Wesley Griffin Evans Jr.[1][2] (January 28, 1844 – September 3, 1921) was a Mississippi politician and Democratic state legislator from Harrison County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
[5] He fought in the Confederate Army in the American Civil War.
[8] He died on September 3, 1921, in his residence in Gulfport, Mississippi.
[6] They had a son named Thomas Marshall Evans, who was born in 1862 and later became a lawyer in Gulfport.
[6] He later married Alice Walden, and their son, Houston Hewes Evans (born 1895), served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1920 to 1932.