King Christian L of Denmark. 
 
 i. James III., King of Scotland, m. Princess Margaret, daughter of 
 
 Christian L, King of Denmark. Had : 
 ii., James IV., King of Scotland, m. (before his accession) Lady 
 Margaret Drummond, daughter of John, 1st Lord Drummond, 
 and Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Lindsey, 4th Earl 
 of Crawford. Had : 
 iii.. Lady Margaret Stewart, m. Sir John Drummond of Innespeffry. 
 
 Had:' 
 iv., Lady Agues Drummond, m. Hugh Montgomery, 3d Earl of 
 
 Eglinton. Had : 
 v.. Lady Agnes Ann Montgomery, m. Robert, 4th Lord of Semple. 
 
 Had: 
 vi.. Lady Beatrix Barbara Semple, m. Sir Colin Lamont of In- 
 neryne. Had : 
 vii., Lady Aun Lamont, m. Williarri Craufurd, Laird of Auchi- 
 names. Had : 
 viii.. Lady Barbara Craufurd, m. Rev. Alexander Orr, grand- 
 father of John Orr, of Virginia. 
 Fifth. From King Robert Bruce and King Robert II. of Scotland : 
 The grand-son of Robert II., King of Scotland, son of King Robert 
 Bruce, was John, Earl of Buehan, Lord High Constable of France ; his 
 daughter and heiress. Lady Margaret, m. George, 1st Lord Seton, 
 lineally descended from Rollo, the first Norman Duke. From Lord 
 George Seton was descended Lady Mariota Seton, who married Hugh 
 Montgomery, 2d Earl of Eglinton, from whom John Orr, of Virginia, 
 was descended, as heretofore given. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 85 
 
 CuTHBERT Harrison, Esquire, of Acaster, Caton and Flaxby, Gentle- 
 man, was the father of Burr Harrison, Gent., who, in 1655, fled from 
 London to Virginia as a Cavaher refugee from Cromwell, Burr Har- 
 rison's birth is recorded in the Parish Record of St. Margarets, West- 
 minster. He settled at Chippawamsic, Prince William County, Va., 
 and he and his sons were prominent in the public and social life of that 
 aristocratic County, Hon. Burr Harrison, his great-grand-son, was a 
 Justice of the Peace and a Burgess for the County. He was the father 
 of Sarah Harrison, the wife of Lt. Col. Leven Powell. 
 
 Arms: Az. three demi lions ramp or. Crest: A demi lion ramp or. 
 holding a laurel branch vert.* 
 
 Motto: Vincit qui Patitur. 
 
 The Peytons of Stafford County, Va., are descended from Reginald 
 de Peyton, Lord of "Peyton Hall" and "Isleham," Boxford and Stoke 
 Neyland, Cambridgeshire, England, temp. Henry L, d. 1136, who was 
 Dapifer to Earl Hugh de Bigod, one of the signers of Magna Charta. 
 Sir Edward Peyton was Lord of Peyton Hall in 1656, and made a deed 
 to Henry Peyton of Lincoln Inn Fields, a clerk of the High Court of 
 Chancery, of his own arms with a change of bardure, as a descendant of 
 his house. In 1657, Henry Peyton was tried for treason for maintain- 
 ing his sons in arms against the Parliament. These sons. Col. Valen- 
 tine, Lawrence and Henry, appeared as cavalier refugees in Stafford 
 County, Va., in 1656. Henry signs himself as "Henry Peyton, Gent., 
 of Aquia Creek and Loudoun." Col. Valentine Peyton, the grand-son 
 of this Henry, was Burgess, Justice of the Peace in Stafford County, 
 and a Colonel of the Colonial Militia. Elinor Peyton, his daughter, 
 was the wife of Wm. Powell, Jr., and mother of Lt. Col. Leven Powell, 
 of Loudoun Co. 
 
 Arms: Sa a cross engrailed or in the second quarter a mullet arg. all 
 within a bordure ermine. Crest: "On a wreath a griffin sejant or." 
 Motto: Potior Potior/^ 
 
 *"Virginia Genealogies," Heyden. 
 
86 HISTORY OF NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Dr. John Lee, a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and an Irishman 
 by birth, came to Virginia about 1740 and settled at Woodstock, Frede- 
 rick Co. He married Lucy Smith, of Culpeper Co., and their son, 
 Hon. Daniel Lee, studied law and practiced in Winchester, from where 
 he served many terms as a member of the General Assembly. He mar- 
 ried Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Henry Nicholson, Quartermaster of 
 Brigade in the Revolution, and his wife, Sarah, daughter of Hon. An- 
 thony Hay, of Williamsburg. Anthony Hay was descended from the 
 thirteenth Lord Hay, Earl of Erroll, of the Peerage of Scotland, and a 
 signet ring and book plates left to his children bore the Erroll Arms. 
 Daniel Lee left children, Lucy Peachy, wife of Wm. A. Powell and 
 mother of Mrs. James Evans ; Mrs. Hedges, of New Orleans ; Mrs. 
 Patrick Henry Cabell; Mrs. Louis Burrell; Rev. Henry Lee; Judge 
 George Lee, of the Virginia Court of Appeals, and Hugh Lee, Esq., of 
 Winchester, Va. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 87 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 28. Mary Elizabeth 4 Evans (William 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 
 was born in Marion County on the 8th of June, 1829. 
 She was married in March of 1859 to Judge Augustus JuHen Re- 
 quier, of Alabama, a gentleman of French descent, of great culture 
 and learning, a frequent contributor of poems of excellent literary char- 
 acter to the periodicals of his day. He attained eminent success in his 
 profession in his native State, but forsook the Bar for the field during 
 the great civil strife, during which he served with devotion and attained 
 high official rank. After the war Judge Requier settled in New York 
 City, and there he became one of the leaders of the Bar. Mrs. Requier 
 was a lady of great beauty and of brilliant mind, and at an early age 
 attracted much attention by her literary attainments. She died a few 
 months after her marriage, on July 29th, 1859, and was buried in Mobile, 
 Alabama, where she had resided. 
 
 31. Eeiza Jane 4 Evans (William 3. Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) was 
 born in Marion on the 4th February, 1834, and was married Feb. 
 22d, 1855, to Dr. Dixon Evans, of North Carolina, who had settled 
 in Marion, and where for many years he practiced his profession. 
 The children of this marriage were: 
 101. i., Mary Louise, b. June 18th, 1856 ; d. Oct. 8th, 1857. 
 192. ii., Charles Edgar, b. March 25th, 1858 ; m. Oct. 21st, 1891, 
 Sophia, dau. Dr. Frank and Sallie (Mclntyre) Miles, of Marion. 
 
