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- !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.
- The late Thomas Evans married a Miss Daniel, a Virginia lady, a most excellent woman, and a woman of more than ordinary culture for her day and time ; the fruits of this marriage were ten sons and one daughter. The father, Thomas Evans, was quite a prominent man in his day-Representative and Senator from his county in the State Legislature, Commissioner in Equity, and a useful man generally ; he died in middle life- I think, in 1845 ; the names of his sons, as remembered, were Chesly D., Thomas, Nathan G., James, Beverly, Jackson, William, Asa, Alfred and Woodson ; the daughter, Sarah, who married R. L. Singletary, on the west side of Great Pee Dee, who has children grown and married.
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Nathan G. Evans, and third son of Thomas Evans (senior), was educated at West Point and went into the regular army of the United States, and when the war between the States broke out, loyal to his section, he threw himself on the side of the South and was soon appointed by President Davis a Brigadier General, and won distinction on many fields, and especially at the battle of Leesburg or Ball's Bluff, where he pursued the Federals to the river, completely routed them, and besides killing many, others sprang off the bluff into the river and were either drowned or killed in the water. (Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, i vol., 437.) General N. George Evans (called Shanks at home), married about the close of the war a Miss Gary, of Edgefield, or Abbeville, and by her had sons and daughters, the number and names unknown, think three sons; one of whom, John Gary Evans, is now an ex-Governor of the State ; he removed to Edgefield after his marriage, and died there several years ago. A true South Carolinian and a gallant soldier, his face was ever to the front.
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