MR. JOHN EVANS, TRENTON, ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
JOHN EVANS (Boon) was born in Brynhynog Bach, North Wales, in 1772. He married Mary, daughter of John Parry, and emigrated to America in 1798 or 1799, coming directly from New York to Steuben, where he joined his brother-in-law, William P. Jones, who had preceded him to this country a year or two.For a time he lived with Mr. Jones who had settled temporarily north of Ty Coch, near the farm soon after settled by John Roberts (Creugiau), grandfather of the late John R. and Griffith Griffiths.
Later he took up his residence at Trenton village, from which fact the appellation "Boon" came to be given him, since Trenton, or Olden Bameveld was called Boon by many of the country people, it being the residence of Gerrit Boon, agent for the Holland Land Company, and where Mr. Evans was for many years employed as gardener by Col. Adam Gerard Mappa, who succeeded Gerrit Boon.
Shortly after he arrived in Steuben, Mr. Evans bought a bushel of wheat from a neighbor, which he carried on his back to mill at Whitesboro. In September, 1798, assisted by William C. Jones, he cut the first trees on the Capel Ucha' lot, to prepare a place for the grave of the first body buried there. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Evans were Mary, wife of the late John Perry, of Trenton; William, who married Mary, daughter of Griffith L Jones; Joanna, who married a Mr. Chambers; Margaret, who married John Morris; Sophia, who married Robert Jones (Tyddyn-y-Felin); John, who married Mary Williams; Jane, wife of Griffith W. Roberts; and four other children who died in infancy.
Mrs. Evans died April 11, 1852, and was buried at Capel Bont, near Remsen. Mr. Evans died December 27, 1860, and was buried at Trenton.
The children of William and Mary (Jones) Evans were Maria, who died from the effects of burns received when the family home, situated north of Remsen near the Phelps place, was destroyed by fire in 1858 or 1859; Catherine, who died at the age of twelve years; Ann, who married George Mix; Harriet; Joanna, who married and lived in Dakota; John; Wil- liam; and Ursula. The children of Robert and Sophia (Evans) Jones were Jane; Sophia; William; John; Cornelia, wife of Archibald Moore, of Trenton; and Sarah, who married a Mr. Evans. The children of William and Joanna (Evans) Chambers were Andrew, Mary Ann, Julia, John, and another daughter whose name is not recalled. Children of Griffith W. and Jane (Evans) Roberts were Milton, who was killed in infancy by the fall of a ladder; Louise, who married Edgar B. Watkins, of Detroit, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts were married October 4, 1838. He died in Trenton township April 5, 1875, and Mrs. Roberts died at Detroit, July 4, 1897, aged eighty-two years. The children of John and Mary (Williams) Evans, were William Wallace, Christmas, and George.