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OBITUARY.
Another Hero of the Revolution gone!
Departed this life, on Tuesday the 16th of August, at his residence in the
county of Campbell. Sampson Evans, Sr., in the 90th year of his age. He was born
on ship-board, during the voyage of emigration by his parents from Wales to the
Colony of Pennsylvania, and remained with them in that colony till after the
commencement of the Revolutionary contest, when the whole family moved to
Virginia. Previously to their removal from Pennsylvania, Mr. Evans was actively
engaged in the service of his country, in the operations of the American troops
at Red Bank and Mud Island on the Delaware; and shortly after his family settled
in Virginia, again anxious to aid the cause of Liberty, he marched to the South,
as a volunteer in Col. Lynch's regiment, and in the severe and desperate battle
at Guilford Court House, he fully sustained the character of firm and deliberate
valour preciously acquired by him. At an early age, Mr. Evans became convinced
of the truth of the Christian doctrine of Salvation, revealed in the New
Testament, and attached himself to the Presbyterian Church, of which he ever
afterwards continued a zealous member. His whole life afforded an example of
calm resignation, with the continued practice of the active virutes. To the
strictest integrity, the warmest love for mankind, and the most disinterested
charity, he united a firm belief in the efficacy of the all-atoning sacrifice of
the ever-blessed Redeemer; and it may in truth he said, that by his works he
made the most striking exhibition of his faith. [Obituary of Sampson EVANS, Sr.,
Lynchburg Virginian, 8 Sept 1842, p. 3]
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