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The Kingfisher Times, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, 
Thursday, January 7, 1926. 

William Henry Evans:  E152

DIED LAST FRIDAY

Wm. Henry Evans, County's Oldest Citizen, Victim of Worn-Out Heart.

  Wm. Henry Evans, the oldest man in Kingfisher county, died Friday,
January 1st, at 4:30 p.m. at the home of his son Bert, west of town.
  Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at three o'clock
at the Christian Church here, Reverend Crowe in charge. The remains
were then shipped to Hutchinson, Kansas, old home of the deceased, for
burial. Bert Evans accompanied the body.
  Had Mr. Evans lived until May 12, 1927, he would have been a
centenarian, having been born in 1827, near Baltimore, Maryland. Death
came as the result of a weak heart, worn out by over ninety-eight years of
service.
  Mr. Evans' fatal illness was of three months' duration, during which
time he grew worse continually. He was confined to his room for the
last month, and although there were indications that he suffered, he
denied that he was in pain.
  Deceased left Maryland when a small boy, going with his parents to
Rock Island, Illinois then a little frontier town on guard constantly
against warring bands of savage Indians, and beset with many other dangers.

Married 63 Years

  In this outpost of civilization, William Henry Evans grew to manhood.
On the third day of August, 1847, he was united in marriage to Miss Susan
Perdue - a union which endured for sixty-three years, and which was 
finally ended by the death of the loved wife and mother at Hutchinson,
Kansas.
  To Mr. and Mrs. Evans were born six children, five boys and one girl, four
of whome survive to mourn the loss of their parents in death. These are 
Mrs. J.I. Wharton, Kingfisher; W.T. Evans and Chas. D. Evans, Hutchinson,
Kansas; and A.H. Evans, Kingfisher, the youngest of the four. He will be
fifty-four years old on his next birthday. Other survivors are ten
grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren.
  Aside from the places above-named, Mr. Evans has lived for a short time
in the states of Minnesota, Missouri, and Arkansas. Although a brick
mason and plasterer by trade, he has followed a number of other vocations
at times during his life. He once was a deputy sheriff in Illinois, served
on the police force at Hutchinson, Kansas, and had held other offices. 
Since the death of his wife in 1910, he has not been active in any profession.