Nelson County, KY - Bios:  Evans, Walter M.
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Walter M. EVANS 3560, Nelson Co. 

Surname: Evans, Wilkinson, Forman, Blackmore, McCormick, Oliphant

Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887, Nelson County.

WALTER M. EVANS, Esq., was born July 22, 1828. His father, John Evans, was born in 1800, 
near Bloomfield, was a wagon-wright by vocation, and died of cholera in 1833. He was the 
son of James Evans, a Virginian, and a pioneer of Kentucky. John Evans espoused in marriage, 
Mary, daughter of Zach. Wilkinson, of Nelson County. She was born in 1802, and died of 
cholera at the time of her husband's death. From their union sprang Albert, John L., Melissa 
(Forman), Walter M., Redman and Rebecca (Blackmore). On May 10, 1853, Walter M. was united in 
the bonds of matrimony to Miss Sarah L., daughter of Andrew and Nancy (McCormick) Oliphant, 
of Nelson County (born in Washington County, Ohio, April 24, 1834), and to them have been 
born Dr. Andrew H., Willie P. (deceased), M. Fannie, Walter Lee, Ewing Oliphant, Edward 
Spencer and Nancy McCormick. In 1882 Walter M. Evans was elected magistrate and member of 
the court of claims of Nelson, his native county, and has always taken an active interest 
in public improvements, especially in thoroughly turnpiking the county roads. Having been 
left an orphan in early childhood, he had a hard time in youth; he was hard pressed and 
taxed for the profits of others, by severe labor and unremitting toil. By his own exertions 
he obtained a limited education, and, appreciating its advantages, is endeavoring to furnish 
better facilities for his children. Squire Evans is a farmer, owning 240 acres of productive 
and well improved land on Cox's Creek. In religion he is a Baptist and in politics a Democrat.