Dr. W.A. Evans

Evans's pen carried further than his practice. William Augustus Evans, born in 1865, wrote in 1914 on wheat and its relation to the present crisis, and in 1932 published a study of Mary Todd Lincoln's personality and her influence on her husband. His best-known work began as answers to readers' questions in the Chicago Tribune from 1911 to 1914. Reprinted as How to Keep Well, those columns made him the first syndicated health columnist in the United States, and Sears, Roebuck later gathered them into a book. He died in 1948.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Howlin' Wolf Memorial and Blues Trail Marker — 16 mi
  A Mississippi Blues Trail marker and granite memorial on East Broad Street honoring Chester Burnett, who was born nearby in 1910 and became the Chicago blues giant Howlin' Wolf.
• Waverley Mansion — 18 mi
  A National Historic Landmark mansion above the Tombigbee River, home of a plantation family that enslaved more than a hundred people, left empty for half a century before a family restored it.
• Tennessee Williams Welcome Center — 24 mi
  The 1875 Episcopal rectory where Tennessee Williams was born in 1911, moved to Main Street in the 1990s and now Columbus's welcome center and a National Literary Landmark.
• Chickasaw Council House — 27 mi
  A roadside exhibit on the Natchez Trace Parkway marking the Chickasaw capital of the 1820s and the council house where the 1832 treaty of Pontotoc Creek ended Chickasaw title to Mississippi.

More markers nearby

• Aberdeen — steps away
• Aberdeen Mississippi Blues — 0.3 mi
• Reuben Davis — 0.4 mi
• DeSoto Expedition — 0.5 mi