1905 - 1984

Wife: Mary Ferguson Gaines

Daughters: Martha Anne Sap, Mary Hugh Skeen

4 Grandchildren, 6 Great-Grandchildren

Mr. Evans, son of Della S. and Jesse C. Evans, was reared in the Gladeville community. His brothers were the following: Turner S. Evans, W. Kelly Evans, and Haskell Evans. In Wilson County, he was educated at Concord School and Gladeville High School. On a scholarship he attended and received his B.S. degree from Tennessee Polytechnic Institute. He earned a Masters degree from George Peabody College.

His first teaching experience was in Mississippi, which lasted for seven years. In 1937 he returned to Lebanon to become Lebanon High School’s F.F.A. advisor. After teaching there for thirty-three years, he retired in 1970. As young boys, he and his brothers worked hard on a family farm. Because of this and his education, he conveyed his knowledge of farming to his students. The content area of teaching agriculture not only included the farming curriculum, but life skills, welding, and building. While teaching, he took his boys to F.F.A. camps, conventions (both state and national), contests where they participated in public speaking, parliamentary procedure, and livestock judging. During his career, he had students who received "The American Farmer Degree." Mr. Evans loved all of his boys.

After the war, Mr. Evans worked through the G.I. bill in supervising the teaching of farming skills to World War II veterans.

He was a member of the Lebanon First United Methodist Church, Jaycees, a charter member of the Lions Club, the Munsey Grange, the Farm Bureau, the Wilson County Association of Retired Teachers, and the Retired Vocational Teachers organization.

Mr. and Mrs. Evans and two generations of their family have taught approximately 120 years in Wilson County. He instilled the love of teaching to his family.