Thomas N. Evans
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle County Blade page 3 - January 26, 1899
DR. T. N. EVANS DEAD.
Dr. T. N. EVANS died at the hospital at Glenwood Springs this morning. The deceased had been in failing health for about a year and last week was removed to the hospital in the hope of prolonging his life, but during the last few days he declined rapidly and a telegram received this morning announces his demise.
Thomas N. EVANS was one of the pioneers of Eagle county and of the state of Colorado and was well known throughout this section. He was county surveyor of Eagle county at the time of his death. The Blade has not space at this late hour for an extended obituary notice, but one will appear in the following issue. It is presumed that the funeral and interment will occur at Red Cliff, though no arrangements have been made at this writing.
Eagle County Blade page 3 - February 2, 1899
Thomas N. EVANS was born in Calloway County, Missouri on December 21, 1831,
died at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, January 26, 1899.
As announced in The Blade last week Dr. EVANS, as he was generally known, has
finished life's course and departed a scene which was with him one of great activity.
Bright's disease was the immediate cause of his demise.
The deceased was a typical man of the West and possessed many characteristics
which go to make up the thorough frontiersman. When a boy in 1849, Thomas N.
EVANS left his home in Missouri and set out to the gold excitement in California to
seek his fortune. He went overland and experienced all the hardships and privations
incident to that journey. He remained in California several years, when he returned
to Missouri and married and undertook to settle down. But the Pike's Peak
excitement aroused his venturesome spirit and in 1861 he bade good bye to his
young wife and set out again across the plains to seek his fortune in the newly
discovered gold fields of the Rocky Mountains. On this occasion he was absent two
or three years when he returned to Missouri and in 1867, with his family, again
came to Colorado. At this time he located at Georgetown
Dr. EVANS was one of the first settlers of Red Cliff, arriving here in the fall of 1879.
The family came on the next spring. In making the several trips across the plains
and during the years spent on the frontier, the deceased met with many adventures
and passed through many experiences that try the nerve and fortitude of man. While a peaceable and law abiding citizen, he was never known to shirk a duty no
matter how great the personal risk involved. He was a dead shot and an expert
hunter. During the early days of Red Cliff, when the camp was a typical tough town
of the frontier, Thomas N. EVANS was city marshal and administered that office
without fear or favor. He is credited with having gone out alone and disarmed and
arrested Perry, the murderer, who was later lynched by the infuriated citizens of
Battle Mountain.
The deceased was a civil engineer and practiced that profession to some extent, and
had been for several successive terms county surveyor of Eagle County.
When in middle life he took up the practice of medicine, and while never having
taken a modern course in the science, he acquired considerable skill as a physician
and in some branches of the practice was very successful.
Dr. Evan's was generous to a fault, and beneath his rough exterior beat a heart that
was extremely kind. He was so constituted that he could not ignore a call from the
sick and he frequently left a comfortable fireside to face the bleakest weather in
response to calls from those in distress, knowing at the time that the chances of
pecuniary reward were very doubtful.
To err is human, and this gray hair'd pioneer who blazed many a trail for a
succeeding generation to follow, had his. But he never intentionally did injury to a
fellow - he could receive injury and forget it almost instantly.
The funeral was held on Saturday at the Congregational church in Red Cliff. Pastor
N. H. HAWKINS delivering the address. The weather was exceedingly rough, which
prevented a large attendance. Mrs. EVANS, three sons and a daughter survive, the
deceased. Also a half brother in Missouri
