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Descendants of George Head, Sr.

95. DOXIE⁷ EVANS (JOHN D.⁶, SARAH E.⁵ PEAVLER, CATHERINE⁴ HEAD, GEORGE³, WILLIAM², GEORGE¹) was born 1879 in Bell County, Kentucky, and died November 23, 1917 in Whitley County, Kentucky. She married JAMES BROWNING. He was born March 03, 1873 in Kentucky, and died April 27, 1952 in Bell County, Kentucky.

Child of DOXIE EVANS and JAMES BROWNING is:

CHARLIE⁸ BROWNING, b. March 06, 1906, Bell County, Kentucky; d. July 25, 1984, Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky; m. PARASITTIA PARTIN; b. April 27, 1909; d. October 30, 1950, Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky.

96. DR. WILLIAM KENNETH⁷ EVANS, SR. (SHELTON⁶, SARAH E.⁵ PEAVLER, CATHERINE⁴ HEAD, GEORGE³, WILLIAM², GEORGE¹) was born October 21, 1879 in Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky, and died 1961. He married BESSIE EDWARDS February 02, 1904.

Notes for DR. WILLIAM KENNETH EVANS, SR.:
The record of Dr. William Kenneth Evans is a story of continuous progress that has placed him with the foremost physicians and surgeons of eastern Kentucky and he is also numbered among the large coal operators of this section of the state. He was born October 21, 1879, in Pineville, Bell county, Kentucky, and his parents were Shelton and Mary (Fuson) Evans. He attended the public schools of his native town and his higher education was received in the Hospital College of Medicine, now the University of Louisville. He was graduated with the class of 1902 and returned to Pineville, where he followed his profession for a year. He was physician and surgeon for the Virginia & Southwestern Railroad during 1903-4 and for four years thereafter was the professional representative of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company at Corbin, Kentucky. He has maintained an office in Middlesboro, Kentucky, since 1908 and in 1910 established the first hospital in the town. He successfully conducted the institution until 1920, when it was sold. He has a large practice and is district surgeon for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. Dr. Evans supervises the work of forty-eight physicians and his jurisdiction extends throughout the Cumberland Valley division and a portion of the Kentucky division. He is one of sixteen district surgeons who are connected with the system and his professional standing is denoted by his selection for this important post by one of the great transportation lines of the country. Dr. Evans is devoted to the interests intrusted to his charge and his services have been of marked value to the corporation. He is learned in the science of his profession and belongs to the Bell County and Kentucky State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. He is a man of more than one talent and as vice president of the Reliance Coal & Coke Company of Hartranft, Tennessee, and president of the Long Branch and Sugar Branch Coal Companies of Middlesboro, Kentucky, displays the administrative power, the mental alertness and keen sagacity of the capable executive.

Dr. Evans was married February 2, 1904, to Miss Bessie Edwards, a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Shauman) Edwards, of Pineville, Kentucky. Dr. and Mrs. Evans have a family of four children: William Kenneth, Jr., who was born October 20, 1907; Mary Hilyer, born July 3, 1910; Louise, born April 4, 1913; and Kenton Edward, born September 20, 1920.

Source: HISTORY of KENTUCKY, The Blue Grass State, 322886, VOLUME III ILLUSTRATED, THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY, CHICAGO - LOUISVILLE, 1928

More About DR. WILLIAM KENNETH EVANS, SR.:
Burial: Middlesboro Cemetery, Middlesboro, Bell County, Kentucky

Children of WILLIAM EVANS and BESSIE EDWARDS are:

	i.		WILLIAM KENNETH⁸ EVANS, JR., b. October 20, 1907.
	ii.		MARY HILYER EVANS, b. July 03, 1910.
	iii.		LOUISE EVANS, b. April 04, 1913.
	iv.		KENTON EDWARD EVANS, b. September 20, 1920.

97. CLAUDE⁷ PEAVLER (JAMES W.⁶, THOMAS M.⁵, CATHERINE⁴ HEAD, GEORGE³, WILLIAM², GEORGE¹) was born April 30, 1908 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and died 1987 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He married FLOSSIE M. HISAW 1936 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was born 1915 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and died 1988 in Muskogee, Oklahoma.

More About CLAUDE PEAVLER:
Burial: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma

More About FLOSSIE M. HISAW:
Burial: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma

Child of CLAUDE PEAVLER and FLOSSIE HISAW is:

BOBBY WAYNE⁸ PEAVLER, b. April 29, 1937, Muskogee, Oklahoma; d. July 10, 1938.

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