173 46.57 5 135 50.2 1861, Ocl; 21. Gift of Rev Loammi G. Ware, ADVERTISEMENT. SEVERAL of the relatives and friends of Mrs. Evans expressed an earnest desire that some memorial of her character and sayings, especially her dying remarks, might be preserved for their perusal. This was the occasion of the following sketch of her life and death. MEMOIR. PART I. Parentage of Mrs. Evans. Her early thoughts on Religion; views of it after her Marriage.-Anxiety about her spiritual welfare.-Her Regeneration, and subsequent peace and comfort of mind. MRS. EVANS was second daughter of Ebenezer and Hepzibah Smith, of Reading, (now South Reading,) Mass., and great-grand-daughter of Dea. Francis Smith, who owned, and divided among his children, a considerable tract of land, around a pond in the south part of the town, after whom this pond is now called "Smith's Pond." The father and grandfather of Dea. Francis Smith emigrated to gether from England to this country, early after the Plymouth Colony, and made a settlement in Reading previous to the year 1647. The subject of this Memoir was born August 27, 1758. In 1776 she was married to Thomas Evans, of Reading. As it is a prominent object of this biographical sketch to notice and exhibit the religious character of Mrs. Evans, here will be introduced some account of her religious exercises, taken from her recital when in the 70th year of her age, August, 1828. 66 During my childhood and youth I had no very serious reflections respecting religion or my condition after death. I attended the preaching of Mr. P., and supposed that if my general deportment was becoming, and I was chargeable with no flagrant |