This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.evans/9593.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: All I know is he was born in Alabama around 1825 and both of his parents were from Georgia per the 1880 US Census. I now know his son, Martin Silas, travel to Texas at the age of 16 to visit family. So it's possibly George had a brother or sister who traveled there and I plan to investigate that line.