Williamson County Sun, Georgetown, TX, April 18, 1924, p.1
Death came to Mr. Evan Mankins a pioneer settler of Georgetown Saturday morning at 12:05 o'clock at the Martin Hospital after a brief illness of only a few days. Mr. Mankins had for several years lived alone in his home in this city, in spite of the entreaties of his children to make his home with them and no one knew of his illness, if ill he was, until Friday afternoon when he was found by City Marshall C. J. Brady suffering greatly from a stomach trouble. He was removed to his home and medical aid summoned and on Friday morning was taken to Martin hospital where death came as above stated at an early hour Saturday morning. The body was prepared for burial and removed to the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Edwards north of the city limits where at four o'clock Monday afternoon funeral services were conducted by Rev. Wm. C. Moffet, pastor of the First Baptist church of Georgetown; interment being delayed by the arrival of the late train on which a daughter arrived from Kansas City and the body was laid to rest in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery at ten o'clock Monday morning. Mr. Mankins was a real pioneer, coming to Georgetown in 1848; the year Williamson county was organized, he was a Confederate soldier and prior to the war did valiant service for his State as a Texas ranger. He was a member of the Over Seventy Club of Georgetown and with one, or perhaps two, exceptions had been a citizen of this county for a longer period than any of them. Few men were well acquainted with Mr. Mankins, but those who were learned that he had a kindly heart, was deeply patriotic and those who were present at the meetings of the Over Seventy Club which he attended, found him well versed in the history of Texas and acquainted with the State's pioneers and those happenings that marked the milestones of her advancement throughout the years since she abandoned her role as a republic and assumed her place in the galaxy of states which form the United States. Evan Mankins was born in Madison, Ark. January 12, 1839, and was therefore eighty-five and three months of age at the time of his death; he came to Texas with his parents when a child of nine years of age in 1848, and settled in the rich valley of the San Gabriel where he still owned large and valuable farm lands at the time of his death. He was therefore a resident of Georgetown for seventy-six years. As a young man he served on the Texas ranger force, resigning from that service in 1862 and joining the Confederate forces, seeing service throughout the war. August 7, 1862 he was married to Miss Jane Williams, also a member of a pioneer family, and to this union thirteen children were born, eleven of whom survive; two Mrs. Mary Purl died in September, 1910, and Charles Edward, died in infancy. Mrs. Mankins died Nov. 5th, 1920; deceased leaves surviving his eleven children, forty-four grandchildren and six great grandchildren. The children surviving are: Mr. Jeff D. Mankins, Shamrock, Texas; Mrs. Ernest Garner, Haviland, Kansas; R. L. Mankins, Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. J. W. Flinn, Taft, Texas; Mrs. H. G. Thomas, Duncan, Okla.; Mrs. J. M. Jones, Lawton, Okla.; W. W. Mankins, T. E. Mankins, Mrs. Minnie Lee, Mrs. J. H. Spalding and Miss Ollie Mankins of Oklahoma City. There was a large crowd of relatives and friends present to pay their last tribute of respect to this old pioneer.