John Evans
John Evans and his wife are natives of Caermarthenshire, South Wales. He was born June 10th, 1810--she in Oct., 1805. They have six children living (See J. P. Williams). Mr. E. is a son of Timothy and Ann Evans, and brother of Benjamin, David, Daniel, Elizabeth, Mary and Evan Evans. Mrs. Evans was Mary Bynon, daughter of Evan and Sarah Bynon, and sister of Esther, Ann, Margaret and Elizabeth. When Mr. Evans and his family first came to this county (1843), they lived in a temporary log hut, sleeping on the floor, and subsisting principally on corn bread baked on a board before a log fire. Wild deer were so plentiful that they often came into enclosures and fed with the domestic animals. The howling of wolves could be heard every night. Went to St. Marys or Sidney to mill, and to Toledo for salt. There was very little money in circulation, and no markets. Butter was worth four cents a pound, wheat forty cents a bushel, corn twelve cents, cows $8 a head, horses $40, and wages twenty-five cents a day and in harvest time fifty cents or one bushel of wheat.
From 1875 Historical Atlas of Allen County, Ohio, by H. H. Hardesty & Co. Publishers, Chicago.