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The

Ewing Genealogy with
Cognate Branches

A Survey of the Ewings and Their
Kin in America

By Presley KIttredge Ewing

and

Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing

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In Memoriam

The Day You Went

The day you went my world was done.
There came no comfort from the sun
Nor from the love of life that lurks
In sunlight, nor from all the worlds
Of faith and old philosophy, —
Till one young rose leaned down to me
And shot my brooding like a wing;
The most foolhardy, gallant thing
In all this rocking world, conceived
Of morning dew . . . and I believed !
It bannered upward from the sod
The visible defense of God.

— Beatrice W. Ravenel.

After the manuscript of this book was complete and
arrangement made for its publication, on April i, 1919, at
the family home in the City of Houston, Mary Ellen
(Williams) Ewing, one of the authors, as the culmination of
a lingering illness, peacefully and with her last expression
a smile, passed into eternity, her remains being interred in
the family vault, St. John's Cemetery, Thibodaux, Louisiana,

The loss in her death to humanity, to services of benefi-
cence and philanthropy, was recognized by all familiar with
the course of her life. The floral offerings, in number and
beauty, were a rare tribute. The Associated Press heralded
abroad her untimely departure, while the leading local
dailies, The Houston Post, The Houston Chronicle and The
Houston Press, recounting her life's services and achieve-
ments herein narrated, as with one voice proclaimed her
praise.

The Houston Press, noting the fact of her being "widely
known throughout the State and Nation," referred to the
reforms she had effected in the public schools, saying, "A
part of Mrs. Ewing's religion was sanitation ;" it also re-

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ferred to her efforts to secure women on the school board,
adding, "It was due to the campaign she waged that women
are on the school board today." Further of her it was said :
"The passing of Mrs. Ewing takes from Houston
one of the city's most useful women, and her death
will be mourned by many a person whom she be-
friended. She was a woman of tireless energy, and
although she was a society leader, much of her time
and effort were spent in helping others and in
work for the public good."

The Houston Chronicle, with a double-column picture of
her, and stating under heavy headlines that death had called
"One of Texas' Noted Women Whose Life Was Devoted to
Welfare Work for Mankind," declared that in her death,
"a life of great usefulness and activity was ended," and
further :

"The name of Mrs. Ewing was long associated
with all affairs of the City and State which had to
do with uplift work or civic welfare. She was a
woman of strong personality, public spirited, and
the life of social events. Her many deeds of public
and philanthropic service gave her a place in
'Noted Women of Texas,' published by the Bio-
graphical Press."

This paper in an editorial thus said :

"Announcement of the death of Mrs. Presley K.
Ewing brings a feeling of sorrow and sympathy
from many Houston hearts. A life that was de-
voted to good deeds and that encompassed much
for the happiness and uplift of mankind is ended.

"In Mrs. Ewing were combined those graces
which make for life's finest realizations. Active at
all times in the church and social life of the city,
she managed to also find time for much constructive
work in lightening the burdens and enlarging the
opportunities of those whose lines had not fallen
in pleasant places.

"Her death touches, as did her life, the heart of
Houston."

The Houston Post editorially spoke as follows :

"A host of friends who had known and loved her
through the many years of residence here are filled

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with sorrow over the death of Mrs. Presley K.
Ewing at her home in this city Tuesday morning.
To her family and her friends she was the embodi-
ment of all that was good and noble in Southern
womanhood and in their memories she will ever
live as a shining example of the devoted wife and
mother, the undisputed queen of her home and
family circle, the most optimistic and generous of
friends.

"The influence of Mrs. Ewing extended far be-
yond her personal acquaintanceship, however, for
throughout the length and breadth of the State she
was known as one of the most distinguished and
able of the public spirits of Texas. Although pos-
sessed of gifts and graces which made her a favo-
rite of society circles, she devoted much of her time
and talent to the improvement of the public wel-
fare. She was connected with innumerable move-
ments and organizations for the uplift of the people
of Texas economically, mentally, morally and
spiritually. Her work for the women and children
of the city and the State particularly has been in-
valuable, as she has played a distinguished part in
ushering in the new era of justice and recognition
for women and the welfare of the child.

"The forces of progress and righteousness have
suffered a great loss in the death of Mrs. Ewing."
Let us who knew her best, her husband and her daugh-
ters, add only this :

Her exalted life, with its sweet helpfulness, will remain
as a light for guidance, to inspire and bless the work of
others. Though she be dead, it shall not die. For "there
is something that mantles through its beauty that cannot
wholly perish."

We who suffer from her loss, forgetting doubts and fears,
see now through the mists of tears and surgings of sorrow
the "young rose," leaning down to us, "conceived in morn-
ing dew" —

"It bannered upward from the sod.
The visible defense of God."

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PREFACE

With affectionate greetings, we dedicate to our posterity
these pages, a labor of love and, as we think, of just family
pride.

The work was at first intended to be only a sketch of the
immediate family of the authors, and in a measure that plan
has been preserved, especially as concerns the details of per-
sonal history; but in other respects the design has been
greatly enlarged and the work so arranged that any branch
may be extended indefinitely from the point where it enters,
going in like manner into the particulars of its personal
history as far as desired. The arrangement of blank pages
at the end has been adopted to facilitate such a course.

Neither cost nor time nor care has been spared to make
the contents of this little history portray, not a romance,
but the facts as they were, so that they may be relied upon
as accurate and accepted as authentic. Birth, marriage and
death records have been explored wherever available, both
as confirmative and in quest of new light. Records still
preserved have revealed to us marriages and births, which
will appear herein, occurring more than a hundred years
before the War of the Revolution (i 776-1 781). In addi-
tion, our research has extended to many histories, some now
obscure and others out of sale print, and also to the archives
of family branches, wherever obtainable.

This task has been performed, not because we are pur-
suers of phantoms, or fatuous of a useless aristocracy, or
given to blind hero-worship, but because we believe that
noble aspirations, lofty aims and deeds of exalted service,
when found in a family, may properly be perpetuated as a
legacy to the generations yet unborn, if not for emulation,
at least as a source of encouragement to their efforts, of
inspiration for their endeavors.

If then, what we have written shall serve, in other days

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to come, as a light, a landmark or a hope to some weary or
faltering feet pursuing the pathway of life, so that, seeing,
they may take heart again, we shall have reward enough.

Standing as we necessarily do upon the narrow Present,
slipping as we speak, there can be only two real sources
of happiness — our memories of the past, our hopes of the
future. Whether these pages contribute to the fountain of
either m.ust be judged by others; at least, the purpose which
has animated us will not be condemned, and in the thought
of Lord Byron,

"What is writ, is writ."

