N.C. He married Martha Henrietta Knight of Hamburg, S.C., in 1839. Personal and business correspondence, financial and legal papers, and other items, chiefly 1837-1870, of Evans and his wife, children, and other relatives. Included are items relating to Evans's life as a farmer before the Civil War and a merchant after the war, and a few manuscript copies of articles Evans wrote for the Fayetteville News.
Many letters relate to the status of blacks before and after the Civil War.
Confederate States of America. N.C. Light Artillery. Evans, Henrietta Knight. Evans, James, d. 1869. Received from Henrietta Evans Kent of Greensboro, N. C., in 1935.