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Evans Roland [Male] b. BEF 1749 - d. ABT 8 SEP 1781

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1. Roland was born in Wales before the year 1749. He was killed a few days after the battle of Eutaw Springs, fought 8 September 1781. Roland lived consecutively in Boston, Charles Town, and Saint Matthew Parish, Orangeburg District. Through the efforts of the Eutaw Chapter of the D.A.R., his grave has been marked by the U.S. government.

2. When at the S. C. Archives October 1977, Annie Belle Bodie was searching for proof of the military rank of Roland Evans. She was shown an order which neither the archivist nor she could satisfactorily read, but the name Captain Roland Evans was distinct and so was the name of the signer General Francis Marion. The archivist assured her that it was all the proof she needed to establish Rowland Evans's rank as Captain. ( OUR EVANS HERITAGE, by: Annie Bell Bodie, 1979.)

3. A SHORT SKETCH OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE EVANS FAMILY, By : Harriet Evans Bull.
About the year 1750, or possibly a few years earlier, a family from Wales by the name of Evans, consisting of father, mother, and two sons took passage on an emigrant ship bound for America.
During the long and tedious voyage typhus fever broke out among the passengers, and caused the death of both father and mother of this family.
On arriving at the port of Boston, the two little boys Rowland and Richard, being strangers and without protectors, were taken in charge by the City of Boston, and in due time were apprenticed to trades.
After reaching manhood, they came south and settled in the Province of South Carolina. It is not certain where Richard located, but it is thought at Granty (Granville) as he was living there sometime later. Rowland located in Charleston and there plied his trade as a painter.
Later the King of England was making liberal grants of land, through the royal governor William Bull, in the interior of the province to settlers. Rowland Evans obtained one of these grants in what is now Orangeburg County. He sold out his interests in Charleston, bought a few Negroes, settled on the land, and engaged in farming a few years prior to the Revolution.
During the time of the Revolution, when the country was overrun by British and Tories, Rowland Evans cast his lot with the Partisans, raised a little company and joined Marion's Brigade, doing valiant service for his country. He participated in the battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781, and, coming home a few days later to visit his family, was there shot down in his own yard by a party of four Tories.
The exact dates of birth and death are not known, as it is said that the family records were destroyed by fire sometime afterward. His grave is near the spot where he was killed, and has been marked by the U.S. Government.
He left four children: Rowland, John, William, and "Polly". Rowland died young. John married Margaret Moorer, William married _____ ? Polly married Jacob Moorer. (OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, by: Annie Belle Bodie, p.1 & p.2)

4. A genealogist researched the Boston records but no trace of the two little orphaned boys - nothing on the landing of the vessel on which they came, the names of their parents, or the place in Wales they left to come to America. All of us who are descended from Rowland Evans are indebted to Harriet Evans Bull for keeping this much of their story alive and passing it down to us. (OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, By: Annie Belle Bodie, p. 2.)

5. At the N. C. Archives, Raleigh, N. C., the following item of interest was found:
The Jury List (1778-1779) compiled by the D.A.R. gives a list of Grand Jurors in which we find Roland Evans under St. Matthew's (Parish) Orangeburg District. ( A genealogist assured us that the present Providence Community is the same area.) (OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, By: Annie Belle Bodie, p. 2)

6. This interesting section from the 1790 Census, given me by a genealogist in Columbia S. C. reveals John as the head of his fathers family. (Roland was killed in 1781 and his son Roland had no doubt died too.)
Evans - John
1 male over 16 (John was 19 then)
1 male under 16 (William was 14)
2 females ( the mother & Polly)
4 slaves
( OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, By: Annie Belle Bodie, p. 2)

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1. Roland was born in Wales before the year 1749. He was killed a few days after the battle of Eutaw Springs, fought 8 September 1781. Roland lived consecutively in Boston, Charles Town, and Saint Matthew Parish, Orangeburg District. Through the efforts of the Eutaw Chapter of the D.A.R., his grave has been marked by the U.S. government.

2. When at the S. C. Archives October 1977, Annie Belle Bodie was searching for proof of the military rank of Roland Evans. She was shown an order which neither the archivist nor she could satisfactorily read, but the name Captain Roland Evans was distinct and so was the name of the signer General Francis Marion. The archivist assured her that it was all the proof she needed to establish Rowland Evans's rank as Captain. ( OUR EVANS HERITAGE, by: Annie Bell Bodie, 1979.)

3. A SHORT SKETCH OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE EVANS FAMILY, By : Harriet Evans Bull.
About the year 1750, or possibly a few years earlier, a family from Wales by the name of Evans, consisting of father, mother, and two sons took passage on an emigrant ship bound for America.
During the long and tedious voyage typhus fever broke out among the passengers, and caused the death of both father and mother of this family.
On arriving at the port of Boston, the two little boys Rowland and Richard, being strangers and without protectors, were taken in charge by the City of Boston, and in due time were apprenticed to trades.
After reaching manhood, they came south and settled in the Province of South Carolina. It is not certain where Richard located, but it is thought at Granty (Granville) as he was living there sometime later. Rowland located in Charleston and there plied his trade as a painter.
Later the King of England was making liberal grants of land, through the royal governor William Bull, in the interior of the province to settlers. Rowland Evans obtained one of these grants in what is now Orangeburg County. He sold out his interests in Charleston, bought a few Negroes, settled on the land, and engaged in farming a few years prior to the Revolution.
During the time of the Revolution, when the country was overrun by British and Tories, Rowland Evans cast his lot with the Partisans, raised a little company and joined Marion's Brigade, doing valiant service for his country. He participated in the battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781, and, coming home a few days later to visit his family, was there shot down in his own yard by a party of four Tories.
The exact dates of birth and death are not known, as it is said that the family records were destroyed by fire sometime afterward. His grave is near the spot where he was killed, and has been marked by the U.S. Government.
He left four children: Rowland, John, William, and "Polly". Rowland died young. John married Margaret Moorer, William married _____ ? Polly married Jacob Moorer. (OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, by: Annie Belle Bodie, p.1 & p.2)

