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Note: The headstone at Hillcrest Cemetery, Deer Lodge MT says Dec. 22, 1833. (In the 1850 census, Pettis Co., dist. 68, enumerated on the 29th day of August 1850 by Jno. S. Brown.....it shows Phillip E. Evans age 16...thus his birth in 1833.)
Emigration: 1864 MONTANA
Note: PHILLIP EMANUEL EVANS emigrated from the state of Missouri to Virginia City, Madison Co., M, by the Missouri River to Ft. Benton, then overland by oxen. Death: 11 MAY 1889 in DEER LODGE, DEER LODGE CO., MT
Note: ]Powell County MT was formed from Deer Lodge County in 1901. (Deer Lodge County was formed in 1865.)
Note: Phillp Emanuel Evans, son of Thomas Emanuel and Mary
(chalmers) Evans; born Cooper Co. Mo., in September, 1835. Place of departure for Montana, Boonville, MO.; route traveled, up the Missouri River; arrived at Fort Benton in the spring of 1864. Occupation, farmer and stock grower. Last address, Deer Lodge City. Died, May
11th, 1889. (Society of Montana Pioneers--Vol I--Edited by:
James U. Sanders, Secretary --MDCCXCIX) pg. 77.
Phillip E. Evans, deceased, was for a number of years one of
the honored residents of Montana. He was born in Cooper Co., MO., December 22, 1833. His remote ancestors were Welsh, but for many generations his people had been
residents of America. His father, Dr. Thomas Evans, was born and educated in Baltimore, MD., and removed from there to Missouri in the early history of that state. He practiced medicine there up to the time of his death, which occurred in the seventy first year of his age.
Phillip E. was the fourth of his family of eleven children, and was reared and educated in his native State.
For several years Mr. Evans was successfully engaged in the mercantile business in Missouri, continuing thus occupied until the panic of 1857, when he failed. After his failure in business he turned his attentions to farming, in which he was engaged when the Civil War broke out. He was drafted into the State Militia and a little later was elected Justice of the Peace, being released from the Militia in
order to serve in the office. Soon afterward he removed to Kentucky. While he was a Southerner in sentiment, he was opposed to the war and believed that it could and should have been avoided, and consequently had no desire to take part in it. In 1864 Mr. Evans came up th Missouri River to Montana and located on a ranch in Ruby valley, near where the town of Sheridan now stands. Here he obtained 160 acres of land, and the following year was joined by his wife and five children, they to making the journey up the Missouri River, and being met by him with teams at Fort Benton. On
this frontier ranch they resided until 1870, when he sold out and purchased a farm two miles southwest of Deer Lodge, where he spent the residue of his life and died, the date of his death being May 11, 1889. His last illness was inflammation of the bowels, the result of an injury received by his being thrown from a cart in which he was
riding. For nearly twenty years he had resided on his farm near Deer Lodge, making numerous and valuable improvements upon it. His distinguishing characteristics were his honesty, industry, generosity and kindness of heart, and these estimable qualities endeared him not only to his family, but also to a large circle of friends. Politically, Mr. Evans was a Democrat all his life. While in Madison
CO. he served as County Commissioner, after coming to Deer Lodge CO. was elected and served three terms as County Assessor, and he was also, for a number of years, Justice of the Peace. In the winter of 1869 he was elected and served as Engrossing Clerk of the Territorial Assembly. In all of these position he performed his duty with the strictest fidelity. His public service brought him into contact with nearly all the leading pioneers of the State, and by all who knew him he was held in the highest esteem.
Mr. Evans was married in Missouri in 1856 to Miss Mary B. Powell, a native of Virginia and a descendant of one of the old families of that State. She is still living and is now an honored resident of Deer Lodge. They had ten children, of whom nine are living, occupying useful positions in life. Their son John is Register of the Land Office at Missoula, another son is clerk in the Treasurer's office at
that place, and a third son, Nathaniel P., is County Commissioner of Deer Lodge Co. It is through the kindness of the last named that we obtained the data for this sketch. The names of the daughters are Mrs. A McMurphy, Mrs. J. W. Lister, Mrs. Wm. J. Allin, Mrs. Lewis
Crutchfield, and Miss Sophia C.(Illustrated History -The State of Montana--by Joaquin
Miller--The Lewis Publishing Co. 1894--pages 241-42)
See Son's Nathaniel P. and John M. Bio's.
and John's Memo..... of October 17, 1934.........)

Father: Dr. THOMAS EMANUEL EVANS b: 27 OCT 1805 in WASHINGTON CITY, DC or PRINCE GEORGES CO., MD
Mother: DORTHY ANN CHALMERS b: ABT 1800 in BALTIMORE. BALTIMORE CO., MD

Married: MARY BENJAMIN POWELL b: 22 SEP 1837 in NEW GLASGOW, AMHERST CO., VA
Married: 1856 in MISSOURI

Children
1. HENRY WADSWORTH EVANS b: 11 JAN 1867 in SHERIDAN, MADISON CO., MT
2. JOHN MORGAN (CONGRESSMAN) EVANS b: 07 JAN 1863 in SEDALIA, PETTIS CO., MO
3. NATHANIEL POWELL EVANS b: 27 JUN 1857 in PETTIS CO., MO
4. MARY ANNA (ANNIE) EVANS b: 18 NOV 1858 in PETTIS CO., MO
5. EDWIN C. EVANS b: 09 SEP 1860 in PETTIS CO., MO
6. LUTIE LEE EVANS b: 27 NOV 1864 in BOONSVILLE, COOPER CO., MO
7. THOMAS EMANUEL EVANS b: 27 NOV 1872 in DEER LODGE, POWELL CO., MT
8. MARGARET HOY (MAGGIE) EVANS b: 12 OCT 1871 in DEER LODGE, POWELL CO., MT
9. DOROTHY CHALMERS (DOLLY) EVANS b: 18 SEP 1873 in DEER LODGE, POWELL CO., MT
10. SOPHIE CARRINGTON EVANS b: FEB 1877 in DEER LODGE, POWELL CO., MT