John Charles Evans

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Name:John Charles Evans
Gender:Male
Age:21
Birth Date:abt 1826
Marriage Date:25 Dec 1847 [actually this is date they filed intensions and were married 24 Jan 1848]
Marriage Place:Edwardsburg, Cass County, Michigan, USA
Spouse:Ann P Straw age 19
Film Number:001021044
Witnesses: O--ew Silver and R. D. Sherwood
Horatio A. Strong, Minister

1850 Concord, Elkhart, IN
John C Evans24; mason; born NY
Ann P Evans21 b. NH
Lucy M Evans1 b. Indiana

1860 Concord, Elkhart, IN
John C Evans34
Ann P Evans31
Lucy A Evans11
Arthur C Evans7
Adelia G Evans3

1870 Elkhart, Elkhart, IN
Charles J Evans44 born NY; brick and stone mason
Ann Evans41
Lucy Evans21
Arthur Evans17
Adelia Evans12
Grace Evans5

1880 Elkhart, Elkhart, IN
John C. Evans54 b. NY
Ann P. Evans51 b. NH
Grace Evans15 b. IN

1900 Elkhart, Elkhart, IN
John C EvansHeadM74 born 26 May in New York; wd; parents b. VT
Lucy E NorcrossDaughterF51Indiana; wd

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John C. Evans age 76y 4m 13d;wid; born NH; mason; died Elkhart, IN; father's name John Evans born VT; mother's name Mollie Stark b. NH; informant H. E. Wise; date of death 24 Sep 1902; cause: Natural causes [Christian Science]; burial Grace-Lawn Cemetery 26 Sept 1902

Find A Grave Memorial 99756555
n July 1867, John M. Rice sold 34.65 acres of his land to Eli Conley. In turn Eli Conley, sold part of this acreage to the city of Elkhart for the final portion that make up Grace Lawn Cemetery. Also making up that final portion of Grace Lawn, was acreage sold to the city of Elkhart by John C. and Ann P. Evans. This last portion purchased from Conley and Evans consisted of 5 acres.
John C. Evans (d. 1902) and Anna P. Straw, his wife (d. 1898), are buried in Block E Lot 14. Eli Conley (d. 1907) and Sarah A. (d. 1914), his wife, are buried in Block P Lot 113. They were both very active in the city of Elkhart. John Evans was a brick mason and built many of the brick structures in early Elkhart. The most notable structure was the Davenport residence which was later owned by G.B. Pratt.

John married Ann P. Straw on 25 Dec 1847 in Edwardsburg, Cass County, Michigan. (Ann P. Straw was born in 1829 in New Hampshire, died on 6 Aug 1898 in Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana and was buried in Grace Lawn Cemetery Elkhart, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA.)

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