Biography: BUD E AND MARY ANN MISSINIAH BOURLAND EVANS of Itawamba and Monroe Counties, Mississippi Compiled for USGenweb Project by Marie Evans Davis Note: This e-mail address was not working in August 2002. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ Bud E Evans was born January 22, 1872 in New Salem Community, Itawamba County, Mississippi. He was the son of John T. C. and Susan Katherine Booker Evans. His grandparents were Parrot and Susannah Evans and Thomas and Katherine Wise Booker. It has been said that Bud was the only name given him and that his sister, Grace, thought he should have more to his name and added the "E." He married MARY ANN MISSINIAH BOURLAND December 16, 1896 in Itawamba County, Mississippi. She was born August 26, 1869 Itawamba County, Mississippi. She was the daughter of of Captain Ebenezer Carroll and Matilda Jane Atkins Bourland. Her grandparents were James Spears and Mary Hudspeth Bourland and Alfred and Anna Shaw Atkins. The Bourlands lived acrosss the Tombigbee River from the New Salem community at Cardsville, Mississippi. Missy was a very pretty woman with thick wavey hair. She was very small, probably not more than five feet tall. Bud was of medium height and had dark hair and brown eyes. He would make a skiff and use it to cross the river to see Missy because he did not think the ferry was dependable. Children of BUD E EVANS and MARY ANN MISSINIAH BOURLAND: DOW SHELTON EVANS, b. January 31, 1898, Itawamba County, Mississippi - New Salem; d. January 26, 1901, Itawamba County, Mississippi - New Salem. SUSIE MAY (MATILDA) EVANS, b. February 5, 1900, Itawamba County, Mississippi - New Salem; d. October 4, 1901, Itawamba County, Mississippi - New Salem. JOHN EBENEZER EVANS , SR., b. October 23, 1902, Itawamba County, Mississippi - New Salem; d. April 11, 1993, Birmingham, Alabama - Jefferson County; married ESTELLE MARIE JOHNSON, August 17, 1924, Birmingham, Alabama. ANNIE RAY EVANS, b. October 21, 1905, Itawamba County, Mississippi - New Salem; d. April 20, 1983, Jefferson Memorial Gardens, Birmingham, Alabama; married RAYMOND RUSSELL (DOCK) MILLER, ABT 1922, probably in Monroe County, Mississippi. Bud died February 10, 1909 at home in the New Salem community as a result of pneumonia. Missy died October 6, 1955 at the home of her son, John Ebenezer Evans, in Birmingham, Alabama. They are buried New Salem Methodist Church Cemetery, Itawamba County, Mississippi. Bud built the house he and Missy lived in when they were married. After his death, his wife and children lived in the house until 1910. Missy then moved to Hatley, Mississippi because she thought the schools were better there. Later she bought a twenty acre farm one mile north of Hatley. Missy lived later in life with Bud's sister, Grace Evans Moore, in Smithville, Mississippi. Grace Evans had married Jerry Moore. They had no children, but he had children by a previous marriage. They lived in the old Elliott home in Smithville which was built in 1828. Jerry Moore deeded this house to Grace before he died. The home is now named Graceland in her memory and is owned by Owen Evans. John Ebenezer Evans and his family lived in the New Salem community for a while during the great depression in the house Bud had built. James Robert Johnson and his son, Clyde, father and brother of John's wife, built a house near there for Annie Ray Evans Miller and her husband to live. Clyde Johnson met Cecil Evans, second cousin to John Ebaenezer Evans, during this time and they were married July 1, 1934. Bud Evans was in the saw mill business - Booker, Evans and Morgan at Morgantown, Itawamba County, Mississippi - sawmill, lumber company, timber owners and grismill. This consisted of John M. Booker, Bud Evans and Lucian Morgan. Morganton is now considered as extinct. The site of Morgantown was settled in the 1850's by the Morgan, Evans and Warren families. Through the efforts of the Morgan family, a post office was secured in a small store located five miles north of Smithville, Mississippi. This was in 1885 and the office was named for the family who secured it. Negroes who worked for Bud E Evans were Raphael Walls (Uncle Rafe), Benton Walls, John Stundifer (Uncle John) and Bird McKinney. Source: Personal knowledge and recollections of John Ebenezer Evans, Sr.