 103. iii., Minnie BHza, b. Jan. 24th, 1860 ; m. Nov. 20th, 1879, Benj. 
 R. Mullins, a son of Dr. James Mullins, of Marion County. 
 
 104. iv., Sarah Rebecca, b. Jan. 30th, 1861 ; d. July 5th, 1862. 
 
 105. v.. William Ashby, b. June 16th, 1862; m. May 31st, 1899, 
 Christine Hopper. 
 
 106. vi.. Kate Power, b. Sept. 4th, 1863; m. Jan. 21st, 1886, W. 
 Howard Cross ; d. July 18th, 1898. 
 
 107. vii., Amelia Henrietta, b. May 16th, 1867 ; m. May 12th, 1891, 
 Frank Glover. 
 
 108. viii., James Dixon, b. March 1st, 1868 ; d. Dec. 4th, 1868. 
 
 109. ix., Maggie Durham, h. Oct. 17th, 1869 ; d. Aug. 25th. 1880. 
 
 110. X., Edna Earle, h. July 4th, 1873 ; d. Aug. 24th, 1880. 
 
 V 
 
88 HISTORY OF NATHANIEI. EVANS AND HIS DE;SCE;NDANTS. 
 
 111. xi., Joseph Gamewell, b. April 6th, 1878. M. D. University of 
 Maryland. \ 
 
 Dr. Dixon Evans was born May 2d, 1816, at Fayetteville, N. C. 
 He attended and was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College 
 of Philadelphia, in the class of 1846, and immediately settled in 
 Marion, where he soon acquired a wide practice. He was a man 
 of high character and most popular manners. 
 32. Anne Maria 4 Evans (William 3, Nathan 2, Natheniel 1,) was 
 born at "Oak Hall," her father's residence, in Marion County, on 
 the 15th of January, 1836. 
 She with her sister, Mrs. Dixon Evans, and Mrs. Power, was edu- 
 cated at Floral College, N. C, and at the old Academy at Warrenton, 
 N. C, and was graduated in the spring of 1854. In the early winter 
 of the same year, Dec. 21st, she was married to Col. John Gilchrist 
 Blue, a gentleman descended from good old Scotch-Irish stock in Rich- 
 mond County, N. C, where he was born Sept. 15th, 1829. 
 
 Col. John G. Blue was the first honor man of his class, that of 1849, 
 at Davidson College, and entered the Bar soon after. He was a mem- 
 ber of the Convention which passed the Ordinance of Secession for 
 North Carolina. After the war he removed to Marion, S. C, where he 
 took a high position at the Bar and in public affairs. Thrice he was re- 
 turned to the General Assembly, and was a member of the famous "Wal- 
 lace House" of 1876, which ousted the negroes and carpet-baggers. He 
 was a son of Col. John Blue, who commanded a regiment in the War of 
 1812, and his grand-father, John Blue, served in the Revolutionary 
 Army. Col. Blue's mother was a daughter of John Gilchrist, an officer 
 of the English Navy. Mrs. Blue is still living in Marion, where she is 
 much beloved by all who knew her. She has lived to see her children 
 grow up and receive the honors which their merit has awarded. The 
 children of this marriage were : 
 
 112. i., SaJIie, m. 12th July, 1893, P. M. John, of Bennettsville, S. C. 
 
 113. ii., Bffiic, m. 24th Dec, 1885, Edward Bee Wheeler, of Marion, 
 S. C. ; has children. 
 
 114. iii., Ida, m. 23d March, 1893, J. T. John, of John's Station, N. C. 
 
 115. iv., Wm. Evans, dec. 
 
 116. v., Victor, h. Dec. 6th, 1865 ; graduated from U. S. Naval Aca- 
 demy, Annapolis, now a Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Navy. 
 
Lt. Commander Victor Blue^ U. S. N. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 89 
 
 Distinguished in his service in scouting about Santiago de Cuba in 
 1898, for which he received honorable mention and was presented 
 with a gold medal from the citizens of South Carolina. He mar- 
 ried 7th Oct., 1899, Eleanor Foote Stuart, of Morristown, N. J., 
 a daughter of Col. Stuart, U. S. A., and has one child. 
 
 117. vi., Rupert, b. 30th May, 1867 ; Passed Assistant Surgeon in the 
 U. S. P. H. and M. H. S. ; resides now in San Francisco, Cal., 
 where he is the President and Executive Officer of the Public 
 Health Commission of California ; m. Juliet Downs, of Galveston, 
 Texas. 
 
 118. vii., Kate Lily, b. 23d Sept., 1868; has attained considerable 
 reputation as an author, having published several novels with 
 success ; resides in Marion. 
 
 119. viii., Henrietta, resides in Marion. 
 
 33. Martha Louisa 1 Evans (William 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 was born at "Oak Hall," in Marion County, on the 30th April, 
 1837. 
 She was educated at Floral College and at Warrenton, N. C, in the 
 class of 1851. On 4th Jan., 1855, she was married to Peter A. Mc- 
 Eachern, of Robinson County, N. C, who was an honor graduate from 
 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His father was 
 Archibald McEachern and his mother Miss McQueen, a sister of Gen. 
 John McQueen, who for many years represented South Carolina in 
 Congress. Mr. McEachern died within a few years, and his widow 
 was married on 20th March, 1861, to Rev. William C. Power, of the 
 Sputh Carolina Conference, who has for more than twenty years been a 
 Presiding Elder in his church. Mr. Power was born 2d March, 1831, 
 and was a son of John H. and Jane (Montigue) Power, of Virginia. 
 His mother was a member of the Montigue family of Virginia, one of 
 the oldest and most aristocratic in the Old Dominion, and descended 
 from some of the noblest families of England (see Montigue Genea- 
 logy, 1621-189-1:). Mr. Power served as a Chaplain throughout the 
 War between the States, and lives now, beloved and respected, in 
 Marion. The children of Martha Louise and Peter A. McEachern 
 were : 
 
 120. i., Wm. Evans, b 1st Sept., 1856 ; d. 7th Sept., 1867. 
 
 121. ii., Lilly Taylor, b. 10th April, 1858; m. 15th Feb., 1883, J. 
 Magruder Power, 
 
90 HISTORY O^ NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 122. iii., Mary Jane, b. 13th April, 1861 ; m. 5th May, 1880, Robert 
 A. Feskey. 
 
