Samuel Evans, Esq. and Mary Shoch

---

---

Husband Samuel Evans, Esq. ^{1 2}

---

           Born: 20 Jan 1823 - Donegal Twp, Lancaster Co, PA 1 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

         Father: Alexander Lowrey Evans (1799-1839) 1 3 4
         Mother: Hannah Slaymaker (      -1860) 3 5

---

       Marriage: 26 Dec 1857 6

---

---

Wife Mary Shoch ^{6 7}

---

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

         Father: Benjamin Worrell Shoch (      -      ) 7
         Mother: 

---

---

Children

---

1 F Fanny Evans ⁷

---

           Born: 17 Apr 1859 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 8 Jan 1865 7
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

---

2 F Lillian S. Evans ⁷

---

           Born: 5 Nov 1861 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

---

3 M Samuel Evans ⁷

---

           Born: 18 Dec 1865 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Feb 1868 7
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

---

---

General Notes: Husband - Samuel Evans, Esq.

---

He was born on the old mansion farm in Donegal, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was apprenticed to learn the carpenter trade with Israel Cooper, of Columbia, in April, 1838; was elected justice of the peace in 1853, clerk of Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer of Lancaster County in the autumn of 1857; enlisted as a private in the "Cookman Rangers" on May 5, 1861, promoted to orderly-sergeant in Company K, Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, and on June 21, 1861, was commissioned second lieutenant of that company, and marched with his regiment to West Virginia. In November, 1861, he was commissioned quartermaster of the Fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, with the rank of first lieutenant. During the campaign in Eastern Virginia in 1862 he was assigned to the brigade and took charge of the quartermaster department, and was transferred to the subsistence department, and for eighteen months was division commissary of subsistence. On April 23, 1864, he was appointed upon Maj.-Gen. Warren's staff as acting commissary of subsistence. He was mustered out at Harrisburg with the Fifth Pennsylvania Reserves June 11, 1864. On the 13th day of March, 1865, he was commissioned brevet captain for "faithful and meritorious services in the Wilderness campaign, Virginia." After his return from the army he sent "substitutes" to the army. He was elected several terms a justice of the peace in the Second Ward of Columbia, and later was a notary public.

He attended the public schools and academy at Marietta until the spring of 1838, when he commenced learning the carpenter's trade, and became a master builder. Later he conducted a lumber trade in Columbia, and was also a contractor for many years. In 1853 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and four years later was elected Clerk of the Quarter Sessions of Lancaster County. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Fifth Pennsylvania Reserves, as a private, but was soon promoted to the position of First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of his regiment. Afterwards he was Acting Quartermaster and Assistant Commissary of the brigade, serving as such for a year and a half, and during a portion of the time having charge of that department in the entire division. In the spring of 1864 he was First Lieutenant and Commissary, having charge of one thousand head of cattle, and issuing supplies to detachments of troops at General Grant's and General Warren's headquarters, and to destitute citizens in Virginia.
At the end of his three years' term he was mustered out and returned to his home in Columbia. He had taken part in the battles in which the Pennsylvania Reserves were engaged from Dranesville, Virginia, to Bethsada Church, Virginia, June 30, 1864, and after his return to Pennsylvania sent a substitute, and also one for his wife, to serve during the remainder of the conflict, and paid these men out of his own pocket voluntarily. He then took up his duties as Justice of the Peace, for a period of about thirty-six years altogether. In addition to this he was Clerk of Quarter Session Court, and served in other offices, doing good work for the Republican party, with which he was identified since its organization.
Mr. Evans traveled to a considerable extent and especially in the west. He belonged to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, to the Sons of the Revolution and to the Society of Scotch-Irish Americans.

1 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 765.

2 —, Portrait and Biographical Record of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Chapman Publishing Co., 1894), Pg 156.

3 —, Portrait and Biographical Record of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Chapman Publishing Co., 1894), Pg 157.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 38.

5 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 569, 765.

6 —, Portrait and Biographical Record of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Chapman Publishing Co., 1894), Pg 158.

7 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 766.