The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-09-19
VOL. XXXV-NO. 80.

knowledge of his brief residence here. In
deed beyond the fact that he was an efficient
nd much beloved rector, scarcely anything
at all is known of his life or of his ministra-
tions during those three years of double rec
torship. The vestry proceedings last quoted,
although intrinsically of little moment have
sad interest even now from the great prob
ability that the worthy rector who presided
over their deliberations on that day, brief
though his labors here had been, was fated
never to be present again on a similar occa-
sion. In three weeks from that date be died
outside of HE parish. Rev. Mr.. Hotchkin, in
his sketch of the Rectors of Christ Church,
gives the following account of his death.
"Dr. Evans was visiting Philadelphia in
1921, and on the 9Th October-being Sunday
he preached in the morning in Christ
Church and was performing service in the
afternoon when he was seized with a tit OF
apoplexy and carried from the church, and
died on the following Wednesday. 1t is
thought that an obliterated epitaph may mark
the place of his grave in this church, where
he was buried. He was much beloved for his
piety and peaceful disposition, and he was
deeply lamented. He was faithful in admon-
ishing his flock to prepare for their heavenly
home, and esteemed sudden death great
favor"
From DR.. Evans will, in the records of
Baltimore county, made the following ex-
tracts, which seem to show that he prospered
in worldly as well as in spiritual sense. 1t
is dated May 25th, 1871, and proved on the
10th of the ensuing November. After COM
hitting his soul to his Creator, he says "My
Body recommend to the Earth to be inferred
at the north end of the Altar Table in st.
Georges Parish Church, and my funeral SER
mon 10 be preached by the Rev. George Ross,
of New Cassill, for which l will bequeth him
the clerks Whereas 1 am
possessed of TWO tracts in fee simple lying at
Manhattan, in the City of Philadelphia, and
the one named Rhyd Car, 600 acres, the
other Travaglwys, 400 acres, my
will is that they be sold, the amount to be
sent to the county of Denbigh North Walesl,
to the Rev. Mr.. Thomas Lloyd, Clerk of the
county (who married with my dear and only
daughter Mary)' for the use of their eldest
son." These and several other bequests-as
that of "f20 q year from mortgage in Den
bigh :" also of "rents and profits due me off
my living at Sutton, in the county of Lin
coin" He leaves to bis "wife Alice" certain
moneys, &C. Also 5000 pounds of tobacco
to Roger Mathews. and 10000 pounds to Ed
ward Hall.
There are two strange facts set forth in this
will one is, that he should have held div
ing" i'll England after residence of more
than twenty years in America. The other is,
that he should have held one thousand acres
of land sin the City of Philadelphia" which
would almost have sufficed, even at that early
day in the city's history, to make mil
lionaire of the possessor. Yet am sure my
extracts from the will were accurately made.
1t would appear by the above quotation
from Rev. Mr.. HOtchkin's sketch that the
clause in the will selecting St. Georges
Church as the place of his burial was not car
ried out merely from the circumstance of his
having died in Philadelphia. At that day
the transportation of his remains to distance
of many hundred miles would have been at
best no easy matter and moreover there is no
doubt that the old church in that city, whose
pulpit he had so long and SO acceptably filled,
urgently claimed the honor of being the re-
pository of his ashes.