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| Will R. Evans Store |
| This interior view of the old store shows D. Milton Jones and Mr. Evans at left; L. K.
Parkhurst, Pioneer grocery salesman in center and Ray Mayne at the right. |
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| From Judge H. D. Evans |
Mr. Harley Ransom,
Williamsburg, Iowa.
My Dear Harley: |
In connection with "Pioneer Recollections" that you are about to publish
it occurs to me that some informa- tion that I have relative to the earlier settlers around Williamsburg
might be of interest. This information I received from my father, Will R. Evans, and from his notes and recollections
that he had reduced to writing and I quote from what he had written prior to his death.
"My father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Evan Evans, to- gether with Richard Pugh and William Evans, sailed
down the Ohio river from Cincinatti in early December, 1844. They crossed the Mississippi at Muscatine, then drove to
what is now Troy Township, then a part of the Louisiana Purchase, and called the "New Purchase," set- tled by
the Indians.
On a little hill southeast of where Williamsburg is now located and right east of the
Catholic cemetery three log cabins were built in the winter of 1844 and 1845, and in the spring some small
patches of ground were |
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