yesterday in Crime, News Lilburn Evitts. Photo: Clarksville Now/Courtesy Nicole Evitts. CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – “I’m trying to post it everywhere I can to try and keep the word out, and now there’s a $1,000 reward that’s being offered by Crime Stoppers that wasn’t offered before,” Nicole Evitts said about her father-in-law’s death. Friday marked a year since the fatal hit-and-run near Providence Boulevard and Plum Street that took 77-year-old Lilburn Evitts‘ life, and his family still needs answers about what happened. Remembered as ‘Golf Ball’ Nicole is married to Jimmy Evitts, one of Lilburn’s eight children. He also left behind 26 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.