Jane Beverly Evans (Daniel)

Daughter of George and Martha Daniel. Married Thomas Evans on April 11, 1816 in Home of Honorable Chesley Daniel, brother of the bride. Mother of thirteen.

"Mrs. Thomas Evans was a woman of the most estimable character. After her husband's death she assumed the management of his heavily involved estate, and by her thrift and energy was able to educate in the best colleges her large family of sons; her unlimited hospitality came to be a by-word in all the region about the Pedee; her piety was of the purest kind, and it is said that she could never bear to hear of the sufferings of others without doing her uttermost to relieve their wants.

For long years every Sunday morning "Old Henry," her negro butler, carried to the county jail for the prisoners a tray laden with the greatest abundance of all the delicacies that were wont to grace the breakfast board of a Southern matron of those good old days.

She was killed on the 3d of September, 1861, by a most unusual accident. While inspecting some repairs which were going on upon the roof of her residence in Marion, a carpenter, one of her own slaves, not seeing any one below, let fall a beam of lumber, which struck her on the head, causing her death within a few hours. The poor slave was so distressed at his misfortune, for which he was in no wise molested, that he is said to have eventually lost his reason." - History of Nathaniel Evans of Catfish Creek