Kate has Kin: The Evans Sisters

Amy  was called "Babe" being the youngest of the Evans girls. 

Come to think of it, we knew Kate had sisters. Aunt Babe and Aunt Jane or Janie as our dad used to refer to them. 

Babe was an artist. I spent a lot of childhood hours sitting on a hard sofa bored out of mind staring at a desolate desert landscape painted by Aunt Babe. The story was that she painted it when she lived in New Mexico. Or was it Arizona? I was too young to know the difference… I wasn't too young to know that the deer in the painting only had three legs. This lonesome animal was drinking from a creek at the bottom of an arroyo and it was definitely missing some parts. Babe was no Georgia Okeefe. 

Still Lewis had some fond memories of Babe and Jane and told some funny stories about these two ecce

ntric old gals.  Babe and Jane were the sisters that stepped up and took in the kids after Kate died. Solid sisters.

Then Stella found Julia Josephine Evans Miller on Ancestry.  Here's how she tells it:

After digging around for several months we eventually turned up their oldest sister, Julia Josephine Evans. Lucky for us that Julia's hometown in Bradley County Arkansas seems to have been the hub for their aunties Sara Ward Evans Ritchey b1818, Miss and Julia Caroline Evans Reeves b1821 NC. It is these two generations of Evans women in Bradley County Arkansas who led us to Mary Catherine McMasters b1779 who is Kate's grandmother.   

Julia Josephine Evans Milller

Frosting on the discovery was that Julia Josephine came with photos and documentation. 

Kate had more sisters than we knew. Maybe even some brothers..
The Evans tree is starting to get some solid branches.