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Mrs. Sarah B. Evans, widow of the late
Moses Evans, for more than eighty years a resident of
Spring Valley township, a member of one of the oldest and most substantial
families in the county, died at her home in Spring Valley at 6:15 last
Wednesday morning. (Note: She died in 1906,
but I do not know the month and day.) She was in her eighty
seventh year.
Mrs. Evans’ maiden name was Sarah Huston, and she
was the daughter of Robert Huston, a pioneer, who came
to Spring Valley township eighty two years ago from Warren county, where
she was born November 7, 1822. (Note: Her father
was born in 1778 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and married Hannah Townsend
(1787-1844) on July 18, 1821, in Waynesville. They had four children that
I know of: Mary (1820- ); Mary (1828- ); David Townsend (1825-1883); and
Sarah B. Robert died in 1829)
Mrs. Evans leaves her daughter, Miss Elizabeth, with
whom she lived, and who tenderly cared for her mother in her declining
years; two sons, Joseph and Edward,
in Spring Valley; and a son, T. Hilliard, in Urbana.
(Note: Sarah and Moses had nine children: Robert
H. (1843-1865); Joseph Coppock (1845-1914) – married Anna Ellis
Buckles (1846-1890); Daniel T. (1847-1868); Hannah L. (1849-1896); Mary
Elizabeth (1851-1920) – married Merrill Scharff (1847- ); Sophia
Angeline (1854-1908) – married Newton Berryhill (1841-1918); Thomas
Hilliard (1857-1919) - married Nellie Zell (1861- ); Emma (1861-1881),
and Moses Edmund (1866-1930) – married Jennie K. Scharff (1867-1908).
Sarah’s husband, Moses (1821-1868), was the son of Robert (1797-1868)
and Sarah (Coppock) (1799-1871) Evans. They were Quakers from the Newberry
District of South Carolina, were probably married in South Carolina on
December 18, 1817, moved to Ohio around 1823, and had twelve children:
Rebecca (1818- ); Esther Evans (1821-1883) – married Lewis Hartsock
(1822-1889) – my 2nd great uncle; Moses; Mary Ann (1823- ) –
married Isaac M. Barret (1827- ); Lydia (1824- ) – married William
Stanfield; Nancy J. (1825- ) – married Martin Peterson; Isaac (1835-
) – married Matilda C. Stump (1836-1897); Margaret (1839- ) –
married Lewis W. Babb; Sophia – married Carroll Whitney; Joseph;
Sarah; and Robert.)
For forty years Mrs. Evans was a member of the Methodist Protestant church
in Spring Valley. She was a noble Christian wife and mother, and her influence
will long be felt in her home and her church.
The funeral service was held at the home at 10 o’clock last Saturday
morning conducted by her pastor, Rev. Mr. Reynolds.
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