Presley Kittredge Ewing,
Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
Ewing Coat of Arms 2

"Across the Fields of Yesterday" 4

Ariel, the Home of Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing 10

Alice Brevard (Ewing) Walker 72

Dr. James B. Bowling 81

Ephraim McLean Ewing 91

Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing 95

Captain Ewing Werlein 97

Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing II 98

Rev. Quincy Ewing loi

Eliza Josephine (Kittredge) Ewing 103

Kittredge Coat of Arms 105

Dr. Ebenezer Eaton Kittredge 119

Martha Wills (Green) Kittredge 120

Ann Elizabeth (Kelly) Kittredge 125

Elm Hall 131

Presley Kittredge Ewing 155

Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing 161

Williams Coat of Arms 162

Captain Charles Clark Williams 164

Field Coat of Arms 166

Eudora Elizabeth (Cross) Williams I75

Josie Vesta (Ewing) Vinson 179

Gladys (Ewing) Combes 181

Dr. Abbott C. Combes, Jr 182

The Grandsons, Kittredge and Presley Ewing Vinson. .184

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
Ewing Coat of Arms 2

"Across the Fields of Yesterday" 4

Ariel, the Home of Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing 10

Alice Brevard (Ewing) Walker ^2

Dr. James B. Bowling 81

Ephraim McLean Ewing 91

Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing 95

Captain Ewing Werlein 97

Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing II 98

Rev. Quincy Ewing loi

Eliza Josephine (Kittredge) Ewing 103

Kittredge Coat of Arms 105

Dr. Ebenezer Eaton Kittredge 119

Martha Wills (Green) Kittredge 120

Ann Elizabeth (Kelly) Kittredge 125

Elm Hall 131

Presley Kittredge Ewing 155

Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing 161

Williams Coat of Arms 162

Captain Charles Clark Williams 164

Field Coat of Arms 166

Eudora Elizabeth (Cross) Williams 17S

Josie Vesta (Ewing) Vinson 179

Gladys (Ewing) Combes 181

Dr. Abbott C. Combes, Jr 182

The Grandsons, Kittredge and Presley Ewing Vinson. .184

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter I.

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The Origin and Early History of the Ewings 3

Chapter II.

The Different Branches of the Ewings in America. ... 5

Thomas and Finley Ewing 5

James Ewin • 6

Nathaniel Ewing 6

William Ewing 7

Charles and Robert Ewing 7

Chapter III.

Nathaniel Ewing, the Emigrant; His Birth, Marriage,

Career and Descendants 11

Chapter IV.

William Ewing, Emigrant : His Birth, Children and

Family Distinction 18

Chapter V.

Henry Ewing, Son of Emigrant William Ewing: His

Career and Descendants 20

Chapter VI.

Andrew Ewing, Son of Emigrant William Ewing : His

Career and Descendants 25

Chapter VII.
John Ewing, Son of the Emigrant William Ewing:

His Marriage and Descendants 38

Chapter VIII.

Charles Ewing, the Emigrant : His Birth, Career, Mar-
riage and Children 40

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Chapter IX.

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Robert Ewing, the Emigrant : His Birth, Career, Mar-
riage and Children 42

Robert Ewing 1 42

Mary Baker Ewing 44

Chapter X.

Sidney Ann, Martha (Betty), Polly and Jane Ewing,
Daughters of Robert and Mary Baker Ewing, and

Their Descendants 45

Sidney Ann Ewing 45

Martha (Betty) Ewing 46

Polly ( Patty) Ewing 48

Jane Ewing 50

Chapter XL

John, Baker, Young, Urban, Reuben and Chatham
Ewing, Sons of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing,

and Their Descendants 51

John Ewing 51

Baker Ewing 51

Young Ewing 51

Urban Ewing 52

Reuben Ewing 56

Chatham Ewing 56

Chapter XII.

Finis Ewing, Youngest Son of Robert and Mary

(Baker) Ewing, and His Descendants 58

Chapter XHI.

Robert Ewing H, Son of Robert and Mary (Baker)

Ewing : His Birth, Career, Marriage and Children 74

Robert Ewing H 74

Jane (McLean) Ewing 83

Chapter XIV.

The McLean Tree : Lineage of Jane McLean, Wife of

Robert Ewing II 84

Ephraim McLean 85

Elizabeth Davidson 88

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Chapter XV.

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Ephraim McLean Ewing, Son of Robert and Jane

Ewing: His Achievements, Marriage and Children 91

Ephraim McLean Ewing 91

Jone Pope (Mclntyre) Ewing 93

Chapter XVL

Dr. Fayette Claj" Ewing, Son of Ephraim McLean and
Jane (Mclntyre) Ewing: His Career, Marriage

and Descendants 95

Fayette Clay Ewing 95

Eliza Josephine (Kittredge) Ewing 103

Chapter XVH.

The Kittredge Tree : Paternal Lineage of Eliza Jose-
phine Kittredge, Wife of Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing. . 105

John Kittredge 107

Dr. John Kittredge 108

Dr. Francis Kittredge 1 108

Dr. Francis Kittredge H no

Abigail (Richardson) Kittredge 114

Dr. Stephen Kittredge 116

Elizabeth (Eaton) Kittredge 116

Chapter XVHL

The Kittredge Tree Continued : Dr. Ebenezer Eaton

Kittredge: His Career, Marriage and Descendants 119

Dr. Ebenezer Eaton Kittredge 119

Martha Wills Green 120

Ann Elizabeth Kelly 125

Chapter XIX.

The Green Tree : Maternal Lineage of Eliza Jose-
phine Kittredge, Wife of Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing 132

Thomas Green 1 132

Thomas Green H 132

Thomas Green HI 133

Thomas Marston Green 134

Chapter XX.

The Green Tree Continued : Everard Green, His

Career, Marriage and Descendants 141

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Everard Green 141

Elizabeth Kirkland 145

Chapter XXI.

The Green Tree Continued : The Family Achieve-
ments and Distinction 147

Chapter XXII.

Presley Kittredge Ewing, Son of Fayette Clay and
Eliza Josephine (Kittredge) Ewing: His Career,

Marriage and Children 155

Presley Kittredge Ewing 155

Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing 161

Chapter XXIII.

Williams, Field and Mills Trees : Lineage thereunder

of Mary Ellen Williams, Wife of Presley K. Ewing 164

The Williams Tree 164

The Field Tree 166

Thomas Field 169

Thomas Field II 170

Jeremiah Field 170

William Field 171

Abner Field 173

William Field II " 174

Mary Pierce Field 175

Eudora Elizabeth Cross 175

The Mills Tree 177

John Mills 178

Elizabeth Mills 178

Chapter XXIV.

Josie Vesta (Ewing) Vinson, Daughter of Presley Kitt-
redge and Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing: Her
Life, Marriage and Children 179

Chapter XXV.

Gladys (Ewing) Combes, Daughter of Presley Kitt-
redge and Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing: Her

Life and Marriage 181

Gladys Ewing 181

Abbott Carson Combes, junior 181

Chapter XXVI.

