The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-01-08
Death of Col. 3. T. Evans, of Charleston

Death of Col. 3. Z. Evans, OF Charleston.
The Charleston Ncws and Courier contains
the following sketch of the life Of Col. Evans,
recently deceased, and which embraces just
tribute to his worth and services as model
citizen:
The announcement Of the decease of Col.
Benjamin F. Evans, of the firm of Walker,
Evans & Cogswell will be shock to our whole
community for the death of a man of such
manly vigor, high tone of character and enter
prising and pervading usefulness, is great
public calamity. The suddenness of the stroke,
too, is appalling But yesterday he moved
among US an image of health and lusty, active
manhood; to-day he lies low in the still and
rigid com posure of death. Truly in the midst
of life we are in death. What shadows we are,
and what shadows do we pursue
Col. Evans was born in Georgetown, S: g.,
in the year 1881, and came to this city about
the year 1915 as an apprentice to the late MIR.
Joseph Walker. So steady was his industry, so
manifest were his capabilities, and so uncon,
querable was his determination to succeed and
to excel, that Mr. Walker, who appreciated
fully his many noble qualities and useful hab-
it's, associated him as a partner with himself
in the printing and stationary business. lie
was thereafter an indispensable part OF that
concern that became so widely and tavorably
known.
At the opening of the civil war, Col. Evans
was sent to New York to purchase arms for the
State of South Carolina. This he accomplish
ed at considerable personal risk. On his re-
turn he went to Richmond to seek service in
the field. The then secretary of the Conteder-
ate treasury, the Hon. G. G. Memminger, who
knew Col. Evans's qualifications, applied to
him and prevailed upon him to take charge OF
the printing of the Confederate paper money.
Col. Evans was reluctant to forego active SER
vice in the field but finally yielded to the rep
resentation that he could best serve the Con-
federacy in that way, and that he ought to
POSTPONE his private inclinations to the public
interests. He went to Europe, procured the
necessary machinery and skilled labor, and re-
turned by way of Mexico and the West, after
encountering many stirring adventures. The
great establishment at Columbia, which printed
the Confederate money, until it's destruction
by Sherman's soldiers, was conducted Dy the
firm of which he was the head.
The results of the war wrecked his fortunes,
as they did the fortunes of almost all OF US;
but with characteristic spirit and enterprise
Col. Evans raised a company TOR the establish
ment of large cotton factory at kalmla, IN
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compelled him to abandon this enterprise, in
which he sunk all that remained to him, but
the present great success of that enterprise is
monument to his foresight and sagacity. In
1868 he returned to this city, and resumed in
the firm of Walker, Evans & Cogswell, the
printing and stationery business, which, by the
Joint endeayors of his copartners and himself,
has achieved the reputation of being one OF
the largest, most reliable, and most enterprising
establishments in the South.
Col. Evans was a trustee of Woford College,
commissioner of public schools, vice-presi-
dent of the Apprentices Library Society.
most active member of the Howard Assocla-
ton, and first vice president Of the Washington
Light Infantry Rife Club. Indeed, it may be
said that he identified himself with almost all
useful public enterprises of the day, and car
ried into each and all of them an indomitable
spirit of zeal and activity.
We do not know a man that could have been
more lily spared than Col. Evans re was
full of youthful ardor, entirely abreast with the
times, animated by most hopeful! spirit, and
resolved to repair, in every practicable way, the
breaches made by war, in the publlc's fortunes
as we'll as his own private one. There was
wonderful effectiveness in the quiet, persever-
ing and energetic way in which he pushed tor
ward all objects to which he addressed himself.
His employees were devoted to him, for they
appreciated not only the upright and straight
forward character Of his dealing, but his kindly
disposition and generous conduct His friends
loved him for they knew that he was utter
ly unselfsh, and true as the needle to the pole.
And the community of which he was mem
Der and an ornament, will feel that void has
been made which cannot easily be filled, and
that column has been stricken down which
will not soon be replaced.