Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-29

The Death OF Veteran Who Came Many
Miles to See the Grand Parade.

The Death OF a Veteran Who Came Many
Miles to See the Grand Parade.
Among the death notices In recent issue of
THE STAR was one announcing the death Of
John Moorhead Ewin Of Newburyport, Mass,
at the residence Of his cousin, LeBIond Bur-
dett, 1881 9Th street northwest, in Washington,
on Friday, October 81. One Of the first mill
tsry companies to hurry to the defense Of the
national capital in 1861 WAS the "Cushing
Guards" which became company Of tho
eighth Massachusetts infantry and bore its full
share in the peculiar hardships of those first
days OF the war, and of those who offered their
services to I'LL its ranks for the occasion the
first man from Newburyport was John NJ.
Ewin, then twenty-five years old When the
company returned to Newburyport three
months later he was promoted to the rank Of
second sergeant but he had 90 strained him
self in the work of his regiment in rebuilding
the railway and bridges between Annapolis and
Annapolis junction that he could not pass the
surgical examination for re-enlistment, and had
contracted rheumatism, which made him bed
ridden invalid during most of the last twelve
years OF his life and eliminated in the disease
OF which he died. During the remainder of
the war he busted himselfin getting young men
to enlist and finding substitutes for drafted
men who had families which seemed to need
them most, and thus became widely known and
beloved throughout Newburyport. Leaving
there In 1858 he lived for a number of years ut
South Newmarket, N H. He returned to New
buryport several years ago and remained there
with his wife and two unmarried daughters.
As the recent G.. A. r. encampment APP
preached an irresistible desire grew in his
heart to see Washington once more and to
meet loved ones here he had not seen since
1851, for he was Baltimore boy and his near
est relatives had continued to reside In this
vicinity. week before he left home be be-
came dangerously ill., but his doctor said it
would kill him to remain, SO he came with his
comrades Of Bartlett Post, G. A. r. (No. 40,
Massachusetts), and the experience seemed to
give him new life. He witnessed with delight
both parades of the encampment, visited his
comrades at their quarters and spent the next
three weeks In sight seeing and family reunions,
making his home here at the house where he
died, Mr.. Burdett's mother having been like an
older sister to him in his boyhood home
He was out for short walk Friday, the 14th.
The following Monday he became dangerously
Ill. His wife, who had meanwhile been tele-
graphed for, arrived Wednesday in time to be
recognized by him. After that he quietly
waited for death. which came painlessly at so
Friday morning. Rev. DR.. E. 8. Todd ofBciated
at the funeral, and accompanied the relatives
to Baltimore cemetery, where the body was
buried between those of his father and mother
on one side and that Of the one brother who
bad preceded him. His two surviving broth
ers, William and James L. Ewin his two
brothers-in-iaw, Henry Gardner and Francis
Lamb, and two nephews, Sterling and Harry
Gardner, all Of this city, were the pallbearers.