Wm Sterling EVANS was s/o Charles EVANS (26 Mar 1853 - 20 July 1885 s/o John Ruel EVANS and Sarah Elizabeth "Betty" LUCAS) and Cynthia Alice CAIL (2 Feb 1858 - 26 Aug 1922) Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Alice are buried at Douglas Branch Church - as are his grandparents John Ruel and Betty Lucas EVANS. Next to Charles and Alice in the cemetery is Alice's mother, Nancy QUINNEY. Her father, Coleman CAIL (1825-1860) was s/o Rev Soldier William CAIL and Ruth Sykes. Nancy QUINNEY (24 Aug 1832 - 14 Dec 1905) was from Jefferson County - near the Williamson Swamp area on the southern border with Emanuel County. Nancy was the firstborn child of Hinson QUINNEY and Mahaley Abigail MARSHALL....prominent families in that area during that time. After her husband Coleman CAIL passed in 1860, Nancy remarried John Perry. He died soon thereafter. And - if you'll remember - Charles EVANS and a few others were killed in a boiler explosion in 1885...leaving Alice CAIL-EVANS to raise the fa! mily and take care of the farm (Wm Sterling, my great grandfather was a four-month-old baby when this happened). Well - the 6 children were still small - so Grandma Nancy moved to Screven County to help out. Amazingly, Grandma Alice never remarried - lost three of her six children (sons John Ruel, Charles Quentin and Llewellyn EVANS) to typhoid in 1898 - and still managed to hold onto the farm. Grandma Alice - though I've never met her - and she passed over a hundred years ago - I feel like I do know her. I've never heard anything but stories of her courage, faith and strength - and her determination to hold onto the family farm. I have the paperwork from the bank in Sylvania - where she had to borrow money against the farm to pay bills (several times) - yet, she held on. I'm looking out over that land and that old farmhouse right now from my office window. That old woman would be so proud to know that we love this place as much as she did. Tommy Newton -----Original Message----- From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Carole Drexel Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:36 AM To: gascreve@rootsweb.com Subject: [GASCREVE] Wm. Sterling Evans Tommy, whose mother and father was William Sterling Evans? Carole -----Original Message----- From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Newton, Thomas Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:58 AM To: gascreve@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GASCREVE] Christmas Past, list mom message I remember going to my "Big Granny's" house every Christmas. Big Granny - FYI - was Willie Mae Jeffers Evans (1889-1989), the mother of my paternal grandmother, Juanita Evans-Newton, w/o Wm Sterling Evans. I remember the chill in that old farmhouse - those gas-burning heaters had a distinct smell that I'll never forget - and Granny - being in her 90's when I was a kid - she always had a prime seating location - right next to the heater. I also remember that there was always a copper pot with water sitting on top - steam keeping the air moist. In the opposite corner of the room was the little pine tree that Aunt Grace Evans-Zeigler had cut from the woods by the pond. It looked just like that little tree owned by Charlie Brown! It had about ten ornaments, each one nearly bending the limb to the ground....and it always had those foil ice-sickles handing all over it. Under this tree were MANY MANY presents. As us kids passed out the presents, everyone would tear into the! m - except for Big Granny - who would make a stack of gifts next to her rocking chair. When everyone else was done opening their gifts - we'd all get excited...because we knew that it as Big Granny's turn to open!! And - did I tell you yet - this was the sweetest woman that ever lived - I still miss her so much. Granny's gifts were always wonderful - cook books, perfumes, aprons, sweaters, nick-nacks - it was great fun watching that sweet face smile. Big Granny died in 1989 when I was in Grad school at Purdue. Today - I live on the farm where she lived for eighty years. I feel her presence all of the time - and no Christmas goes by when I do not remember the love that she gave to her family on Christmas and throughout her life of 100 years. Tommy Newton -----Original Message----- From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of deborahbryd@bellsouth.net Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:33 AM To: gascreve@rootsweb.com; gaburke@rootsweb.com; flhillsb@rootsweb.com Subject: [GASCREVE] Christmas Past, list mom message In years past we have opened up the lists to remember our favorite family tales about the holidays as a way of sharing our stories and hopefully connecting with new family members and keeping the memories of those that past alive in our hearts. I would like to open the forum up again to that activity. Have fun, who knows you might find the missing link in the family story or hear it from a different perspective. Happy Holidays may they be bright with the love of family and friend those that share our daily lives and those that have blessed our lives in days gone by. 