William Hoy Evans was born January 15,1907 in Hampton Arkansas he attended school in a small school in the Smead community where his parents lived. William Hoy quit school in the sixth grade to help his family on the farm.He married Eula Elizabeth Byars Aug 31,1928 and they rented a house in Smead located behind his parents house. On June 30 1930 their first child Euna May was born in this house. William Hoy and his family moved to Lake Providence, La. in 1932 and lived there untill a tornado destroyed their home in 1933. The tornado picked up their house and set it down on top of William Hoy and then lifted it off him and sit it down next to him. William Hoy was unhurt. After this they moved back to Smead and rented a house from Oddy Vaughan about a mile west of his parents home. At this time Wiliam worked at this time on the WPA Program which was designed by the government to get the American people to work. William would walk five miles to a pick up location where all the workers were picked up and taken to where the work they are to work that day. They worked digging ditches, building bridges, and building roads for the government. They got paid one dollar a day. After working all day he would then walk five miles back home. On November 4, 1935 their second child Alvis Jr was born. On May 8, 1940 their third child Betty Carlyn was born. In 1941 the area wherewhere William Hoy and his family lived was taken over by the government to build a Naval Ammunition Depot better known as N.A.D. Which is now Highland Industrial Park. The government paid the land owners five to fifty dollars an acre for their land. In the fall of 1944, the U.S. government confiscated over 68,000 acres of land in Calhoun County and neighboring Ouachita County for the construction of the Shumaker Naval Ammunition Depot. Hundreds of families were forced off their land, while thousands of construction workers were brought in from other places. The facility was used from 1945 until 1957 for the manufacture, testing, and storage of ordnance, especially rockets. After being declared surplus in 1961, the timber land was sold to International Paper Company, and the depot facilities were sold to Highland. It would have been nice if the government would have sold the land back to the people they stole it from. William Hoy and his family moved to CamdenArkansas and he went to work for International Paper Co. Bag-Pak Division On March 18,1943 their forth child Earl Wayne was born at the Ouachita County hospital. William retired from the paper mill and enjoyed fishing and sitting around at Spicers barber shop playing dominoes with other retired men. William passed away January 11,1979 from a Heart Attack at the age of 72. William Hoys second great - grandchild Robin Denise Evans was born on his birthday January 15,1981.

"William Hoy Evans 71 of 336 York street died Thursday January 11, 1979 in a local hospital. Funeral services are slated for 2:00 Saturday at the White City Baptist Church. Burial will be in Evans cemetery near Camden with Proctor in charge. Mr. Evans was a retired employee of International Paper Company bagpak division. He is survived by his wife Mrs. Eula Byars Evans of Camden, two sons Alvis Evans of Camden and Earl Wayne Evans of Houston, Texas, two daughters Mrs. Euna May Yeager and Betty Price of Millington, Tenn, two brothers Carl Evans and James Evans of Ft. Worth, Texas, three sisters Mrs. Dollie Harrell of Fordice, Mrs. Lorene Chambliss of Bearden and Mrs. Allie Smitherman of Ft. Worth, Texas, 14 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. (Camden News - Camden, Arkansas - January 12, 1979 - Obit submitted by [email protected])