Hale County AlArchives Biographies.....Evans, H. H. June 22 1865 - liiving in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   H. H. EVANS & Co., proprietors of the Greensboro cotton warehouse and also of
the gin and grist mill at Greensboro, and dealers in hay, corn, coal, etc., are
one of the representative business firms in Greensboro. A. C. Evans, the senior
member of the firm, was born in Marion, Miss., July 26, 1853, and H. H. Evans,
his brother and the younger member of the firm, was born in the same place, June
22, 1865. Their parents were William P. and Laura (Rainey) Evans, the former of
whom was born in New York, and was a son of Charles Evans, a native of Wales.
William P. Evans was educated in New York and removed to Mississippi, when he
was a young man. At first he clerked in the drug store of his brother, then
doing business at Marion, Miss., and while clerking there read law. In 1852 he
married Miss Laura Rainey, who was born in Georgia. Her mother was an Oliver,
and she bore her husband seven children, of whom four still survive. The father
practiced law at Marion, then at Meridian, and later moved to Kemper county,
Miss., where he died in 1888. His wife died about 1877. A. C. Evans was reared
in Mississippi, and received his early education in the common schools. In 1872
he removed to Sumter county, Ala., and entered the employ of the Alabama Central
Railway company. In December, 1873, he was sent to Marion Junction, where he was
agent for the Alabama Central and the Selma, Marion & Memphis railroad, to July,
1879. He then removed to Greensboro, where he continued to serve the companies
as agent until 1891, when he resigned in order to devote his attention
exclusively to his business. His brother became associated with him in 1882. He
was married in January, 1885, to Miss Alice Waller, who died, leaving two
children. Mr. Evans married in April, 1891, Miss E. H. Benners, by whom he has
one child. He is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, is a master Mason
and a Knight of Pythias. H. H. Evans was, like his brother, reared in
Mississippi, and received a commercial education at Atlanta, Ga.., and became
associated with his brother in business in April, 1881. Theirs is one of the
leading mercantile houses in Greensboro.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1061-1862
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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