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UPB files, May 30, 2013 (Evans family; owned Shiprock Trading Company; Richard Perry Evans (1914-1991), worked as purchasing agent at Tooele, Utah)

Familysearch.org, via WWW, May 30, 2013 (Thomas Evans (1849-1941); b. in Tredegar, Wales; m. 1876 in Pontypridd, Wales to Jane Ann Coles (1854-1902), eight children; coal miner; joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Oct. 14, 1881; first child, William Evans (1877-1954); m. 1902 in Fruitland, N.M. to Sarah Luella Walker (1880-1960), four children; second son, Richard Perry Evans (1914-1991); m. 1940 in Farmington, N.M. to Beth Burt (1916-2002))

Ancestry.com, via WWW, May 30, 2013 (Thomas Evans (b. 1849), second child and only son of parents; coal miner; d. age 93 in Shiprock, N.M.; raised in Tredegar, Wales; moved to Pontypridd in 1873; m. Jane Ann Coles, 1876 in Pontypridd; son, William Evans, b. in Pontypridd, 1877; Jane Ann joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1880, Thomas in 1881; moved to Merthyr Conference House in Merthyr Tydfil, 1888, worked to care for missionaries; moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1892; moved to Fruitland, N.M. in 1893, worked as coal miner; played the concertina)

Along Navajo trails, 2005: p. 10 (William "Will" Evans) p. 12 (worked in coal mines with father, and as a farm hand; began working as a trader to the Navajo in 1898) p. 13 (served as a missionary in Maine) p. 14 (purchased Shiprock Trading Company in 1917) p. 19 (sold company in 1948) p. 21 (served as police judge in Farmington, N.M., 1952-1954)

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