Career and Family
Cowboy Evans was known for his unique rodeo steer wrestling competition style of wearing one Western riding boot and one low quarter standard shoe for ease of quick dismount from his horse. He competed in many rodeos across the United States in both bulldoging and bull riding prior to winning the 1927 World championship. He worked as a roughneck in the oil exploration and drilling industry and eventually became a drilling foreman, and oilman. In the early 1930s Evans toured the United States on the rodeo circuit while maintaining his home of record in Henrietta, Texas.
He married Allie Odessa Jarvis, and together they had two daughters, Mary and Sara, who now reside in Ellis County, Texas, with their daughters and grandsons nearby. On 27 May 1945 Evans was awarded his 32nd degree in Scottish Rite Freemasonry, issued in Wichita Falls, Texas by the Dallas, Texas Consistory. He received his 33rd degree almost two decades later. Cowboy Morgan Evans died at home in Bonham, Texas of an apparent heart attack. He was buried in a Christian ceremony in Bonham, Texas, and his life and legacy were honored by his fellow members of Chapter 52 of the Royal Arch Masons.
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