[p. 762] a prosperous farmer of North Beaver Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, has a valuable farm of 150 acres located two miles west of Mahoningtown, on the Covert and Cleland Mill road, just north of Pleasant Hill schoolhouse. He has been a life-long resident of the county, having been born in New Castle February 12, 1859, and is a son of Joshua and Catherine (Sterling) Evans.
Joshua Evans was born in Freetown,
Bristol County Mass., and was a son of
Joseph P. Evans, also a native of Massachusetts,
who was killed by the falling of
a tree three weeks before the birth of his
son, Joshua. At an early age the latter
learned the trade of an ironworker, which
he followed in his native state and later at
Harrisburg, Pa. While still in his teens he
came to New Castle, Pa., but after a short
time went west to Indiana. He soon returned
to New Castle, where he was thereafter
employed as an ironworker for many
years. He owned various farms about
the city at different times, his first purchase
being on Washington Street, New
Castle. He purchased the farm which
corners on the farm on which our subject
now lives several years prior to the latter's
birth, and moved upon it in March,
1859, driving back and forth to his work
each day. He died on the home farm in
1902, and was survived by the mother of
our subject, who died on November 5, 1907.
They had two children, Joseph P. and Margaret.
He also had two children by an
early marriage, one of whom died in boyhood;
the other, B. B. Evans, now resides
in Kansas.
Joseph P. Evans was ten years old when his parents came upon the present farm and he was here reared to maturity, receiving his educational training in the common schools. He has always engaged in agricultural pursuits and, farming along modern and up-to-date methods, has made an unqualified success of his work. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Lawrence Encampment, to which his father also belonged, the latter being at the time of his death the oldest Odd Fellow in Lawrence County.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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