BRYAN FAMILY HISTORY - Interactive Family Histories

BRYAN FAMILY HISTORY 8-317George Ewan, a retired school teacher. George is pursuing two hobbies,painting and sketching and growing plants. He has a green house and does agreat deal of forced growth - from strawberries to orchids. Larry Griffin is anemployee of what was the El Paso Gas Company located at Carlsbad, NewMexico. His hobby is photography. Larry is not married.Reference: 1) Letter, Charlotte (Dodson) Porter to Bernice Casey, May 7, 1986ELLA MAE BRYAN (3.6.11) is the daughter of William DeMoss Bryan andEllen (Dowaine) Bryan. Ella was born on April 11, 1887 in Williamsport,Tennessee. On September 4, 1924, Ella Bryan married married William GroverCleveland Evans in the home of her parents at Williamsport, Tennessee.Cleveland Evans was born June 29, 1885 in Aiken Ridge, Tennessee and is theson of James A. Evans and Mary Catherine (Letsinger) Evans. Cleveland waspreviously married to Elsie Oera Puckett who died early in 1924. Cleveland andElsie were the parents of three children: James Carl Evans (born November 2,1911, Oklahoma), Oera Marie Evans (born May 14, 1917, Williamsport,Tennessee, Eska Catherine Evans (born July 26, 1919, Santa Fe, Tennessee).Cleveland Evans’ sister and her husband, Ethel and Will Roach, were appointedas guardians and raised the two girls. James Carl Evans went to western Kansaswhen he was 17 and became a cattle rancher. Cleveland and Ella Evans werethe parents of two children:. . . John Grover Evans (3.6.11.1), b. June 8, 1925, Santa Fe, Tennessee. . . Esther Mae Evans (3.6.11.2), b. December 26, 1926, Santa Fe, TennesseeCleveland and Ella Evans lived at Santa Fe, Tennessee, moved to Clinton,Kentucky in 1929 and then to Butler, Missouri in 1943. In 1947, they moved toAmoret, Missouri. Cleveland Evans died September 2, 1959 and Ella Mae(Bryan) Evans died on March 31, 1968. Both were buried at Amoret, Missouri.References: 1) Family Group Sheet by Bettye (Mobley) Patton, 1985; 2) Letter, Esther(Evans) Bell to Bernice Casey, June, 23, 1986JOHN GROVER EVANS (3.6.11.1) is the son of William Grover ClevelandEvans and Ella Mae (Bryan) Evans. John was born June 8, 1925 at Santa Fe,Tennessee. John served in the United States Navy during World War II, servingas a fireman on an aircraft carrier. After the war, he was a salesman and partsman for International Harvester Machinery Company. In February of 1946, JohnGrover Evans married Beverly Brannon in Rich Hill, Missouri. John andBeverly Evans were the parents of two children:. . . Donita Jean Evans, b. December 7, 1946, Butler, Missouri. . . Anthony Lamond Evans, b. November 30, 1956, El Dorado, KansasJohn and Beverly Evans were divorced in 1959. John Grover Evans died onNovember 15, 1974 at Butler, Missouri and was buried at Amoret, Missouri.Donita Jean Evans died March 26, 1953 at El Dorado, Kansas and was buried atDiagonal, Iowa. Anthony “Tony” Lamond Evans died in a car accident inNovember of 1981 at El Dorado, Kansas.