Mason K. Evans was the subject of the book "Torment In The Knobs" by R.Frank McKinney. Mason was a brilliant intellectual man who was a school teacher in Monroe County Tn. Legend has it that he was in love with a fellow school teacher and the engagement was called off by her. Mason was so destroyed by this that he became a hermit. He supposedly spent about 40 years staying in the Starr Mountain area with little contact with other people. Some local people helped him by leaving food out for him and he is said to have slept in caves or old cabins. His frozen body was found sitting beneath a tree on the morning of Jan 11 1892
Another story: He traveled down the conasauga with his family to deliver furniture to New Orleans and caught a fever, think that is what made him finally lose his mind. He was taken in during the final years of his life, given a cabin to live in.
Whatever the true story is may he finally Rest in Peace
Another story: He traveled down the conasauga with his family to deliver furniture to New Orleans and caught a fever, think that is what made him finally lose his mind. He was taken in during the final years of his life, given a cabin to live in.
Whatever the true story is may he finally Rest in Peace
Mason K. Evans was the subject of the book "Torment In The Knobs" by R.Frank McKinney. Mason was a brilliant intellectual man who was a school teacher in Monroe County Tn. Legend has it that he was in love with a fellow school teacher and the engagement was called off by her. Mason was so destroyed by this that he became a hermit. He supposedly spent about 40 years staying in the Starr Mountain area with little contact with other people. Some local people helped him by leaving food out for him and he is said to have slept in caves or old cabins. His frozen body was found sitting beneath a tree on the morning of Jan 11 1892
Another story: He traveled down the conasauga with his family to deliver furniture to New Orleans and caught a fever, think that is what made him finally lose his mind. He was taken in during the final years of his life, given a cabin to live in.
Whatever the true story is may he finally Rest in Peace
Another story: He traveled down the conasauga with his family to deliver furniture to New Orleans and caught a fever, think that is what made him finally lose his mind. He was taken in during the final years of his life, given a cabin to live in.
Whatever the true story is may he finally Rest in Peace
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