Marty and Karla Grant

!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 245 Nathan Evans Marion Co., SC
Will dated -- --- 1810
son Thomas Evans
daus Edey and Zilphey
wife Elizabeth Evans
brother Thomas Evans
sons John Gamewell Evans, William Evans and Nathan Evans
dau Elizabeth Ann Evans
... Inventory 21 Jul 1810
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!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 684 Lot Rogers Marion Co., SC
Will 28 Mar 1829 pr 7 Apr 1829
Wife Ann
Sons: Elisha, David, Timothy, Robert, Noah, William and Phillip Rogers
dau Sally Legett
gr-ch now living: Martha and David Rogers
gr-ch William, Nathan and Elizabeth Ann Evans
...;


!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1830/1837
William Evans 46 Farmer $25,000 Marion
Sarah 43
Sarah 19
Hamilton 17
Eliza 16
Ann 14
Louisa 12
William 11
Julia 9
Margaret 7;

!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 1031 Marion Dist., SC Hugh Godbold
F. A. Miles, Exec. Will dated 11 Jul 1859 ...
wife Rhoda
to Stephen G. Godbold
heirs of Ann Miles wife fo F. A. Miles
my sister Sarah Ann Evans wife of Gen. N. Evans
sister M. Jane Haselden
to Sarah Evans wife of C. D. Evans, Hugh G. Haselden, Cyrus B. Haselden, James Monroe, and Franklin Monroe children of my decd sister Elizabeth Monroe.
my brother John M. Godbold and his son James.
to Sarah Conner (NRS)
... $2000 to be applied for building of Pretestant Episcopal Church at Marion Court House ...
... more in file ...;


!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 1038 Marion Dist., SC Sarah Godbold
Gen. William Evans, adm. 28 Jan 1853
... some names ... no heirs given ...;


