City: Chattanooga
EVANS, Ruth Durant, attorney at law; born Marion, S. C.; daughter Junius Haselden and Florence (Durant) EVANS; Welsh-French descent; educated Converse College, Wofford College and University of Chattanooga; graduate of Wofford College 1903, A. B.; University of Chattanooga LL.B. 1908; 1910 re-edited law work written by father, styled “Trial Justice Law of South Carolina,” a work adopted by the South Carolina Legislature; 1908 admitted to bar; descended from Nathaniel EVANS, who emigrated from Wales to Marion, S. C., in 1703; he was descended from Ethelystan GLODRYD, Prince of Furlys, Radnor and Builth; founder of the Fourth Royal Tribe of Wales; arms, “Argent, a chevron between three boars’ heads, couped sable; crest, on a ducal coronet or a boar’s head fessways erased sable; motto, “Libertas”; this blazonry denotes the most ancient lineage; she is preparing a series of articles under the caption, “The Law and the Lady.”
