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Sources consulted for the biography of:William Dennis Evans (ca. 1831–1900)
Primary Sources
- United States Census Schedules, Prince Edward County, 1850 (age nineteen on Aug. 22), 1860 (age twenty-eight on July 31), 1870 (age thirty-nine on June 22), 1880 (age forty-eight on June 2), and 1900 (birth date of Feb. 1831), all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Registration as a free person of color in Prince Edward County Order Book, 26:409 (age eighteen on Jan. 20, 1851), 27:195 (age "about twenty three" on Nov. 17, 1856), Library of Virginia.
- Register of Colored Persons of Prince Edward County, State of Virginia, Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife on 27th February, 1866, Library of Virginia.
- Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
- Prince Edward County Deed Book, 28:594, 29:66–67, 31:31–32, Library of Virginia.
- Election results in Election Record no. 13 (1877) and no. 14 (1879), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Virginia General Assembly, House of Delegates, Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1877–1878 session), 77, 204, 284, 513–514; (1878–1879 session), 118, 546; (1879–1880 session), 53, 60, 125, 386, 399, 404
- Prince Edward County Will Book, 15:205–207, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 15–16.
- Herbert Clarence Bradshaw, History of Prince Edward County, Virginia, From its Earliest Settlements through its Establishment in 1754 To its Bicentennial Year (1955), 429, 438, 448, 695, 798.
- Melvin Patrick Ely, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War (2004), 420, 424.
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, September 24, 1877; November 9, 1877; November 7, 1879; November 8, 1879
- Richmond Daily Whig, January 17, 1879
Obituaries
- Farmville Herald, October 19, 1900 (died "in the 69th year of his age")
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