 Children of Martha Louise and Wm. C. Power were: 
 
 123. iv., Lalla Evans, b. 25th Dec, 1867 ; m. 15th Feb., 1888, J. Ed- 
 ward Wing-ate. 
 
 124. v., William Carr, b. 23d Feb., 1869 ; m. 25th April, 1894, Margie 
 Egan. 
 
 125. vi., James Hamilton, b. 15th Oct., 1870 ; d. 30th May, 1871. 
 
 126. vii., John Mondgue, b. 28th March, 1872 ; m. 18th Aug., 1897, 
 Edna Harris. 
 
 127. viii., Samuel Barksdale, b. 9th July, 1873 ; d. 13th May, 1874. 
 
 128. ix., Sarah Hosier, b. 7th April, 1875 ; m. 1903, Malcolm Woods, 
 Esq., of Marion, S. C. 
 
 129. X., Julia Louise, b. 25th April, 1878. 
 
 130. xi., Robert Walter, b. 28th Feb., 1884. 
 
 24. William Thomas 4 Evans (William 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 was born at "Oak Hall," in Marion County, on the 1st of Decem- 
 ber, 1838. 
 
 He was educated at Emery and Henry College, Va., and served 
 throughout the Civil War in the Southern Armies. He returned to 
 Marion, where he engaged in farming. On the 27th of January, 1869, 
 he was married to Lucie S. Stith, of Wilson, N. C, a descendant of the 
 Stith family of Virginia. After his father's death in 1876, he inherited 
 the old house, "Oak Hall," and there resides at the present time. Capt. 
 Evans has always exercised a wide influence in the public concerns of 
 his County, and for eight years was its Sheriff. Only one child was born 
 of this marriage : 
 
 132. i., Virginia Davis, b. 14th Feb., 1870 ; d. 2d Aug., 1895. 
 
 55. Julia R. 4 Evans (William 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) was born 
 
 at "Oak Hall," Marion County, on the 2d of April, 1840 ; she was 
 
 married on the 29th of Dec, 1858, to Capt. Duncan Mclntyre, of 
 
 Marion, but lived only a few years, when she died at Marion on the 
 
 12th of October, 1862, while her husband was with the Confederate 
 
 Army in Virginia. 
 
 Capt. Duncan Mclntyre was born in Marion, the 30th of August, 
 
 1836. He entered the South Carolina College in December of 1853, 
 
 He was commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Company H, 8th S. C. Regt., 
 
Mrs. Solon A. Durha 
 
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HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 91 
 
 C. S. A., in April, 1861, and became Captain of his company in 1862, 
 and frequently during the war he commanded the gallant 8th in the 
 hard campaign of Virginia. He was the son of Capt. Archibald and 
 Sophia E. (Howard) Mclntyre, of Marion County. The children of 
 Julia R. and Duncan Mclntyre were : 
 
 133. i., Mary Requier, b. July, 1860 ; d. Aug., 1868. 
 
 134. ii. Duncan, b. 9th Sept., 1862 ; d. May, 1872. 
 
 jd. Margaret Ellen 4 Evans (William 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 was born on the 25th of July, 1842, at "Oak Hall," the old Wm. 
 Evans homestead. 
 
 She was educated at the old Barhamville seminary, near Columbia, 
 S. C, and the Wesleyan Female College, at Macon, Ga. In May, 1864, 
 she was married to Maj. Solon A. Durham, of Shelby, N. C, a gallant 
 soldier and delightful gentleman of the true old Southern school. 
 
 Maj. Durham* was born the 22d November, 1838, and was graduated 
 from Furman University. He studied law under Chief Justice Pierson, 
 and at the age of twenty-one years was the Assistant District Attorney 
 of the United States for Western North Carolina. When the war broke 
 out he was elected first Lieutenant of Roberts Guards, which afterwards, 
 as Company H, of the 23d S. C. Regiment, Evans Brigade, saw splendid 
 service throughout the war. He rose to the rank of Major, which rank 
 was conferred for conspicuous gallantry in action, and from second Ma- 
 nassas to Goldsboro, N. C, he was in active command of his reg^iment, 
 and there fell so seriously wounded as to incapacitate him for further 
 service in the field. He was engaged, however, as conscript and enroll- 
 ing officer, as Chief of the Division of Marion and afterwards of Charles- 
 ton, where upon General Hardee's evacuation he commanded the rear 
 guard. The children of this marriage were : 
 
 135. i., Cicero Arthur, b. 15th Sept., 1865 ; m. Sept. 15th, 1887, Kate 
 T. McKerrell, second daughter of Capt. Wm. J. McKerrell, a lineal 
 descendant of Wm. McKerrell, Esq., of "Hillhousc," Dundonald, 
 County Ayr, Scotland. 
 
 136. ii., Julia Evans, b. Dec. 18th, 1867 ; d. 28th Jan., 1868. 
 
 137. iii., Sarah Bunice, b. 3d Feb., 1869. 
 
 138. iv., Mary EHsa, b. 4th Feb., 1871 ; d. 19th June, 1872. 
 
 139. v., Lucy May, b. 8th May, 1876 : d. inf. 
 
 140. vi., Margaret Brans, b. 28th Aug., 1877 ; m. 20th Oct., 1904, at 
 Marion, S. C, Harold Stratton Hall, of Charlotte, N. C. 
 
 *See Durham Excursus. 
 
92 
 
 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 iurlfam lExrursua.* 
 
 Major Solon A. Durham was the oldest son of Charles Crawford 
 and Eunice Jane (Evans) Durham, of Shelby, N. C. Charles Craw- 
 ford Durham was born 20th February, 1820, and died 1st August, 1897. 
 He saw service through the Civil War for the South. He was the son of 
 Charles Alexander Durham, born 5th June, 1773 ; died 13th March, 
 1853 ; married 31st January, 1793, Patience, daughter of Capt. Benja- 
 min Davis, who was born 24th December, 1731 ; married Rebecca , 
 
 born 25th October, 1741. Capt. Davis was prominent in the forces of 
 the Revolution. The father of Charles A. Durham was Achilles Dur- 
 ham, Esq.. of Haw River, N. C, and was born about 1720. He was 
 brought as an infant by his father, William, from England. He mar- 
 ried Mrs. Catharine Hardin. His father, William, was lineally de- 
 scended from William, 9th Laird of Grange. 
 
