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Evans (born Minnie Eva Jones) was born to Ella Jones on December 12, 1892, in [[Long Creek, [[Pender County, North Carolina]].<ref name="Oxford Art Online">{{cite web|title=Evans, Minnie|url=http://www.oxfordartonline.com:80/subscriber/article/grove/art/T2086867|date=2011|website=Oxford Art Online|series=The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T2086867|isbn=9780195335798|accessdate=2020-05-09}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> Ella was only thirteen years old at the time. Evans' biological father, George Moore, left after she was born. After Evans was only two months old, she and her mother moved to [[Wilmington, North Carolina]], to live with her maternal grandmother, Mary Croom Jones in 1893.<ref name="Painting Dreams">{{cite book|last1=Lyons|first1=Mary|title=Painting Dreams|year=1996|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|location=New York, NY|isbn=9780395720325}}</ref> Evans, like other children her age, had an active imagination at all hours of the day. In her case, the whimsical visions she received would keep her up throughout the night, making it so she hardly ever got any rest. This lack of sleep tied with her family’s need for her assistance caused her schooling to end at the age of 13.<ref name="intuitiveeye.org">{{Cite web|title=Untitiled by Minnie Evans - intuitive eye|url=http://intuitiveeye.org/Untitiled-by-Minnie-Evans|access-date=2020-11-16|website=intuitiveeye.org}}</ref> Minnie Jones attended school until the sixth grade and in 1903, Minnie Jones, Ella, and Mary Croom Jones moved to [[Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina|Wrightsville Sound]] which was a town close to Wilmington.<ref name="Folk Art Messenger">{{cite journal|last1=Brennan|first1=Anne|title=Minnie Evans: Dreams in Color|journal=Folk Art Messenger|issue=Spring 2005}}</ref> She attended St. Matthew African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.<ref name="Oxford Art Online" />