Conclusion 184

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CHAPTER I

THE ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY OF THE EWINGS

"Ewing" is historically stated to be the Anglified form of
Ewen or Ewin, derived from Evan or Evghan, which was
in Latin Eugenius, and several of the ancient "Kings of
Scots" bore the name of Ewen or Eugenius, one of them
having been a distinguished leader of his race in the great
wars against the Romans/

Another of the name (Devonaldus filius Ewyn) was wit-
ness to a charter granted by Walter, Steward of Scotland,
in 1 1 77, and in the middle of the Sixteenth Century the
Ewings acquired the lands, in County Dumbarton, which
were an ancient possession of the Earls of Lennox, and they
also possessed valuable estates in County Argyll.'

The authentic ancient Ewing coat of arms consists of
arg., a chevron az., ensigned with a banner gu., charged
with a canton az., thereon a saltire arg., all between two
mullets in chief gu., sun in splendor in base, also gu., with
crest and motto as shown in illustration.

The Ewings are of Scottish extraction, and were long
settled in the W'est of Scotland, but the branches of the
family in America, to which this record particularly relates,
were of Scotch-Irish descent. The clan with which these
Ewings were identified was allied with the Campbells, as
opposed to the Gordons, and doubtless many a time on the
field of battle its members were inspired by the romantic,
thrilling song —

"The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho ;
The Campbells are comin'. Oho, Oho,
The Campbells are comin' to bonnie Loch Leven,
The Campbells are comin'. Oho, Oho."

•Scottish Nation; Phelan's History of Tennessee, p. 132; Weeklcy's Romanc
of Names, p. 38.

'Burke's Landed Gentry, p. 12U.

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Ewing progenitors of whom we are writing, being Pres-
byterians, left their seat, which was on the River Forth near
Stiriing Castle, in the vicinity of Loch Lomond, on account
of religious persecution of the Protestants. First, they went
to the Isle of Bute, in Scotland, and then settled at or near
Coleraine, County Londonderry, of Ulster, to the North of
Ireland. Members of the family conspicuously took part in
the notable revolt of the Irish Presbyterians in that County
in 1689, when the siege of Londonderry by King James II
of England proved unsuccessful. That King, it will be re-
called, was an ardent Romanist, intensely inimical to the
Dissenters.

Whatever may have been the part taken by the Ewings
in the siege just mentioned, it is beyond doubt that in the
battle of the Boyne, fought on the river of that name in
Eastern Ireland, July 12 (N. S.), 1690, in which King
James II was opposed by William of Orange, Captain
Charles Ewing took part on the side of the Irish Protestants
under William of Orange, and was awarded by the latter
for his valor in the battle a silver-handled sword. This
sword was brought to America by a descendant of Captain
Charles Ewing, but was later stolen.^

The anniversary of this battle of the Boyne, as the result
of which James II was forced to abdicate in favor of the
rule of William and Mary, is still celebrated by the Orange-
men or Irish Protestants.

The dissatisfaction of the Dissenters over the conditions
which had prevailed in Ireland, among them the sacra-
mental test which served to disqualify them for office, and
the tenantry system with its high and burdensome rents, and
the increase of tithes for clergy not of their faith and en-
tertaining a different view of civil and religious liberty, had
resulted in a desire on the part of many of them to escape
the irritating situations of the Old World, and to seek their
fortunes in America.^

'Autobiography of Thomas Ewing, by Clement L. Martzolff, Vol. XXI, Ohio Stats
Archaeological & Historical Society Publications.

=James Seaton Raid's History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, particularly
Vol. Ill, pp. 201-262.

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CHAPTER II

THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE EVVINGS IN AMERICA
THOMAS AND FINLEY EWING

who were brothers, emigrated from County Londonderry,
Ireland, about 1718, to Southampton, Long Island, thence
to New Jersey.

The illustrious career of members of this branch of the
family, particularly in Ohio, is a part of familiar history.

Thomas Ewing, born 1695, died 1747; married Mary
Maskell, born 1701, died 1784, who was a daughter of Cap-
tain Daniel Maskell. They lived at Greenwich, New Jersey,
one of their sons being Thomas Ewing, born 1722, died 1772,
whose third wife was Sarah Vickars, by whom he had a son,
George Ewing, born 1754, died 1825, who was a Lieutenant
in the Continental Army, and whose wife was Rachel Harris.

From this union was born Thomas Ewing (1789-1871),
United States Senator from Ohio, who married Maria, a
daughter of Hugh Boyle, whose wife was a daughter of
Neil and Eleanor (Daugherty) Gillespie, senior, who lived
opposite Brownsville, Pennsylvania, but in Washington
County.

Thomas and Maria Ewing were the parents of seven chil-
dren: (i) Philemon Beecher, late of Lancaster, Ohio;
(2) George; (3) Ellen B., who became the wife of General
William T. Sherman; (4) Hugh Boyle, late of Lancaster,
Ohio; (5) Thomas, once a democratic candidate for Gov-
ernor of Ohio; (6) Maria, wife of Colonel Clement F.
Steele, and (7) General Charles Ewing.

Two of the sons of Thomas Ewing (1695-1747) were
officers in the Militia during the Revolution, and another
son, Samuel, was a County Judge. The emigrant Thomas
Ewing was a deacon, and his son Thomas an elder, in the
Presbyterian Church at Greenwich.

Finley Ewing, the emigrant brother, was the lineal ances-
tor of General Hugh Ewing, late United States Minister to
The Netherlands.

These brothers, Thomas and Finley, were sons of Captain
Charles Ewing, who was rewarded for his valor by William,
Prince of Orange, in the battle of the Boyne, with the silver-
handled sword before mentioned.

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A descendant of this emigration with whom the authors
^re acquainted is Thomas J. Ewing, a prominent citizen of
"Houston, Texas, connected with large business interests.

To go at greater length into the personal history of this
distinguished branch of the family would be to indulge in
unnecessary repetition, as its illustrious career has already
been written into enduring records/

JAMES EWIN

son of William and Mary Ewing of the North of Ireland,
married Deborah Dickson, and of this union was born a
family of children in the townland of Tawley, County
Leitrim, Ireland. After marrying, he, James Ewing, adopt-
ed the former spelling of his surname, dropping the g.

He emigrated from Ireland and settled in New York City
about the year 1822.

There are in America numerous descendants of this
branch, which included James L. Ewin, Esq., who was a
registered attorney of the United States Patent Office,
Washington, D. C., and a man of prominence in his
profession."

NATHANIEL EWING

was born at or near Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ire-
land, about 1692, died September 6, 1748, and emigrated
thence to America in 1725 with his wife, Rachel Porter,
who was his cousin, and their children then born.

His father was William Ewing, born about 1665-1670,
near Stirling Castle, in Scotland, whence he went to County
Londonderry, Ireland, taking up his abode at or near Cole-
raine, which was probably in or about the year 16S5, for in
that year, during Passion W^eek, the rites of the Church of
Rome were openly celebrated at Westminster with full
splendor, and in the same year, the suppression of the Duke
of Monmouth's rebellion in England, and that of the Earl
of Argyll in Scotland, was followed by great severities,
practiced by the King (James II of England and VII of
Scotland), resulting in many of the Scotch Presbyterians
fleeing from Scotland to the North of Ireland to escape the
religious persecutions imposed upon them.'