 Charles Alexander Durham had several sons. Micajah married the 
 s'ister of ex-Governor and Judge Baxter, of Arkansas, and left several 
 sons, John, Crawford, Plato, some time Speaker of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives of North Carolina, and Dr. Columbus, an eminent divine. 
 Micajah Durham and two of his sons were killed in the same battle dur- 
 ing the Confederate War fighting gloriously for Southern independence. 
 Col. Plato Durham commanded the 12th N. C. Reg. of the Confederate 
 Army and led the last charge made at Appomatox. He married Miss 
 Nora Tracy and had three sons, R. L., S. G., State Senator, and Plato 
 Tracy, of the faculty of Trinity College, N. C. Dr. Columbus Durham 
 married Miss Waters and left two sons, Baxter and Waters. 
 
 *I am indebted to C. A. Durham for valuable assistance in the preparation of 
 this excursus. 
 
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HISTORY OF NATHANIEIv EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 93 
 
 Charles Crawford Durham had two children besides Major Solon A. 
 Durham, Zulia, who married Capt. Corbett, of Shelby, N. C, and Col. 
 Cicero Durham, the gallant twenty-one year old colonel, who gave his 
 life for the Lost Cause. 
 
 Eunice Jane Evans was the daughter of Jesse Evans, Esq., and Eunice 
 Reynolds, of Rutherford Co., N. C, whither they went from Virginia. 
 The Evans and Reynolds families were both from Montgomeryshire, 
 Glaecoed, England, where they are still prominent. Arms: (of Evans) 
 Ai'g. a lion passant sa. betw. three fleur de lis gu. Crest: A lion pas- 
 sant sa. 
 
 The surname of Durham was said to be of English extraction, yet it 
 is of considerable antiquity in this country (Scotland), particularly in the 
 South borders. We find Durham de eodem, or of that ilk, in the 
 Stewartry of Kircudbright, as soon as surnames became hereditary in 
 Scotland, and the Parish Kirkpatrick Durham retains the same name to 
 this day. There have been many barons of the name of Durham in 
 Scotland, several centuries ago, and as most of those now existing are 
 descended of the house of Grange Forfarshire, we proceed to deduce 
 the descent of that family : but as we have not had access to their writs, 
 we cannot do it so fully as could be wished. Sir William Durham, of 
 Grange, was a man of rank and great distinction, and made a considera- 
 ble figure in the reign of Robert Bruce, which appears by a charter from 
 that great prince, Delecto et fideli fuo, Willielmo de Durham, milliti of 
 Lands of Grange in Forfarshire, anno 1322 ; a copy of which is hereto 
 subjoined ; and from hence Grange became the chief title of this family. 
 (1) Sir William Durham died in the reign of King David Bruce, and 
 was father of (2) Michael Durham of Grange, who was one of an 
 inquisition upon a perambulation of the lands of Auchterlong in Forfar- 
 shire, anno 1397. He died in the reign of King James L, and left issue, 
 his son and heir, (3) John Durham, Laird of Grange, who had a charter 
 under the great seal of King James IL of the Lands Terochty, etc., in 
 Forfarshire, dated 25th of July, 1457. He died in the reign of King 
 James IL, and left a son, (4) Thomas Durham of Grange, who suc- 
 ceeded him, and was one of the Gentlemen of an inquest upon a per- 
 ambulation of the marches of some lands belonging to the Abbacy of 
 Aberbrocthock, anno 1594 ; died soon thereafter, and was succeeded by 
 his son, (5) John Durham of Grange, who got a charter under the 
 
94 HISTORY OF NATHANlKlv e;VANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Great Seal of King James IV., of several lands in Forfarshire, 31st 
 January, 1507. Died in the beginning of the reign of James V., and left 
 issue his son and successor, (6) Alexander Durham, the 6th Baron of 
 Grange, who married Janet, daughter of John Erskine, Baron of Dun, 
 and upon his own resignation got a charter under the Great Seal ; 
 Alexander Durham de Grange at Jonatae Erskine, ejous sponsae terra- 
 rum et molendini de Grange, etc., in Forfarshire, dated 27th April, 
 1525 ; by the said Janet Erskine he had three sons : 1st, William, his 
 heir ; 2d, John, the progenitor of the Durhams of Pitkerrow, Largo, 
 Luffness, Duntarvie, etc. From John descended Sir Alexander, the 
 great Loyalist, who was knighted by Charles IL, and appointed Lord 
 Lyon King-at-Arms, and was a Colonel 1st January, 1663 ; died single, 
 and was succeeded by his nephew, Francis, eldest son of his brother, 
 James, of Pitkerrow. Sir James Durham was an eminent lawyer and 
 received several charters ; was Clerk of Exchequer and Director of 
 Rolls. After the Restoration, he was restored to both his offices, 8th 
 July, 1661. His son, Adam, was given the land of Luffness ; James 
 D. Pitkerrow was Minister of the High Church of Glasgow, Scotland, 
 composer of books of divinity. Minister to the King. 
 
 Alexander Durham, who married Jeanette Erskine, was succeeded 
 by his son, (7) William, his heir, the 7th Lord of Grange, who upon 
 his father's resignation got a charter under the Great Seal from Queen 
 Mary, of lands of Dunfynd and Bracltillo, in Forfarshire, dated anno 
 1554; he died in the reign of James VL, and was succeeded by (8) 
 William, the eighth Lord of Grange, who got a charter under the Great 
 Seal, Willielmo Durham de Grange partis terrarum de Kellie, etc., in 
 Forfarshire, dated 27th June, 1609. This William left issue two sons, 
 (9) William, his heir; 2d, James of Ardounie, who carried on the line 
 of this family, as will be shown hereafter. William (8) died in the 
 reign of James VL, and was succeeded by William, ninth Laird of 
 Grange, who having sold his estate, we can trace his genealogy no 
 farther ; but as his male line has now failed, the representation of the 
 family of Grange now devolves upon the descendants of his brother, 
 James, before mentioned, to whom we now return. He becomes the 
 ninth Laird of Grange. 
 
Cicero Arthur Durham 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 95 
 
 James, ninth of Grange, married Isabella Scott, daughter of the Baron 
 of Logie. He had a charter under the seal of King Charles IL, dated 
 18th July, 1642. He died in the reign of Charles H. 
 
 Arms: Or. on a fess azure, three mullets argent and in base a crescent 
 gules. Crest: Two dolphins haureant addossed proper. Motto: Ultra 
 fert animus. Translated: "My mind carries me farther." 
 
