ABSTRACT
After four years of living in rowdy Texas and having become a factor in a cotton firm, Matt Evans decided to move his family again, this time to the thriving city of Mobile, Alabama. The family now included seven children: Augusta, Howard, Vivian, Caroline, Sarah, Mary Elizabeth, and Randolph with the eighth and last, Ann Virginia, to be born in 1850. Evans adored her mother. Sarah Howard (Evans mother) was a member of one of Georgia's most distinguished families, being universally beloved. Once in Mobile, Matt experienced some initial struggles gaining a financial stronghold, and Evans hoped that Inez would contribute to the household account. Most Mobilians, as would Matt Evans, grew increasingly wealthy because of the cotton business, built on the backs of slaves. Matt Evans was a member of this society, and his daughter wrote an article about the Cowbellions twenty-ninth anniversary, which was published in the local paper.
