OBIT: Wm. H. EVANS, 1920, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

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Wm. H. Evans, one of the prominent colored residents of Gettysburg died from 
tuberculosis at his residence in Gettysburg on last Sunday morning aged 56 
years.  He was a graduate of Hampton University in the class of 1890 and lived 
for 29 years in Gettysburg where he conducted a restaurant during the greater 
part of that time.  As chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. Paul’s A. M. E. 
Zion Church he was largely instrumental in raising sufficient funds to erect the 
new church.  Besides his wife, Annie R. Evans, he leaves a number of relatives, 
including his mother, Mrs. Martha Evans Norton.

Gettysburg Compiler – Saturday, February 28, 1920