96 HISTORY OF NATHANIEI* EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 57. EuzABETH Onis 4 EvANS (Nathan 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 was born in Marion County, in 1833, and was the first child of 
 Nathan Evans and Miss Baker, his first wife. She married Wm. 
 W. Braddy, of Marion, and had ten children, of whom three grew 
 to their majority. They were : 
 
 141. i., Walker, m. ]. W. Davis, of Marion, who removed to Alabama, 
 where his wife died, leaving three sons: 1, William; 2, Hicks, 
 and 3, Elbert. 
 
 142. ii.. Sue, m. Prof. Coleman, of the S. C. Military Academy. 
 
 143. iii., Weightman, m. his cousin, Emma, daughter of Capt. Wm. B. 
 Evans, of Sellers. They have one child. 
 
 5p. Capt. William 4 B. Evans (Nathan 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 was born in Marion County, on the 29th of October, 1837. 
 
 He volunteered at the outbreak of the war and rose rapidly in rank on 
 account of his distinguished gallantry. In one of the Virginia battles 
 he received a wound which proved almost fatal — a minie ball passing 
 through his lung; but to the joy of his friends he recovered and re- 
 turned immediately to the front, where he served heroically to the end 
 of the war. He surrendered with Gen. Joseph Johnston's Army, April 
 26th, 1865. Upon his return to Marion he was married to Margaret, 
 the daughter of Maj. James Haseldon, and his wife, Miss Godbold. 
 By this marriage there were no children, his young wife dying within 
 a year. He afterwards married Miss Sue Berry.* Capt. Evans has 
 
 *The name of Berry was one of the earliest in the Pedee country. At pages 
 69 and 70, Bishop Gregg gives the first account of the family as being of the 
 settlement at Sandy Bluff, on Pedee River, about 1736. They were English 
 people, and landed in Charleston, afterwards finding their way up the Pedee 
 River, where they built and worshipped in the first Episcopal Church m that 
 region. The first Berry was named Andrew, and he raised a large family, of 
 whom were Henry and Stephen. Henry, who was many years a Justice of the 
 Peace, married Miss Hays, and settled on Ridge Creek, in 1786. His sons were 
 (1) Dennis and (2) Slaughter, who married sisters, the daughters of David 
 Miles. His daughters were: (3) Elizabeth, m. Bryant James; (4) Fannie, m. 
 Nathan Fort, and lived to be ninety-four; (5) Martha, m. Paul M. Miles; and 
 (6) Mary, m. William Rogers. Stephen, the second son, left two sons: (1) 
 Henry (known as Cross Roads Henry) and (2) Andrew Stephen. Henry 
 married Charity Crawford, who belonged to that old family of Crawfords who 
 were at Sandy Bluff, in 1736, and settled at the Cross Roads, where he accumu- 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 97 
 
 reared a large and interesting family, and resides now with most of 
 his children on his plantation at Dillon. Issue: 
 
 144. i., William Boyd, b. Marion Co., 1874; m. 1900, Miss Lillian 
 Hayward, of Charleston, S. C, the great-grand-daiightcr of 
 Thomas Hayward, the signer of the Declaration of Independence 
 Had : 1, William Hasell; 2, Lillian. 
 
 W. Boyd Evans paid his way through Wofford College, from which 
 he graduated. Upon the election of Gov. Wm. Ellerbe, his cousin, he 
 was, in 1897, made the Governor's Private Secretary, which position Be 
 filled with great credit. During the latter part of his term Gov. Ellerbe 
 was in such feeble health as to prevent the active discharge of his office, 
 and for many months Mr. Evans, though a very young man, assumed 
 the burden of the administration, acquitting himself with merit. Dur- 
 ing this period, he pursued the study of law at the South Carolina Col- 
 lege, from which institution he received his degree of B. L., in June of 
 1900. He now resides and practices law in Columbia. 
 
 145. ii., Emma, m. Weightman Braddy. 
 
 146. iii., Mamie. 
 
 147. iv., James Aubrey, educated at Clemson College.. 
 
 148. v., Thomas Baker, educated at Clemson College 
 
 149. vi., Nellie. 
 
 150. vii., Lucy. 
 
 151. viii., Gary Lee. 
 
 43. Robert Julius 4 Evans (Nathan 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1,) 
 was born in Marion County, on the 2d of November, 1851. 
 
 He became a merchant and formed a copartnership with his brother- 
 in-law, Richard Jorden, with whom he engaged in business in Marion ; 
 later, however, he removed to Tallahassee, Fla.. having married there 
 
 Gewoo^rI^%^''Ffh''^''/l\ ?'' '°"' T71 ^^^ Cade, who died unmarried; (2) 
 Gewood; (3) Ehhu; (4) James, and (5) Stephen. Gewood o-radiiated at the 
 University of North Carolina, and married Joanna, a daughter of old John C. 
 Elerbe and sister of Capt. W. S. Ellerbe. He had five sons and a daughter. 
 Ehhu Berry the third son of "Cross Roads Henry Berry," married, first, Jane 
 Haseldon, who bore him three children: (1) Sallie; (2) Sue, and (3) James H. 
 Alter the death of his first wife, he married Mary Ellen, a daughter of John C 
 Hays, by whom he had four daughters and two sons. Sallie Berry married 
 Wilhs Fore, and had Lmwood. Tracy, Janey. and Rebecca, all of whom are 
 married, except Willis, a prosperous planter in Marion County. Sue, the second 
 daughter of Ehhu Berry, married Capt. Wm. B. Evans, of Sellers, whose chil- 
 dren are given above. 
 
98 HISTORY OF NATHANIEL EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 
 
 Miss Addie Dora Ingerville, daughter of James Ingerville, who had 
 died from wounds received in the Confederate Army. He is now one 
 of the most prominent and wealthy merchants of his city. Issue : 
 
 152. i., Bdna May, b. Marion, S. C. ; m. Charles Clough, Esq., of Tal- 
 lahassee, 3d Nov., 1903. 
 
 153. ii., Thomas, b. Marion, S. C. ; D. D. S., Tallahassee, Fla. 
 15-1. iii., Robert Julius, b. Marion, S. C. 
 
 155. iv., Clyde, b. Tallahassee, Fla. 
 
 156. v., Lymvood, b. Tallahassee. 
 
 157. vi., Frances, b. Tallahassee. 
 