William Ewing, who was the son of William Ewing and
his wife, Eliza Milford, married twice ; by the first marriage

^Autobiography of Thomas Ewing, Vohinie XXI. Ohio State Archaeological
& Historical Society Publications; Biog. Ency. of Ohio, Volume 1, page 273,
Volume 6, page 1491; Scott's History of Fairfield County, Ohio, 1877.

-Sketch by James L. Ewin of Washington, D. C.
The International Cyclopedia, page 229.

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he had one son, the emigrant Nathaniel, and by the second
marriage he had four sons and a daughter : WilHam, Joshua,
James, Samuel and Anne, and possibly other children. All
of these named were immigrants to this country, and some
at least accompanied their half-brother Nathaniel to
America, in 1725, and in the same emigration were members
of the Porter and Gillespie families, and also David
Breading.

ERRATA.

Pp. 5, 8 and 9.

The text, in ascribing to Gen. Hugh Boyle Ewing
lineal descent from Finley Ewing, an "emigrant brother"
of the emigrant Thomas Ewing. followed the Biog. Ency.
& Portrait Gallery of Ohio. Vol. 6, at p. 1491, where it
is said: "The father of the emigrant, Finley Ewing, was
of the Clan Colquhoun * * *". This sentence was evident-
ly faulty in not being so framed as to make "father"
instead of "emigrant" the antecedent of Finley Ewing;
for a close study of the context, as well as extrinsic matter,
makes it certain that Gen. Hugh Boyle Ewing was a des-
cendant of the emigrant Thomas Ewing.

Whether the latter's father was named Finley or
Charles, or bore both names, is not certain, the traditions
and evidences being conflicting, but whatever his Chris-
tian name, it was the father of the emigrant Thomas Ewing.
who was the gallant Captain in the Battle of the Boyne,
to whom the silver-handled sword was awarded for valor,
as stated in the text.

some of them, removing to Georgia.

One of the grandsons, and perhaps others of the family,
subsequently went to Texas, where a number of their de-
scendants may be found, with some of whom the authors
have a personal acquaintance, among them Edna Ewing, the
cultured and socially attractive wife of John Bonner, of
Houston, who is an esteemed citizen and high-ranking
Mason.

CHARLES AND ROBERT EWING

who v/ere brothers, were born in County Londonderry, Ire-
land, probably at or near Coleraine, about 1715-1725, and

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A descendant of this emigration with whom the authors
^re acquainted is Thomas J. Ewing, a prominent citizen of
"Houston, Texas, connected with large business interests.

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of Argyll in Scotland, was followed by great severities,
practiced by the King (James II of England and VII of
Scotland), resulting in many of the Scotch Presbyterians
fleeing from Scotland to the North of Ireland to escape the
religious persecutions imposed upon them.'

William Ewing, who was the son of William Ewing and
his wife, Eliza Milford, m.arried twice; by the first marriage

^Autobiography of Tliomas Ewing, Volume XXI, Ohio State Archaeological
& Historical Society Publications; Biog. Ency. of Ohio, Volume 1, page 273,
Volume 6, page 1491; Scott's History of Fairfield County, Ohio, 1877.

^Sketch by James L. Ewin of Washington, D. C.
The International Cyclopedia, page 229.

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he had one son, the emigrant Nathaniel, and by the second
marriage he had four sons and a daughter : William, Joshua,
James, Samuel and Anne, and possibly other children. All
of these named were immigrants to this country, and some
at least accompanied their half-brother Nathaniel to
America, in 1725, and in the same emigration were members
of the Porter and Gillespie families, and also David
Breading.

Nathaniel Ewing and his half-brother, Joshua Ewing,
settled in Maryland on the east side of the Susquehanna,
in Cecil County, near the Pennsylvania line. The half-
brother, James Ewing, took up his abode in what became
Prince Edward County, Virginia, and the other half-broth-
ers, William for certain, and Samuel probably, settled in
Pennsylvania ; but we have no record of the descendants of
the half-brothers Joshua, Jamics and Samuel.

WILLIAM EWING

was probably born in County Londonderry, Ireland, about
the year 1710, but family tradition, evidently confusing him
with his father, has fixed his birth at Stirlingshire, Scotland,
in the vicinity of Glasgow, near Loch Lomond, whence his
father emigrated to County Londonderry, Ireland. This
tradition has also accorded to him, likely again confusing
him with his father, an elder brother Robert, who v/as a
feudal baron.

This emigrant, himself Scotch, probably married in Ire-
land an Irish girl before coming to America, which accounts
for the manifest Scotch-Irish ancestry noticeable in the
descendants of this branch of the family as well as in those
of the other branches.

William first settled in Pennsylvania, and later went to
Virginia, where he died, his widow and children, at least
some of them, removing to Georgia.

CHARLES AND ROBERT EWING

who v/ere brothers, were born in County Londonderry, Ire-
land, probably at or near Coleraine, about 171 5-1 725, and

8 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

emigrated thence to America about the period between
1 735- 1747-

They were cousins of the emigrant Nathaniel Ewing, and
on their arrival in America, they first went to his home, in
Cecil County, Maryland, but shortly after accompanied
their cousin, the emigrant James Ewing, Nathaniel's half-
brother, to what became Prince Edward County, Virginia,
and later they joined a new adventurous colony and settled
near the Peaks of Otter, in Bedford County, Virginia, where
they remained until they died.

The relationship of the different Ewing emigrants to
whom we have referred, is doubtless already apparent to the
thoughtful reader.

We have seen that Thomas and Finley Ewing were broth-
ers, and that Robert and Charles Ewing were brothers, and
that the latter were cousins of Nathaniel Ewing and his
half-brothers and sister. While direct or positive evidence
is wanting as to further kinship, the circumstances are con-
vincing that all the Ewing emigrants we have noted were
relatives, with the possible exception of James Ewin, the
emigrant who settled in New York.

In the family of the authors, there has been from the
earliest a tradition, that Captain Charles Ewing, the gallant
soldier rewarded by William of Orange for valor in the
battle of the Boyne, was of their family ; he was the father
of the emigrants, Thomas and Finley Ewing, and hence the
tradition could be true only on the theory of these emi-
grants being cousins of the emigrants, Robert and Charles
Ewing, or otherwise related.

When the historic causes leading to the exodus of the
Ewings from their seat near Stirling Castle, in Scotland, to
the North of Ireland and thence to America, are considered
in the light of the fact that they came to this country, not
Scotch alone, but Scotch-Irish, and that the emigration
from Ireland was from the same vicinity, it seems irre-
sistibly clear that the Ewing emigrants mentioned were all
in some manner related.

In concluding this chapter, we observe that there have
been men and women in each generation, from each of the
branches we have considered, distinguished in practically
every walk of life, exemplifying our country's best ideals
and traditions, and making for the perpetuity and glory of
its institutions. As illustrative of this we mention a few of

The Ewing Genealogy with Cogis-ate Branches 9

the leaders in thought and action, in addition to those whose
careers are elsewhere given.

