Decatur County GaArchives Biographies.....Evans, Benjamin F. 1821 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
   BENJAMIN F. EVANS. A merchant at Fowlstown, formerly a substantial farmer,
and a veteran of the Civil war, Mr. Evans has spent practically all his life in
Decatur county, and is a resident well known to all the citizenship of this
community.

   Benjamin F. Evans was born in Decatur county, February 24, 1843. His father
was William Evans, born in North Carolina, and came to Georgia accompanied by
his wife and five children. The trip to this state was made with team and wagon,
and William Evans located at Attapulgus Creek, buying timbered land there. All
the country in this section was sparsely populated, and he had his share of
pioneer labors and experiences. He participated in the battle of Roanoke, where
the Indians made their last stand in contending for this country. He improved a
part of his land, then sold and bought other land on the same creek, and
remained a resident in that vicinity until his death at the age of eighty-five.
The maiden name of his wife was Martha Pope of North Carolina. She died at the
age of seventy-five. The nine children reared by them were Nathan, John, Nancy,
William, Feth, Mary A., Martha, Benjamin F., and Margaret E.

   Benjamin F. Evans attended the neighborhood schools and assisted on the farm
while growing to manhood in this county. In April, 1862, when nineteen years of
age he entered the Confederate service as a member of Company D in the
Seventeenth Georgia Infantry. He was with the command in Virginia, and his
record of battles includes many of the most important of the war, among them
being the seven days' fight around the Richmond, the second Manassas,
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Seven Pines, and others. At Chickamauga
he was severely wounded and spent some time in a hospital at Macon. When able
for duty he was placed on detached work in the enrolling service at home and so
continued until the close of the war. After the war he rented a piece of land
and engaged actively in farming until 1884. He then came to Fowlstown and opened
a stock of goods and has been engaged in merchandising to the present time.

   In 1867, Mr. Evans married Harriet Eliza Callahan, who was born in Gadsen
county, Florida, a daughter of William and Eliza Cooper Callahan. She was left
an orphan at the age of two years, and was reared in the home of her maternal
grandparents, Samuel and Sarah Cooper. Mr. and Mrs. Evans have five children now
living, whose names are Annie, Callie, Oliver, Ada and Lilla. Annie married W.
M. Wells, and her six children are named Malory, Deloy, Thelma, Caroline, Ethal
and Tula. Callie married F. C. Cooper and her two children are Agnes and Grace.
Lilla is the wife of M. F. Laing, and has two children named May Lilla and
Carleton.


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A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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