Elizabeth Evans married James Wier (Weir) at Upper Long Cane Presbyterian Church, Abbeville, S.C., and settled in the 1830s on land adjoining the site of this cemetery.
Daughter of James Evans, a Revolutionary War soldier of Abbeville, S.C., and his wife Rose Kyle Evans. James Evans came from Ireland with his parents aboard the ship "THE IRISH VOLUNTEER," landing February 1767. The same ship brought James Wier's uncles and aunts from Ireland in 1797.
Elizabeth Evans Wier was an aunt of Augusta Evans Inge of Corinth, wife of the speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and whose hospitality was extended to Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston prior to the Battle of Corinth. It was to Mrs. Inge's home later that General Johnston's body was carried and laid out after the Battle of Shiloh in which he was killed.
Another niece, Mrs. Inge's sister Cornelia Evans, moved to Texas and married Maj. Franklin Lodowick Denison, journalist, editor and founder of the Waco Register, the Belton Courier and the Belton Reporter.
After Elizabeth Wier's sudden death in 1863, her husband James Wier, while in his sixties, remarried a girl in her twenties. Some considered it too soon for respectability and it was said they left the Presbyterian Church because of it, and later the Wiers joined the Baptist church.
James Wier moved to Webster County before his death in 1885, at which time his second wife allowed his sons to return his body back to Graysport, reportedly as per his request, for burial beside his first wife at Lamon's Cemetery.
Daughter of James Evans, a Revolutionary War soldier of Abbeville, S.C., and his wife Rose Kyle Evans. James Evans came from Ireland with his parents aboard the ship "THE IRISH VOLUNTEER," landing February 1767. The same ship brought James Wier's uncles and aunts from Ireland in 1797.
Elizabeth Evans Wier was an aunt of Augusta Evans Inge of Corinth, wife of the speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and whose hospitality was extended to Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston prior to the Battle of Corinth. It was to Mrs. Inge's home later that General Johnston's body was carried and laid out after the Battle of Shiloh in which he was killed.
Another niece, Mrs. Inge's sister Cornelia Evans, moved to Texas and married Maj. Franklin Lodowick Denison, journalist, editor and founder of the Waco Register, the Belton Courier and the Belton Reporter.
After Elizabeth Wier's sudden death in 1863, her husband James Wier, while in his sixties, remarried a girl in her twenties. Some considered it too soon for respectability and it was said they left the Presbyterian Church because of it, and later the Wiers joined the Baptist church.
James Wier moved to Webster County before his death in 1885, at which time his second wife allowed his sons to return his body back to Graysport, reportedly as per his request, for burial beside his first wife at Lamon's Cemetery.
Elizabeth Evans married James Wier (Weir) at Upper Long Cane Presbyterian Church, Abbeville, S.C., and settled in the 1830s on land adjoining the site of this cemetery.
Daughter of James Evans, a Revolutionary War soldier of Abbeville, S.C., and his wife Rose Kyle Evans. James Evans came from Ireland with his parents aboard the ship "THE IRISH VOLUNTEER," landing February 1767. The same ship brought James Wier's uncles and aunts from Ireland in 1797.
Elizabeth Evans Wier was an aunt of Augusta Evans Inge of Corinth, wife of the speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and whose hospitality was extended to Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston prior to the Battle of Corinth. It was to Mrs. Inge's home later that General Johnston's body was carried and laid out after the Battle of Shiloh in which he was killed.
Another niece, Mrs. Inge's sister Cornelia Evans, moved to Texas and married Maj. Franklin Lodowick Denison, journalist, editor and founder of the Waco Register, the Belton Courier and the Belton Reporter.
After Elizabeth Wier's sudden death in 1863, her husband James Wier, while in his sixties, remarried a girl in her twenties. Some considered it too soon for respectability and it was said they left the Presbyterian Church because of it, and later the Wiers joined the Baptist church.
James Wier moved to Webster County before his death in 1885, at which time his second wife allowed his sons to return his body back to Graysport, reportedly as per his request, for burial beside his first wife at Lamon's Cemetery.
Daughter of James Evans, a Revolutionary War soldier of Abbeville, S.C., and his wife Rose Kyle Evans. James Evans came from Ireland with his parents aboard the ship "THE IRISH VOLUNTEER," landing February 1767. The same ship brought James Wier's uncles and aunts from Ireland in 1797.
Elizabeth Evans Wier was an aunt of Augusta Evans Inge of Corinth, wife of the speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and whose hospitality was extended to Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston prior to the Battle of Corinth. It was to Mrs. Inge's home later that General Johnston's body was carried and laid out after the Battle of Shiloh in which he was killed.
Another niece, Mrs. Inge's sister Cornelia Evans, moved to Texas and married Maj. Franklin Lodowick Denison, journalist, editor and founder of the Waco Register, the Belton Courier and the Belton Reporter.
After Elizabeth Wier's sudden death in 1863, her husband James Wier, while in his sixties, remarried a girl in her twenties. Some considered it too soon for respectability and it was said they left the Presbyterian Church because of it, and later the Wiers joined the Baptist church.
James Wier moved to Webster County before his death in 1885, at which time his second wife allowed his sons to return his body back to Graysport, reportedly as per his request, for burial beside his first wife at Lamon's Cemetery.
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