Emma Pike Ewing, educator, born Broome County, New
York, 1838; married W. P. Ewing, 1863; dean Chautauqua
Assembly Cooking School ; professor domestic economy,
Iowa Agricultural College ; director Model School of House-
hold Economics, affiliated with Marietta College, Ohio ;
author of "The Art of Cookery," and other books.'

Hugh Boyle Ewing, born Lancaster, Ohio, October 31,
1826, died 1905; married Henrietta Young, 1858; practiced
law in St. Louis, Missouri, and later at Leavenworth, Kan-
sas; was major to brigadier general and bvt. major general
on the side of the Union in the Civil War ; minister to The
Hague, 1866-70; author of "A Castle in the Air," besides
other writings.'

James Stevenson Ewing, born McLean County, Illinois,
July 19, 1835, a lawyer, cousin and partner of the United
States Vice President (1893- 1897), Adlai Ewing Steven-
son, who was born in Christian County, Kentucky, son of
John T. and Eliza (Ewing) Stevenson. He (James S.
Ewing) was United States Minister to Belgium in 1893-
1897.=

John Gillespie Ewing, lawyer, born Lancaster, Ohio, May
22, i860, son of Philemon B. and Mar)- Rebecca (Gillespie)
Ewing; professor mathematics and later of history and eco-
nomics, Notre Dame University ; State deputy of Indiana
Knights of Columbus."

James Ewing, physician, born Pittsburgh, December 25,
1866; professor pathology, Medical Department, Cornell
University; author of articles on "The Signs of Death,"
"Sudden Death," etc'

Nathaniel Ewing, jurist, born Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
June 17, 1848; died March 28, 1914; appointed Judge Four-
teenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and later United
States District Judge, Western District of Pennsylvania.'

James Caruthers Rhea Ewing, born Rural Valley, Penn-
sylvania, June 23, 1854; Presbyterian minister and mission-
ary in India ; professor in Theological Seminary in India ;
president Forman Christian College, Lahore, India, after-
wards dean faculty of arts, Punjabu, later vice-chancellor.'

Thomas Ewing, Jr., born Leavenworth, Kansas, May 21,

^Who's Who in America, 1903-1905, page 466.
=Id., 1906-1907, page 567.
'Id., 1912-1913, page 664.

10 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

1862; son of General Thomas and Ellen (Cox) Ewing; a
lawyer, distinguished for his achievements as a solicitor
of patents/

Robert Ewing, born Mobile, Alabama, September 27,
1859; has had phenomenal success in newspaper enterprise;
became publisher and owner of N. O. Daily States ; State
Tax Collector Fourth Municipal District; Louisiana mem-
ber Democratic National Committee, and member of Louis-
iana Constitutional Convention.'

The honors to the family from these distinguished per-
sons, as observable from the places of their birth, are pretty
equally distributed among the different emigrations to which
we have adverted, and hence their achievements may be re-
garded a common heritage.

'Who's "Who in America, 191G-1917, page 776

CHAPTER III

NATHANIEL EWING, THE EMIGRANT; HIS BIRTH, MARRIAGE,

CAREER- AND DESCENDANTS

NATHANIEL EWING

as before stated, married his cousin, Rachel Porter, about
1721, at or near Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland,
and from the marriage were born the foHowing children:

1. Sarah, born at or near Coleraine, 1722; married Rob-
ert Potts. They lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
above where Harrisburg now stands, and reared there a
considerable family.

2. William, born at or near Coleraine, 1 723-1 724; died
September 10, 1788; married Kitty Ewing, daughter of the
emigrant, Joshua Ewing.

3. Anne, born on the Atlantic Ocean, 1725; died 1809.

4. John, born Little Britain, Lancaster County, Pennsyl-
vania, June 21, 1732; died September 8, 1802; married Han-
nah Sargent. He was a distinguished clergyman of Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, and has been referred to as "the
noted Philadelphian."

5. James, born June 21, 1732 (a twin to John) ; died
1818-1819; married Peggy Ewing.

6. Rachel Margaret, born Little Britain, 1735; married
her cousin, William Ewing.

7. George, born at Little Britain, September i, 1737;
died April, 1785.

8. Alexander, born 1740, died June or July, 1799; mar-
ried Jane Kirkpatrick.

William Ewing, the eldest son of Nathaniel the emigrant,
lived in Maryland until his death, leaving two children, a
daughter Rachel, who married Stephen Dancy, and a son,
Nathaniel, who went to Kentucky, joined the Kentucky
Militia, and was killed at Fort Meigs, under General Har-
rison.

Anne, daughter of the emigrant Nathaniel Ewing, married
in 1745 James Breading, born 1726, who lived in Notting-
ham, Pennsylvania, but afterwards purchased a plantation
adjoining the Maryland line and Susquehanna River, in
Pennsylvania, where they reared six children : Mar}', Na-
thaniel, Rachel, David, Sarah and Anne.

The eldest daughter, Mary Breading, married Hugh
Laughlin and lived in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, having
a large family.

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12 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

Nathaniel Breading, the eldest son, born at Little Britain,
March 17, 1751 ; died April 15, 1821, at Tower Hill Farm,
near Merrittstown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; married
in Cecil County, Maryland, June 17, 1784, his cousin, Mary
Ewing (daughter of George Ewing, son of the emigrant
Nathaniel), born Nottingham, April i, 1767; died at Alle-
gheny, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1845; removed to Fayette
County, Pennsylvania ; their children, besides those dying
in infancy, being George, born August 19, 1785; Mary Ann,
born September 4, 1787; James Ewing, born October 19,
1789; William, born December 3, 1791 ; Sarah, born Janu-
ary 3, 1796; Harriet, born May 11, 1803; Caroline Mar-
garet, born August 3, 1807, and Elizabeth, born August 8,
1810. The daughter, Caroline Margaret, married a Mr.
Trevor, the youngest son of the marriage being Francis
Nathaniel Trevor, of Lockport, New York. Another of the
daughters is understood to have married George Hogg, of
Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the father of John T. Hogg and
Nathaniel Breading Hogg.

Nathaniel Breading, son of James and Anne (Ewing)
Breading, was in the service of the Revolutionary Army,
1777-1778, at Valley Forge, in receiving and distributing
goods bought and sent to the Army by his uncle, George
Ewing, while his younger brother, David Breading, was
Temporary Aide to General Maxwell, at Princeton, and was
General Washington's guide, under General Maxwell's de-
tail, in leading the former to the retreating army of General
Lee, at whom it is said W^ashington swore vehemently,
deprecating and countermanding the retreat which Lee had
ordered.

