Rev. L. G. Evans
The ancestors of Rev. Evans, Thomas Evans and Elizabeth Greene, came from North Carolina to Virginia, and thence to Fleming County, Kentucky, where he was born June 18. 1838. His ancestors all lived to a ripe old age. his great-grandmother Hunt dying at the extreme age of 112 years. In 1846, he came to Adams County and remained until 1858, when he returned to Kentucky, and at the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted from Rowan County, November 20, 1861, and was mustered into the service at Lexington in the following December for three years as a private in Company F, Capt. Blue, 24th K. V. I., Col. Hurt. He was at Shiloh, Corinth. Perryville, Knoxville, Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Peachtree Creek. Atlanta and Jonesboro. and was made Third Sergeant at Shiloh. Was honorably discharged at Covington, Ky., January 31, 1865. April 1, 1860, he married Miss Nancy E. Markwell, daughter of Joel and Esther Rice Markwell, of Rowan County, Kentucky. Two daughters were the fruit of that union, Rozella and Sallie.
Rev. Evans is a regularly ordained minister of the regular Baptist Church, but from throat trouble has not had a regular charge for some years. He is Chaplain of Bailey Post, G. A. R.. No. 610, at Blue Creek.
From History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900