>Good evening everyone: Was looking through my 1950s notes on the GILMORES >and seems there was a connection between them and the EVANS. Supposedly, >(note from 1950s of mine) there is an EVANS Cemetery with a few graves >somewhere around Oakland. It is not in the 4 Volumes of Union Parish >Cemetery Records by Mr. Nolan. Does anyone know where it is located? Or >is anyone working on the EVANS Family? I appreciate any help. > Hi Louis, I have EVANS people because I discovered my g-grandmother was the dau of Susanna EVANS, who was dau of Abel Edward EVANS. They came from AL & MS to LA, I am not aware of them in Union Par, mostly they were in Morehouse, but who knows?? Here's a family group sheet on Abel E. EVANS: Name: Abel Edward EVANS Birth: 10 Nov 1798 Charleston Dist, now Charleston, SC Death: 29 Jul 1878 Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, LA Burial: Old Catholic Cem, Bastrop, Morehouse, LA Father: Col. Thomas EVANS 4th (~1743-1800) Mother: Elizabeth HODGES (~1752-1798) Misc. Notes Birth: Evans family records; probate of fathers estate in 1802. Marriage: Extracted marriage record; newspaper record(s); family records. : "The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research", Vol I, No.1 Winter 1973, page 117. Death: Family records; tombstone. Further information on him came from "The Turpin Family, Before and After Grabault, Louisiana" compiled by John Lewis Davidson, 1995; "Abel and Martha Evans moved from Claiborne county, MS to Morehouse Parish, LA in the middle of the 19th Century. They purchased land about three or four miles east of Bastrop on the Grabault Road . . The hill on which this residence was located was called Evans Hill - but is now generally known as Grabault Hill." Also, it said "Abel and Martha Mandeville Evans are buried in the Old City Cemetery in Bastrop." Further, this same source stated, "Lelia Turpin Davidson recalled her great-grandfather Abel very clearly. She said he was a huge man with a flowing mane of long white hair. He rode a large white horse and wore a long cape which hung in great folds from his broad shoulders. He was 80 when he died." Information from family groups sheets sent me by Tom Montgomery of Vista, CA, said, "Abel Edward Evans was just two years old when his father died in 1800. His mother was 53 years old at the time of his birth, and as she died some ten days later, it can be assumed she died as a retult of his birth. Regardless, Abel never knew his parents and was raised by his brothers and sisters. He attended boarding schools for most of his early years, starting as early as 1804 - his father's estate has a record of several payments being paid with the notation of 'this sume for board of Abel'. At some point, he began school in Mobile AL, residing with Eliza Evans Battle, thought to be a dau of his uncle, Col. Thomas Evans. <removed some info here> We do not know how Abel and Martha met, but the Mandeville family home was only a short distance to the west of his brother, Col. Thomas Evans (in SC) and most likely Abel had known Martha for many years. We also do not know why both of Col. Evans' daus marrie din AL, but it was prob because they ahd attended school in Mobile. The Mobile area had a substantial number of the Evans family and the name was prominent during this period. <snip> There was nothing really to keep him in SC and prob he and Martha intended from the beginning to return to AL where he had made his home. It is thought that his bro-in-law, David Mandeville, made the treck west with them; we know that David remained in Camden (Wilcox Co), began his family in 1839, and all of his children were born in Camden. On 1 Jun 1837, Abel and martha sold her interest in the Mandeville properties, . .prob about this time Abel decided to continue on west and eventually ended up in Morehouse Parish, LA, where he made his final home." (All this information from a family group sheet sent me by Tom Montgomery of Vista CA) Marriage: 20 Nov 1823 Darlington, SC Spouse: Martha Ann MANDEVILLE Birth: 21 Aug 1804 Cheraw Dist, St Davids Parish, now Darlington, SC Death: 31 Mar 1862 Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, LA Burial: Apr 1862 Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, LA Father: David MANDEVILLE Sr. (~1754->1822) Mother: Susannah FORNESS (1770-) Misc. Notes Birth: Evans family records. Marriage: Extracted marriage record; newspaper record(s); family records. Death: Family records; tombstone. Burial: Old Catholic cemetery in Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana Children 1 F: Susanna/Susannah EVANS -------------- my gg-grandmother Birth: 22 Oct 1824 South Carolina Death: 3 Jan 1896 Morehouse, Louisiana Spouse: John Baynard TURPIN 2 M: Thomas J. EVANS Birth: abt 1826 AL Death: 20 Nov 1861 Columbia, LA Spouse: Letitia EVANS Marriage: abt 1849 3 F: Celestia O. EVANS Birth: abt 1826 Wilcox, AL Spouse: Rev. James IVY Marriage: 16 Dec 1862 4 M: George Reeves/Rives EVANS Birth: abt 1828 Wilcox, AL Death: 1891 Louisiana Spouse: Lucy NICHOLS 5 M: Nicholas EVANS Birth: abt 1829 Wilcox, AL Death: 1872/1873 6 F: Mary R. EVANS Birth: 18 Jul 1830 Wilcox, AL Death: 18 Aug 1849 Bastrop, Morehouse Par. LA 7 F: Ann Eliza Pegues EVANS Birth: 1832 Death: 10 Oct 1913 Louisiana Spouse: Issac Newton PIPES Marriage: 21 Nov 1849 8 M: David Mandeville EVANS Sr. Birth: 11 Aug 1833 Wilcox, AL Death: 1 Dec 1907 Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, LA Spouse: Flora Flowers KELLEY Marriage: 5 Mar 1868 "Oakland" Plan, Warren, MS 9 M: Cornelius M. EVANS Birth: 9 Nov 1839 Wilcox, AL Death: 3 Sep 1876 Bastrop, Morehouse Parish, LA 10 M: Josiah? EVANS Birth: abt 1848 AL Death: 24 May 1848 AL Francesca Sutton