Married 8 April 1869 to Surelda Ann Pickett. He stayed in Idaho one year and then went to Montgomery Co, Kansas. Sourse- Kathryan Beuchel ----------------------------------------------------------------- From DUBCAN 1903 HISTORY O. Evans - well and widely known and respected among farmers and stockraises of Montgomery Co.is O. Evans the subject of this article. Mr. Evans is the son of Samuel Evans a native of Virginia but moved to Indiana as a boy. After some years he met and married Miss Hannah Michael also a Virginian and who was also brought to Indiana as a child.Samuel Evans was a farmer . He moved from Indiana to Mercer Co. , Missouri in the fall of 1857 . Our subject was born on April 15, 1843 in Decatur Co, Ind. where he lived till he was about 15 years old receiving very little education except what he got from the great book of nature. At this time. his parents moved to Missouri taking their children with them. Our subject lived at home with his parents until he was 26 years old when he married on April 8, 1869, to Sarilda Pickett who was born in Mercer Co. Missouri in 1848. When Mr. Evans married he went into debt for 80 acres of land which he improved and by hard work, thrift and the help of his young wife cleared the same year and on which they lived until 1881. He then sold out and went to Idaho thinking to do better yet for his increasing family. Idaho not being to the liking of the man of the prairie in one year he again he moved to Kansas where they purchased four hundred acres in Fawn Creek township This land Mr. Evans inproved and lived upon for a number of years.In addition to farming he now raised fine stockIn 1895 he bought more land , 360 acres on Onion Creek three miles west of Coffeyville where he is now living That perserverance in industry count for much is readily seen in the life and accumulated wealth of Mr. Evans who, by these qualities, combined with shrewd capacty for business has made a very substantial fortune part of which consists of a valuable farm of 896 acres in the gas and oil belt of Parker township besides he owns 156 acres in Chautauqua Co. Kansas. It is well known that his unswerving honesty and genial personality have contributed not a little toward making Mr. Evan's business life a success He himself attributes it in his strick attention to all business matters and never allowing trivialities to enterfere with the more important affairs of life. During his business career Mr. Evans handled a very large amount of cattle but he is now contemplating a retirement from business and so is gradually reducing the number of cattle until now he has only 150 head . He has also retured from farming and now rents most of the numerous acres that he ownes Mr Evan's lot has been similar to that of most farmers much work and little play but still unlike many farmers it has yielded an grand profit and he now can take a well-earned rest. Politically Mr. Evans is a Democrat and takes an interest in the politics of the county, of which he is so prominent a resident but in his home politics it is the man not the party which rules his vote. ----------------------------------------------------------------- One source confirmed he was a farmer.