George Ewing, son of the emigrant Nathaniel, married
April 8, 1766, Mary Porter, daughter of James and Ellen
(Gillespie) Porter; he, James Porter, being the brother-in-
law of the emigrant Nathaniel, and having emigrated from
County Londonderry, Ireland, shortly after the arrival in
America of Nathaniel Ewing and his half-brothers and sis-
ter. Children of this union were :

1. Mary, born April i, 1767; died August 31, 1845, ^t
Allegheny, Pennsylvania ; married Nathaniel Breading, as
above stated.

2. William Porter, born May (or December) 19, 1769;
died October 21, 1827, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; mar-
ried Mary Conwell, 1791. They had a son, John H., born

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 13

October 5, 1796, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, who mar-
ried a daughter of James Blaine, son of Colonel Ephraim
Blaine of Revolutionary fame. It may be here remarked
that this James Blaine was also the father of Ephraim Blaine
II, who married Maria Gillespie, daughter of Neil Gillespie,
Jr., and his wife, Miss Purcell, of Centerville, Washington
County, Pennsylvania ; from which union were born seven
children, among them the illustrious United States Senator
and statesman from Maine, James G. Blaine, defeated for
the Presidency of the United States by Grover Cleveland,
in 1884.

3. Ellen (or Eleanor), born August 3, 1774; married
William Oliphant ; lived and died near Marietta, Ohio.

4. Nathaniel, born April 10, 1772; died August 6, 1846,
near Vincennes, Indiana.

5. James, born September 25, 1776; married Rebecca
Morgan, and died 1859, in Missouri, leaving sons and
daughters, having previously lived in Prince Edward Coun-
ty, Virginia, where he married, subsequently removing in
1843-1844 to Chariton County, Missouri. Their youngest
daughter married Dr. Dewey, of Keytesville, Missouri, to
whom was born a daughter who married Andrew Mackay,
of St. Louis, Missouri.

He (George Ewing) was a Commissary under appoint-
ment of Colonel Ephraim Blaine to purchase for the Army,
and under this appointment he bought and sent goods, upon
his own personal responsibility, to Washington's Army at
Valley Forge, in the winter of 1777. The Government being
unable to pay the debts he thus incurred, his individual
property was all sold to satisfy them, leaving him and his
family destitute ; he died, and the family was taken to Fay-
ette County, Pennsylvania, 1786, by his son-in-law, Na-
thaniel Breading.

Nathaniel Ewing, son of George and grandson of the
emigrant Nathaniel Ewing, married October i, 1793, Ann
Breading. Their children were : Mary, born June 16, 1794;
died November 3, 1865; married February 26, 1818, Dr.
William Carr Lane. Rachel, born June 10, 1796; died Jan-
uary 24, 1836; married May 3, 1820, Daniel Jencks, of
Terre Haute, Indiana. George W. born March 4, 1798;
died September 15, 1838; married May 11, 1837, Grace H.
Law, Vincennes, Indiana. James, born April 6, 1800; died
March 10, 1877; married July, i860, Eliza Shaw. Eliza,
born August 3, 1802; died July, 1808. Sarah, born July

14 The Ewing Genealogy with CogiXate Beaxches

12, 1804; died March 10, 1877; married November 28, 1822,
John Law. Harriet, born February 9, 1807; died August
10, 1877; married November 29, 1826, James Farrington.
WiUiam Lane, born January 31, 1809; died October 2.2,
1873. CaroHne Sidney, born February 11, 181 1; married
November 21, 1833, George W. Mears. Nathaniel, born
April 13, 1815; died November, 1816.

The father of these children, Nathaniel Ewing, the
younger, was a man of remarkable ability. He was at one
time head of the Newark Academy, Delaware, being induced
to accept the position by his uncle. Rev. John Ewing, of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He removed to Vincennes, In-
diana, in 1807, to fill an appointment from the Government
as Receiver of Public Moneys ; subsequently he became a
member of the Territorial Legislature, and was distinguished
for legislative talents of a high order; he was one of the
men who, in spite of great opposition, insisted that Indiana,
upon her admission to the Union, should be a free State.
He died at Mont Clair, Indiana, in 1846, aged seventy-four,
having exerted mentionable influence upon the period in
which he lived.^

The descendants of Nathaniel Ewing have, in a marked
degree, left their impress upon the history of St. Louis, and
are still making history ; and to a very notable one of them,
we now direct attention.

William Lane Ewing, son of Nathaniel and Ann (Bread-
ing) Ewing, was born at Mont Clair, the family homestead,
near Vincennes, Indiana; and after enjoying a successful
business career of several years, he embarked, on January
I, 1839, in the wholesale grocery and commission business
in St. Louis, Missouri, with Pierre A. Berthold and Louis
P. Tesson. The firm of Berthold & Ewing won a high place
in the business world, and was rapidly advancing to fame
and fortune when, in 1849, the business was destroyed by
fire. Mr. Ewing, nothing daunted by the unexpected calam-
ity, soon resumed business under the name of William L.
Ewing & Co., which became one of the largest establish-
ments in the city. He was identified with many private and
public enterprises, and was much honored; he was presi-
dent of the Merchants National Bank, a member of the St.
Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association, was one
of the original members of the Merchants' Exchange, and
a stockholder and director in numerous other enterprises of

^Scharf's History of St. Louis, Volume 1, page 717.

The Ewing Genealogy with Cogxate Branches 15

importance to the city and State. He died October 26, 1873,
at Dailey Springs, near Florence, Alabama, where he had
gone for his health, and was buried in Calvary Cemetery,
St. Louis, Missouri.'

William Lane Ewing, married February,^ 1838, Claire
Berthold, sister of his partner, Pierre A. Berthold, and
daughter of Bartholomew and Pelagic C. Berthold. Their
children were: Auguste Berthold, born April 6, 1839; mar-
ried September 8, 1869, Mary McCausland. Ann Emily,
born August 26, 1841. William Lane, born March 16, 1843;
married July 17, 1883, Mary Fleming. Nathaniel P., born
January 23, 1845; died May 13, 1846. Pelagic Isabel, born
November 19, 1846; married October 4, 1865, Charles T.
Taylor. George, born April 9, 1848; died September 6,
1853. James, born .April 13, 1850; died April 21, 1852.
Ernest L., born July 14, 1851 ; died July 30, 1852. Emily
Kennedy, born March 2, 1853; died February 13, 1869.
Frederick Berthold, born March 2, 1853 ; died February 10,
1897; married September 11, 1878, J. Valle. Clara Louise,
born September 7, 1855; married February 27, 1878, Wil-
liam Sidney Wilson.

Ann Emily Ewing, daughter of William Lane Ewing,
married (i) July i, 1865, William Covington Mitchell, and
(2) February 19, 1879, George W. Kerr. From her mar-
riage with William Covington Mitchell was born a number
of children, among them Clara Pelagic, born November 24,
1867; died April 20, 1901 ; married November 26, 1890,
Malcolm Macbeth, a prominent real estate and financial
agent of St. Louis, Missouri. Their children, Clara Mitchell
Macbeth, born October 25, 1893; George Kerr, born Sep-
tember 24, 1896; D. St. Julien, born September 13, 1898;
Malcolm Mitchell, born April 20, 1901 ; Agnes Pearson,
born and died April 20, 1901.

