motherly care while he stayed at her home was pathetic. He came over in the steamer " City of Glasgow" and halted for a few days in New York to present letters of introduction from his father's pastor, Rev. Lewis Everett, to Mr. Everett's sons, then keeping store in that city.
The father's choice for a home was Ohio, but land there had become so high priced that by his father's instructions John E. went from Ohio to Iowa and then from Iowa to Wisconsin. At Rosendale, Wisconsin, he selected a farm of two hundred and sixty acres, with buildings already erected on it. The description of this farm met with his father's approval So the money was sent over and the farm purchased, the father having entrusted his young son with power of attorney for that purpose. John E. managed this farm until his father came over from Wales to Rosendale, and for many years afterwards.
In 1887 he went to visit his sisters in North Dakota, and stayed there for 13 years. In the fall of 1900 he returned to the old family home in Rosendale, Wisconsin, where he died February 5, 1904. On Tuesday, Feb. 9th, funeral services were held in Zoar Church, Rosendale, and interment in Zoar Cemetery—in the burial lot which he himself had secured for a resting place for his father's family, and where he had buried his sister Louisa before the rest of the family had joined him on this side the sea. Here also was laid to rest the lamented poet-brother, Risiart Ddu, John E. was well known to the readers of the Drych, at one time, by his pen-name Mofoniog. Risiart Ddu and Mofoniog "were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in death they are not divided."
In disposition John E. was studious, retiring, diffident. Always unwilling to give unnecessary trouble, his later years were characterized by efforts to be helpful to those around him, and to those who read him both by personal correspondence and on the pages of the "Drych." In appearance and manner, he was unobtrusive, unpretentious. Yet back of it
