Davis Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Evans, of Ebensburg, died of typhoid fever in the Mercy hospital, at Pittsburg, on Sunday morning, aged nineteen years.
Davis Evans was born and and (sic) reared in Ebensburg. He attended the public schools in this place and was a bright, intelligent, and industrious young man. He was employed a number of months in Barker Brothers’ store. Last fall he went to Pittsburg and secured emsloyment (sic) in that city. He worked there until about ten ten (sic) days before his death, when he was taken sick with the fever. His mother had been at his bedside since Monday of last week. Saturday afternoon word reached his home that he was dying, and that evening his father and elder brother, Morgan, departed on the 7:30 train for Pittsburg, arriving at the hospital before the final summons came.
Besides his parents, he is survived by three half sisters, namely, Mary Ann, wife of Dwight Jones, of Nebraska; Mrs. Elizabeth Griffith, of Ebensburg; Charlotte, wife of Charles Emigh, of Batavia, Ill., and two half brothers, Chambers of Batavia, Ill., and George of Altoona; and two brothers, Morgan and Thomas, and two sisters, Jennie and Emma, of Ebensburg. The remains were brought to his home on Monday evening and on Tuesday afternoon after services at the house were interred in Lloyd cemetery. |
