Well-known Virginia historian Emory G. Evans, University of Maryland, Emeritus, died on Sunday, 20 October 2009, but I have not found an obituary to post along with the news of the recent deaths of Don Higginbotham, Bill Abbot, and Merrill Peterson. Evans' new book, A Topping People, an in-depth study of the elite families of eighteenth-century Virginia, was published this spring, but he unfortunately did not live long enough to read any reviews of his work, the culmination of a lifelong study of colonial Virignia and Virginians. Brent Tarter The Library of Virginia [log in to unmask] Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at http://www.lva.virginia.gov ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html