Georgia   Biographies  Clement A. Evans
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CLEMENT A. EVANS

Clement Anselm Evans was the son of Anselm Lynch Evans
and Sarah Hinton Bryans.  He was born Feburary 25, 1833,
in Stewart County, Georgia.  He was admitted to the bar
at the age of twenty-two, having been a graduate of the
Augusta Law School.  

He was commissioned as Major of the thirty-first Georgia
Regiment on November 19, 1861.  He was promoted to
Colonel on May 13, 1862.  After the Battle of the
Wilderness, he took command of the brigade.  By June of
1864, he was a Brigadier General. 

During his service he received wounds five different
time.  Two of them were severe.  When the War Between the
States ended, Evans took up the mninistery in the
Methodist Church and served for thirty years.  He died in
Atlanta July 02, 1911, and is buried in Oakland Cemetery.

In 1914, Evans County, Georgia, was formed and named for
General Clement A. Evans.

CLAXTON, home of the famous fruitcake, is the county
seat.  It was made up of lands from Bulloch and Tattnall
counties.





Note: Adiel Sherwood, A GAZETTEER OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, Washington City, Printed by P. Force, 1837,  pp.
255-256. APPENDIX:  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES "The author
conceived that a short biographical sketch of the
individuals after whom the several counties were named,
would furnish an instructive and pleasing appendage to
his topographical work... Acquainted with the intimate
friends of some of the 'venerable dead,' he has been
furnished with sufficient materials to enlarge on their
character... There are in the State ninety counties (book
printed in 1837, presently in 2001, there are 159
counties)..."


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