James Evans

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Born in Larne or Dublin, Ireland in 1761, son of Ezekiel and Jane Robinson Evans who landed in Charleston in Feb. 1767 (one ref. indicates 1774) aboard the ship Irish Volunteer. Another reference says they landed first at Baltimore, Maryland, and later came to Charleston, South Carolina. Married 1784 Rose Kyle. Served in Capt. Andrew Pickens' company, Fifth Regiment, South Carolina Continentals, James being a scout under Gen. Greene and Gen. Pulaski. DAR marked their graves in 1912.

A memoir dated April 30, 1850, written by his son Samuel Robinson Evans, described the Revolutionary War service of his father, James Evans (DAR #A037546), and his grandfather, Ezekiel Evans (DAR #A037517). It was in the possession of his granddaughter, Mrs. Augusta Evans Inge, of Corinth, Mississippi, who joined the Daughters of the American Revolution on this lineage. Mrs. Inge was the wife of Col. William Murphy Inge, speaker of the House of Representatives of Mississippi. Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston stayed in their home prior to the Battle of Corinth and it was also to this home that the general's body was carried and laid out after the Battle of Shiloh. Mrs. Inge was Honorary President of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and "Poet Laureate" of the Sons of the Confederacy.

Samuel R. Evans' 1850 account of the death of his father's first cousin Andrew White in 1780 at age 17 is interesting when compared to the Logan Manuscript written by Dr. John Henry Logan, nephew of Andrew White (Historical Collections of the Joseph Habersham Chapter, Daughters American Revolution, Vol III., 1910.) Dr. Logan was the author of History of the Upper Country of South Carolina, Volume I (1859) and the Logan Manuscript was the incomplete, unpublished Volume II written more than a decade after his cousin Samuel Evans' memoir. It is likely that a copy or partial copy of the Samuel Evans memoir came into Dr. Logan's possession at some time.