Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Evans, Elizabeth Hewlings

1812917Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Evans, Elizabeth Hewlings

EVANS, Elizabeth Hewlings, poet, b. in Philadelphia in 1818; d. in Amelia county, Va., in 1855. She was a daughter of William S. Stockton, of Philadelphia, and in 1839 married Dr. M. F. T. Evans, of Amelia county, Va. Mrs. Evans contributed poems to various periodicals, and was widely known to the public. A volume of her poems, with a preface by her brother, the Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, was published shortly before her death (Philadelphia, 1851).