When Alexander Evans was born on 8 February 1794, in Marietta, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Samuel Evans, was 35 and his mother, Frances Lowrey, was 19. He died in 1795, in his hometown, at the age of 1.
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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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