Biography of William Patrick Evans, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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William Patrick Evans, M. D., of Excelsior, Ark., was born in Sebastian County
in 1863, and is a son of William  P. and Amanda (Tedford) Evans, and a grandson
of Patrick and Sallie (Blevens) Evans. The grandfather was  born in a fort in
North Carolina in 1794, and at the age of six years was taken by his parents to
Overton County,  Tenn., and was married in Winchester of that State in 1817,
moving to Jackson County, Ala., in 1822. Here he  resided until 1850, when he
took up his abode in Polk County, Ark., and the following year came to
Sebastian  County. He was killed in the Indian Nation. Three of his uncles
immigrated to the Indian Territory at an early  day, and his uncle James cut
the first tree where the city of Evansville now stands, the town being named in
his honor. Sallie (Blevens) Evans was born in Kentucky in 1800, and died in
1874, being a daughter of Elisha and  Polly (Roberts) Blevens, who were born in
England, the father dying in Illinois in 1833. William P. Evans, Sr.,  was born
in Marion County, Tenn., in 1836, and in 1851 came to Sebastian County, Ark.,
and died in 1862. His  wife was also born in Marion County in 1836, and died in
1877. They were the parents of three children:  Goodson M., who is a medical
student at Little Rock; Matilda, wife of George Tedford, and William P., M. D.
The latter received his literary education in the schools of Excelsior and
Hackett City, and in March, 1884,  commenced the study of medicine under the
instructions of Dr. J. W. McConnell, of Hackett City. In 1887 he  graduated
from the medical department of the Industrial University at Little Rock, and in
April, 1885, began his  first practicing at Brazil Station, Choctaw Nation, and
eight months later located in Excelsior, one and a half  miles from his
birthplace, where he has since been practicing, meeting with good and well
deserved success. He  possesses a fine medical education, and is a young man of
ability and enterprise.