Biography

Mamie Sue Jones Evans was born on December 14, 1895, in the State of Mississippi, USA, to Hiram A. and Lela Virginia Jones. Mamie worked as an Agent with the State Extension Service for 31 years.

Educated at the University of Mississippi for Women, she obtained a degree in Home Economics. In 1918, she worked as an agent in Johnston County, NC. She had an office in the court house, where every room and office had its own fire place. She would gather coal every morning from the yard of the jail and start her own fire.

She married Harvey Lee Evans on August 14, 1924 in Jackson, NC, and the couple had the following children: Wallace (born around 1926); Miriam (born around 1928); Flora Nell (born around1930). Harvey Lee Evans was born in Mississippi in 1898, to Harrison and Francis Evans.

Mrs. Evans died January 22, 1990, in Asheville, Buncombe County, NC., and was buried in Green Hills Cemetery in Asheville.

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