Plumas County Biographies

J. F. Evans 

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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was born August 20, 1825, in Fayette county, Illinois, his parents being John 
and Nancy Evans. On the twelfth of April, 1850 he started for California; upon 
his arrival, settling in El Dorado county, at Placerville, where he remained 
four years. In 1854 he went to Placer county, and mined sixteen months, but went 
back to El Dorado and remained until June, 1861, when he came to Plumas county. 
In December, 1863, he returned to the east by steamer on a visit, and came back 
overland with his brother, J. B. Evans, and his family, arriving in Plumas 
county in October, 1864. In the fall of 1866 he bought the Lee ranch, consisting 
of 160 acres, on which he has since resided. To this he has added 200 acres. Mr. 
Evans was never married. The brother who came to the coast with him died in the 
north arm of Indian valley in 1867.  
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 306