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Thank you Tommy!!! Carole D. -----Original Message----- From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Newton, Thomas Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:57 PM To: gascreve@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GASCREVE] Wm. Sterling Evans Wm Sterling EVANS was s/o Charles EVANS (26 Mar 1853 - 20 July 1885 s/o John Ruel EVANS and Sarah Elizabeth "Betty" LUCAS) and Cynthia Alice CAIL (2 Feb 1858 - 26 Aug 1922) Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Alice are buried at Douglas Branch Church - as are his grandparents John Ruel and Betty Lucas EVANS. Next to Charles and Alice in the cemetery is Alice's mother, Nancy QUINNEY. Her father, Coleman CAIL (1825-1860) was s/o Rev Soldier William CAIL and Ruth Sykes. Nancy QUINNEY (24 Aug 1832 - 14 Dec 1905) was from Jefferson County - near the Williamson Swamp area on the southern border with Emanuel County. Nancy was the firstborn child of Hinson QUINNEY and Mahaley Abigail MARSHALL....prominent families in that area during that time. After her husband Coleman CAIL passed in 1860, Nancy remarried John Perry. He died soon thereafter. And - if you'll remember - Charles EVANS and a few others were killed in a boiler explosion in 1885...leaving Alice CAIL-EVANS to raise the fa! mily and take care of the farm (Wm Sterling, my great grandfather was a four-month-old baby when this happened). Well - the 6 children were still small - so Grandma Nancy moved to Screven County to help out. Amazingly, Grandma Alice never remarried - lost three of her six children (sons John Ruel, Charles Quentin and Llewellyn EVANS) to typhoid in 1898 - and still managed to hold onto the farm. Grandma Alice - though I've never met her - and she passed over a hundred years ago - I feel like I do know her. I've never heard anything but stories of her courage, faith and strength - and her determination to hold onto the family farm. I have the paperwork from the bank in Sylvania - where she had to borrow money against the farm to pay bills (several times) - yet, she held on. I'm looking out over that land and that old farmhouse right now from my office window. That old woman would be so proud to know that we love this place as much as she did. Tommy Newton -----Original Message----- From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Carole Drexel Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:36 AM To: gascreve@rootsweb.com Subject: [GASCREVE] Wm. Sterling Evans Tommy, whose mother and father was William Sterling Evans? Carole -----Original Message----- From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Newton, Thomas Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:58 AM To: gascreve@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GASCREVE] Christmas Past, list mom message I remember going to my "Big Granny's" house every Christmas. Big Granny - FYI - was Willie Mae Jeffers Evans (1889-1989), the mother of my paternal grandmother, Juanita Evans-Newton, w/o Wm Sterling Evans. I remember the chill in that old farmhouse - those gas-burning heaters had a distinct smell that I'll never forget - and Granny - being in her 90's when I was a kid - she always had a prime seating location - right next to the heater. I also remember that there was always a copper pot with water sitting on top - steam keeping the air moist. In the opposite corner of the room was the little pine tree that Aunt Grace Evans-Zeigler had cut from the woods by the pond. It looked just like that little tree owned by Charlie Brown! It had about ten ornaments, each one nearly bending the limb to the ground....and it always had those foil ice-sickles handing all over it. Under this tree were MANY MANY presents. As us kids passed out the presents, everyone would tear into the! m - except for Big Granny - who would make a stack of gifts next to her rocking chair. When everyone else was done opening their gifts - we'd all get excited...because we knew that it as Big Granny's turn to open!! And - did I tell you yet - this was the sweetest woman that ever lived - I still miss her so much. Granny's gifts were always wonderful - cook books, perfumes, aprons, sweaters, nick-nacks - it was great fun watching that sweet face smile. Big Granny died in 1989 when I was in Grad school at Purdue. Today - I live on the farm where she lived for eighty years. I feel her presence all of the time - and no Christmas goes by when I do not remember the love that she gave to her family on Christmas and throughout her life of 100 years. Tommy Newton -----Original Message----- From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of deborahbryd@bellsouth.net Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:33 AM To: gascreve@rootsweb.com; gaburke@rootsweb.com; flhillsb@rootsweb.com Subject: [GASCREVE] Christmas Past, list mom message In years past we have opened up the lists to remember our favorite family tales about the holidays as a way of sharing our stories and hopefully connecting with new family members and keeping the memories of those that past alive in our hearts. I would like to open the forum up again to that activity. Have fun, who knows you might find the missing link in the family story or hear it from a different perspective. Happy Holidays may they be bright with the love of family and friend those that share our daily lives and those that have blessed our lives in days gone by. List Mom Deborah Byrd ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
