Clay-Cleburne County AlArchives Obituaries.....Evans, Hiram M. July 18, 1928
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Cleburne News Thursday, July 26, 1928
Judge Hiram M. Evans 

WELL KNOWN FORMER CITIZEN ANSWERS CALL To Editor of the Cleburne News, Judge 
H.M. Evans, who was so well known in Cleburne and Clay counties, Alabama, died 
in Scott and White Hospital, Temple, Texas, on Wednesday morning, July 18th. 
The funeral services were held at the First Methodist church at 9:30 o'clock, 
Thursday morning, being conducted by Rev. T. Edgar Neal, pastor of the First 
Methodist church at Temple. The Masonic Lodge, of which Judge Evans had been a 
member for fifty years, took charge of the funeral services at Hill Crest 
Cemetery where the body was buried. The Business Men's Bible Class of the 
Methodist Church appointed pall bearers who were among the most prominent 
citizens at Temple. Judge Evans had lived at Temple for twenty-five years and 
in Texas for thirty- six years. He had been an active member of the Methodist 
church for seventy years or more. He was born near Stone Mountain, Georgia on 
December 4, 1841. His father moved to Cleburne county, Alabama and the family 
of fourteen children were reared near Heflin, living there until the children 
grew to manhood and womanhood. Of the ten brothers, eight fought in the 
Confederate Army as follows: Alexander Evans, James Evans, William H. Evans,, 
Green G. Evans Hiram M. Evans, Wesley Evans, Matthew Evans, John M. Evans. In 
one of the battles, Green Evans, lying on the field of battle badly wounded, 
was picked up by Simon Striplin, his brother-in-law, and carried off the field 
under fire. Wesley Evans and Hiram M. Evans were together in the army until the 
death of Wesley. In addition to the eight brothers, two brothers-in-law, Glenn 
Black and Simon Striplin, fought in the Confederate Army. Hiram M. Evans, with 
his company, the 22nd Alabama, was captured at Missionary Ridge and was a 
prisoner at Johnson Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, for eighteen months. During prison 
life, he laid the foundation of a college education, studying among other 
subjects, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and solid Geometry. His children, 
when in the high school at Ashland, were proud to find among his old papers the 
notebooks in these subjects, carefully kept in prison. Some years after 
returning from the war, he entered Bowdon College, Georgia and secured the B.A. 
Degree from that college in June 1871. He was married in 1868 to Georgia 
Striplin of Oaklone. Seven children were born of this union, in the order of 
ages as follows: Rosa Lee Evans McKibbon of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Dr. Cecil E. 
Evans of San Marcos, Texas, Dr. Arthur W. Evans of Lubbock, Texas, Mrs. J.A. 
Goodrich of Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. Lura Booth of Fort Worth, Texas, Mrs. Frank 
Barrett of Hubbard, Texas, Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans of Washington, D.C,. Judge 
Evans was married four times as follows: Georgia Striplin, already mentioned 
Mrs. Elizabeth Lackey of Ashland, Mrs. Jensie Jenkins of Tyler, Texas, mother 
of Mrs. Neely Jenkins Gay of Ashland and Marcus Evans of Dallas, Texas, Mrs. 
Agnes Mills of Temple, Texas.   Judge Evans came to Clay county first as the 
principal of Oaklone school and later moving to Ashland as principal of Ashland 
High School for three years, resigning to accept the probate judgeship of Clay 
county. He was first appointed probate judge by Governor R.W. Cobb and was 
elected in 1880 and 1886. He served Clay county as probate judge for a little 
less than fourteen years. Clay county was one of the pioneer dry counties in 
the south, something of which he was proud and something to which he 
contributed his powerful influence. It was his proud boast that he never 
permitted corrupt influence of votes and always compelled the honest counting 
of votes as case, even when his own party wouldn't gain by technicalities of 
law. He moved to Texas with his entire family in 1892, and excepting the few 
years he was back in Alabama about 15 years ago, lived continuously in Texas 
until his death. He taught in the public schools in Texas for more than twelve 
years.


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