Jacob Evans^[1]

1797 - Abt 1878  (81 years)

• Name	Jacob Evans
  Born	1797	South Carolina   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt Mar 1878
  Buried	Glades Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee   [3]
  Person ID	I2063	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2011

  
  

  Father	William Evans
  Family ID	F2033	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Martha Ogle,   b. 1807, Sevier County, Tennessee ,   d. 1885  (Age 78 years)
  Married	Abt 1823	, Sevier County, Tennessee
  Children	+ 1. Richard E. "Preacher Dick" Evans, Rev.,   b. 4 Jan 1824, Tennessee ,   d. 6 Dec 1901  (Age 77 years) + 2. Mary Evans,   b. 1825, Tennessee + 3. Sophia Evans,   b. 15 Feb 1826, Tennessee ,   d. 2 Mar 1910  (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F780	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1797 - South Carolina Married - Abt 1823 - , Sevier County, Tennessee Buried - - Glades Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery, Sevier County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Martha and Jacob gave the land for the Lebanon Baptist Church in the Glades. They left a joint will which is recorded in Will Book I, page 247, Sevier County Courthouse. Their daughter, Sophia Ownby, and her son, Samuel, are mentioned in it. The will was probated in April 1878. ---------- Reference: "Smoky Mountain Clans", Donald B. Reagan, 1978, p 158. "Sevier County, Tennessee and Its Heritage", 1994, p 52, 298.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9] Smoky Mountain Historical Society Newsletter, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, Vol. XXVII, No.1, Page 13, 2001. [S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, 341a, 20 Jul 1870. [S34] In the Shadow of the Smokies, Smoky Mountain Historical Society, (1993), 538.