Lorenzo D. "Ren" Evans (1913)
BURRELL, EVANS, WESTON
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/8/2010 at 09:14:04
The Winterset Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 3, 1913
Page 4Word was received here Monday of the death of L. D. Evans, a former resident of Douglas township and one of the pioneers of Madison county. He died at the Soldiers Home in Marshalltown at which place he has made his home for the past few years.
________________________Cresco Plain Dealer
Cresco, Iowa
Friday, December 26, 1913
Page 7, Column 3Lorenza D. Evans, formerly of Winterset, and Joseph W. Latta, of Winona, Minn., civil war veterans, are dead at the Soldiers’ home at Marshalltown.
_______________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 10, 1913
Page 4, Column 3Lorenzo D. Evans
Lorenzo D. Evans was born in Putnam county, Indiana, October 15, 1839 and died at the Iowa Soldier’s home, Marshalltown, November 30, 1913.
He was the son of Jacob and Sarah Evans and the youngest of a family consisting of nine children, six girls and three boys, all of whom preceded him in death.
In 1851 the Evans family emigrated to Iowa and settled on a farm about three and one half miles northwest of Winterset in Douglas township near the place now occupied by James and Lee Evans, who are nephews of the deceased. It was here that “Ren” as he was familiarly called resided until June 1862 when he enlisted in Co. E, 23rd Iowa Infantry, and faithfully served his country till the close of the war.
After the war he returned to this county, and here he was married to Miss Margaret Burrell. To this union were born Emma L., now Mrs. Weston, who since 1901 has been a successful teacher in the city schools of Manila Philippine Islands, and Walter Burrell, now a prominent attorney of Oskaloosa, Iowa.
During the early eighties a considerable portion of his time was spent in travel. Finally he located on a farm near Topeka, Kansas where he resided for several years.
He was of a genial yet resolute disposition, passionately fond of the turf and kindred sports and for many years was the owner of some of the speediest horses in the central west.
He will be remembered by many of the older settlers here as a successful teacher of penmanship during the early days of this county. He was a real book lover and diligent student of literature, history and science. He was an outspoken liberal and never affiliated with any church and his views on religion were widely in variance with present day orthodox thought. He had the courage of his convictions, however, and remained steadfast in his belief till the end.
Some years ago he became afflicted with cancer and later suffered a stroke of paralysis from which he never fully recovered. After this he spent much of his time at the National Soldier’s Home at Leavenworth, Kansas, also Johnson City, Tennessee and among relatives in Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa.
He had been a member of the Iowa Soldier’s Home for more than a year, but had spent the summer and fall among relatives in Madison county, only returning to the Home two weeks previous to his death.
Funeral services were held from the Home at Marshalltown and burial made in the cemetery at that place.
Re Evans was a unique character, generous, affectionate, sympathetic and loyal, these were the attributes which won for him a host of friends. Long and tenderly will he be remembered.
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