Owen O. EVANS b. 1804 Llansanfraid, Cardiganshire, Wales d. 8 Sep 1885 , Jackson, OH, USA: Our Family History

Owen O. EVANS

1804 - 1885 (81 years)

Name	Owen O. EVANS [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]
Birth	1804	Llansanfraid, Cardiganshire, Wales [2, 3, 5, 9, 12, 14]
Baptism	5 Aug 1804	St Bridget, Llansanffraid, Cardiganshire, Wales
Gender	Male
Residence	1832	Llanon, Cardiganshire, Wales [18]
Arrival	Sep 1839	Baltimore, Maryland [19]
Residence	1850	Madison, Jackson, Ohio, USA [20]
Residence	1860	Madison, Thurman, Jackson, Ohio, USA [21]
Residence	1870	Madison, Oak Hill, Jackson, Ohio, USA [22]
Residence	1880	Madison, Jackson, Ohio, USA [23]
Residence	Abt 1885	Madison, Jackson, Ohio [24]
Probate	29 Jun 1885	Jackson, Ohio, USA [24]
Death	8 Sep 1885	, Jackson, OH, USA [5, 15]
Burial	Aft 8 Sep 1885	, Jackson, OH, USA [5]
Person ID	I12608	Ancestrees
Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

Father	David EVANS, b. 20 Nov 1778, Parke, Llangeitho, Cardiganshire, Wales. bur. 25 Feb 1841, St. Bridget, Llansanffraid, Cardiganshire, Wales (Age ~ 62 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Elizabeth JAMES, b. 1782, Llanddewi Brefi, Cardiganshire, Wales d. Jul 1806, Llansanffraid, Cardiganshire, Wales (Age 24 years)
Relationship	natural
Marriage	26 Jun 1804	Tregaron, St. Caron, Cardiganshire, Wales
Family ID	F71	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Father	Evan EVANS, b. 1771, Llanllwini, Carmenthenshire, Wales d. Between Jan and Mar 1866, Tregaron, Cardiganshire, Wales
Relationship	natural
Family ID	F6936	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Rachel DAVIES, b. 1811, , , , S. Wales d. 14 Jul 1890, , Jackson, OH, USA (Age 79 years)

Marriage 7 Nov 1844 Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, Wales, Cardigan, WLS

Children

	1. Daniel (Dan) EVANS, b. 1852, Ohio d. Bef Sep 1855, of Thurman, Jackson County, Ohio, USA (Age < 3 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	2. John S. EVANS, b. Jan 1847, , Miami, OH, USA d. 25 Mar 1927, Jackson County, Ohio, USA (Age 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	3. Mary Ann EVANS, b. 10 Oct 1848, Jackson County, Ohio, United States of America d. 28 Oct 1930, Jackson County, Ohio, United States of America (Age 82 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	4. Jenkin EVANS, b. 1854, Ohio d. Aft Sep 1885, of Madison, Jackson County, Ohio, USA (Age > 31 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F3743 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 30 Sep 2024

Family 2 Eleanor JAMES, b. Abt 1801, , , Wales d. Aft 1843, Of Jackson, OH (Age > 43 years)

Marriage 29 Jan 1830 St. Bridget, Llansandffraid, Cardigan, WLS [13]

Children

	1. Jane EVANS, b. Abt Oct 1834, Llanbadarnfawr, Cardigan, WLS d. Bef Sep 1885 (Age < 50 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	2. William O. EVANS, b. 15 Mar 1839, , , , S. Wales d. 1 Aug 1913, Jackson City, Jackson, Ohio (Age 74 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	3. Evan O. EVANS, b. 1843, , Gallia, OH, USA d. 13 Aug 1936, Madison Tp., Gallia, OH, USA (Age 93 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	4. David O. EVANS, b. 5 Mar 1832, Llannon, Llansandffraid Parish, Cardigan, WLS d. 23 Apr 1903, Vinton, Gallia County, Ohio, United States of America (Age 71 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F3744 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 30 Sep 2024

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		Owen Evans Headstone
		Rachel Evans Headstone (The Hill Cemetery)

Notes

Owen Evan's birthdate and parentage have been in question since before my lifetime.

