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| Depiction of the Battle of Fallen Timbers |
Charles Evans, my wife's 3rd great grandfather, and father of John Evans, was born in Kentucky in 1794. Kentucky had been formed two years earlier from "Kentucky County" Virginia. Daniel Boone had blazed a trail through the Cumberland gap 20 years earlier and settled Fort Boonesborough. In the same year as Charle's birth, 1794, the Battle of Fallen Timbers was fought between the US and Regional indian tribes. The US victory ended Indian attacks in Kentucky and ceded the Ohio Territory to the US. Charles was raised in Northwest Kentucky and lived for a time over the border of the Mississippi river in Floyd County, Indiana.
He married Sena Palmer in Cynthiana, Kentucky on April 26, 1814. Sena was also from Kentucky and also born in 1794. They were farmers residing in Trimble county Kentucky which was formed from three other counties in 1836. The Town of Bedford, first settled in 1805, was the closest town, located on a bend in the Mississippi. Their children were Mary, John, James, Mahala, Casander, and Sarah.
Charles appears on the 1850 Census but not thereafter. He died between 1850 and 1860. Sena lived with her son James until the age of 84 (1878).
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