Arthur A. Evans

EVINS, A.A. – CAPT. EVINS SUSTAINS FALL; WILL DIE – Captain A.A. Evins, aged 85 years, is at the point of death at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S.B. Wheeler in McIllroy Heights, as the result of a fall sustained yesterday afternoon at 6:30 o’clock at the Wheeler home. Captain Evins in mistaking the cellar door for the one adjoining, stepped into the stairway opening to the furnace room, falling a distance of some twelve feet striking his head on the concrete basement floor and sustaining a fractured skull, a broken arm and other injuries which rendered him unconscious, a condition in which he is reported to be this afternoon. Captain Evins has lived in Washington County for more than half a century and in Fayetteville for the past thirty years, having come here from Cane Hill in 1890. He is a native of Tennessee from which State he moved to Arkansas at the age of 21. His daughter, Miss Mamie Evins, of Little Rock, arrived this morning. Two daughters, Mrs. J.J. McGee and Mrs. S.B. Wheeler reside here and another daughter, Mrs. Elmer Browers of Kansas City is expected. Two sons, H.C. Evins and J.D. Evins of San Antonio will arrive in the morning. [Daily Fayetteville Democrat 4/15/1920] Capt. A.A. Evins, who last week sustained a fall which resulted in a fractured skull and who has since then been in a more or less unconscious condition, died Sunday morning at 3 o’clock and was buried this afternoon at 2 o’clock from Central Presbyterian Church, Rev. M.L. Gillespie, assisted by Rev. F.M. Freyschlag and Rev. H.E. Wheeler officiating. Interment was in Evergreen Cemetery, with the following as pallbearers: Bruce Holcomb, Will Morton, Fount Earle, Charles Tunstill, Clem Pearson and Steve Bates. Capt. Evins was born February 22, 1835. He was the father of Mrs. J.J. Magon, of this place and Miss Mamie Evins, of Little Rock, formerly of Fayetteville; H.C. Evins and J.B. Evins of San Antonio, sons, and a daughter, Mrs. Brower of Kansas City, also survive him. [Fayetteville Democrat 4/26/1920]
A.A. Evins to be awarded the Southern Cross of Honor on January 19, 1907 by the Mildred Lee Chapter No. 98 of the U.D.C. [Fayetteville Democrat 1/10/1907]
A.A. Evins filed Veteran Application #21721 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate pension and it was received as allowed August 8, 1918 at the State, citing service with the !5thArkansas Infantry from date of enlistment thru 1865. [State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives]