Gospel preacher listed in Gospel Preachers Who Blazed the Trail, by C. R. Nichol.

Thos. M. Evans, son of J. D. and Mary Evaline Evans, was born in Alabama, June 29, 1878. When Thomas was only two years of age his father died, leaving a wife and ten children to make their way in the world. When a lad he received only a few months' instructions at school, "after crops were laid by." At the age of 18 he enter the "School of the Evangelists" in East Tennessee, and work his way through two terms. During vacation he worked in a store. Brother J. W. Earnest assisted him to enter the Nashville Bible School, where he remained for two terms. That consecrated man of God, C.A. Wheeler baptized him in 1898. September 25, 1904, he was married to Miss Hattie Dunn in Alabama. He preached his first sermon beginning a meeting in 1903, in which meeting he baptized eight of his boyhood associates, and succeeding in "resurrecting" a dead congregation. Since that time he has been in the work of the Lord constantly, and has baptized more than 300 people. In 1910 he came to Oklahoma, and is devoting all his time to the work. He is very earnest, and makes friends at each place he labors. --Gospel Preachers Who Blazed the Trail.

"One of his brothers, Tom Evans, a gospel preacher, was killed in Madisonville, Texas, while reading in his home. His murderer was infuriated over the advertisement of a gospel meeting." --Gospel Advocate, Sept. 8, 1955, 798.

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EVANS, Elder T. M.
Killed With Axe Handle
Madisonville, Tex, June 21 – Elder T. M. Evans, pastor of the Church of Christ here, died last night from injuries inflicted with an axe handle on Monday last, at the home of Leon Evans. The latter was arrested and released on bond. The two men are not relatives. Domestic trouble was said to be the cause of the affair. (The Marshall Messenger, Marshall, Tex, June 22, 1915)