Etowah County AlArchives Biographies.....Bevans, J. September 20 1817 - 
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DR. J. BEVANS, one of the oldest and most reputable citizens of Gadsden,
Etowah county, Ala., was born September 20, 1817, near Lexington, Ky., the son
of Elias and Margaret (Oakes) Bevans. The Bevanses are of Welsh extraction, and
the founder of the house in America settled in Maryland in colonial times. The
grandfather Bevans settled in one of the Carolinas, and was a Revolutionary
soldier. The father of Dr. Bevans was brought up and married in South Carolina,
but removed to Madison county, and then to Illinois, where he died in 1834, and
his wife some time in the fifties. There were of his family six children: Dr.
J.; Jonas, deceased; Jason, deceased; Elias, deceased; Matilda, deceased; Martha
J., and Mary. Dr. Bevans spent his life in Missouri until he reached manhood. He
came to Alabama in 1839 and studied medicine with Dr. McKenzie, and was licensed
and began the practice of medicine in Summit, Blount county, in 1850. In 1852 he
settled in Gadsden, his present home. He served in the late war with the
Thirty-first Alabama, as assistant surgeon and surgeon, and resigned in 1865. He
was married July 19, 1842, to Miss Temperance Grandy, and six children have been
born to them, as follows: Mary, wife of Dr. R. L. Wright, of Gadsden; John W.,
of Somerville, Ala.; James M., physician, of Warrior, Jefferson county, Ala.;
Jane, wife of E. A. Hughes, of Attalla, Ala.; Idelia, wife of A. Young, of
Montgomery, and Edward G., physician, of Gadsden, Ala. The mother of these
children died in 1870, and the doctor again married in Gadsden, Mrs. Petty, a
widow, becoming his wife. She still survives. Politically, the doctor is a
democrat, a royal arch Mason, and a member of the Baptist church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1013-1014
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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