!REFERENCE:From: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.
- His son, Nathan, was the only one to perpetuate the name. The writer thinks he married twice (the second Nathan). His first wife was a Godbold, by whom he had a son, the late Thomas Evans, and two daughters, Mrs. R. J. Gregg and Mrs. Colonel Levi Legette, there may have been other children of the first marriage. Nathan Evans' second wife was a Miss Rogers (first name not known), a daughter of old Lot Rogers, of upper Marion. By his second wife he had three sons and a daughter. The sons were the late General William Evans, Nathan Evans and Gamewell Evans; the daughter, Elizabeth A., married Alexander Murdock, of Marlborough County.
...
General William Evans, a son of Nathan, the second, by his second marriage, was bom in 1804, grew up to manhood and married Miss Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of General Thomas Godbold; settled down at the place just north of Marion, and went to farming ; he succeeded well in his chosen occupation and amassed a large property; he had only two sons, James Hamilton and William Thomas ; the latter is now the Sheriff (second term) of the county; and seven daughters, viz: Catharine, Mary, Eliza Jane, Louisa, Ann M., Rosa and Margaret. The oldest son, James Hamilton, was a gradtiate of the University of North Carolina. He married Miss Amelia Legette, daughter of Rev. David Legette, and lived to a. ffew years back and died childless. William Thomas grew up to manhood, just in time to strike the war ; he was in college, left it and came home, volunteered and went into the war and made a good soldier, remained in it till the last; came home and married a Miss Stith, of Wilson, N. C. ; by her he had one child, a daughter ; soon after his wife died ; he has not remarried; his daughter, however, grew up, raised by her grandmother, Evans, and married Henry I. Gasque ; had two children for him, a daughter and a son; she died three or four years ago, leaving her two children and husband. Thus it appears that the name of Evans, so far as the sons of the General are concerned, will become extinct, unless the Sheriff, W. T. Evans, should- marry again and thereby perpetuate his name. General Evans' oldest daughter, Catharine, died not long after reaching her womanhood, unmarried; his daughter, Mary, married A. J. Requier, a lawyer, who afterwards moved to Mobile, where Requier became distinguished as a lawyer, a man of erudition ; his wife, Mary, died in Mobile, Ala., I think, childless ; his daughter, Eliza Jane, married Dr. Dixon Evans, of Fayetteville, N. C. ; by the marriage she did not change her name, but preserved her identity as an Evans. Dr. Dixon Evans died at Marion a few years ago, leaving three sons and three daughters; of the sons, Charles E. Evans, now of Marion, is the eldest, who married Sophie Miles, daughter of Dr. D. F. Miles, Clerk of the Court. The next son, William A., grew up and went West; his whereabouts is unknown to the writer. The third and last son of Dr. Dixon Evans is named Joseph, a young man, unmarried. Of Dr. Evans' daughters, the eldest is the wife of B. R. Mullins, of Marion; the second daughter, Kate, married W. H. Cross, Cashier of the Merchants and Farmers Bank at Marion; she died three or four years ago, and left two or three children. Another daughter, Amelia, married a Mr. Glover, of Fayetteville, N. C. General Evans' daughter, Louiza, married, first, a Mr. McEachern, of North Carolina; by him she had two daughters, when McEachern died.' The widow, in a few years, married Rev. W. C. Power, an itinerant Methodist minister, and by him, I think, she has six children, three sons and three daughters; one daughter and two sons, W. C. and John M., married, but do not know to whom. Rev. W. C. Power married in 1867. He has continued in the itinerancy thence to the present time ; stands high in the Conference, has filled many important stations, has been a Presiding Elder for twenty years ; he is a close thinker and an able minister, a very methodical man. I have heard it remarked by several that he ought to have been a bank president—he is a good financier. The two McEachern daughters both married; the eldest, Lilly, married John M. Power, a nephew of the Rev. W. C. Power; I do not know what has become of them; the younger McEachern daughter, Mary, married a Mr. Tesky, of Charleston; he is a merchant in his home city, and is said to be a prosperous man. General Evans' daughter, Anna M., married Colonel John G. Blue, of North Carolina ; he was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and a lawyer ; Colonel Blue was a man of good sense and mentally much above the ordinary, and especially when aroused ; and had he applied himself to his profession, as some do, he doubtless would have attained an enviable position in the profession ; he would have been where there is always room plenty —that is, at the top ; he went into the war early as a private, and rose by successive steps to a Lieutenant Colonelcy; be was brave and patriotic; bad a high sense of duty; very temperate in all his habits except one, and in that was very intemperate, and that was in the use of tobacco, and its excessive use probably shortened his life; he was a candidate for the Legislature in 1876 and was elected and was a member of the famous "Wallace House" of that year, and was re-elected for several terms thereafter, and was a very useful member of that body ; he was very cool and deliberate, and his judgment good ; he had the confidence of his fellow-members. Some ten or twelve years ago his health failed him, and after lingering for several months he died in Richmond County, N. C, his old home place, to which he had gone for recuperation; he died rather unexpectedly; his widow and the younger members of her family live on their homestead, near Marion. Colonel Blue raised three sons and five daughters ; his eldest son, William E. Blue, is yet single and lives with his mother, and carries on the farm, and is now County Treasurer; he is a young man of fine talents and of good character. Another son, Rupert, is a doctor, and has for several years been a surgeon in the United States Army, and stands well as such ; he is, or was, somewhere in the West, attending to the duties of his position. Another son, Victor, graduated some years ago, in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and has been in the navy ever since his graduation, and is now Flag Lieutenant, and has gone, it is said, in the newspapers, on a war ship to China as Flag Lieutenant. He acquired celebrity and distinction by heroic deeds in the late Spanish-American War, and is well on the road to an Admiralship, the highest honor that can be attained in that branch of his country's service—a Marion boy, of whom Marion and the whole State are justly proud; be is a fine specimen of manhood physically ; he recently married a daughter of some naval Captain. Of Colonel Blue's daughters, one. Miss Sallie, married Peter John, of Marlborough .County ; another. Miss Ida, married Mr. James John, of North Carolina, a brother to Peter. The Johns are good men and well-to-do. Another daughter. Miss Effie, married Edward B. Wheeler, of Marion, a very worthy native and citizen. The two other daughters. Miss Kate and Miss Hettie, are unmarried—worthy of some good man. Miss Kate has obtained some celebrity as a writer, and is quite literary in her taste. Another daughter of General Evans, Miss Rosa, married Captain Duncan McIntyre; did not live long, after her marriage, and died childless. The youngest daughter of General Evans, Miss Margaret, or Maggie, as she was called, married in the latter part of the war the late Major S. A. Durham, and by him she had three children, two daughters and a son. The son, Cicero A. Durham, now living in Marion, married' Miss Kate McKerall, daughter of the late Captain W. J. McKerall; they have no children. The two daughters of Major S. A. Durham, Miss Eunice and Miss Marguerette, are unmarried.

