History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
613.

JOHN EVANS was born in Jefferson County, Ky., March 24, 1823, and is a 
son of Francis Evans (deceased), a native of Caroline County, Va., who 
came to Kentucky in an early day.  Our subject's Great-grandfather Evans 
came from Wales a great many years ago, and settled in Virginia.  Mr. 
Evans was brought up on his father's farm, and his educational 
advantages were noneother save those furnished by the subscription 
schools, taught in a log cabin with clapboard roof, split poles for 
seats, a log out for a window, and a plank supported on pins in the wall 
for a writing desk.  Mr. Evans came to this county in 1848, and settled 
in Knottsville Precinct, where he still lives, three miles west of 
Knottsville, on his farm of 180 acres, and is engaged in farming and 
stock-raising.  He was married Feb. 11, 1852, to Miss Agnes Read, a 
daughter of Degrafton Read.  They have five children--Mary, Bettie, 
Morton, Maggie and Charles.  Mr. Evans has been a member of the 
Christian church ever since he was eighteen years of age.

Evans Read
=
Jefferson-KY Caroline-VA Wales

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