The Evans family.
Photographs, land patents and family trees of the Evans family, arranged by generation, from the oldest to the youngest. Undated pictures keep their place in the family; dates and names are as recorded. 6 photographs · 2 land patents · 4 family trees.
The homesteading generation
The men and women who took up land in the valley. From the accounts of Thomas Bowen Evans & Susannah Smith, Lorenzo Bowen Evans & Anna Morse, David Bowen Evans & Hannah Williams.
View photograph ↗Photograph from Thomas Bowen Evans & Susannah Smith
Shown on their biography; not otherwise captioned.
From: Thomas Bowen Evans & Susannah Smith ↗
View photograph ↗The Bowen Evans brothers
FamilySearch memory titled "The brothers": six portraits, each numbered and named in handwriting — Thomas, John, Isaac, Lorenzo, W. Hiram and David Bowen Evans.
FamilySearch (uploaded by a relative)
View photograph ↗Photograph from Lorenzo Bowen Evans & Anna Morse
Shown on their biography; individuals not captioned.
From: Lorenzo Bowen Evans & Anna Morse ↗
View photograph ↗Photograph from David Bowen Evans & Hannah Williams
Shown on their biography; individuals not captioned.
From: David Bowen Evans & Hannah Williams ↗The second generation
Children of the homesteaders. From the accounts of Waldo Evans.
View photograph ↗Photograph from Waldo Evans
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: Waldo Evans ↗Shared with other families
Pictures kept in another family’s album that include Evans family members or relatives by marriage.
View photograph ↗Don and Connie jenson
Don and Connie jenson
From: Don Jenson ↗Land patents
Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.
View photograph ↗Desert Land Act patent to Lorenzo B. Evans, 1902
Federal land patent signed 7 February 1902 (BLM serial IDIDAA 005110). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Desert Land Act patent to the heirs of David B. Evans, 1918
Federal land patent signed 7 January 1918 (BLM serial IDBL 0008228). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)Family trees
The family-tree charts drawn for the family histories, oldest generation first.
View photograph ↗Family diagram from Thomas Bowen Evans & Susannah Smith
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: Thomas Bowen Evans & Susannah Smith ↗
View photograph ↗Family diagram from Lorenzo Bowen Evans & Anna Morse
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: Lorenzo Bowen Evans & Anna Morse ↗
View photograph ↗Family diagram from David Bowen Evans & Hannah Williams
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: David Bowen Evans & Hannah Williams ↗
View photograph ↗Family diagram from Waldo Evans
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: Waldo Evans ↗Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.