General William Evans was a prominent man in his day. He was a large and active man, handsome and of fine address, and much of a man physically. He was chosen as one of the delegates to the Nullification Convention in 1832, and was one of the signers to the Ordinance of Nullification passed by that body. About that time he was elected Brigadier General of the militia. In 1838, he was elected to the House of Representatives from his county and served a term; he was again elected to the same position in 1846, and served another term. General Evans was a man of fine sense, but not a scholar ; he devoted himself almost exclusively to his farm', at which he succeeded well, made a large property in lands and slaves, and kept out of debt. At the time of emancipation he owned over one hundred slaves. It seemed that everything he touched "turned to gold"— it prospered in his hands. He died sitting on the steps of his front piazza, suddenly, on the 6th June, 1876, at the age of seventy-two years. ;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.
-General William Evans, a son of Nathan, the second, by his second marriage, was bom in 1804, grew up to manhood and married Miss Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of General Thomas Godbold; settled down at the place just north of Marion, and went to farming ; he succeeded well in his chosen occupation and amassed a large property; he had only two sons, James Hamilton and William Thomas ; the latter is now the Sheriff (second term) of the county; and seven daughters, viz: Catharine, Mary, Eliza Jane, Louisa, Ann M., Rosa and Margaret. ;


!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 292 Gen. Thomas Godbold, Marion Dist., SC
C. F. Godbold & D. S. Harllee, Exors.
Will included 17 May 1825 ... wife Sarah
three daughters Elizabeth, Sarah Ann and Mary (youngest)
son John M. Godbold
eldest heir my son Hugh Godbold
son Charles F. Godbold
... other names mentioned in various papers ...;


!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 1031 Marion Dist., SC Hugh Godbold
F. A. Miles, Exec. Will dated 11 Jul 1859 ...
wife Rhoda
to Stephen G. Godbold
heirs of Ann Miles wife fo F. A. Miles
my sister Sarah Ann Evans wife of Gen. N. Evans
sister M. Jane Haselden
to Sarah Evans wife of C. D. Evans, Hugh G. Haselden, Cyrus B. Haselden, James Monroe, and Franklin Monroe children of my decd sister Elizabeth Monroe.
my brother John M. Godbold and his son James.
to Sarah Conner (NRS)
... $2000 to be applied for building of Pretestant Episcopal Church at Marion Court House ...
... more in file ...;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.
-General William Evans, a son of Nathan, the second, by his second marriage, was bom in 1804, grew up to manhood and married Miss Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of General Thomas Godbold; settled down at the place just north of Marion, and went to farming ; he succeeded well in his chosen occupation and amassed a large property; he had only two sons, James Hamilton and William Thomas ; the latter is now the Sheriff (second term) of the county; and seven daughters, viz: Catharine, Mary, Eliza Jane, Louisa, Ann M., Rosa and Margaret.
...
General Evans' oldest daughter, Catharine, died not long after reaching her womanhood, unmarried;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.
-General William Evans, a son of Nathan, the second, by his second marriage, was bom in 1804, grew up to manhood and married Miss Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of General Thomas Godbold; settled down at the place just north of Marion, and went to farming ; he succeeded well in his chosen occupation and amassed a large property; he had only two sons, James Hamilton and William Thomas ; the latter is now the Sheriff (second term) of the county; and seven daughters, viz: Catharine, Mary, Eliza Jane, Louisa, Ann M., Rosa and Margaret.
...
his daughter, Mary, married A. J. Requier, a lawyer, who afterwards moved to Mobile, where Requier became distinguished as a lawyer, a man of erudition ; his wife, Mary, died in Mobile, Ala., I think, childless ;

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1830/1837
William Evans 46 Farmer $25,000 Marion
Sarah 43
Sarah 19
Hamilton 17
Eliza 16
Ann 14
Louisa 12
William 11
Julia 9
Margaret 7;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.
-General William Evans, a son of Nathan, the second, by his second marriage, was bom in 1804, grew up to manhood and married Miss Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of General Thomas Godbold; settled down at the place just north of Marion, and went to farming ; he succeeded well in his chosen occupation and amassed a large property; he had only two sons, James Hamilton and William Thomas ; the latter is now the Sheriff (second term) of the county; and seven daughters, viz: Catharine, Mary, Eliza Jane, Louisa, Ann M., Rosa and Margaret.
...
his daughter, Eliza Jane, married Dr. Dixon Evans, of Fayetteville, N. C. ; by the marriage she did not change her name, but preserved her identity as an Evans. Dr. Dixon Evans died at Marion a few years ago, leaving three sons and three daughters; of the sons, Charles E. Evans, now of Marion, is the eldest, who married Sophie Miles, daughter of Dr. D. F. Miles, Clerk of the Court. The next son, William A., grew up and went West; his whereabouts is unknown to the writer. The third and last son of Dr. Dixon Evans is named Joseph, a young man, unmarried. Of Dr. Evans' daughters, the eldest is the wife of B. R. Mullins, of Marion; the second daughter, Kate, married W. H. Cross, Cashier of the Merchants and Farmers Bank at Marion; she died three or four years ago, and left two or three children. Another daughter, Amelia, married a Mr. Glover, of Fayetteville, N. C. ;