 44. Martha K. 4 Evans (Nathan 3, Nathan 3, Nathaniel 1,) was 
 born in Marion County, S. C, on the 18th of December, 1853, and 
 was married in Marion, on the 28th of April, 1875. to Richard 
 Jorden, of Green County, N. C, son of John W. and Sarah Jorden. 
 Richard Jorden was a Confederate soldier, and received a wound 
 in Virginia which fractured his leg. After the war he went to Horry 
 County, S. C, and later engaged in merchandising with his brother-in- 
 law, Robert J. Evans ; removing thence to Lake City, Fla., where he has 
 been eminently successful in business. Issue : 
 
 158. i., Sarah Harriet, b. 14th June, 1876, Marion, S. C. ; m. 11th Dec,. 
 1902, Thomas Courtney Watts, of Lake City, Fla. ; b. Paducah, 
 Ky., 7th Dec, 1873, son of Dr. David Allison and Ellen Douglas 
 (Fauntleroy) Watts. Mr. Watts served in the Spanish- American 
 War, as First Lieut. Co. T, 1st Fla. Vols. ,and now ranks as Colo- 
 nel and Aide-de-Camp on the Governor's Staff. 
 
 159. ii., Fanny May, b. 8th Jan., 1878, Jordenville, Fla. ; m. 11th June, 
 1901, H. A. Grant, of Athens, Ga., now residing in Jacksonville, 
 Fla. Had : 1, Harry Alfred Grant, Jr. 
 
 160. iii., Laura Blma, b. Jordenville, Fla., 6th Nov., 1879 ; m. 22d 
 May, 1895, Malcolm L. Griffin, of Bainbridge, Ga. ; reside at Cuth- 
 bert, Ga. Hd : 1, Malcolm L., Jr.; b. 1898. 
 
 161. vi., Mattie Julia, b. Joselyn, Ga., 30th July, 1881 ; m. Lake City, 
 Fla., 6th Sept., 1899, Frank Eppes Toy, of Rock Hill, S. C. ; reside 
 in Jacksonville, Fla. Had: 1, Frank Bppes, Jr. 
 
 162. v., Richard, Jr., b. Marion, S. C, 30th Jan., 1883 ; d. 6th May, 
 1888. 
 
 163. vi., John Hunt, b. Marion, S. C, 21st June, 1885. 
 
HISTORY OF NATHANIEI, EVANS AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 99 
 
 164^ vii., Bennctte Faircloth, b. Marion, S. C, 23d Dec, 1886 ; d. 4th 
 
 vJct., I088. 
 
 165. viii., Helen Gertrude, b. Marion, S. C, 38th July, 1890 
 
 166. IX., Aezel Evans, b. Add, Ga. 17th Aug., 1892. ' 
 
 167. X., Julian, b. Add, Ga., 1st Oct., 1894; d. inf. 
 
 46. Harriet Frances 4 Evans (Nathan 3, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 1 ) 
 was born in Marion County, on the 25th of June, 1858, and ma'r- 
 ried Mr. S. H. Applewhite, of North Carolina. Issue- 
 
 168. i., William Thomas. 
 
 169. ii., Herbert. 
 
 170. iii., Arthur. 
 
 171. iy.Jra. 
 
 172. v., Robert. 
 
 47- Benjamin Lewter 4 Evans (Nathan 3, Nathan 2, Nathanid 
 10 was born in Marion County, on the 5th of April, 1865, and was 
 the youngest child of his parents. He married Miss Ndlie Rus- 
 sell of Tennessee, and now resides in Florida, where so many of 
 his family have removed. Issue: 
 
 173. i.,Lezvis, b. Tallahassee, Fla., d. inf. 
 
 174. ii., Lawrence, b. Tallahassee, Fla. 
 
 175. iii., Helen, b. Tallahassee, Fla. 
 
 iLOfC, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 NAMES IN CAPITALS REFER TO FAMILY RECORDS. 
 
 APPLEWHITE. S. H., 44, 99. 
 Arms. Evans Coat of, VI. 
 BAKER. Ann Eliza, 20. 
 
 " Mourning Elizabeth, 15, 22. 
 
 MAJ. WM., 9, 14, 43. 
 Beattv. J. C, 37. 
 BERRY. ELIHU, 26, 96. 
 James H., 26. 
 Sue, 96. 
 BETHEA. ED. S., 27, 28. 
 BLUE. Effie, 88. 
 
 " Henrietta, 89. 
 
 COL. JOHN GILCHRIST, 
 41, 88. 
 " Kate Lilly, 89. 
 Dr. Rupert, 89. 
 Sallie, 88. 
 
 Lt. Com. Victor, 88. 
 BRADDY. FAMILY, 43. 
 
 " Harriet Eliza, 20. 
 
 " Sue, 96. 
 
 Walker, 96. 
 " Weightman, 96. 
 
 W. W., 96. 
 Breeden. W. H., 28. 
 Caermarthanshire, Wales, 2. 
 Calhoun. Dr. Frank R., 48. 
 CARTER. WM. FOX, 31. 
 Cat Fish Creek, 9. 
 CHRISTIAN FAMILY, 49. 
 Clinton. Sir Henry, 15. 
 Clough. Chas., 98.' 
 Coleman. Prof. Samuel, 43, 96. 
 Corbet. Capt., 93. 
 Cross. Howard, 87. 
 DANIEL EXCURSUS, 45. 
 Daniel. Jane Beverly, 19, 37, 48. 
 DAVIS. DUNCAN, 72. 
 " J. W., 96. 
 " L. F., 34. 
 " Richard, 27. 
 DIXON. Maxev, 34. 
 
 Wesley Gregg, 34. 
 WM. J., 30, 34. 
 Durant. W. L., 25. 
 DURHAM. Baxter, 92. 
 
 Col. Cicero, 93. 
 " Cicero Arthur, 91. 
 
 " Dr. Columbus, 92. 
 
 ELLERBE. 
 
 
 DURHAM. EXCURSUS, 92. 
 
 Margaret Evans, 91. 
 
 Micajah, 92. 
 
 Col. Plato, 92. 
 
 Plato Tracy, 92. 
 
