Upson COUNTY GA Bios EVANS, A.A. File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Margie Daniels margie@majorinternet.com http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson/bios/evans.txt Source: "Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1907" State of AL Dept of Archives and History, compiled by Thomas M. Owen, L.L, D. Director, Brown Publishing Co, Montgomery, AL, 1907 p. 48 Sketches of Circuit Court Judges AURELIUS AUGUSTUS EVANS, of Clayton, Barbour county was born December 24, 1862, near Seale, Russell county and is the son of John Quincy and France Elizabeth (Collier) Evans, and the grandson of John Evans and of Vines and Sarah Collier. The Collier family came to Upson county, GA from Virginia. John Q. Evans was born in Edgefield District, SC, came to GA, and lived in Greene and Monroe counties until the winter of 1859 when he moved to Russell county, Ala., where he lived until his death in 1883. Judge Evans was educated in the common schools of Russell county, and at the University of Alabama, from where he graduated in 1885, with the A.B. degree; received the honorary degree of master of arts in 1888 from the same institution; taught school for four years immediately following his graduation, reading law in the meantime; was admitted to the bar on November 1, 1889, after an examination in open court by Chancellor John A. Foster, and has since practiced in Clayton for several years; mayor of the same place 1896-98; elected judge of the third judicial circuit in 1898, and re-elected in 1904. He is a Democrat, and has served as a member of hi county executive committee, of the State conventions of his party, and of the Democratic national convention of 1904. He is a member of the Methodist church; and a Mason. On December 27, 1888 at Opelika. Ala, he was married to Celeste Victoria, daughter of Judge George H. and Celeste Roberta Waddell of Crawford, Russell county. Judge Waddell was at on time Probate Judge of Russell County and was killed at Columbus, Ga., while the Federal troops were occupying that city in 1865. Mrs. Evans is the great-great-granddaughter of Gen. Francis Nash, a Revolutionary patriot from North Carolina, and she is a cousin of the late James Iredell Waddell, commander of the Shenandoah during the War of Secession. ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============