Forgot to mention in my earlier response that the name "Lavinia" repeats over and over in our Evans-Richard branch. I assume it all began with Lavinia Simpson [1811], Hugh's second wife..... So maybe that is significant. I have no idea of who her parents were, but she was said to be "an English lady of deep piety, a member of the Established Church of England." Now we suspect that our earliest Evanses were Quaker.... and the later ones were mostly Presbyterian with some Methodists thrown in for good measure...but we don't know much else about Lavinia's life before marrying into the Evans family. R --------- Hi, I don't have anything about North Carolina and the Evanses in my gedcom, but I will ask our little "Evans-Richard" list and see if anyone else might. Will let you know if I come up with anything Renee > ----------