 R. L., 92. 
 
 MAJ. SOLON A., 42, 91, 
 
 92. 
 S. G., 92. 
 Waters, 92. 
 Eaddy. R. Bell, 33. 
 Eason. James, 76. 
 
 Edwards. Morgan, History of Welsh 
 Baptists, 4. 
 Col. E. B., 27. 
 Julia, 25. 
 Mary, 26. 
 Wm. E., 26. 
 GOV. WM. E., 27. 
 WM. S., 25, 26. 
 ETHELYSTAN GLODRYDD, 2. 
 Evan. Ann, 6. 
 " Mary, 6. 
 " Samuel, 6. 
 EVANS. Albert Louis, 62. 
 
 DR. ALFRED, 39, 63. 
 
 Allen, 63. 
 
 Amelia Henrietta, 87. 
 
 Andrew Jackson, 39. 
 
 Andrew Willis, 62. 
 
 Ann Eliz. Baker, 43. 
 
 Annie Maria, 41, 88. 
 
 Arms of, 2. 
 
 Asa, 20. 
 
 CAPT. ASA LEWIS, 39, 70. 
 
 Barnard B., 61. 
 
 BENJAMIN LEWTER, 44, 
 
 99. 
 COL. BEVERLY DANIEL, 
 
 39, 81. 
 JUDGE BEVERLY DAN- 
 IEL, 61. 
 Beverly, 63. 
 Charles Edgar, 87. 
 Charles Howard, 71. 
 CHESLEY DANIEL, 24, 
 
 39, 51. 
 Chesley Daniel, Jr., 51. 
 Clyde,' 98. 
 
 
 « 
 
II 
 
 INDEX 
 
 EVANS. Constance, 71. 
 
 " Capt. David, 9, 14. 
 
 " David, 53. 
 
 " Derivation of name, 3. 
 
 DR. DIXON, 41, 88. 
 
 Edith, 20. 
 
 Edna M., 98. 
 
 Eliza Jane, 41, 87. 
 " Elizabeth, 20, 35. 
 
 " Elizabeth Jane, 51. 
 
 " Eizabeth Onis, 43, 96. 
 
 " Emily Sevmour, 71. 
 
 " Emma, 97. 
 
 " Francis, 98. 
 
 " Prof. Frank, 52. 
 
 Gary Lee, 97. 
 " George Clinton, 62. 
 
 " Harriet Frances, 44, 99. 
 
 " Helen, 99. 
 
 DR. JAMES, 39, 63. 
 " James Aubrey, 97. 
 
 " James Daniel, 68. 
 
 " James Hamilton, 41. 
 
 " James Lawrence, 44. 
 
 " Jane Beverly, 67. 
 
 " John, 6, 7. 
 
 GOV. JOHN GARY, 59. 
 " John Gamewell, 20. 
 
 " Dr. Joseph Gamewell, 88. 
 
 " Judge Josiah, 7. 
 
 Julia, 42. 
 " Julia R., 90. 
 
 Dr. Julian H., 62. 
 " Junius Henry, 51. 
 
 " Kate Power,' 87. 
 
 " Lawrence, 99. 
 
 Lee, 63. 
 " Lewis, 99. 
 
 " Lord Culbury, 3, 
 
 " Lucy, 97. 
 
 " Lucy Peachy, 69. 
 
 " Lydia, 6. 
 
 " Lynwood, 98. 
 
 " Mamie, 97. 
 
 " Margaret, 9, 14. 
 
 " Margaret Ellen, 42, 91. 
 
 " Maria Lee, 67. 
 
 " Marie Antionette, 68. 
 
 " Martha K., 44, 98. 
 
 " Martha Louise, 42, 89. 
 
 MARION AND MARL- 
 BORO FAMILIES, 7. 
 " Mary Elizabeth, 41, 87. 
 
 " Mary Martin, 61. 
 
 " Minnie Eliza, 87. 
 
 NATHANIEL, 1, 6, 13, 14. 
 
 EVANS. Nathan (Nathaniel) grants 
 to, 13. 
 NATHAN, 1, 9, 15, 18, 19, 
 
 20, 42, 52. 
 GEN. NATHAN GEORGE, 
 
 39, 53, 59. 
 Nathan John, 43. 
 Nellie, 97. 
 " Peter Cooper, 71. 
 
 Powell, 67. 
 Price, 63. 
 Raphael S., 63. 
 Robert J., 43, 97, 98. 
 " Roger Alexander, 53. 
 
 " Samuel, 51. 
 
 Sarah, 70. 
 Sarah Alice, 62.- 
 " Sarah Jane, 39, 72. 
 
 THOMAS, 5, 6, 7, 9, 15, 19, 
 
 37, 39, 52, 53, 69, 98. 
 Thomas, Jr., 39. 
 " Thomas B., 97. 
 
 Walker, Wm., 51. 
 GEN. WM., 9, 20, 24, 39, 71. 
 " Wm. Alexander, 68. 
 
 Wm. Ashby, 87. 
 CAPT. WM. B., 43, 96. 
 Wm. Boyd, 97. 
 Capt. Wm. Edwin, 39. 
 CAPT. WM. THOMAS, 42, 
 
 90. 
 Woodson, 39. 
 Zilpha, 20. 
 Fiskey. Robert A., 90. 
 Finckley. Capt. J. C, 27. 
 FLADER. SARAH, 23. 
 Flint County, Wales, 2. 
 Fore. Sallie, 26. 
 " Willis, 26. 
 FOXWORTH. George Wesley, 33. 
 " Robert Evans, 33. 
 
 « WM. CAPERS, 30, 33. 
 
 Wm. Capers, Jr., 33. 
 
 GARY. Judge Ernest, 76. 
 
 " Judge Eugene B., 74, 76. 
 
 EXCURSUS, 74. 
 
 Frank Boyd, 76. 
 
 Dr. Frank F., 74, 75. 
 
 Capt. John H., 75. 
 
 Gen. Martin T., 74, 75. 
 
 Col. S. M. G., 74, 75. 
 " Dr. Thomas, 75. 
 
 Judge Wm. T., 75. 
 
 Gasque. Ann, 25. 
 
 Eli H., 33. 
 Henry E., 32. 
 
INDEX 
 
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 CAUSE. BENJAMIN, 30, 34. 
 
 " Benjamin, Jr., 34. 
 
 Glenn. Thomas A., Genealogist, letter of, 
 
 7. 
 Glover. Frank, 87. 
 GODBOLD. Ann, 35. 
 
 Ann Eliza, 28. 
 ASA, 26, 27. 
 Charles F., 23. 
 " Edward, 28. 
 
 " Elizabeth Keene, 24. 
 
