Evans, John [of Allen Co., Ind.?] - dated 8-10-1842; recorded Allen Co., Indiana 8-16-1842; recorded Williams Co., Ohio in 1929, many years after originally dated and recorded. Requests to be buried in Fort Wayne. Wife, mentioned by not named. Daughters: Merica [Evans?] and Elizabeth Hill. Sons: Carey and Rush. Executors: daughter, Merica: sons, Carey and Rush; Hugh McCulloch; Allen Hamilton; and Pierce Evans. Requests that children provide for Aley Cumberlin so long as she may live. Signed: John Evans. Witnesses: L. G. Thompson and W.G. Evans, [Will Book 16, page 465] found in Gateway to the West, *Volume 2,* page 754 in section entitled "Williams County, Ohio - Will Abstracts 1827-1850