Photograph of the graves of Robert Morgan Evans and his wife, Jane Evans. The city of Evansville, named after Robert Evans, was founded by Hugh McGary on March 27, 1812. Evans was born in 1783 in Frederick County, Virginia. He married Jane Trimble in 1803 in Paris, Kentucky. Evans was a businessman with political ties and McGary thought this be influencial in starting a new town. Evans died in 1844.