MR. EVAN H. EVANS, MANKATO, BLUE EARTH COUNTY, MINNESOTA.
Born August, 1817, at Penal, Merionethshire, Wales. Son of Hugh and Ann Evans, who were religious people belonging to the Calvinistic Methodist Church, and the subject of our sketch was carefully nurtured in the church from his childhood.In 1841 he emigrated to Utica, N. Y., where on April 5th, 1844, he married Mary, daughter of William and Catherine Jones, of Gelli-ddraenen, Llanfihangel Pennant Parish, Merionethshire. The young couple soon moved to Emmet, Wis., and thence in June, 1855, to South Bend, Minnesota, and located on a fine farm on Minneopa Creek. Mr. Evans took a prominent part in the religious history of the settlement. He had been made an elder of the Calvinistic Methodist Church in 1849 by the Seion Church of Emmet, and at its organization in 1856 he was called to the same office by its namesake, the Seion Church of South Bend, (now removed to Judson).
Mr. Evans was a man of more than average ability, mentally and spiritually, and was always ready and active in every good work. He was a good singer and led in that service in the churches with which he was connected since he was eighteen years of age. His death occurred June 22, 1873. He left him surviving, his wife, who still resides at Mankato, and two sons, Edward and Hugh.