Here are choices for his parentage. A cemetery collection for Gallia Co. says he was from South Wales. That includes the following areas in Wales: Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire, and Pembrokeshire.

He was born when it was not certain that his surname in the U.S. was a surname in Wales, particularly if he was from a farming or poorer background in Wales. Royalty had adopted surnames in the 1600's, the privileged in the 1700's and the rest took clear up to about 1837 for it to be a uniform practice.

Owen O. Evans could mean Owen was the son of and Owen and grandson of an Evan with no surname known. It could mean he was the son of an Evan with no surname known. However, the only records of baptism for an Owen in South Wales suggest that his family had adopted surnames at the point of his birth.

Here are the only possibilities I have found at freereg.org.uk that is for a twenty-year range from 1790 to 1810 for an Owen Evans if he was born in South Wales. Note that he would be much older than his age was listed in the census records. He would have lived well into his 90's if this is him.

County Carmarthenshire
Place (Links to more information) Carmarthen
Church name (Links to more information) St Peter
Baptism date 25 Dec 1791
Person forename Owen
Person sex M
Father forename John
Father surname EVANS

The second possibility I have found is that he is the son of David below and born in the same county where he first married. This makes more sense to me.

County Cardiganshire
Place (Links to more information) Llansanffraid
Church name (Links to more information) St Bridget
Register type (Links to more information) Parish Register
Baptism date 05 Aug 1804
Person forename Owen
Person sex M
Father forename David
Mother forename Elizabeth
Father surname EVANS
Transcribed by Glen Jenkins
File line number 94

The census records suggest he was born from 1797-1800. It's not a good match for either.

Owen Evans was a farmer owning $400.00 of Real Estate and $200.00 in personal estate in the 1860 Jackson Co., Ohio Census records. He was not able to read or write. (CL-266) He was in the Civil War along with several of his sons. Owen enlisted on Oct. 15, 1861. In the 56th regiment, he fought at Shiloh and Vicksburg.

Owen came to this country between 1839 and 1842. This is from "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s". In it, it states, "Owen Evans Year: 1839-1842, Place: Ohio, Family Members: Wife Eleanor James; Child William; Child Jane; Child David O., Source Publication Code: 4022.20, Primary Immigrant: Evans, Owen, Annotation: Date and place of first mention of residence in the New World. Place of origin in Wales and other genealogical information are also provided. This section of the book is called Appendix D, which is not paginated. The editors assigned page numbers beginning with 271 and ending with 294 for this portion. Source Bibliography: KNOWLES, ANNE KELLY. Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. pp. 271-294. Page: 279."

I have not been able to locate them in the 1841 census for England which leads me to narrow their entry in the United States as from 1839-1841. We also finally have an entry for their immigration in Baltimore Passenger Lists, dated Sep 1839 where Owen (age 40), Ellinur (age 38), David (age 7), Jane (age 5) and William (age 1) are entering the U.S. He is listed as a farmer. They are listed as traveling from England to the U.S.

There were other Evans here at that point that had come separately and might possibly be his brothers: Evan Evans (-d. 1840) and Thomas Evans. (CL-361) Thomas was born about 1809 in Llanon, Cardiganshire, South Wales and came to Gallia County in 1834. He immigrated with his wife Margaret F. His children were Daniel Thomas Evans (b. 1834), David Milton Evans, John Hughbert Evans, and Margaret (Maggie) Evans. (CL-2, EL)

There is a second Evan Evans living in Ohio Twp., Gallia Co., in the 1870 census who was age 59 from Wales. His wife's name was Eliza. The third Evan Evans, age 66 in Perry Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio, in 1870 was also from Wales. The fourth Evan was Evan D., age 55 in 1870, Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co., Ohio. He was a farmer born in Wales whose wife was Elizabeth. He was living next to a Danny Evans, age 24 born in Ohio and a David Evans, age 61, b. in Wales. (CL-383)

There is a Daniel Evans who was naturalized in Gallia Co., Ohio on Sept. 6, 1860. It should be noted that Owen named a son Daniel. (CL-358)

