When Alexander Lowry Evans was born on 22 March 1799, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel Evans, was 40 and his mother, Frances Lowrey, was 24. He married Hannah Slaymaker in 1822. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 1 July 1839, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Donegal Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Mount Joy, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Welsh: derivative of Evan , from Efan, Ifan, medieval forms of Ieuan (from Latin Johannes, the source of English John), dating from c. 1500, with the post-medieval patronymic suffix -s. Welsh Sion was a separate borrowing of English John, and Evan (Ieuan) and Sion developed as independent names.
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