TOMMY, YOU MAY KNOW THIS ALREADY, BUT I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER REFER TO AUNT ALICE BY A NICKNAME "AUNT TUNIE" ALEX ----- Original Message ----- From: "Newton, Thomas" <Thomas.Newton@astrazeneca.com> To: <gascreve@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [GASCREVE] Wm. Sterling Evans > Wm Sterling EVANS was s/o Charles EVANS (26 Mar 1853 - 20 July 1885 s/o > John Ruel EVANS and Sarah Elizabeth "Betty" LUCAS) and Cynthia Alice CAIL > (2 Feb 1858 - 26 Aug 1922) Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Alice are buried > at Douglas Branch Church - as are his grandparents John Ruel and Betty > Lucas EVANS. Next to Charles and Alice in the cemetery is Alice's mother, > Nancy QUINNEY. Her father, Coleman CAIL (1825-1860) was s/o Rev Soldier > William CAIL and Ruth Sykes. Nancy QUINNEY (24 Aug 1832 - 14 Dec 1905) > was from Jefferson County - near the Williamson Swamp area on the southern > border with Emanuel County. Nancy was the firstborn child of Hinson > QUINNEY and Mahaley Abigail MARSHALL....prominent families in that area > during that time. After her husband Coleman CAIL passed in 1860, Nancy > remarried John Perry. He died soon thereafter. And - if you'll > remember - Charles EVANS and a few others were killed in a boiler > explosion in 1885...leaving Alice CAIL-EVANS to raise the fa! > mily and take care of the farm (Wm Sterling, my great grandfather was a > four-month-old baby when this happened). Well - the 6 children were still > small - so Grandma Nancy moved to Screven County to help out. Amazingly, > Grandma Alice never remarried - lost three of her six children (sons John > Ruel, Charles Quentin and Llewellyn EVANS) to typhoid in 1898 - and still > managed to hold onto the farm. > > Grandma Alice - though I've never met her - and she passed over a hundred > years ago - I feel like I do know her. I've never heard anything but > stories of her courage, faith and strength - and her determination to hold > onto the family farm. I have the paperwork from the bank in Sylvania - > where she had to borrow money against the farm to pay bills (several > times) - yet, she held on. > > I'm looking out over that land and that old farmhouse right now from my > office window. That old woman would be so proud to know that we love this > place as much as she did. > > Tommy Newton > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Carole Drexel > Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:36 AM > To: gascreve@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GASCREVE] Wm. Sterling Evans > > > Tommy, whose mother and father was William Sterling Evans? > Carole > > -----Original Message----- > From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Newton, Thomas > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:58 AM > To: gascreve@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [GASCREVE] Christmas Past, list mom message > > I remember going to my "Big Granny's" house every Christmas. Big Granny - > FYI - was Willie Mae Jeffers Evans (1889-1989), the mother of my paternal > grandmother, Juanita Evans-Newton, w/o Wm Sterling Evans. I remember the > chill in that old farmhouse - those gas-burning heaters had a distinct > smell > that I'll never forget - and Granny - being in her 90's when I was a kid - > she always had a prime seating location - right next to the heater. I > also > remember that there was always a copper pot with water sitting on top - > steam keeping the air moist. In the opposite corner of the room was the > little pine tree that Aunt Grace Evans-Zeigler had cut from the woods by > the > pond. It looked just like that little tree owned by Charlie Brown! It > had > about ten ornaments, each one nearly bending the limb to the ground....and > it always had those foil ice-sickles handing all over it. Under this tree > were MANY MANY presents. As us kids passed out the presents, everyone > would > tear into the! > m - except for Big Granny - who would make a stack of gifts next to her > rocking chair. When everyone else was done opening their gifts - we'd all > get excited...because we knew that it as Big Granny's turn to open!! > And - > did I tell you yet - this was the sweetest woman that ever lived - I still > miss her so much. Granny's gifts were always wonderful - cook books, > perfumes, aprons, sweaters, nick-nacks - it was great fun watching that > sweet face smile. > > Big Granny died in 1989 when I was in Grad school at Purdue. Today - I > live > on the farm where she lived for eighty years. I feel her presence all of > the time - and no Christmas goes by when I do not remember the love that > she > gave to her family on Christmas and throughout her life of 100 years. > > > Tommy Newton > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:gascreve-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of > deborahbryd@bellsouth.net > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:33 AM > To: gascreve@rootsweb.com; gaburke@rootsweb.com; flhillsb@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GASCREVE] Christmas Past, list mom message > > > In years past we have opened up the lists to remember our favorite family > tales about the holidays as a way of sharing our stories and hopefully > connecting with new family members and keeping the memories of those that > past alive in our hearts. > > I would like to open the forum up again to that activity. Have fun, who > knows you might find the missing link in the family story or hear it from > a > different perspective. > > Happy Holidays may they be bright with the love of family and friend > those > that share our daily lives and those that have blessed our lives in days > gone by. > > List Mom > Deborah Byrd > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GASCREVE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >