Evans, David S.

EVANS, YOST, CAPEHART, WOLF

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 5/1/2009 at 08:23:34

History of Poweshiek Co. Iowa (1880)
Deep River Township.
Page 728

EVANS, DAVID S.--Section 22, P.O. Deep River. He was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, June 17, 1823. His mother died during his infancy, and his father when he was six years old. He was bound to a Quaker, Michael Yost, with whom he lived until he was fifteen years old, when he learned carpentering with his brother, William. He emigrated directly from Ohio to Iowa, in the fall of 1846, and lived the first winter in Hickory Grove, while he built a house on two acres of land he had purchased in Deep River township, to which he moved the following spring. Here he lived, working for himself and others, until he traded for his present place. He moved his home from C. Cox's farm, and first occupied it in the spring of 1871. He married, in Jefferson county, Ohio, October 17, 1850, Miss Mary B. Capehart, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 28, 1834. Their children are: Rosella A. (born February 2, 1852; died November 8, 1876, Clarence J. (born June 17, 1855), Lydia W. (born May 22, 1859; married December 19, 1878, to Martin H. Wolf), Elizabeth Viola (born in 1863; died May 7, 1866), Sarah (born September 22, 1869) and William (born June 22, 1873). Mr. E. owns forty acres of good farming land, and is an honest, industrious and hard-working man.