A distinguished branch of the Ewings, which we accredit
to this emigration, descends from Nathaniel Ewing, of or
near Charlotte, and afterwards of Statesville, North Caro-
lina, who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, a
member of Capt. James Houston's Company, and engaged
in the battles of Ramsour's Mill, Kings Mountain and Cow-
pens. He married a daughter of Col. Alexander Osborne,'
and a son of this union was Adlai Osborne Ewing, who
married Sophia Goodrich Gillespie Wallis.

JScharfs History of St. Louis, Volume 1, page 717.

=WheeIer's History of North Carolina, Vol. II, pp. 216, 232, 368.

16 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

A son of this last marriage, Jolin Wallis Ewing (1808-
1855), married Maria McClelland Stevenson (1802-1883),
daughter of James Stevenson and Nancy Young Brevard/
in Christian County, Kentucky, October 12, 1830, later re-
moving to Woodford County, Illinois. They had seven
children : Adlai, died in infancy ; Nancy Jane, married E.
B. Winchester in 1854, and they were the parents of five
children ; James Stevenson,"" whose career has been else-
where mentioned herein, married Catherine Spencer, June,
1866, and they were the parents of six children; William
Gillespie, married Ruth Goodrich in April, 1865, and from
this union there were three children : Henry A., married
March, 1866, Elizabeth J. Merriman, of Hinsdale, Massa-
chusetts, and from this marriage there were seven children ;
Adlai Thomas, married Kate Hyde, of New York, and to
them were born four children.

Issue of Henry A. Ewing and Elizabeth J. Merriman :

1. Henry Wallis, born November 17, 1867; married
August 5, 1893, Alice Elizabeth Sweet, born February 4,
1869. Children: Henry Wallis, born September 5, 1894;
married March 3, 1918, Mary Arden Kelley, born Novem-
ber 25, 1894. In the War with Germany, he was ist Lieut-
enant, 131 Field Artillery, American Expeditionary Forces,
in France, stationed at Coetquiban, 1918; Abbie Jane, born
August I, 1897; Lucius Winchester, born May 31, 1901 ;
Lawrence B., bom May 31, 1901, died 1902; Alice Sweet,
born January 6, 1906, and Adlai Merriman, born August
24, 191 2.

2. May Brevard, born December 24, 1869; married June
15, 1893, Charles F. Scott, born September 7, 1866. Child-
ren: Ewing Carruth, born August 28, 1894; Ruth Merri-
man, born December 30, 1897; Angelo Campbell, born
November 17, 1899; Charles F., born February 14, 1908.

3. Adlai Merriman, born January 22, 1872; married
June 16, 1896, Mary Ella Taylor, born August i, 1875.
Child: Anne McMillin, born January 30, 1897.

4. Elliott Winchester, born April 13, 1874; died August
19, 1891.

5. Richard Avery, born May 20, 1877, married Lulu
Jane Myers, February 22, 1900. Children : Elizabeth
Merriman, born March. 6, 1901 ; James B., born September

'History and Genealogical Record of the Stevenson Family, by Rev.
Samuel Harris Stevenson, 1900.

nVho's Who in America, 1906-1907, page 567.

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Brancties 17

]8, 1902; Grace Vernon, born September 16, 1904; Ruth
born December 23, 1907.

6. Ruth Stevenson, born May 4, 1880; married Perry
O. Hanson, June, 1902. Children: Eleanor, born July 14,
1903; Richard Ewing, born October 31, 1905; Ada ]vuth,
born September 8, 1907; Margaret Merriman, born July
12, 1909; Elizabeth Moody, born September 13, 1914.

7. Sarah Catherine, born December 8, 1882; married
Alexander R. Stroup, June 29, 1907. Children : Wilson
Elliott, born May 2, 1908; Henry Ewing, born March 22,
1910; Robert D., born May 21, 1912; Mary Elizabeth, born
November 8, 1914.

Eliza Ann Ewing, born October 20, 1809, was the daugh-
ter of Adlai Osborne Ewing and Sophia Goodrich Gillespie,
and hence a sister of John Wallis Ewing. She married
John Turner Stevenson (1808- 1857), son of James Steven-
son and Nancy Young Brevard, and from this union was
born, October 23, 1835, the distinguished statesman before
mentioned, Adlai Ewing Stevenson, twice Democratic
nominee for Vice President of the United States.^

The other children of this union were, Sophia Elizabeth,
lorn July 23, 1833; James Bell, born October 10, 1838;
died December 11, 1889; William W., born August 15,
1840; Eielding Alexander, born September 23, 1844; John
Calvin, born September 27, 1847, and Thomas W., born
August 16, 1 85 1.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson, married December 20, 1866,
Letitia Green, who was born January 8, 1843. Their
children were, Lewis Green, born August 15, 1868; Mary
Eliza, born September 18, 1872; died January 18, 1895;
Julia Scott, born June 30, 1874, and Letitia Ewing, born
June 22, 1876.

Still another branch of this emigration is the family of
George Ewing, identified with the early history of Houston,
Texas, where his son, Nathaniel Ewing, a prominent citizen,
now resides. He was a companion of Bowie and Travis,
and an Alcalde of Austin's First Colony, in the days of the
Republic.

The descendants of this emigration, often referred to as
the Cecil County emigration, are scattered throughout the
Union, with their firm impress everywhere on the Nation's
progress, but they are perhaps more numerous in Pennsyl-
vania, Virginia, parts of Kentucky and Tennessee, and in
Indiana and Illinois, than in the other States.

nVho's Who in America. 190X1905. page 1420.

CHAPTER IV

WILLIAM EWING, EMIGRANT: HIS BIRTH, CHILDREN,
AND FAMILY DISTINCTION

WILLIAM EWING

was, as we have seen, of unmixed Scotch ancestry, but was
probably born in County Londonderry, Ireland, about 1710,
and there married to an Irish girl, making his descendants
Scotch-Irish, as they unquestionably are.

It has also been shown that this emigrant first settled in
Pennsylvania, and later removed to Virginia, where he died,
and that some of the family then took up their abode in
Georgia, descendants branching out to other States, notably
Texas.

The children* of the emigrant, William Ewing, were as
follows :

1. Henry, whose career and descendants will be given in
a succeeding chapter.

2. Andrew, whose career and descendants will also be
given in a separate chapter.

3. John, whose career and children will be similarly
stated in a separate chapter.

4. Elizabeth, married Hugh Devier.

5. Nancy, married a Mr. Hogshett.

We have no record of the descendants of these daughters.

True to the family distinction in the old country, de-
scendants of the emigrant William soon became prominent
in America.

Henry Ewing, one of the sons, removed to Kentucky,
where he has descendants, some of them quite noted for
achievements of a high order.

