This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Evans, Campbell, Martin, Rock Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi.2ADI/1740 Message Board Post: Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp. 589-590 Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888 OLIVER P.C. EVANS, farmer and stock-raiser, section 29, Randolph Township, was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, five miles from the city of Baltimore, March 10, 1822. His father, Daniel Evans, was a native of the same county, and was a son of Daniel Evans, a native of Wales. One Thomas Evans left at his death an immense fortune in a bank of England, and the subject of this sketch is supposed to be one of the legal heirs. He was taken by his parents to Ross County, Ohio, in 1834, where he grew to manhood, being reared to agricultural pursuits. He received a good common-school education in the schools of his day, and subsequently taught school three years in Ohio, and also sold goods and dealt in live-stock in the same State. He was united in marriage, December 17, 1840, to Eliza J. Rock, of Kingston, Ross County, Ohio, a daughter of Samuel Rock, and to them were born four children, of whom only one, William T., is living. Jane, Alice and James H. are deceased. Mrs. ! Evans died December 29, 1876, and May 9, 1878, Mr. Evans was married to Mrs. Martha Martin, widow of Joseph Martin, and a daughter of James and Susan Campbell, of Lauramie Township, and to this union two children have been born, named Lucy H. and Mary O. Mrs. Evans has one child by her first marriage, named Josie B. Martin. Mr. Evans has been a resident of this county since 1853, in which year he settled in Lauramie Township, and since 1857 has lived on his present farm in Randolph Township, and has 514 acres of choice land. He pays considerable attention to the raising of Hereford cattle and Poland-China hogs. While a resident of Lauramie Township he served three years as township trustee, and was county commissioner eight years. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church since fourteen years of age. His wife is a member of the same church.