4. A genealogist researched the Boston records but no trace of the two little orphaned boys - nothing on the landing of the vessel on which they came, the names of their parents, or the place in Wales they left to come to America. All of us who are descended from Rowland Evans are indebted to Harriet Evans Bull for keeping this much of their story alive and passing it down to us. (OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, By: Annie Belle Bodie, p. 2.)

5. At the N. C. Archives, Raleigh, N. C., the following item of interest was found:
The Jury List (1778-1779) compiled by the D.A.R. gives a list of Grand Jurors in which we find Roland Evans under St. Matthew's (Parish) Orangeburg District. ( A genealogist assured us that the present Providence Community is the same area.) (OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, By: Annie Belle Bodie, p. 2)

6. This interesting section from the 1790 Census, given me by a genealogist in Columbia S. C. reveals John as the head of his fathers family. (Roland was killed in 1781 and his son Roland had no doubt died too.)
Evans - John
1 male over 16 (John was 19 then)
1 male under 16 (William was 14)
2 females ( the mother & Polly)
4 slaves
( OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, By: Annie Belle Bodie, p. 2)

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Evans Rosa Leah [Female] b. 8 AUG 1866 Providence Community, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA - d. 23 APR 1954 unknown

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1. Since a thread of Rosa Evans' life runs throughout my story, I had not planned to give her additional space here. That is, until I began to wonder if I might have given the impression that she enjoyed poor health. Then it was that I decided to dispel any such idea.
Rosa Evans my mother was a very active person. It was she who kept the wheels turning smoothly in a busy farm home while my father was devoting a full day at the Cameron Bank. Unless she had a bad night, She was up early in the morning busying herself with a big breakfast.
It was she, who planted the seed in the garden after the soil was prepared, who cared for the chickens, who, in sugar cane season, tested each vat of cane syrup for its consistency, who, on hog butchering days, carefully examined and helped prepare the parts of the haslets that went into the stuffed liver puddings and, who personally directed the curing of her succulent hams.
She managed to find various ways to make a little money of her own. One project was her boiled peanut business. The vines were gathered for her before most of the peanuts became hard. As they were picked from the vines, those few which were hard were put aside for drying and only those which would cook soft were used. They were boiled in large wash pots on Friday. On Saturday morning they were stacked in small bags and sold for a nickel in Cameron. My brother James was the little salesman, who received a small commission.
Always there was a goal in sight, the biggest being a piano in order that her girls might take advantage of music lessons. Though Betsy was the only one of us who became an accomplished pianist, the pleasure her music brought to others fully repaid Mama for her efforts.
I must not be tempted to say more about Rosa Evans except that she lived over a span of nearly 88 years - longer than any of her sisters or brothers and a little more than two years short of the 90 year mark predicted for her by her affectionate nephew, Jimmy Wroton. ( OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, by: Annie Belle Bodie, p.25 - p.26)

2. Rosa and James lived near his birthplace on the State Road (176) 3 1/2 miles south of Cameron, S.C. They are both buried at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery near Cameron, S.C.

[spiers.GED]

1. Since a thread of Rosa Evans' life runs throughout my story, I had not planned to give her additional space here. That is, until I began to wonder if I might have given the impression that she enjoyed poor health. Then it was that I decided to dispel any such idea.
Rosa Evans my mother was a very active person. It was she who kept the wheels turning smoothly in a busy farm home while my father was devoting a full day at the Cameron Bank. Unless she had a bad night, She was up early in the morning busying herself with a big breakfast.
It was she, who planted the seed in the garden after the soil was prepared, who cared for the chickens, who, in sugar cane season, tested each vat of cane syrup for its consistency, who, on hog butchering days, carefully examined and helped prepare the parts of the haslets that went into the stuffed liver puddings and, who personally directed the curing of her succulent hams.
She managed to find various ways to make a little money of her own. One project was her boiled peanut business. The vines were gathered for her before most of the peanuts became hard. As they were picked from the vines, those few which were hard were put aside for drying and only those which would cook soft were used. They were boiled in large wash pots on Friday. On Saturday morning they were stacked in small bags and sold for a nickel in Cameron. My brother James was the little salesman, who received a small commission.
Always there was a goal in sight, the biggest being a piano in order that her girls might take advantage of music lessons. Though Betsy was the only one of us who became an accomplished pianist, the pleasure her music brought to others fully repaid Mama for her efforts.
I must not be tempted to say more about Rosa Evans except that she lived over a span of nearly 88 years - longer than any of her sisters or brothers and a little more than two years short of the 90 year mark predicted for her by her affectionate nephew, Jimmy Wroton. ( OUR EVANS HERITAGE, 1979, by: Annie Belle Bodie, p.25 - p.26)

2. Rosa and James lived near his birthplace on the State Road (176) 3 1/2 miles south of Cameron, S.C. They are both buried at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery near Cameron, S.C.