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Dr. May Edward Chinn
On April 15, 1896, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the daughter of William Lafayette Chinn and Lulu Evans, of the Chickahominy nation.
She graduated from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1921 and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, now called NYU School of Medicine. She maintained her practice until her death at the age of 84, on December 1, 1980 in New York.
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Rebecca Howell (1898-1996) and Benjamin Harrison Hazard
(1898-1960)(Narragansett)
Rebecca Howell (1898-1996) was born in Fishing Creek township in Granville County, the daughter of Freeman Howell (1867-1917) and Lucy Ann Hedgepeth (1865-1953). Rebecca was also my grandfather’s 3rd cousin (as well as a distant cousin through other shared lineages).
Both of Rebecca’s parents have deep roots in Granville’s Native American community from the Howell, Hedgepeth, Brandon, Evans, Bass, Bookram, and Scott families that are the subject of previous blog posts.
Her Howell lineage goes through Freeman Howell (1777-1870) who was the progenitor of the “free colored” Howells in Granville, Person, Orange, and Alamance Counties. You can learn more about Freeman Howell.
Her Howell lineages extend further back into Tidewater Virginia, specifically to Dorothy Howell of New Kent Co, who was a Pamunkey woman that lived across the river from the Pamunkey reservation in the home of colonist Sherwood Lightfoot. You can read more about the Pamunkey origins of the Howell family .
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Rebecca’s Brandon lineage is connected to the Saponi/Monacan Brandon/Branham family which you can read about . Her Evans lineage traces back to the Indian woman known as Jane Gibson the elder of Charles City Co, VA which you can read about Her Bass lineage traces back to the Nansemond tribe which you can read about .
And her Bookram family traces back to a Nanticoke man named Elias Puckham/Bookram who moved from Maryland to Granville County which you can read about .
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By 1910, Rebecca Howell and her family had moved up to New Haven, CT. She remained in New Haven through most of her life before living in a convalescent home in Stoughton, MA where she died in 1996. In New Haven is where Rebecca met and married her husband, a Narragansett man named Benjamin Harrison Hazard.
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Anthony Evans first appears in 1668 in Surry County tax list along with a Robert and Abraham through 1677 when Elanor Evans appears as a WHITE WOMAN in the home of William Hancock. There is nothing to suggest in the early records that Anthony, Robert, Abraham or Eleanor were considered anything but white. Richard Evans who came over on the Neptune in 1618 and was listed as living in the community of Basse's Choice may have been the ancestor of this Evans family.
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Source: https://the-melungeons.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-indian-gibson-family.html
Lost Creek Settlement
Some free blacks and mulattos even owned slaves and indentured servants themselves. The Bass, Chavis, Evans, Stewart, and Walden families were all slave owners in colonial Virginia. This may have been for financial reasons, or to assure their white neighbors that they were not going to assist neighboring slaves to either escape or to rebel. At the same time, many enslaved Africans were allowed to earn money, keep livestock, and raise crops for themselves, and they sometimes took advantage of these economic privileges to purchase their own freedom.
Correspondence from Deloris Williams
Dr. Guadalupe Vanderhorst Rodriguez, Family Historian
On December 27, 2020, I contacted Deloris Williams who has extensive research on Ancestry.com. Her extensive research on the Evans Family has provided many clues about the Family. I have included Delores's letter for you to read.
Griffin Evans, b. 1798 was born in Virginia, as all his census records indicate. It is highly likely it was Mecklenburg Co, VA, where most of the EVANS from his era originally came from. He also had a brother, Richard Evans, b. 1792, since both he and Griffin were bonded out as apprentices at the same time in February 1806. Unfortunately, neither of them had a parent's name included on the document.
It also does not say that they were orphans, nor that they were bastards, so most likely at least one parent was alive, and they were considered too poor to take care of their children. I have guessed that their father was a Thomas Evans I know of who was in the area at one time, but that's only a guess, not to be taken as gospel. One of the reasons is that he had a daughter named Olive, a name that ran in Griffin's family. An interesting clue is the family of Bowlin Evans, b. 1795 of Mecklenburg Co. VA. He married a Parthenia Mushaw, b. abt 1832 in 1852 Warren Co.
