Sarah Jeffries Evans

Sarah Jeffries Evans (d. 1771) was the first wife of Caleb Evans; she died on 7 November 1771, about two months after the birth of Benjamin Jeffries Evans on 3 September 1771. She was the only daughter of the Revd Joseph Jeffries (d. 1746), a General Baptist minister from Taunton. She and Caleb were married at Pershore in 1762, where Miss Jeffries had been living for some time after the death of her father. During her time in Pershore, Sarah Jeffries became friends with Martha Goddard (the future Mrs. William Steele of Broughton), formerly of Bristol and the Broadmead church but who had removed to Pershore after the death of her father to live with her elder sister, who married the Revd John Ash, Baptist minster at Pershore, in 1751. Caleb Evans would remarry in 1774 to Sarah Hazle of Bristol.