From the February, 1926 issue of Erie Magazine:
Engineer in the Early Days
CHARLES ERNEST EVANS died March 10 (1926) at the home of his son Charles, in Summerall, Miss., aged 90 years.

He was born near Painted Post, N.Y., and soon after the Erie Railroad was opened he entered the service of the Erie, became a locomotive engineer, and for a series of years ran an engine out of the village of Hornellsville (now the city of Hornell).

His body was brought from Mississippi and buried in the Townsend cemetery, town of Erwin, Steuben county, N.Y., March 14.