Alamo Defender. He came from a family with a tradition of military service, as his grandfather, Samuel Evans, was a general in the colonial army during the American Revolution. His maternal uncle, Jacob Jennings Brown (memorial #4822), was the first Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
In 1835, Sam Evans acquired his own land in Texas. He's listed among the grantees cited in Ken Kesselus's book History of Bastrop County, Texas: Before Statehood (2005). Pvt. Evans was a rifleman of the Alamo garrison and died in the battle on March 6th, at the age of 24. His father Musgrove Evans was said to have settled his son's estate.
The elder Evans, a 50-year-old widower who had brought his family from Michigan Territory to Mexican Texas in December of 1834, enlisted in the army a few weeks after the Alamo fell and fought at the Battle of San Jacinto in April, in Capt. Alfred Wyly's Company. He received his discharge papers on July 14, 1836.
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From the transcription of a (1977) historical marker for the Brookfield-Evans-Cremer House at FayetteCountyHistory.org:
"William Brookfield (1786-1849) and Musgrove Evans (1785-1855) brought their families from Michigan to Texas in the early 1830s. Brookfield and Evans' son Samuel bought the 1832 David Berry league, where this house stands, in 1835. Samuel died at the Alamo the following year."
Evidently, the land owned by Samuel B. Evans in 1835-36 was in the part of Bastrop County which became Fayette County in the Republic of Texas.
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Biography edited & expanded by Sandi Haynie, a great-great-grand niece of Samuel B. Evans, in 2014 through 2018.
In 1835, Sam Evans acquired his own land in Texas. He's listed among the grantees cited in Ken Kesselus's book History of Bastrop County, Texas: Before Statehood (2005). Pvt. Evans was a rifleman of the Alamo garrison and died in the battle on March 6th, at the age of 24. His father Musgrove Evans was said to have settled his son's estate.
The elder Evans, a 50-year-old widower who had brought his family from Michigan Territory to Mexican Texas in December of 1834, enlisted in the army a few weeks after the Alamo fell and fought at the Battle of San Jacinto in April, in Capt. Alfred Wyly's Company. He received his discharge papers on July 14, 1836.
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From the transcription of a (1977) historical marker for the Brookfield-Evans-Cremer House at FayetteCountyHistory.org:
"William Brookfield (1786-1849) and Musgrove Evans (1785-1855) brought their families from Michigan to Texas in the early 1830s. Brookfield and Evans' son Samuel bought the 1832 David Berry league, where this house stands, in 1835. Samuel died at the Alamo the following year."
Evidently, the land owned by Samuel B. Evans in 1835-36 was in the part of Bastrop County which became Fayette County in the Republic of Texas.
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Biography edited & expanded by Sandi Haynie, a great-great-grand niece of Samuel B. Evans, in 2014 through 2018.
Alamo Defender. He came from a family with a tradition of military service, as his grandfather, Samuel Evans, was a general in the colonial army during the American Revolution. His maternal uncle, Jacob Jennings Brown (memorial #4822), was the first Commanding General of the U.S. Army.
In 1835, Sam Evans acquired his own land in Texas. He's listed among the grantees cited in Ken Kesselus's book History of Bastrop County, Texas: Before Statehood (2005). Pvt. Evans was a rifleman of the Alamo garrison and died in the battle on March 6th, at the age of 24. His father Musgrove Evans was said to have settled his son's estate.
The elder Evans, a 50-year-old widower who had brought his family from Michigan Territory to Mexican Texas in December of 1834, enlisted in the army a few weeks after the Alamo fell and fought at the Battle of San Jacinto in April, in Capt. Alfred Wyly's Company. He received his discharge papers on July 14, 1836.
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From the transcription of a (1977) historical marker for the Brookfield-Evans-Cremer House at FayetteCountyHistory.org:
"William Brookfield (1786-1849) and Musgrove Evans (1785-1855) brought their families from Michigan to Texas in the early 1830s. Brookfield and Evans' son Samuel bought the 1832 David Berry league, where this house stands, in 1835. Samuel died at the Alamo the following year."
Evidently, the land owned by Samuel B. Evans in 1835-36 was in the part of Bastrop County which became Fayette County in the Republic of Texas.
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Biography edited & expanded by Sandi Haynie, a great-great-grand niece of Samuel B. Evans, in 2014 through 2018.
In 1835, Sam Evans acquired his own land in Texas. He's listed among the grantees cited in Ken Kesselus's book History of Bastrop County, Texas: Before Statehood (2005). Pvt. Evans was a rifleman of the Alamo garrison and died in the battle on March 6th, at the age of 24. His father Musgrove Evans was said to have settled his son's estate.
The elder Evans, a 50-year-old widower who had brought his family from Michigan Territory to Mexican Texas in December of 1834, enlisted in the army a few weeks after the Alamo fell and fought at the Battle of San Jacinto in April, in Capt. Alfred Wyly's Company. He received his discharge papers on July 14, 1836.
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From the transcription of a (1977) historical marker for the Brookfield-Evans-Cremer House at FayetteCountyHistory.org:
"William Brookfield (1786-1849) and Musgrove Evans (1785-1855) brought their families from Michigan to Texas in the early 1830s. Brookfield and Evans' son Samuel bought the 1832 David Berry league, where this house stands, in 1835. Samuel died at the Alamo the following year."
Evidently, the land owned by Samuel B. Evans in 1835-36 was in the part of Bastrop County which became Fayette County in the Republic of Texas.
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Biography edited & expanded by Sandi Haynie, a great-great-grand niece of Samuel B. Evans, in 2014 through 2018.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
