An accumulation of several emails from Charleen which include within them messages from Karen and Roger. Thanks to all. Not sure if these are all in the right order..... Please note that if you want to chat with all these folks, you'll need to add their email addresses to the evans-richard@rootsweb.com email at the top Renee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to Karen Golly, a descendant of the Drummer Boy, we have new information concerning *Eleanor Evans,* the daughter of the Drummer Boy. This is pertaining to Eleanor who married Robert Patton. *****************See page 1 of the *Descendent's of the Drummer Boy:Edward Evans of VA which is a lineage chart. * Then you may want to add this to page 5. Eleanor 1678..... Thanks to Karen! Charleen ***************************************************Here goes************************* *Edward, Drummer Boy*. His daughter, *Eleanor,* 19 Apr.,1775 and died: 1830 married *Robert Jesse Patton,* 1770-1839. Their son, *Matthew*, b:15 Nov.,1805 in VA (most likely WV of today) died: 17 Sept, 1892 and is buried in the Patton Family Cemetery in Portland, Or. He married *Polly Ann Grimes*, 1800;d:1868. When that line moved on west - he and Polly situated to the area of Pattonsburg, Missouri.- Pattonsburg is named after him. He started a water mill there. Their children are: *Robert,* b:1836 in Ohio; *Henry*, b:1839 in Pattonsburg, Missouri; *William*, b:1842 in Pattonsburg, Missouri; Matthew J., b: 1848 in Oregon and died in 1906. . Eleanor and Robert had another son who moved to Oregon. Karen ------------------ *Addendum to the Descendants of the Drummer Boy: Edward Evans of VA* John Evans 1783 Va, married Elizabeth Ann Windsor. This John Evans 1783 is said to be another son of the Drummer Boy. He had a farm in Decatur, Indiana. This Evans Family ended up in Missouri. Their daughter, Deliah Evans, married Russell Newman, the son of John Newman. Delilah and Russell with most of their children headed to Idaho from Missouri. From there several sons went into Klamath Falls, Oregon, thus we find many of the Drummer Boy's descendants headed West. The pioneer graveyards in Idaho are filled with Evans and surnames. The Towell Wagon Train is reported to have had Evans members on this wagon train. The above was from: Roger @ burby9@yahoo.com <mailto:burby9@yahoo.com> See: http://www.idahoocta.org/TD_April_2005.pdf Emily Towell, "Missouri to Idaho, 1881: *Emily Towell's Diary,"* Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, Vol. 10.) --------------------------- Mitzidell@aol.com wrote: > Roger has sent me new info also. > > You may include it also, but do realize that when I wrote the book, I > did not have any information that Gerrad, another son of Edward, the > drummer, even existed. It seems to have been proven by others. > > He and Karen Golly are coming off of the line of Gerrad, Gerrad seems > to be unknown to my VA/WV family, but that does not mean that he is > not a viable Evans member. The DNA proves that he is.