This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dungannonramp Surnames: Evans Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.evans/4301.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have many times found your Evans family in researching my Southwest Va. Evans relatives on both paternal and maternal sides. I have not yet made a connection between the two families. An Andrew Evans was in Washington Co. Va. during Rev. War and was one of "Overmountain Men" who marched from Sycamore Shoals area in East Tenn. to Kings Mt. South Carolina and defeated the British, killing their General, and many soldiers and capturing the rest, and some say, this was the turning point in the Rev. War. My info says he was from Frederick Co. Va. born about 1760. He is supposedly buried in Sinking Springs Cemetery in present Wash. Co. Va. During colonial days and before, Virginia claimed the upper part of Tenn. Washingto Co. Va. actually extended South of the present State line and included a large part of Tenn. They thought the State boundary was the Holston River. Many people who were said to have lived in Va. were actually in present day Tenn. Go on the Library of Virginia web site and look for the Gordan Aronhime papers. I saw some info in his papers about Andrew Evans and some of his children. Go to my public tree appalachian Mountain Ancesters on ancestry . com to find my Evans ancesters, and what I know about them. I have one son of Littleberry Evans, a William Wesley Evans born 1797 in Russell Co. Va. and moved to Loretta Tenn. Died about 1844. He had a son named Berry Evans who died at about 21 years of age 1861 of an accidental gunshot wound at a confederate army base in Tenn. Is this the same William you mention? John Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.