Welcome to our library history section. Use the links below to read about the significant events and people that helped to start the Evans Memorial Library.

Aberdeen Woman's Club
February 12, 1920, Nellie Johnson invited a number of women to her home for the afternoon to organize the Aberdeen Woman's Club. At their second meeting, they voted to assess each member the amount sufficient to purchase one book of current fiction or that each member be required to donate a book. These books were to be used as a circulating library for the club.

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Dr. William Augustus Evans
Born in Marion, Alabama where his father had been head of that town's CSA Army Hospital, William Augustus Evans Jr. grew up in Monroe County Mississippi, both in the family's Aberdeen town house and on their plantation near Prairie, Mississippi.

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Miss Lucille Peacock
Mary Lucille Peacock was born in Gallion, Alabama, graduated from Alabama State Teachers College and attended George Peabody College for graduate training. She taught school and served as principal of schools near Florence, Alabama and Webb, Mississippi.

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