He died in Penrod, Kentucky in 1947 and was buried in a cemetery on the family estate.
The twins later starred in three films based on the Penrod stories by Booth Tarkington.
In a 1966 New York Herald Tribune feature by his former office manager-turned-journalist, Marilyn Mercer claimed, "Ebony never drew criticism from Negro groups (in fact, Eisner was commended by some for using him), perhaps because, although his speech pattern was early Minstrel Show, he himself derived from another literary tradition: he was a combination of Tom Sawyer and Penrod, with a touch of Horatio Alger hero, and color didn't really come into it".
He is sometimes confused or conflated with Edward Everett Rose (1862–1939), an American dramatist also known for dramatizing novels, notably Richard Carvel and the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington.
Penrod and Sam (1937), with Billy Mauch as Penrod, the first of three Penrod films starring the Mauch twins.
His largest roles in film include Little Jim in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), Verman Diggs in the Penrod films, and Zeke in Zenobia (1939).
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Penrod Jashber is the third in a series of collections of sketches by Booth Tarkington about the adventures of Penrod Schofield, an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States.
To obtain additional footage, both Frissell and Penrod returned to the front the following spring in Viking, this time with Captain Abram Kean.