Abraham Lincoln "Abe" Evans was born in Union County, Tennessee on March 24, 1862, to George Washington and Orlena Wolfenbarger Evans. His father was a Justice of the Peace and his grandfather, Eligah Malachi Evans, served as Chairman of Union County's first court. As a young boy Abe fell and permanently injured a knee that left him crippled. Later he went to Atchison, Kansas to live with his brother, Aaron, who had migrated there some years earlier. The Catholic Church educated Abe, and he attended St. Benedicts College in Atchison earning a degree in law. As a young lawyer he attended the Prohibition Convention and delivered perhaps his first public speech on Prohibition in Effingham, Kansas, on September 29, 1884.
After graduation, Abe returned to Union County, Tennessee and to his home community on the Clinch River. Today this area is known as Island F. His address to the Grand Army of the Republic in a convention held in Maynardville on January 7, 1888, is preserved in a ledger he kept during his college years in Kansas. He married HazelLone Popejoy and trkey made their home in Maynardvule. In 1906, Abe. was elected County Judge of Union County and with only two politically motivated interruptions, served as County Judge until his death on May 16, 1932. Hazeltine died on July 17, 1932. WGT
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