Iowa
Old Press
Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson County, Iowa
August 14, 1873
Death of Col. Lyman Evans
Died at his home in Linwood Farm; adjacent to DeWitt. Iowa,
August 11, 1873, Lyman Evans, aged 81 years, 10 months and 6
days.
Another one of the old settlers of our county has passed away.
Col. Lyman Evans, whose death it is our painful duty to record,
was one of the early settlers in this county. We believe that of
those who preceded him there are now living only Elijah Buell,
Phillip Deeds, Thos. Hatfield, Geo. W. Ames, A. G. Harrison, J.
D. Bourne, A. Dennis, M. Dunning, A. Beard, and L. Alger-13 in
all. Col. Evans was the son of Barnabas and Betsey Evans-Barnabas
died in 1824 at the age of 69-Betsey died in DeWitt in 1845 at
the good old age of 92. He was the fifth of six children, was
born at Salem, New York, October 5, 1791 and died in the 82nd
year of his age. He was married sometime in 1811, at Pownal,
Vermont, to Hannah Eldred. She was born January 14, 1792 and she
died at Springfield, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1835-to them
were born nine children, six of them are still living. He
subsequently married Polly Furgason, who was born Nov. 28th,
1799, and still remains to lament the loss of her life companion.
Col. Evans has living six children, 21 grand children, 17 great
grand children and one great great grand child. In 1824 he moved
to Sheffield, Pennsylvania, and from there, in 1839, to Iowa,
where he entered the farm at the beautiful location where he ever
since resided until his death. The Colonel was somewhat
celebrated at the East, in his younger days, as a Justice,
Attorney, and soon after coming here was made a Justice of the
Peace, which position, as a rule, he held ever after until old
age and its attendant infirmities obliged him to retire from all
public duties.
He was always pleasant and genial in his intercourse with his
fellow men and we believe leaves not a single enemy. To the
writer of this sketch he has ever since we became acquainted been
a warm personal friend. The funeral was largely attended at the
Baptist Church yesterday at 4 p.m., Rev. R. Apthrop preaching the
sermon. – DeWitt Observer.
[transcribed by K.W., June 2009]