When John Thomas Evans was born on 1 May 1823, in Henllan Amgoed, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Evans, was 21 and his mother, Mary Evans, was 32. He married Elizabeth Ann Lloyd on 25 November 1855, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and North Point, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 19 June 1900, in Hunter, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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.
Evans, John Thomas - Journal Missionary Diary of John Thomas Evans, 1850-1852 Translated from Welsh to English by John C. Musgrove with notes by Kent Buckner (1981) **************************** …
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