Mary Ann Evans, daughter of John Daniel Evans and Margaret Harris, was born August 20, 1861 in Wales.  She was converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ when she was about seventeen years of age (about 1878) and was baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  She migrated to Utah with her parents about 1878.  They settled in Logan, Utah where they lived for a few years, later moving to Idaho where they settled at Eagle Rock.  This town’s name was later changed to Idaho Falls.  Her father worked in the railroad shops which were later moved to Pocatello, Idaho.

Grandmother was engaged to be married to a man, who was taken by death just prior to the set date for the wedding.  In a short time she took up with John Catmull.  They were married October 14, 1885 in the temple at Logan, Cache County, Utah.  She endured many trials and tribulations in  her early life.

The young married couple lived in Idaho Falls for a short time, then moved to Benson, Cache County, Utah where their first two children were born.  The family then moved to Idaho Falls, where they finished raising their family.  Grandmother was the mother of four children.  The family then moved to Fruitland, Payette County, Idaho in March, 1908.  As there was no LDS Church at this place, there was very little opportunity for religious activity.  The family lived in Fruitland until March 1911 when they traded their acreage for a forty acre farm at Wendell, Idaho where the family soon moved.

Grandmother’s death occurred at Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho, on 11 July 1935.  Death was caused from hardening of the arteries.  She was survived by her three living children, Alvin of Acequia, Arthur of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Mrs. J.A. Davis of Fruitland, Idaho.

Funeral services were conducted at the Rupert First Ward Chapel in Rupert, Idaho on Sunday, July 14, 1935 with Bishop Orland J. Bateman officiating.  A quartet sang Grandmother’s favorite hymn titled “Farewell All Earthly Honors” as the opening selection.  Invocation was given by J.B. Stewart.  A mixed quartet then sang “O My Father.”  The Speakers were Patriarch Henry Catmull, who gave a review of Grandmother’s past life.  Elder Louis R. Humphries spoke on “Changes in Life,” in which he compared life on earth as an elementary and high school, with death as the graduating diploma and life in the hereafter as college.  The last speaker was Brother Joseph P. Payne.  His subject was “Spiritual and Temporal Death.”  The closing song was a duet sung by Brother and Sister Joseph P. Payne, titled “Come, Holy Spirit.”  Interment , under the direction of the Payne Mortuary was in the Rupert Cemetery.  The grave was dedicated by Patriarch Henry Catmull, of the Minidoka Stake of Zion.