A David D. was naturalized on Nov. 3, 1858 and a William W. Evans naturalized on Oct. 22, 1864 from Wales who are also possible brothers. This last William listed could be his son instead of his brother. (CL-358)

In Llansandffraid Parish where Owen's son David was born in 1832, the following Evans are having children about the same time and again could be his brothers: James Evans m. to Mary David; Thomas Evans m. to Catherine Evans; Evan Evans m. Katherine Jenkins; Daniel Evans m. to Margaret Morgan; John Evans m. to Jane Rees; David Evans m. to Margaret Evans; Jenkins Evans m. to Margaret Jones; John Evans m. to Anne Jones. (CL-677, 678) There are also deaths of possible relatives: Jenkin Evans, age 80, d. Jan. 11, 1834 and (Evan?) Evans d. Dec. 12, 1834, age 50. (CL-678)

A Derek Hyett from the country, New Zealand, has Evan's ancestors that could be connected to Owen Evan's lineage. He has a Jenkin and Judith Evans from Llanon, Wales who were the parents of an Owen Evans, b. abt. 1780. Owen is known to have had a daughter Mary b. abt. 1802 who married a Lewis in Lansantffraid, Wales. Our Owen could, by timing and place, be the brother to this Mary Evans and son of Owen Evans. It's just a lead at this point, and is in no way proven. (CL-422)

Our Owen's wife, Eleanor James, was a person of fine character. She was a member of the Mount Carmel Church. (CL-DOC-4)

Information about his sons is difficult to discern as Evans is a popular name in Gallia Co, Ohio. I will, therefore, list the information that I have been able to find on persons that could be sons of Owen Evans.

1. Information on David O. Evans is presented on his family group sheet.
2. A William W. Evans from Wales was naturalized in Gallia Co, Ohio on Oct. 22, 1865. (CL-163) That is the only information that has shown up about a William in Gallia Co., Ohio
3. Evan O. Evans, b. 1841, D. Aug. 13, 1935, lived in Thurman, Ohio. He enlisted in the army on Oct. 15, 1861 at Portsmouth, Ohio. (Same day as his father) and was discharged June 30, 1865. He was in Co. E., 56th Regt., O.V.I. as a private. He was with Grant at Champion Hill and other engagements in the opening of the Mississippi. He was taken prisoner for the last few months of the war. He was carried as a prisoner to Tyler Texas until the close of the war. He outlived all his other comrades of the 56th. (This information about Evan O. Evans definitely applies to Owen's son. There is a discrepancy about birth and death dates from various 2nd hand sources.) (CL-Doc-4)
4. Multiple entries for John Evans show that there are several persons by this name of a similar generation. John D. Evans, b. Jan. 19, 1844, d. Jan 19 1864, in Charleston, W. Virginia. Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Jackson Co., Ohio. In the Civil War, Co. K, 34th VA. Cavalry. (CL-167) John E. Evans, address Raccoon Twp., Gallia Co, OH was buried in Tyn Rhos Cemetery, Perry twp., Gallia Co, Ohio. His widow, Mary Evans, resided at Thurman, Ohio after his death. He served in the army during the Civil War. Enlisted Mar 25, 1864 and was discharged Mar. 25, 1865. Co., E, 95th Regt., PA Inf. (CL-168) A John Evans married Malinda Scruggs on Feb. 14, 1865 in Gallia Co., Ohio. (CL-169) (He was the son of William O. and grandson of Owen. A John Evans married Jane T. Davis on June 28, 1866 in Gallia Co., Ohio. (CL-169)
5. There are very few entries for a Daniel Evans which would be anywhere close to the right age of our Daniel. The entries below are only slightly possible and don't necessarily fit with family tradition. Daniel Evans married Jane Evans, Feb. 2, 1863 in Gallia Co, Ohio. (CL-169) In the 1890 census for Perry Twp., Gallia Co., Oh there is a Daniel Evans who was born in Wales in July of 1830 and emigrated in 1844. His wife's name was Mary. They had been married for 40 years. She emigrated in 1837. If anything, this is a possible younger brother to Owen Evans. (CL-255)

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