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Notes
1981 book (see for details)
His son Samuel Brown Evans died at the Alamo, and at that point he enlisted and 
fought at San Jacinto
from rootsweb:
MUSGROVE EVANS (son of SAMUEL & NANCY (CLOUGH) EVANS)
was born December 17, 1785.  In the 1820 Census, Musgrove Evans was living
at Lyme, Jefferson Co., NY.  It appears from the EVANS, AMERICANS OF
ROYAL DESCENT book that Musgrove Evans was the reason Elizabeth Crippen
and other Evans family members came to settle in Texas, specifically first to
Fayette Co., Texas.  Musgrove was a surveyor,(Wing Evans and Brown), who
first took his family to Tecumseh and Detroit, Michigan, building a grist mill 
in 1825 in Detroit., establishing the first mail and stagecoach line from 
Detroit to Chicago.  In 1831 he had obtained land grants in Texas, and after 
his wife, Abi, died in 1832, he began exploration trips to Texas, where he 
moved his 5 children in 1834.  Musgrove's son, Samuel B. Evans, was killed at 
the Alamo, whereupon Musgrove enlisted in the Texas Army April 1, 1836, fighting 
at San Jacinto. (Service Record No. 7446).   
He acquired large tracts of Texas land, and in 1839 was appointed 2nd auditor 
of the Republic.  Musgrove was mentioned as a prominent resident of Austin, Tx. 
(American Historical Register).  He died June 7, 1855, Austin, Travis Co., Texas.

He married (1) July 24, 1811

ABI BROWN who was born August 11, 1789, Bucks County, Pa.  She died
March 4, 1832, Bear Creek Valley, near Tecumseh, Mich.


Parents
EVANS Samuel ()
CLOUGH Nancy ()

Siblings
EVANS Musgrove ()
EVANS Mary (1791 - 16 Nov 1850)

Marriage To BROWN Abi ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by BROWN Abi 
EVANS William Musgrove (21 Apr 1821 - 25 Nov 1884)

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