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Name: Sevier T. Evans ¹
Sex: M
Birth: 21 DEC 1852 in Evans Cove in White Co., Tenn.
Death: 18 DEC 1875 in in a gunfight on the Sparta square in Tenn. ^{2 3}
Burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Military: in Evans Cove, southeast of Sparta along Lester Flatt Rd. today.
Person Id: P49
Tree Id: 618366

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Parents

Father:

William Rotan Evans: Birth: 23 SEP 1834 in Evans Cove in White Co., Tenn.. Death: 24 SEP 1857 in Evans Cove in White Co., Tenn.

Mother:

Mary E. McManus: Birth: MAY 1835 in White Co., Tennessee. Death: SEP 1871

Family
Marriage:

Married: Amanda Meredith on 20 OCT 1874 at White Co., Tenn..¹
Amanda Meredith: Birth: 27 OCT 1856 in Crossville, Cumberland Co., Tennessee at the Scott home. Death: 25 JUL 1948 in Wolfe City, Hunt Co., Texas

Children:

Mollie Evans: Birth: 25 AUG 1875 in Evans Cove in White Co., Tenn.. Death: 7 JAN 1948 in Sparta, Tennessee

Sources

1.	Title: Tennessee, Marriages, 1851-1900 Source: S-1049854574 Author: Dodd, Jordan R Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
2.	Title: The Fred Clark Book of Cemeteries of White County, Vol. II Page: p. 218 Source: S-2128899935
3.	Title: "My First Eighty-five Years" Page: p. 23 Source: S-2128900052 Author: Amanda Meredith Hill Publication: appears in A Family History: Hill-Meredith-Lowery

Notes

Note: y 70. This area was known as Evans Cove and was along what is now the Lester Flatt Foad past the Sparta Country Club." p. 245 Heritage of White County by Cynthea Johnson Amason. Sevier was killed by Roland H. Hudson, born in Virginia in 1841. (1870 census, White Co. Dist. 1, fam. 76) Hudson (alias Monroe Hudson and James Hudson) was charged with murder, his lawyer was granted a change of venue for the trial, he was moved to McMinnville and then to Rutherford County. (Vol. 9, County Court Civil and Criminal Minutes)
Note: "Sevier was killed six weeks after Mollie's birth in a gunfight on the Sparta square where he was trying to break up an altercation......The Evans family lived east of Sparta off of what is now Highwa

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