The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society – Historic Oberlin, OH home of Wilson Bruce and Sarah Jane Evans

About Evans HHS

The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society (aka Evans HHS) honors the legacy of Wilson Bruce Evans (1824-1898), Sarah Jane Leary Evans (1829-1898) and their descendants. The Society seeks to…
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What’s Happening at Evans HHS

Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society Awarded Network to Freedom Grant The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society is proud to announce that we have been awarded a Network to…
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Become A Member

The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society offers several membership options, which are renewable yearly. Memberships obtained in 2021 are active until 12/31/2022, renewing annually thereafter on 01/01/2023. If you’d…
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Visit the Evans Home

We working hard to be restore the Evans home in order to open it up to the public for visits by 2023. We look forward to maintaining progress on the…
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Our Mission
The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the conservation of the Wilson Bruce Evans Home and provision of public space that serves as…
Life & Times
African American Wilson Bruce Evans was born free in the Piedmont region of North Carolina in 1824. His mother was Fanny Evans, a free woman of color who owned property…
Visit the Evans Home
We working hard to be restore the Evans home in order to open it up to the public for visits by 2023. We look forward to maintaining progress on the…

Staff
Carol Lasser, Emerita Professor of History, Oberlin College, serves as the Manager of the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society. Carol has lived in Oberlin since 1980. For nearly four…
Meet Our Board
The Founding Board of Trustees is composed of descendants of Wilson Bruce Evans and Sarah Jane Leary Evans, members of the Oberlin’s African American genealogy and history community members of…
Donate to Evans HHS
The Evans Home Historical Society was established to preserve the legacy African-Americans made to the Oberlin community during some of the most chaotic times in American history. The Society operates…

Recent Posts

07/10/2022

Juneteenth in Oberlin

Oberlin has been celebrating Juneteenth for more than 30 years. In 1992, local merchantAdenike Sharpley made celebration of Juneteenth part of the city’s Oberlin Heritage Days. In2004, Oberlin City Council…
02/04/2022

Dorothy Viola Inborden Miller

Written By: Devin Grooms-Lee – Great Great Great Great Grandson of Wilson Bruce Evans and Great Great Grandnephew of Dorothy Viola Inborden Miller Early Life Dorothy Viola Inborden Miller was…
12/22/2021

Sarah Jane Evans Inborden

Written By: Devin Grooms-Lee – Great Great Great Great grandson of Wilson Bruce Evans & Great Great Great grandson of Sarah Jane Evans Inborden Early Life Sarah Jane Evans Inborden…