 GEN. ELLY, 28. 
 EXCURSUS, 21. 
 ERVIN M., 28. 
 Hugh, 23. 
 JOHN, 21, 22. 
 Lt. John, 22. 
 " Mary, 24. 
 
 " Sarah Ann, 20, 24. 
 
 CAPT. STEPHEN, 22, 
 
 23. 
 Stephen G., 24. 
 THOMAS, 23, 25. 
 GEN. THOMAS, 22, 23. 
 Wm. 26. 
 
 Dr. Wm. H., 27. 
 " Zachariah, 28. 
 
 " Capt. Zachariah, 22. 
 
 " Lt. Zachariah, 22. 
 
 Grant. Alfred G., Jr., 98. 
 GREGG. Bishop Alexander, 29. 
 " Dr. Benjamin Gause, 32. 
 
 DAVID, 29. 
 Dixie, 34. 
 
 EXCURSUS, 29, 34. 
 John, 29. 
 " Martha Serena, 33. 
 
 Mary McFadden, 34. 
 ROBERT EVANS, 32. 
 ROBERT JAMES, 20, 30, 
 
 32. 
 Susannah Eady, 34. 
 WESLEY LAURENS, 31. 
 WESLEY WASHINGTON, 
 
 30, 31. 
 WILLIAM, 29. 
 Wm. Wayne, 31. 
 Zilpha Ann, 33. 
 Griffin. Malcolm L., 98. 
 Hall. Harold S., 91. 
 Harrell. 28. 
 
 HASELDON. Jane, 26, 
 
 JOHN, 24. 
 " Sarah, 26. 
 
 " Sarah Jane, 25. 
 
 Herron. Martha, 24. 
 Hines. Judge James K., 53. 
 History of the Old Cheraws, 3. 
 Hitroff. Henry, 33. 
 Ingerville. .V^dle D., 98. 
 James. James, Esq., 6, 7, 71. 
 
 Charles R., 70. 
 JAMES AND MARY, ship, 4. 
 John. J. P., 88. 
 " J. T., 88. 
 Jones. Ruth, 14. 
 JORDEN. Aezel Evans, 99. 
 Bennett F., 99. 
 Fannie M., 98. 
 I " Helen G., 99. 
 
 " John Hunt, 98. 
 
 " Julian, 99. 
 
 Laura M., 98. 
 " Mattie J., 98. 
 
 " Richard, Jr., 98. 
 
 RICHARD, 44, 98. 
 Sarah Harriet, 98. 
 LAWSON. FAMILY, 53. 
 LEE. FAMILY, 86. 
 LEGGETT. COL. LEVI, 20. 
 Lide. 25. 
 
 « 
 
 
 HARRISON FAMILY, 85. 
 HASELDON. CHARLES, 25. 
 
 FAMILY, 51. 
 "^ MAJ. JAMES, 24. 
 
 James Dudley, 26. 
 
 James G., 26, 
 
 Manning. James H., 26. 
 Marion Court Records, 1. 
 McCarty, W. A., 63. 
 McClenaghan. Rev. Horatio, 70, 
 McCOLLUM EXCURSUS, 34, 
 
 " John Evans, 36. 
 
 PETER, 20, 35. 
 
 " Virginia Evan s, 36.^ 
 
 McEACHERN. ti4j»» Tayl^FrggT 
 " Mary Jane, 90, 
 
 PETER A., 89, 
 McGurney, Elizabeth, 22. 
 Mclntyre. Capt. Duncan, 42, 90. 
 MERCHANT FAMILY, 67. 
 MILES. Dr. Frank A., 24. 
 S. A. C, 26. 
 Stephen G., 26. 
 Milford, Haven, 4. 
 Moody. T. C, 26. 
 Moore. J. B., 28. 
 Mullins. Benj. R., 87, 
 Northampton. C. H., 53. 
 Northope. Seat of Evans' family, 2. 
 ORR FAIMILY. Royal descent, 81. 
 Owens. S. G., 28. 
 Pate. Rev. Thos., 28. 
 Pedee. Emigration of Welsh, 6. 
 
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 Pembrokeshire, Wales, 2. 
 Pennepec, Welsh settlement, 4. 
 PEYTON. FAMILY, 85. 
 Philadelphia, Wels*- ^nidin^, 4, 
 POWET « '- 
 
 .i, , 39, 65, 81. 
 
 POWER. Lalla Evans, 90. 
 
 Robert Walter, 90, 
 " Sarah Dozier, 90. 
 
 Wm. Carr, 90. 
 REV. WM. C, 42, c?. 
 Price. L A.herine, 63. 
 
 " D. S., 33. 
 R^viuier. Judge A. J., 41, 87. 
 Revolution, American Pay Rolls, 15, 16. 
 Rhydwilim, Wales, emigrants from, 4, 7. 
 RIELY. HENRY CARRINGTON, 68. 
 ROGERS. Charles, 26. 
 
 ELIZABETH ANN, 20. 
 Russell. Nellie, 99. 
 Sellers. W. W., 27. 
 Semmes. Admiral Raphael, 71. 
 Shaw. Minnie, 30. 
 Shropshire, Wales, 2. 
 • SINGLETARY. Ella Stokes, 73. 
 
 CAPT. ROBERT LE 
 GARE, 39, 72. 
 
 Smith. Rev. Edgar G., 73. 
 
 Sallie, 61. 
 Spencer. J. F., 23. 
 Stanley, Capt. Matthew, 27. 
 STEVENSON. Chas. E., 34. 
 J. E., 27. 
 
 " James M., 30. 
 
 " Robert G., 34. 
 
 Samuel M., 34. 
 STINSON. George H., 36. 
 Stith. Lucy S., 90. 
 Toy. Frank E., 98. 
 Turpin. Rev. Thos., 48. 
 Walsh. Geo. C, 34. 
 Watts. Col. Thos. Courtney, 98. 
 Wayne. Eleanor L., 30. 
 WEED. Rev. Caleb B. K., 69. 
 Welsh Baptists, names, 4, 5, 6. 
 Welsh Church Register, 1. 
 Welsh emigration to Pedee, 1, 6, 8, 9, 1( 
 
 11. 
 Welsh Tract, 5, 7. 
 Wheeler. Edward Bee, 88. 
 Will. Nathan Evans, 18. 
 Wingate. J. Edward, 90. 
 WITHERSPOON. Royal descent, 76. 
 WOODBERRY. JOHN, 30, 33. 
 
 John G., 33. 
 Woods. Malcolm, 90. 
 WOODSON. FAMILY, 50. 
 
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