Biography of Louis L. Evans, of Buchanan County, Missouri
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Louis L. Evans
since his childhood has been a resident of Missouri and since 1880 has
made his home in Agency Township, where he owns and carries on a well
improved farm, comprising one hundred and nineteen acres. Mr. Evans
possesses the confidence and high regard of his fellow-citizens, because
he is known to be a man of honorable principals, integrity and
uprightness. The gentleman of whom we write was born in Garrard County,
Ky., in 1845, and when five years of age came with his parents Thomas H.
and Betsy (Lunceford) Evans, to this State, settling in Clinton County,
where the father entered a farm of two hundred and forty acres, which he
had purchased prior to this time. He added another piece of land to his
possessions, finally having a place of three hundred and sixty acres. He
died in 1860, leaving five children, of whom our subject is the eldest.
The others are Nannie B. who became the wife of Tolman Weldin, in Arkansas
City, Kan.; Mary E. is the wife of Thomas Sandusky, of Gower; William G.
lives in Clinton County; and Newton is deceased. The mother of these
children survived her husband many years, dying in June 1892, aged sixty-
six years. Thomas Evans was born in Lancaster, Ky., and was a son of
Joseph Evans, a native of Virginia, and a soldier in the War of 1812. He
was of Irish extraction. Louis Lunceford, our subject's grandfather, was
born in Wales, and married in Virginia to a Miss Withers, whose ancestors
were among the aristocratic familes of the Old Dominion. Louis L. Evans
grew to manhood in Clinton County, Mo., where he was educated in the
common branches. After the death of his father, as he was the oldest in
the family, the management of the farm fell upon his young shoulders, and
nobly did he fulfill the trust. In 1877 he married Rebecca, daughter of
Wilson Modrell, who was one of the first settlers of Buchanan County, and
highly respected in the region. Our subject and wife have four children:
Virgil R., Lula M., Grace D. and Homer L. Personally, our subject is a
very pleasant and agreeable gentleman to meet, as he is the possessor of
liberal and advanced ideas, and has an affable and courteous manner, which
makes friends of all with whom he chances to come in contact. He casts his
vote in favor of the Democratic party, in the success of which he is much
interested. Mrs. Evans is a lady of culture and refinement, who presides
over her home with grace and womanly diginity. Both she and her husband
are hospitable people, whose home is always open for the entertainment of
their many friends. They are both members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and active workers in its various enterprises.

Taken from Portrait and Biographical Record of Buchanan and Clinton
Counties Missouri pg 638, published 1893 Contributed by Andrew Evans