Biography of Peter H. Evans - Conway Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Cathy Barnes Date: 21 Jun 1998 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas. Goodspeed Publishers, 1891. page 65 Peter H. Evans, attorney at law, and also planter at Morrilton, was born near that place in 1855, being the sixth of a family of nine sons and two daughters born to Leroy P. and Margaret (Henry) Evans. [See sketch of J. M. Evans.] P. H. Evans grew to manhood on the farm of his birth, receiving his education principally at Morrilton and at Sardis. In 1874 he married Miss Mary A. Roberts, a native of Conway County, and a daughter of Hugh Roberts, who immigrated from North Carolina to Conway County a good many years ago. Here he died about 1876. Mrs. Roberts died some years before. Mr. and Mrs. Evans are the parents of four children, two daughters of whom are living. Mr. Evans was a tiller of the soil till about 1885, when he was made Deputy Sheriff, and after a short service was Deputy Collector a short time. After that he was engaged in the general collecting business till about 1877, when he took up the study of law with his uncle, Col. E. B. Henry, and at the spring term of the Circuit Court of 1889 was admitted to the bar as a legal practitioner, and has since devoted his entire time to his profession. He is the owner of about 208 acres of land in two farms, and a good home in old Lewisburg. He and Mrs. Evans are both earnest workers, and consistent members of the M. E. Church, South. Mr. Evans is a conservative Democrat in politics. Two of his brothers, James M. and Benjamin F. served nearly all through the late war for the Confederacy; the former in the first company that went from Conway County, operating east of the Mississippi River, till shortly before the close of the war when he lost his left arm. Benjamin F. was in Colonel Gordon's regiment, doing service in Arkansas. He died a few years after the war. The remaining surviving members of the family are two brothers, William A. and Leroy G. The father, Leroy P. Evans, was the only child of his parents, and his children are all that are left to retain the family name.