EVANS-Jesse - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

In the year 1826 Mr. Jesse Evans came to Fountain County from Virginia and located aobut six miles east of Covington. The next year a man from Ohio settled in the same neighborhood. After these two men became acquainted, Mr. Evans asked his neighbor what his object was in leaving an old settled country and coming to the wilds of Indiana. His neighbor replied that he came to secure a home for a growing family and for no other purpose. Mr. Evans then said that he had no such object in view that he was well fixed in the country he came from had a sawmill in the mountains and could sell all the lumber he could cut; was well respected by his neighbors; had the confidence of all his acquaintances, and, as he was the only English scholar for miles around, he had to do all the writing such as articles of agreement, etc. He went on to say that he expected to find just such a people in Indiana as he left in Virginia and be elected governor of the state or to a seat in congress. Now, said he, I have become acquainted with the people of Fountain County and I find that I am the most ignorant man among them.