McEvers, William E.

Born: 1826-XX-XX Ohio

William E. McEvers was a farmer. In April 1848 in Pike County, Illinois, he married Joanna Stout, with whom he had at least two children. In 1850 he lived and farmed in Scott County, Illinois. In June 1858, he served as a juror in the U.S. Circuit Court, Southern District of Illinois in a case in which Abraham Lincoln defended a U.S. Post Office Department employee accused of stealing from the mail. He was a cousin of Theodore L. McEvers of Montezuma, Illinois.

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Pike County, 13 April 1848, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Scott County, IL, 47; Oregon, U.S., County Births and Deaths, 1855-1970 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2022); Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield), 9 June 1858, 2:2; United States v. Hartzler, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), https://lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=137676; Theodore L. McEvers or Abraham Lincoln to William E. McEvers.