Eleanor Evans

"Eleanor Lane, wife of Owen Evans, and grandmother of Mrs. Du Puy, was first cousin of her husband, as she was a daughter of Edward Lane by his wife Ann Evans, a sister of Thomas Evans, father of Owen. Edward Lane was a son of William Lane, and grandson of Edward Lane, by his wife Ann Richardson, daughter of Honorable Samuel Richardson, of Philadelphia. An extended account of Samuel Richardson, with mention of the Lanes, is given in a later chapter of this work. "

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Eleanor Evans, wife of Reverend John Reynolds, the younger, and mother of Mrs. Charles Meredith Dupuy, was a daughter of Owen Evans * by his wife Eleanor Lane, and was born December 23, 1799, and died November 25, 1887. Owen Evans joined the American troops at the age of eighteen, participated in the battle of Germantown (1777), and attended and brought home to Perkiomen, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, his brother-in-law, Major Thomas Church, who was badly wounded in that battle.
~•(we note that Major Thomas Church was married Ann Lane)

"The villages of Lower Providence are Evansburg, Shannonville, Eagleville and Providence Square, at each of which there exists a post-office.

The largest of these villages is Evansburg. It has been so called from the beginning of the century. The land upon which the village stands was part of the Lane tract, and was called by them "Perkoming" for many years. In
1721 the St. James' Episcopal Church of Perkoming was built. In 1825 the post-office was established here and called "Perkiomen," and Edward Evans was postmaster.
This Edward Evans was a son of Owen Evans, born 1769, died in 1812, who was an extensive laid-owner, and was engaged in making guns for he United States army at what has lately became known as Pechin's Mill. He was married to Eleanor, daughter of Edward Lane (the younger). In honor of this man the village took its name, Evansburg. In 1827 the post-office was kept by Isaac Casselberry in a shop that then stood on the public school-house lot. In 1829 it was moved to the Ridge turnpike, and William Fronefield was postmaster. In 1832, Edward Evans, who then kept store wherHenry G. Schwenks is now his successor, was reappointed postmaster.

In a short time Mr. Evans resigned and Perkiomen post-office was abolished. The people then had to depend on the Trappe office, then kept by Matthias Halderman. When the Trappe office was removed to the upper end of that village a post-office was again established, and Edward Evans, for the third time, appointed postmaster, and the office called "Perkiomen Bridge." Here it remained until 1861, when it was removed to Freeland. At the same
time a new office was established in the village, with William B. Shupe as postmaster. As the name Evansburg was already utilized as the name of a post-office in Crawford County, Pa., this office was named "Lower Providence". The office still retains this name, and has as its postmaster Samuel D. Shupe, the son of the first official.

In 1832 Evansburg contained nineteen houses; in 1858, an inn, two stores, church, two mechanic shops and twenty-four houses. At present it contains two churches, two stores, an extensive steam tannery, operated by D. Morgan Casselberry, several mechanic shops and about thirty-five houses.

This village was at one time known by the nickname of "Hustletown", which name clung to the village for many years. The origin of that name, tradition says was in this wise: Two young bloods, none the better for frequent libations, as they journeyed, at every village gave cheers for the name of the village. As they passed through Evansburg, they look in vain for some clew to the name of the village. A short distance from the road they saw two persons "hustling," a method of "raffling," when one proposed "Three cheers for Hustletown!" Hence the name. While this is the commonly received version as to how this name was applied, the author accidentally came across another that to his mind seems more probable.

In a deed of Edward Lane to Dietrick Welker for land in the present village of Evansburg, made May 31, 1777, the property is described as adjoining lands of Hussel Town, thus showing conclusively that at that time a man of that
name lived there. It is certainly a remarkable coincidence and seems very probably to have been the origin of the name of the town."