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 newspaper clippings · 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 February 7, 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 January 7, 1918 (BLM serial IDBL 0008228). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)In the old papers
Clippings of newspaper articles that name the family, in the order they were printed. Each opens the story retold from it. All the clippings ↗
View photograph ↗In the 1922 thaw, Ed Snyder splits the Arbon mail route
When the spring thaw of 1922 left Arbon’s roads too rotten for a team, rural carrier Ed Snyder split his route with his stepson, part of more than twenty years the Snyders gave to the valley’s mail.
From: In the 1922 thaw, Ed Snyder splits the Arbon mail route ↗
View photograph ↗Arbon surprises Mrs. T. B. Evans, its telephone central since the start
In 1923 Arbon’s telephone patrons threw a surprise party for Susannah Smith Evans, who had kept the valley’s post office, store and switchboard, led its Red Cross and registered its voters.
From: Arbon surprises Mrs. T. B. Evans, its telephone central since the start ↗
View photograph ↗Arbon Valley signs up 213 cows for a cheese factory
In the spring of 1924 Ren Evans signed up 23 Arbon Valley farmers and 213 cows for a cheese factory backed by Ernest Brog of Driggs, but whether it ever made cheese is unknown.
From: Arbon Valley signs up 213 cows for a cheese factory ↗
View photograph ↗Lusk steps aside, and an Arbon pioneer runs for the county board
Perry Lusk of Pauline took the Arbon Valley’s seat on the Power County board in the Democratic sweep of 1922, then declined to run again in 1924, leaving the pioneer T. B. Evans to contest it.
From: Lusk steps aside, and an Arbon pioneer runs for the county board ↗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.
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