The following article was found in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, 25 Mar 1897, Page 7. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of this obituary, please send me your mailing address. (Instead of submitting this to any specific Mailing List, I am submitting it to the General list in the hopes that it will be seen by a more diverse group.) (LONG article, if interested you might want to print it out.) "Rev. John Evans, M.A., one of the best known Americans of Welsh birth in this country, died on Monday night at his home in Westerly, R.I. The news of his death came by telegraph yesterday morning to Reese G. Brooks and Mrs. A.B. Eynon, the former an intimate friend and the latter a sister of the wife of the departed clergyman. It was quickly circulated among the deceased's host of friends in this city and a general sadness and surprise was created. "The dispatches did not give the cause of death. The demise, however, must have been a sudden one, as a letter received on Monday from Mrs. Evans by her father, Benjamin Hughes, general inside foreman of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Company, did not refer to any illness in the family. Mr. Hughes, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. A.B. Eynon, and Mr. and Mrs. Jenkin Reese will leave this morning for Westerly to attend the funeral. "John Evans was born in Llandyfry, Carmarthenshire, in 1841, and was one of four brothers, who distinguished themselves as theologians and pulpit orators. He came to America shortly before the civil war and his first ministerial charge was in Lancaster, PA. Afterward he came to Scranton and shortly after his marriage to Esther, daughter of Benjamin Hughes, in 1867, he became pastor of the First Welsh Baptist Church. His work here won him the love and admiration of a vast number of people in the Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys. His fame spread and he was successfully called to pastorates of churches in Brooklyn, where his oldest daughter, Nellie, was married to Dr. Hoxie, a prominent physician of that city, and to Westerly, where he has been stationed for the past seventeen years. "Besides his work in the pulpit Mr. Evans devoted much time to contemporary public affairs, and his epigrammatic and humorous essays and orations won for him a widespread fame. Especially was he interested in his fellow countrymen. "Though American customs and peculiarities of American living claimed him, yet he never forgot the motherland and as a speaker of the Welsh tongue he was an authority. No local conference of Welsh ministers or a "cymanfa", as it is called, had the genuine spirited ring to it unless one or the other of the distinguished brothers were there. "The deceased is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. Hoxie of Brooklyn, May and Esther Evans, and one son, Benjamin Hughes Evans. "Benjamin Hughes, father-in-law of the deceased, has but recently recovered from painful injuries received by the runaway of his horse. Because of Mr. Hughes's misfortune, no telegram from his relatives in Westerly telling of the demise was received by him and it was several hours afterward that he first heard of it from his daughter, Mrs. Eynon. Fortunately he has recovered from his injuries as to be able to attend the funeral." Nancy Cook Pasadena, MD, USA