"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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SAMUEL P. EVINS, prominent farmer, was born in Bath County, Ky., June
3, 1821 and is the second son of Thomas and Anna (Martin) Evins, 
natives of Kentucky and of Welsh and Irish extraction. About 1824, his
parents came to this State and settled in Putnam County, Ind., whence
our subject came to this county in 1844, and located on the land he
now lives upon.
December 16, 1842, he married Mary Swift, by which marriage these parties
had four children--Lewis Benson(died in the Union Army, March 1862),
Ezra B, Catherine (now Mrs. Spear) and Thomas(deceased). In 1854, Mr.
Evins was elected and served one term as Township Trustee. In 1864, he
entered Company B, Fifty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and
participated in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. 
Without any private aid or brilliant successess, Mr. Evins has by hard
work and good management secured a genteel competence and is the owner
of lands aggregating 458 acres, all under good cultivation and with
varied and modern improvements. Mr. Evins is a benevolent and an 
esteemed citizen and he and his wife are leading members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

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