William W. Evans Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB 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. ********************************************************************** Submmitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: William W. Evans: was born May 24, 1789, in Virginia. He was a very fine mathematician and penman. Engaged for several years in clerking in his uncle's store. In 1808 was married to Miss Sarah F. Chaplin, after which he turned his attention to farming. About 1815 he located on a tract of land situated in now Poe District, Hancock County, West Virginia. He began the improvement of his land for the purpose of raising crops. There was a little log cabin on the land when he settled, in which he lived until he could erect a better one. They had a family of nine children--Elizabeth, Martha, Jeremiah C., Isaac, William J., Joseph, Sarah, Mary and Elizabeth. The two oldest daughters, Elizabeth and Martha are deceased, and also Joseph. Our subject departed this life October 12, 1860; his wife in November, 1861.