By request. 5. James Bevans, p. 535-36 JAMES BEVANS Is a native of Belmont county, Ohio, and was born April 23, 1833. His father and mother were natives of Virginia. The subject of our sketch was married August 16, 1856, to Mias Sarah A. Hill, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Hill, natives of Pennsylvania. They have, by this marriage, six cnildren: Martha E., born May 11, 1857, died in infancy; Ellen P., born August 26, 1858; Lewis S., born September 9, 1861; Sarah A., born February 2, 1864; Charles W. born Mav 1, 1868; Martha J., born January 15,1871. Mr. B. enlisted in 1862, in Captain Haycraft's company of State militia, and in the spring of 1864 enlisted in company K, Forty-fourth regiment Missouri volunteer infantry, serving until the close of the war, in 1865. He was with the Seventeenth army corps and participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. Mr. Bevans owns a good farm in Marion township, near Rural Dale, and his two brothers, William H. and J. F., live on adjoining farms. William H. Bevans wedded Miss Jane Sprout. They have adopted child, Mary E.