Scott County, Missouri
Enoch Evans, John Evans

Contributed by: Karen Hermann, khermann@n-link.com
Copyright 1998
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The oldest Scott Co. resident that I know of was Enoch Evans.  He was there
at the forming of the county according to the article in the Newsboy from
the archives.  The article stated that he was one of 5 men "appointed to
locate the seat of justice for Scott County".  Enoch was married to Amelia
Jenkins and they had 5 children that I know of: 
     John, 
     James, 
     Bartholomew Jenkins, 
     Mary Amelia, and 
     Elizabeth, 
all born in Morgantown VA (now WV)where the family came from. 

John married first Talitha G. English abt. 1818 and they had a son, 
     Rawley English, b. Jan. 19, 1819. 
Talitha d. Oct. 22, 1822, and is buried in Cape Girardeau Co.

     Rawley m. first Sarah Barnes, dau. of Elisha Barnes, abt. 1840. 
     They had 8 children.

     He m. second, Carolyn Barnes Stone, Sarah's sister, 
     and possibly his third wife was Synthie Friend.

John m. second Elizabeth (?) abt. 1826 and they had 4 known children:

     Catherine I., 
     Louisa, 
     Wilson Brown, and 
     Amelia.  

     Catherine m. David Harrison, probably a cousin to Sarah Barnes and a nephew
     to Sarah's mother.

     Louisa (my gggrandmother) married William Henry Myers Dec. 8, 1850. 

John m. third Mary Jane McLane (McClain) Mar. 2, 1842.  
She had a daughter, Mary Jane, presumably from a previous marriage and they had 
2 children,

     Margaret and 
     Lawrence.  

John was a justice of the peace in Scott Co. and sat on the bench of the probate 
court from Apr. 1849 'til Feb. 1850.  He died in Apr. 1850. His son, Rawley, and 
wife, Mary Jane, were appointed administrators.  Apparently Mary Jane remarried 
and moved out of the state because she drops from the estate records and the 
curatorship of young Mary Jane is terminated because she no longer lives in the 
state.