52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks:
Week 6, Feb 5-11, 2026
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Prompt: Favorite Picture
During the occupation of Japan, Corporal John W. Evans was stationed in Japan. Being a young man from Mississippi, he missed the country life from back home. He took every opportunity to get out of the city and go fishing in the mountains of Japan. One weekend, he was fishing in a mountain river when he noticed a young lady struggling as she was swept downstream. It was obvious that she was in trouble and on the verge of drowning. John swam diagonally to the middle of the river and caught her as she floundered in the fast-moving water. After getting her to shore, she was unconscious, but he administered life saving measures to start her breathing again. An ambulance took her to a local hospital where John visited her the next day. He just wanted to make sure that she was okay.
John discovered Asa Inage was at the river with her girls’ soccer team. The team was swimming in a shallower part of the river when one girl stepped off a ledge into deeper water. Asa was able to push her back into safer water, but in the process lost her footing. The river pulled her away from the girls she was coaching.
Asa, my mother-in-law, told me that John looked like Clark Gable with his mustache. So, despite her father’s disapproval, she continued to see him. John William Evans and his bride, Asa Inage, married in Japan in 1952.
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