Brief Life History of Frank
When Frank Evans was born on 10 January 1885, in Searsboro, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States, his father, James Daniel Evans, was 48 and his mother, Anna Elizabeth Farmer, was 36. He married Verona Bell Saunders on 9 March 1904, in Searsboro, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Sugar Creek Township, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Washington Township, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States for about 20 years. He died on 4 March 1961, in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Masonic IOOF Cemetery, Montezuma, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States.
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- Frank Evans, "United States Census, 1940"
- Benj. Franklin Evans, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Frank Evans, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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