It is unfortunate that Hiram Noah Evans was not better remembered.  The most likely reason for this is that he died relatively young, at the age of 52.  He was born on January 5, 1838, in what is today Lamar County, Alabama.  He was the fourth child of Thomas Evans' second marriage and must have been named for his grandfather, Hiram Webb, who had died very recently.  It is certain that he and his brother Dave Evans, who were probably born within a year of each other, were very close throughout their lives.  

Hiram was certainly on the 1840 census and we do have his name on the 1850 one with his father and mother.  His father died in 1856, when Hiram Noah was 18 years old.  So many of the families in the 1860 census could not be found, and we have yet to locate Hiram Noah on it, but he was probably still in Lamar County, in another family's home as a laborer.  We think his mother had already died by 1860, but we cannot be sure.  It was about 1860 that his brother Dave married Rosa Tooten.  Two years later, we have records that Hiram Noah Evans served in the 42nd Alabama, Co. H of the C.S.A. as a substitute for C.C. Beard, and then regularly discharged on September 17 of 1862.  Later his widow would state that he served in the 16th Alabama.  He and Dave's status during the Civil War is shaded in mystery, but they certainly served in the C.S.A. for at least part of the war.  

On February 14, 1867, Hiram Noah married the younger sister of Rosa Tooten Evans (his sister-in-law), Julia D. Tooten.  She was nine years younger than he but a marriage where the groom was 29 and the bride was 20 was certainly not out of the ordinary.  They first had a daughter Gillie (also known as Cynthia), and then a son named David.  When the census passed through in 1870, the family was recorded this way:

1870 Lamar County, Alabama Census
Township 13, Range 16, P.O. Moscow
Evans, N. H. 29 AL Farmer $300 $300
Evans, Julia D. 24 AL Keeping House
Evans, Gilla L. 3 AL
Evans, David 1 AL
[Next to his uncle, John G. Webb.]

At some point over then next seven years, Hiram Noah and his young family moved across the state line to Lee County, Mississippi, in between the towns of Nettleton and Plantersville.  The tax census recorded him there in 1877:

1877 Lee County, Mississippi Tax List Index
Evans, H.N.

Three years later, we get our first real glimpse of the family in their new home:

1880 Lee County, Mississippi Census
Page 165, house #156 in dist 1,
Evans, Hyram W M 40       AL  England TN
" July  W F 33                   MS TN TN
" Gillie W F 11                  AL AL MS
" David  W M 10               AL AL MS
" Tom   W M 5                  MS AL MS
" Mary    W F 2                  MS AL MS
[Obvious mistake or Hiram was fooling on the birthplace of his father. No way Thomas was born in England.]

Two more children were still on the way.  By 1890, the census would have recorded the family, but it is entirely lost.  Later that year, on September 10, 1890, Hiram Noah Evans passed away from cancer of the eye.  He supposedly had gotten jabbed in the eye with a stick while walking through the woods one day and though he did not die immediately from it, it eventually became cancerous and caused his death.  This is the version of the story that was passed down to some descendants.  He was buried in the Union Methodist Church Cemetery, very close to where they had lived since moving to Lee County.  

His youngest children certainly didn't remember very much at all about Hiram Noah.  Julia and the children moved away to live with her daughter Mamie for a while, and in the year 1900 I'm not exactly sure where they were.  In 1906 Julia sold 40 acres of Hiram's land to her nephew (by marriage), Alec Morgan.  In the 1910 census, Julia is in Lee County again:

1910 Lee County, Mississippi Census
Page ?, house #210 in dist. 1,
Evans, Julia B.    Head F W 62 W(idowe)d   MS TN TN
Evans, Grover C.    Son   M W 22 S(ingle)    MS AL MS

In 1913, she filed a widow's pension for her husband's Civil War service.  She also filed in 1916.  When her daughter Mamie died in 1918, she came to live with their family.  She must have passed away a little after 1918.  She is probably buried in the Union Methodist Cemetery also.

Cynthia L(ove). Evans (md. Mr. Marsh and John Thomas Mayfield Sr.)
     Cynthia was born in 1869 in the Union Community of Lee County and married Mr. Marsh, who (very likely) might have been related to Will Marsh from Vero Beach, Florida (her first-cousin Gillie's husband).   She was called Gillie for quite a while, but then started going by Cynthia when she was married.  They had a son, Hugh Marsh, and either divorced or he died.  She then married John Thomas Mayfield about 1899, and had a boy (John Thomas Jr.) and a girl (Julie Elizabeth "Betty" Mayfield), also raising a boy named George Proctor (who grew up to be as close as a twin brother to Hugh Marsh as someone could be).  Some of her children lived in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and two of her boys owned a chain of theaters there, but she and her daughter Elizabeth lived in Vero Beach, Florida.  She was buried in Crestlawn Cemetery there.  I have not been able to contact her living descendants yet, but am still looking!

David Clark Evans (md ?)
     Dave Clark Evans was born in 1870 and at some point moved away from the area and went West.  He came back when he was older (this picture is thought to have been him, but not certain).  He was not known to have had any children, but he could have had a family out West (Kansas or Oklahoma?).  He died after 1922 in the Union Community, and may be buried at the Smithville Cemetery near his sister Mamie.

Thomas Zachariah Evans (md. Sula "Sudie" Mozley)
     Tom was born on November 25, 1875, in the Union community, Lee County, Mississippi.  He married Sudie around 1900, she was five years younger than him, but from the same area.  They had three sons who all died at birth, but their two daughters both lived.  Sudie died on December 30, 1915, four days after trying to give birth to a son, who was stillborn.  Tom later married "Miss Maggie" from that area and they moved to Jonestown, Mississippi for a while, but later moved back to Lee County.  Tom lived to age 72, when he passed away on August 25, 1948.  He was buried in the Union Methodist Cemetery.

Mary Frances "Mamie" Evans (md. Aden Caldwell Moore)
     Mamie was born on November 22, 1877.  She married at about age 22 to Aden Caldwell Moore, who was a couple of years her elder.  They moved to Smithville, Monroe County, Mississippi and had eight children together.  He owned a general store in Smithville.  When World War I was over, an influenza epidemic swept through parts of the South and on the very same day, December 28, 1918, both Mamie and her firstborn child, Josephine Moore, age 17, passed away from the sickness.  Mamie was only 41.  She was buried in the Smithville Cemetery.  A.C. remarried and lived to be 91 years old, dying in 1967.

Will Noah Evans (md. Annie N. Shackleford)
     Will Noah was born on September 4, 1882.  He and Annie married before 1904 and had six children together.  They moved to West Memphis, Arkansas, and raised their children there, often visiting back home.   Will Noah passed away on May 25, 1937, at the young age of 54.  He was buried two days later in the Union Methodist Cemetery.  Annie lived to the age of 82, passing away in 1965 in Plantersville.

Grover Cleveland "Cleve" Evans (md. Betty Dodson)
     Cleve was born on November 15, 1884.  He probably just barely remembered his father befor he died.  He lived his life in the Union Community, and on January 31, 1911, he married Betty Dodson, who was three years younger than him.  He and Betty adopted one child, but never had any of their own.  They raised James Donald Evans, but it was thought that he was Cleve's great-nephew.  Cleve was a farmer and lived in the old Dave Evans, his uncle, home.  Cleve passed away on September 15, 1957, at the age of 72, and was buried in the Union Methodist Cemetery.  Betty died in 1973.