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On April 3rd 1867 Civil War Veteran Perry O. Everts Married Harriet A.
Whiting Daughter of Nathan and Harriet Whiting in Van Buren County
Michigan. The town of Evart Michigan is named for this man. Perry O.
Everts (also known as Frank) enlisted in the Union Army July 24 1861 in
LaGrange co., Indiana. and fought in the Civil War. He served with The
1st Indiana Heavy Artillery Company "A" as a private and mustered out Jan
13, 1866. After the war he came back to Michigan where he was born in
1843, and purchased 80 acres where the town of "EVART" now stands. At the
town's organizational meeting in 1870, they wanted to name the township
for the earliest settler and a Civil War veteran. John Smith was the
choice, but Smith was such a common name that he passed to Frank Everts
as the next settler in the township. Everts' name was misspelled and that
misspelling was allowed to stand. Lumber baron Delos A. Blodgett
officially platted the town in 1872, the same year it was officially
organized as a village. Evart was a strategic point for sorting timber
that was floated down the Muskegon. It was later organized as a city in
1930.
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