• General Notes

  Genealogical Records: Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 1600-1800s
  Colonial & Revolutionary Families, Vol II, Powell Evans, P 772
  
  Thomas Evans, eldest son of Nathaniel and only surviving son of the first wife, Edith Godbold, was born on his father's plantation near the village of Marion, SC., Sep 3, 1790.  He acquired a liberal education and being a great reader added thereto by his own exertions after reaching years of manhood.  During his early life he engaged in mercantile pursuits and later became an extensive cultivator of cotton.  He was a man of note in his day, taking an active part in public affairs.  He was State Senator from his district from 1832 to 1840 and Master in Equity for his native county from 1841 to his death in 1845.  He also filled the position of Presidential elector for Monroe in 1816, and for Jackson in 1828.  His residence in Marion village, originally built for a courthouse, still stands on the public square south of the present court house.  He died at "Tranquility," the family home of his wife's family in Granville Co., NC. Augusst 9, 1845.  He married April 11, 1816, Jane Beverly Daniel, born Jan 29, 1795, who was killed by a piece of timber falling from the roof of her residence undergoing repairs, Sep 3, 1861, daughter of George and Martha(Daniel) and a descendant of a family seated at Wigan, Lancashire, England, whose armorial bearings were: Arg. a pale fusily sa., with crest, a unicorn's head erased ar. armed or.

Details of Thomas' family with Jane Beverly Daniel