Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Monroe County.

JUDGE JAMES B. EVANS was born in Monroe County, Ky., on the 1st of July, 
1830.  He is a son of John Godfrey Evans, a native of Pennsylvania, who 
was born May 17, 1795; died August 16, 1838; married, in 1822, Eleanor 
Musgrove.  She was born December 29, 1800, and died in November 16, 
1864.  She left three daughters and two sons, two of whom are living: 
James B. and Elizabeth J. (Maxey), now residing in Tompkinsville.  John 
G. Evans was engaged in the mercantile business and was sheriff of 
Monroe County for four years.  He was of Welsh parentage and a son of 
Thomas Evans, a native of Wales, who came to America and settled in 
Chester, Penn., and there married a Miss Thomas, also of Welsh descent.  
James B. Evans was eight years old when his father died; from that time 
until he attained the age of twenty-one years he continued to reside 
with his mother and contribute to the support of the family.  He 
received a good common school eduction.  In 1860 he was appointed 
circuit court clerk, and in 1866 was elected to the same office, which 
he held for one term.  In 1882 he was elected to the office of county 
judge for Monroe County, which office he resigned in 1884 on account of 
physical disability caused by partial paralysis of body and loss of 
sight.  For above twenty years Juge Evans held the office of trustee of 
the jury fund, and for the same length of time was deputy clerk in 
Monroe County.  He has been engaged in the mercantile business for 
thirty-one years, and is now the senior member of the firm of Evans, 
Hughes & Button, of Flippin, Ky.  His farm of 225 acres, lying in Monroe 
County, is one of the best grass farms in the county.  Judge Evans is 
largely connected with the stock trade, and also owns the undivided one-
fourth of 1,110 acres of land lying on the Cumberland River in Monroe 
County.  He married, October 17, 1854, Tabitha Kirkpatrick, of Monroe 
County.  Her parents, Moses and Callia Kirkpatrick, were of English 
parentage.  Moses Kirkpatrick was at one time one of the associate 
judges of Green County; he made the last treaty with the Indians on 
Meshack's Creek, in what is now Monroe County.  To Judge and Mrs. Evans 
have been born thirteen children, eleven of whom are living:  Thomas P., 
Julia A. (Hughes), Sallie E. (Flippin), Robert, Radford, James B., 
Bettie, Ella, Mary, George and Nimrod - John and William, deceased.  
Judge Evans is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a Master Mason.  
Politically he is a Democrat, and for many years has been a member of 
the Democratic Committee of Monroe Conty.  He and wife and seven 
children are members of the Baptist Church. 

Button Evans Flippin Hughes Kirkpatrick Maxey Musgrove Thomas
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Chester-PA Green Wales

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