!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1830/1837
William Evans 46 Farmer $25,000 Marion
Sarah 43
Sarah 19
Hamilton 17
Eliza 16
Ann 14
Louisa 12
William 11
Julia 9
Margaret 7;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.
-General William Evans, a son of Nathan, the second, by his second marriage, was bom in 1804, grew up to manhood and married Miss Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of General Thomas Godbold; settled down at the place just north of Marion, and went to farming ; he succeeded well in his chosen occupation and amassed a large property; he had only two sons, James Hamilton and William Thomas ; the latter is now the Sheriff (second term) of the county; and seven daughters, viz: Catharine, Mary, Eliza Jane, Louisa, Ann M., Rosa and Margaret.
...
General Evans' daughter, Louiza, married, first, a Mr. McEachern, of North Carolina; by him she had two daughters, when McEachern died. The widow, in a few years, married Rev. W. C. Power, an itinerant Methodist minister, and by him, I think, she has six children, three sons and three daughters; one daughter and two sons, W. C. and John M., married, but do not know to whom. Rev. W. C. Power married in 1867. He has continued in the itinerancy thence to the present time ; stands high in the Conference, has filled many important stations, has been a Presiding Elder for twenty years ; he is a close thinker and an able minister, a very methodical man. I have heard it remarked by several that he ought to have been a bank president—he is a good financier. The two McEachern daughters both married; the eldest, Lilly, married John M. Power, a nephew of the Rev. W. C. Power; I do not know what has become of them; the younger McEachern daughter, Mary, married a Mr. Tesky, of Charleston; he is a merchant in his home city, and is said to be a prosperous man. ;


!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1830/1837
William Evans 46 Farmer $25,000 Marion
Sarah 43
Sarah 19
Hamilton 17
Eliza 16
Ann 14
Louisa 12
William 11
Julia 9
Margaret 7;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.
-General William Evans, a son of Nathan, the second, by his second marriage, was bom in 1804, grew up to manhood and married Miss Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of General Thomas Godbold; settled down at the place just north of Marion, and went to farming ; he succeeded well in his chosen occupation and amassed a large property; he had only two sons, James Hamilton and William Thomas ; the latter is now the Sheriff (second term) of the county; and seven daughters, viz: Catharine, Mary, Eliza Jane, Louisa, Ann M., Rosa and Margaret.
...
William Thomas grew up to manhood, just in time to strike the war ; he was in college, left it and came home, volunteered and went into the war and made a good soldier, remained in it till the last; came home and married a Miss Stith, of Wilson, N. C. ; by her he had one child, a daughter ; soon after his wife died ; he has not remarried; his daughter, however, grew up, raised by her grandmother, Evans, and married Henry I. Gasque ; had two children for him, a daughter and a son; she died three or four years ago, leaving her two children and husband. ;

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1830/1837
William Evans 46 Farmer $25,000 Marion
Sarah 43
Sarah 19
Hamilton 17
Eliza 16
Ann 14
Louisa 12
William 11
Julia 9
Margaret 7;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 125-135.
-General William Evans, a son of Nathan, the second, by his second marriage, was bom in 1804, grew up to manhood and married Miss Sarah Ann Godbold, daughter of General Thomas Godbold; settled down at the place just north of Marion, and went to farming ; he succeeded well in his chosen occupation and amassed a large property; he had only two sons, James Hamilton and William Thomas ; the latter is now the Sheriff (second term) of the county; and seven daughters, viz: Catharine, Mary, Eliza Jane, Louisa, Ann M., Rosa and Margaret.
...
The youngest daughter of General Evans, Miss Margaret, or Maggie, as she was called, married in the latter part of the war the late Major S. A. Durham, and by him she had three children, two daughters and a son. The son, Cicero A. Durham, now living in Marion, married Miss Kate McKerall, daughter of the late Captain W. J. McKerall; they have no children. The two daughters of Major S. A. Durham, Miss Eunice and Miss Marguerette, are unmarried. ;



!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist., SC # 1830/1837
William Evans 46 Farmer $25,000 Marion
Sarah 43
Sarah 19
Hamilton 17
Eliza 16
Ann 14
Louisa 12
William 11
Julia 9
Margaret 7;