Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Evans, Rev G R 1821 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Rev. G. R. Evans, Braceville, born May 20, 1821 in North Wales; son of Richard 
and Ellen (Pryse) Evans, the parents of G. R. Sydney, William, Elizabeth, 
Ellen, Rees and Richard. Our subject attended school in the country and city, 
aside from his labors on the farm. At the age of twenty, he closed his school 
days and engaged actively in farming until 1850, when he was married to Ellen 
Jones, a native of Wales, and soon after engaged in buying grain on his own 
resource at Anglesea, Wales, for ten years, at which he was successful for 
awhile, and then sustained some losses. In 1861, he came to Racine, Wis., 
where he bought wheat for two years; transferred from there to Arena, same 
State, where he built a warehouse and purchased grain for two years. In 1849, 
he began in the ministry, and from Arena he went to Milwaukee, where he took 
charge of the Welsh Congregational Church for one year; then to Watertown, 
Wis., Ixonia and Emmet, and was pastor of a church at each place. In 1871, he 
located in Braceville, Ill., taking charge of the Braidwood and Braceville 
churches, and is still pastor of the former. In 1872, he was appointed agent 
for the American Express Company at Braceville, which he still holds. He is 
Police Magistrate of this village. His marriage gave him ten children - 
Sydney, Griffith, Ellen, Kate, Jennie, Richard (sea captain in Wales), Eliza, 
Susie, Lydia and Zula. He was Supervisor for Braceville Township in 1878. 
Votes the Republican ticket.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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