Ventura County Republican Project: History and Genealogy

Ventura County Republican Project: History and Genealogy

"A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura, California" (1891), page 509.

James Evans

James Evans, one of the early settlers and prominent pioneers and ranchers of Ventura, was born in Clarke County, Indiana, July 5, 1839. His father, Thomas Jefferson Evans, was a native of Kentucky. The ancestors of the family were Virginians of Scotch and English origin. Mr. Evans' mother, whose name before marriage was Catharine King, was a native of Pennsylvania, and her parents were Pennsylvania Dutch. Thus our subject has inherited an unusual degree of good quality. He was the third in order of birth of a family of five children. He received his first schooling in Missouri; afterward, in 1844, his parents removed to Missouri, in 1852 to Oregon, and in 1859 to California, settling in Sonoma County, and he attended school in each of these States. In starting out in the world for himself, he first followed farming two years in Sonoma County, and then followed mining most of the time for four years in Idaho, made some money, but lost it; then he came to Salinas Valley in Monterey County and engaged in farming for two years; and finally, in 1869, his father came with his family to Ventura County, purchased 111 acres of land, and he (our subject) bought eighty acres, which he still owns. He has therefore been cultivating his present ranch for twenty years. He has raised corn, beans, barley and flax; but his principal crop at present is beans, on which he realizes $35 to $40 per acre.

Mr. Evans has never joined any society or held office, but he has ever been a Union man and a Republican. He was married in October, 1884, to Miss Osmosen, a native of Germany, and they have two children, Plasent and Hallie, both born in Ventura.

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James Evans' parents were Thomas Jefferson Evans and Catherine King:

Descendants of Thomas Jefferson Evans

1 Thomas Jefferson Evans b: 1817 in Kentucky d: 13 Apr 1887 in Saticoy, Ventura, California
.. +Catherine King b: 1818 in Virginia m: 04 May 1830 d: 09 Apr 1886 in Saticoy, Ventura, California
........ 2 James Evans b: 05 Jul 1839 in Clarke County, Indiana d: 15 Dec 1907 in Ventura County, California
............ +Meda Osmossen b: 23 Feb 1866 in Denmark m: 16 Oct 1884 in Saticoy, Ventura, California d: 09 May 1945 in Oxnard, Ventura, California
................... 3 Pleasant James Evans b: 21 Mar 1886 in Las Posas Valley, Ventura, California d: 08 Dec 1960 in Camarillo, Ventura, California
....................... +Ila Lorene Bright b: 19 Jun 1892 in Tennessee m: 10 Jan 1911 in Montalvo, Ventura, California
............................. 4 Iris Ameda Evans b: 11 Jan 1911 in Ventura County, California d: 13 Feb 1996 in San Diego County, California
................................. +Dexter Charles Hayhurst b: 13 Feb 1911 in West Virginia d: 22 Sep 1995 in San Diego County, California
............................. 4 James Bright Evans b: 22 Apr 1913 in Las Posas Valley, Ventura, California d: 07 Oct 1988 in San Diego County, California
................................. +Catherine Louise Fullmer b: 05 Aug 1915 in Illinois m: 24 Dec 1935 in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada d: 08 Dec 1997 in Ojai, Ventura County, California
................... 3 Haley Meda Evans b: 13 Jun 1889 in Montalvo, Ventura, California d: 28 Dec 1957 in Ventura County, California
....................... +Wilbur Henry Stiles b: 04 Feb 1887 in North Dakota m: 15 Jun 1908 d: Bef. 1923 in Ventura County, California
............................. 4 Nathal Evan Stiles-Pope b: 21 Jul 1912 in California d: 24 Jan 1987 in Los Angeles County, California
................................. +Anne Hardychuk b: 04 Aug 1913 in Saute St. Marie, Canada m: 06 May 1939 in Saute St. Marie, Canada d: 10 Jun 1985 in Multnomah County, Oregon
............................. 4 Thais Stiles-Pope b: 1915 in California
................... *2nd Husband of Haley Meda Evans:
....................... +Charles A. Pope b: 1887 in Colorado m: 14 May 1923
........ 2 Christopher Evans b: 1832 in Clarke County, Indiana
........ 2 William Evans b: 1835 in Clarke County, Indiana d: 24 Nov 1904 in Downey, Los Angeles, California
........ 2 Thomas Evans b: 1842 in Clarke County, Indiana d: Bef. 1887
................... 3 Christopher Evans
........ 2 Harvey Evans b: Mar 1847 in Missouri
............ +Nancy b: Jun 1852 in Oregon
................... 3 Albert Evans b: Mar 1895


Ventura County Republican Project: History and Rootsweb Genealogy posted by Jon Miller and Tony Larson.