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In Wrightsville, Ella Jones met her future husband, Joe Kelly, and they married in 1908.<ref name="Painting Dreams" /> During this time, Jones worked as a "sounder" selling shellfish door to door.<ref name="Aspects of Minnie Evans">{{cite journal|last1=Kerman|first1=Nathan|date=1997-07-01|title=Aspects of Minnie Evans|journal=On Paper: The Journal of Prints, Drawings, and Photography | issue = 6|volume=1|pages=12–16}}</ref> In 1908, one of Joe Kelly's daughter's from a previous marriage introduced Minnie Jones to Julius Caesar Evans.<ref name="Painting Dreams" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Jessie Carney|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC|title=Notable Black American Women, Book II|last2=Phelps|first2=Shirelle|publisher=Gale Research, Inc.|year=1992|isbn=9780810391772|location=Detroit, MI|pages=205–206|quote=December 12, 1892}}</ref> Minnie Jones, who was sixteen at the time, married Julius (19) that same year.<ref name="Folk Art Messenger" /> The couple had three sons, Elisha Dyer, David Barnes Evans, and George Sheldon Evans.<ref name="Folk Art Messenger" /> Though Evans had many supporters, her husband was not one of them. Her husband would often tell her to stop making up visions and to focus on things to maintain the household. He believed her to be going crazy from the art she was creating.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Angel That Stands By Me {{!}} Folkstreams|url=http://www.folkstreams.net/film-detail.php?id=71.|access-date=2020-11-16|website=www.folkstreams.net|language=en}}</ref>
Beginning in 1916, Minnie Evans was employed as [[Domestic worker|a domestic]] at the home of her husband's employer, Pembroke Jones, a wealthy industrialist.<ref name="Folk Art Messenger" /> The Evans family lived on Jones's hunting estate, "Pembroke Park," known today as the subdivision Landfall. Pembroke Jones died in 1919 and his wife, Sarah (Sadie) Jones remarried Henry Walters. Evans continued to work for Sadie Jones and now Henry Walters, on the Airlie Estate. Sadie Jones turned the Airlie Estate into gardens in the early
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