Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-01
FOUND AFTER DEATH.
Strange Story Of Old Davy Evans
Who Went West 27 Years Ago.
HIS FAMILY LOST TRACK OF HIN
Mrs. Timothy Finally coates Her Father in
lutte by Bis Will.
HE LEFT VERY VALUABLE REAL ESTATE

Mrs. David Timothy and her husband, OF
1705 Second avenue, left for Butte last even
ing to claim some property left her by her
father, who died year ago. She was the
daughter of man known in the Western
silver city as "OId Davy" Evans. He was
bricklayer BY trade, and went to Butte
when the town was founded. The old man
was industrious, and during his life man
aged to accumulate considerable valuable
real estate and much personal property, SO
Mrs Timothy thinks
Mr. Evans left will in which he be-
queathed two houses on Utah street, South
Butte, to his daughter Elizabeth. Strange
to say he had been away from home so long
that he couldn't tell where his family lived,
but he believed his child was in Pittsburg.
After his death some of his friends inter-
ested themselves in the case, and after q
great deal of corresponding succeeded in
reaching Mrs. Timothy, who is the daughter
mentioned in the will.
The Woman Is Hopeful.
Mrs. Timothy is very confident that
David Evans was her father and that the
estate belongs to her. The lawyers have
discovered that much of the old mans
property has been willed to other people,
and the chances are several big law suits to
recover will follow. Mrs. Timothy's at
torneys have been investigating tor some
time and they think they have enough eyi-
dence to prove it was obtained by fraud.
The story connected with the estate is
quite romantic one. According to Mrs.
Timothy's story, her father left Pittsburg
about q years ago to seek his fortune in the
West. For a time he corresponded with
his family, but after awhile his letters
ceased and all track of him was lost. Mrs.
Timothy was child when her father LETT
and her recollections of him are faint She
says that after he ceased to write home her
mother advertised tor him repeatedly in
various papers, but without results, and at
last the family began to consider him dead
and despaired of ever hearing from him
again. 1t was only when Mrs. Timothy was
notified of the property left to her In her
fathers will that the family obtained the
first trace of him in years.
Went West for Wealth.
Why he never wrote home can only be
conjectured, but it is more than probable
that his case was like that of hundreds of
others of the same kind where men have
''gone West" to build up their fortunes,
but not succeeding in acquiring COM
potency as they hoped for they dritted from
one place to another and always further
from home. Time and distance cause that
home to gradually fade from memory until
eventually it becomes mere shadow of
recollection and all interest in it ceases.
Many never acquire the looked-for for
tune, while to the few who are successful
it often comes so late in life as to avail
them but little. The unsuccessful ones
lack the courage to return to those who
probably years before they left full of hope
and promise of success, while the success
full ones like their later surroundings and
habits too we'll to leave them and they also
remain.