Mention of Ohio Evanses in this selection from page 375 of the book THE COUNTY OF HIGHLAND: A History of Highland County, Ohio, from the Earliest Days, with Special Chapters on the Bench and Bar, Medical Profession Educational Development, Industry and Agriculture and Biographical Sketches By REV. J. W. KLISE A. E. HOUGH, Editor MADISON, WIS. NORTHWESTERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Available through Google Books. Note: this is a "plain text" version of "page images" so... there may be spelling errors. To see it in the original, go to http://books.google.com/books?ei=q8JeTMuaI4P_8AaGnb35AQ&ct=result&dq=%22the+County+of+Highland%22&jtp=7&id=3DsVAAAAYAAJ&ots=M2Ky6S_T7a#v=onepage&q&f=false <http://books.google.com/books?ei=q8JeTMuaI4P_8AaGnb35AQ&ct=result&dq=%22the+County+of+Highland%22&jtp=7&id=3DsVAAAAYAAJ&ots=M2Ky6S_T7a#v=onepage&q&f=false> There are about 31 more references to Evans in that book, so you can do a search for yourself.....if you want to pursue the Highland County Evanses The Linn Family:—-About the year 1790 Robert Linn, who lived in the north of Ireland, became weary of the unequal struggle for existence in that tax-ridden and badly governed land and yielded his shattered frame and saddened heart to the Grim Destroyer which in time conquers every human being. A widow and six children, most of them helpless, were left to bemoan the irreparable loss which had deprived them of their only support and protector. There was no recourse left but that of expatriation, the last hope of many a heartbroken Irishman as he turned his sorrowful gaze upon his country and resolved to leave it forever. When the widow Linn left the shores of Erin in 1796, bound for free and hospitable America, her oldest child Samuel was just twenty-one years of age. After the wearisome and protracted voyage was completed, the little band made their way to Lancaster county, Pa., where a temporary location was secured to be followed by removal to Virginia in 1803. Unlike most Irish immigrants of that day, the Linns were of Scotch ancestry and adherents of the Protestant faith. Samuel, being the eldest, stood somewhat in the relation of a father to the other children and was a great help as well as comfort to his widowed mother. November 8, 1803, he was married to Catharine Slaymaker, member of one of the distinguished military families of Virginia. Her father, Capt. John Slaymaker, was with Braddock at the time of his memorable defeat by the Indians and subsequently commanded a company in the war for American independence. Robert Alexander Linn, one of the children of this marriage, was born October 8, 1810, and removed with his father to Highland county in 1832. The latter died here in September, 1860, at the ripe age of eighty-five years. August 13, 1857, Robert A. Linn was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Noah and Elizabeth (Robinson) Evans, and member of a family notable in the history of Liberty township. Richard Evans, Mrs. Linn's grandfather, a native of Pennsylvania, first moved to Kentucky with his father, Hugh Evans, and from there to Highland county in 1799, where he bought land on Clear creek and subsequently became one of the earliest of the countv's associate judges. By his wife, Mary (Pierce) Evans, he had fifteen children, of whom twelve lived to mature ago. Noah Evans, the third son, was born in Kentucky in 1795 and in 1819 was married to Elizabeth Robison, of Chillicothe. They had ten children, including Mrs. Elizabeth (Evans) Linn, who was born in 1832 in the old brick house which was built by her grandfather in 1809 on his Clear Creek farm in Liberty township. This was the first brick dwelling-house erected in Highland county and the venerable structure is still standing as one of the interesting landmarks of the olden time. In the family it is known familiarly as the "Ark," probably because its last proprietor in the Evans line was named Noah. In 1868, Robert A. Linn purchased 193 acres from the Evans estate and ten years later erected the elegant brick house now occupied by his widow and children, east of Clear creek on the Chillicothe pike. The children of Robert A. and Elizabeth (Evans) Linn are Samuel D., Katharine, Margaret E., Lucy and Minnie E., who reside on the farm with their mother. William D. Linn, the second son, was born on the paternal homestead in Highland county, Ohio, June 30, 1860, and educated in the district schools. In 1879, he removed to Iowa, where he spent six years employed as a clerk in various mercantile establishments, after which he returned to Highland county and in 1886 took up his residence on part of the Linn estate. In 1879 he was married to Luella Bumgarner, who died in 1885, leaving two children: David, born February 5, 1880, and Frederick, bom April 16, 1882. March 19, 1889^ Mr. Linn was married to Reedie, daughter of Jacob and Rebecca (Fettro) Pennington, by whom he has four children: Ruth, born January 28, 1892; Ray, born June 21, 1895; Jane, born January 19, 1899*; and Esther born March 20, 1902.