Evington Village stores and views from the 1980s :

Maddox Store

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Evington Hotel

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Rosser Store

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Miles Store

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Miles Store/Community Well/Rossers

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Inside Rossers

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Descriptions for Evington Photos – 7/09    Extracted from Sara Hollberg submission

Evington Village stores and views from the 1980s.

Webber Arthur farm (c. 1800) has a log core, probably built by John Webber.  It passed to the Burrus family and then to Confederate veteran John P. Arthur, who married a daughter of the adjoining Farmer farm.    

Farmer Arthur Farm (c. 1820s) The original section is two log cells joined by a hall. It was built by Barnabas Farmer and later was owned by the Arthur family.  The Arthur family cemetery contains graves from the Civil War and is still in use.

Watts Cabin (early 1800s) sits on land purchased by William and Mary Watts in 1796.  

Flat Creek farm was established by William and Mary Scott Watts in 1796.  Their daughter Alice married Judge Fleming Saunders and Flat Creek and the property has been in the family ever since.  The main home burned down in 1981.  

(Duplex cabin)  This log quarters building on Flat Creek farm later served as the doctor’s office for Dr. James S. Irvine, husband of Evie Saunders.  

Capt Flem Mary G -  Captain Fleming Saunders and his wife Mary Gwathmey on the porch of Flat Creek (late 1800s).  Evington was named for her aunt, Evie Smith, who owned the property that became the rail stop.  

Caryswood – Caryswood (c. 1850) was built by Major Robert Chancellor Saunders.  He led local troops in the Civil War, served in the General Assembly, and was the first superintendent of Campbell County schools.  

Robert C. Saunders and his wife Caryetta Davis raised 11 children at Caryswood.  Many of their descendants spread out throughout the U.S. and went on to notable accomplishments.  A number came back to Good Shepherd to be buried.

Good Shepherd – The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd (1871) was established through the efforts of several local families on land donated by Captain Fleming Saunders.  The graveyard contains the stones of the Early, Langhorne, Brown, and Saunders families and is still in use.

 (Tombstone at Good Shepherd) John Monk Saunders, grandson of Robert Chancellor Saunders of Caryswood was a World War I aviator, wrote the screenplay for Wings, a silent movie that won the first Academy Award, and married the actress Faye Wray.