EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter

A native of Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire. He travelled considerably in both North and South Wales and in some places suffered persecution. His temperament was genial, but he could thunder forth on occasion. ' John Evan of Killy-comb ' is mentioned in the will of Morgan Rhys, the hymn-writer, 1779. William Williams of Pant-y-celyn wrote a short elegy upon him according to which he was buried at Cil-y-cwm in March 1784 - the diarist William Thomas says he was 'about 47.' A collection was made for his wife and children at the Llangeitho Association, 1785.

One of his sons was John Evans of Llandovery, and later of Llandilo, a dry and quarrelsome preacher who, before he died, joined the Church of England.

Author

• Reverend Gomer Morgan Roberts, (1904 - 1993)

Sources

• W. Williams, Darluniad gras a serchiadau natur (1785)
• Methodistiaeth Cymru (1851–6), ii, 391, 448, iii, 92, 159
• Y Drysorfa, 1834 (347), 1839 (85)
• Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, xi, 61, xvii, 17
• James Morris, Hanes Methodistiaeth Sir Gaerfyrddin (1911), 339
• J. Evans, Biographical Dictionary of Ministers and Preachers of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Body … to the close of the year 1850 (1907), 78
• Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, xxxv, 39

Further Reading

• J. Morgan Jones a W. Morgan, Y Tadau Methodistaidd (1895-1897), ii, 156-157

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20733410

Published date: 1959

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