They lived in VA for a while, but by 1870 he was dead, and she and their children were back in Warren Co, living next door to Griffin Jr. by 1880. Richard was the bondsman for Griffin's marriage to Sally, but also, there are marriages where Griffin was a bondsman for females who were likely related to him & Richard. Griffin was bondsman to the marriage of Harriet Evans and Henry Mason, in 1834, very possibly Griffin's sister and Sally's bother.
He was bondsman to the marriage of Rachel Mason and Wesley Pettiford in 1831, a sister of Sally Mason's. Wesley Pettiford was the bondsman for the marriage of John Steward and Emily Evans in 1843. A daughter of Griffin's. John Stewart was a bondsman for the marriage of William Harris and Elizabeth Evans, Griffin's daughter.
There are all kinds of loose ends for Griffin, b. 1798, but each of them has not been connected yet. Sally Mason was one of 6 MASON children who were bonded out as apprentices in Feb 1816 Warren Co, all probably siblings taken from their parent for the same reason as stated for Griffin. In 1822, 2 more MASON girls were also apprenticed, but they were stated as being Orphans. What likely happened was that the parents had been poor or sick, or both in 1816, then they died a few years later.
Unfortunately, there is a person going around putting notes on the pre-1850 Census records for Griffin and Richard where she incorrectly stating some of that Census are say they were slaves. Ignore her, she's not reading the Census correctly and I don't know why she's screwing it up for others who are new to researching. Deloris
John and Martha (Harris) Evans
On December 23, 1853, in Granville County, North Carolina, John Evans married Martha Harris.
John and Martha (Harris) Evans's children:
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Martha Emma Evans-born 1856
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James Robert Evans- 1857
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Thomas McDaniel Evans, born 1861
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Susan F. Evans-born 1862
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John Evans,-born 1862
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William Clinton Evans-born 1863
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Lorenzo Dell Evans-born 1868
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Charles Evans, -born 1869
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Franklin Evans-born 1871
John Evans
According to the 1880 U.S. Census for Union County, for the Taylor township. Pollie Reed is the mother of John Evans, 60 years old lived with John and Martha Evans and their children, Emma 23 years old, Robert, 21 years old, Mack, 19 years old, Susan, 17 years old, Clinton, 15 years old, Dell 12 years old, and Charles, 11 years old.
Maryville Tribune
Marysville Union County, Ohio
Wednesday, August 5, 1896
Vol: 48
#2
Major Evans, born in 1733 in Charles City Virginia, son of Thomas and Sarah (BASS) Evans. Major Evans married Martha NIGHTINGALE. And their children were:
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John M. Evans born in 1810
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Polly Evans, born in 1812
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Morris Hilliard Evans, born in 1816
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William Evans, born in 1821
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Thomas Evans, born in 1825
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Melvina Evans, born in 1825
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Sally Ann Evans, born in 1828
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Wiley Evans, born in 1829
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Nicholas Van Evans, born in 1836
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Martha Evans, born in 1839
John William Evans
On May 6, 1859, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, John William Evans, was 21 years old when married Sarah Ann Williams, age 20 years old.
David Evans
David Evans, enlisted in the military on October 8, 1881, in Columbus, Ohio. He was a Private, for the Company and Regiment, U.S. 2. His father was Walter Evans of Alabama. He was discharged from the military on August 9, 1886, in California. David was a widower at this time.
David health issues include:
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(?) Vision
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Chronic rheumatoid
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Slight Cardia
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Hypertrophy
Laura Yancey
By Sandra Evans
The residents in the town of Henderson did not know that a centennial lived within their community. Laura Yancey, 109 years old, was interviewed by the local newspaper, telling stories about her life that others could only read about in a book.
This video, will give you more information about Laura Yancey and her life.
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