Ancestors
Harry L. Evans
1855-1891 · Philadelphia PA
Born 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 1891
Father: Thomas Reynolds Evans
Mother: Mary Jane Lawrence
Children include Thomas
Harry L. Evans was born in Philadelphia about 1855, the son of Thomas Reynolds Evans and Mary Jane Lawrence. He had an elder sister, Anne Maria, called Annie, and a younger sister, Catharine. His middle initial is usually read as Lamont, though Lawrence, his mother's maiden name, has also been suggested.
A memorial compiled by a Lawrence relative lists him over his working life as an actor, an opera singer, an engraver and a mechanic. When he died, the undertaker gave his occupation simply as mechanic.
In 1880 he was twenty four and still living at home with his parents and his sisters Annie and Kate.
On 12 March 1882, in Philadelphia, he married Annie E. Campbell, the daughter of Edward P. and Annie Campbell. He gave his age as twenty six. Their son Thomas Reynolds Evans, named for Harry's father, was born seven months later, on 7 October 1882. A second son, George Chapman Evans, was born and died in 1887.
Harry died suddenly on 14 December 1891 at 1812 Fairmount Avenue in Philadelphia's Fifteenth Ward, the house of his parents. He was thirty six and married. Because the death was sudden, the coroner signed the return, and he gave the cause as apoplexy, the period word for a stroke or a sudden collapse of the brain. The family's notice in the Philadelphia Inquirer read:
"EVANS. Suddenly, on December 14, 1891, Harry L., son of Thomas R. and Mary Jane Evans, in the 36th year of his age. Friends invited to attend the funeral services, at his late residence, No. 1812 Fairmount avenue, on Thursday, 17th instant, at 2 o'clock. Interment private, Mount Vernon Cemetery."
He was buried in the family lot at Mount Vernon Cemetery on 17 December 1891. His parents put up a stone headed "Our Son". His father died in the same house, also suddenly and also of apoplexy, sixteen months later.
His widow Annie was left with their nine year old son. She died in 1904, and Thomas grew up to be an electrotyper in Philadelphia.
Sources
Pennsylvania County Marriages 1775-1991, marriage of Thomas R. Evans and Marion E. Haas, 3 October 1924; FamilySearch arks 1:1:Q2Z4-3C6F (groom) and 1:1:Q2Z4-3CXH (bride).
City of Philadelphia, return of a death, coroner's certificate no. 12655, December 1891; image on Find a Grave memorial 84150346, added by James Harry Lawrence.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 December 1891, death notices; clipping on Find a Grave memorial 84150346, added by James Harry Lawrence.
Find a Grave, memorial 84150346, gravestone photograph added by James Harry Lawrence, 28 January 2012.
Find a Grave, memorial 84150264, gravestone photograph added by James Harry Lawrence, 28 January 2012.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 February 1904, death notices; transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 106131872.
Pennsylvania Marriages 1709-1940; FamilySearch ark 1:1:Q2WN-JMXP.
United States Census 1880, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, ED 222, NARA T9 roll 1173; FamilySearch ark 1:1:MWJ8-LJ7.
Pennsylvania Marriages 1709-1940, Harry L. Evans and Annie E. Campbell, 12 March 1882 (FamilySearch ark 1:1:Q2WN-JMXP); Philadelphia return of a death, coroner's certificate no. 12655, December 1891; Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 December 1891, death notice; Pennsylvania County Marriages, marriage of Thomas R. Evans and Marion E. Haas, 1924 (FamilySearch ark 1:1:Q2Z4-3C6F); Find a Grave memorial 84150346, photographs added by James Harry Lawrence; United States Census 1880, Philadelphia, ED 222, NARA T9 roll 1173, household of Thomas R. Evans (FamilySearch ark 1:1:MWJ8-LJ7).
Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1775-1991, Philadelphia. FamilySearch, ark:/61903/1:1:Q2Z4-3C6F.
Return of a Death in the City of Philadelphia, coroner's certificate no. 12655, 1891. Image from Find a Grave, memorial 84150346, added by James Harry Lawrence.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 December 1891. Clipping from Find a Grave, memorial 84150346, added by James Harry Lawrence.
Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia. Photograph from Find a Grave, memorial 84150346, added by James Harry Lawrence.
Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, lot A312. Photograph from Find a Grave, memorial 84150146, added by James Harry Lawrence.
Return of a Death in the City of Philadelphia, physician's certificate, 1887. Image from Find a Grave, memorial 85625823, added by James Harry Lawrence.
Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 February 1904, as transcribed on Find a Grave, memorial 106131872.
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