Andrew Ewing, another son, removed to Tennessee,
where he was actively connected with the early development
of Nashville, having been one of its founders. His de-
scendants are numerous, many of them quite prominent,

*The names of children are numbered 1, 2, 3, etc.; grandchildren are
numbered (1), (2), (3), etc.; and where clearness requires, great grandchildren
are numbered 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., after which letters are used.
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The Ewinq Genealogy with Cognate Branches 19

among whom are included Judge Robert Ewing, a man of
lofty character and splendid abihties, who made as Mayor
of the City of Nashville an enviable record.

Caruthers Ewing, the eminent lawyer of Memphis, Ten-
nessee, is probably of this branch, but authentic information
to that effect has not been obtained.

Another worthy scion of the family is Felix Grundy
Ewing, now living like his ancestors did of old, at his
country-seat, "Glen Raven," near Cedar Hill, Tennessee,
maternally descended from the illustrious Felix Grundy
(1777-1840), born in Virginia, Chief Justice of Kentucky
(1807), twice a member of Congress from Tennessee, in
1829 a Senator and an active supporter of President Jack-
son, and (1838) appointed Attorney General of the United
States.'

^The International Cyclopedia, Volume VII, page 126.

CHAPTER V

HENRY EWING, SON OF EMIGRANT WILLIAM EWING :
HIS CAREER AND DESCENDANTS

*nENRY EWING

eldest son of the emigrant William Ewing, was the first
Justice of the Peace for Rockingham County, Virginia, and
Clerk of the Court, 1782-1792; removed in 1792 to Hardin
County, Kentucky, where he died. He married Jane Rodg-
ers : Issue :

(i) John Ewing (Henry, William), born 1761, died
August 14, 1796; moved with his father to Hardin County,
Kentucky, and died there; married Sallie Davis (father
Walter Davis), who died in Christian County, Kentucky,
1805. Issue :

1ST. Henry Clayton Ewing (John, Henry, William),
born December 7, 1788; died March 17, 1855. Owing to
his father's death when he v/as still a child, he became the
ward of his great uncle, Andrew Ewing (William), of
Nashville, Tennessee, and later became Deputy Clerk under
Nathan Ewing. He married Elizabeth Hill (daughter of
Dan Hill), January 12, 1815. Issue:

(a) John Hill Ewing, born March 10, 1816; died No-
vember 21, 1885; married (first) Susan H. Goodwin, No-
vember 8, 1838. Issue:

(aa) Henry Clayton Ewing, born November 18,
1839; died January 8, 1862; married Elizabeth May,
i860, and had a daughter, Henry.

(bb) William Goodwin, born January 17, 1842;
died July 30, 1882; married (first) Sallie House, 1866.
Issue: Mary Hamilton, born March 14, 1868. He mar-
ried (second) Martha Hillman, October 25, 1870. Is-
sue: Henry Clayton, born August 11, 1871 ; Susan,
born October 7, 1872, married Henry M. Harris, De-
cember 6, 1893 ; John Hill, born March 24, 1874; Grace,
born October 8, 1875; George Hillman, born August
28, 1877; Andrewena, born January 13, 1881.

(cc) Alice, born January 8, 1844; died March 26,
1881 ; married William Donelson, December 17, 1870.
Issue: Mary Elizabeth, born May 6, 1872; John, born

•To Dr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Fox (q. v.) we are indebted for information of
the births, marriages and deaths of the descendants of the emigrant William.
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The Ewixg Genealogy with Cognate Branches 21

February 12, 1874; Alice Ewin, born October 18, 1876,
died January 7, 1892; W'ena, born May 12, 1880.

(dd) Susan Goodwin, born February 22, 1846;
married Frank O. Anderson, September 19, 1867.
Issue: Garland E., born July 21, 1868; Mary E., born
September 15, 1870; Susan M., born February 5, 1873;
Alfred E., born February 10, 1883.

(ee) Andrewena. born June 4, 1848; married Wil-
liam Perkins May, November 25, 1875. Issue: Eliza-
beth, born October 9, 1878; Annie, born December 5,
1881 ; Susan Ewin, born January 17, 1886.
He (John Hill Ewing) married (second) Catherine (De
Graffinreid) Perkins, a widow, February, 1855. Issue:

(aa) James W, P., born November 12, 1855.

(bb) Catherine D., born October 25, 1857.

(cc) Lucinda, born September 15, 1859.

(dd) John Overton, born August 5, 1881 ; married
Adair Humphries, November, 1887. Issue: Lucy
Herndon, born June 16, 1889; James, born June 22,
1891.

(ee) Elizabeth, born December 24, 1863; married
Abram Martin Baldwin, June 7, 1887. Issue: Abram
Martin, born April 14, 1888; Katherine, born July 23,
1890.

(ff) Benjamin Russ De Graffinreid, born August

7, 1866.

(b) Lucinda G., born December 27, 1817; died March

2^, 1883, in Clarksville, Tennessee; married May 23, 1837,

James H. Wright, born in Virginia, November 16, 1812;

died March 17, 1856. Issue:

(aa) Susan Rowena Wright, born February 20,
1839; died April 21, 1879; married Edmond Turnley,
April 2/, 1858. Issue: James Harvey, born March 9,
1859; married Sallie Jetton Carney, November 18,
1885. Edwin Perry, born April 24, 1862; married
Willie Golladay, October 22, 1884; children, Nettie,
born January 29, 1888, and Robert Moseley, born Janu-
ary 9, 1890. Lucinda Garner, born February 10, 1869;
died July, 1869. William Wright, born October, 1870;
died June, 1879. Nettie, born September 8, 1872.

(bb) Elizabeth Hill, born August 29, 1842, died
March 23, 1863, unmarried.

(cc) Henry Clayton, born June 30, 1844; died June
19, 1845.

22 The Ewiisq Genealogy with Cogxate Lraxches

(dd) Florence, born April 8, 1846; married Mar-
cellus Turnley, January 23, 1867. Issue: Emma, born
December 11, 1867; married Dr. Pike Adair, June 2.'j,
1888. Alpha Wright, born August 2}^, 1869; married
Joseph W. Alford, September 9, 1891 ; child, Florence,
born January 3, 1893. Susan W., born December i,
1870; married Thomas J. Flood, May 6, 1891. Lu-
cinda Ewin, born December 2},, 1874; died January 11,
1875. Mary Hester, born November 14, 1879. Mattie
Ewin, born June 2^, 1883; died September 5, 1884.

(ee) Jennetta Pendleton, born December 16, 1848.

(ff) William Hickman Ewin, born August 5, 1851 ;
married September, 1878, Martha A. Neblett, who died
at Clarksville, Tennessee, September 9, 1894. Issue:
William H., born and died 1879; Elizabeth Hill, born
September, 1880; Anna Neblett, born 1882; John Ewin,
born about 1884.

{gg) Martha Ewing, born Januar}' 29, 1853; died
April 23, 1891 ; married April 7, 1887, R. M. Scott, who
died at Cordile, Georgia, May 26, 1890. Issue: Flor-
ence E., born February 13, 1888, and John Wright,
born December 17, 1889.
] (hh) James Harvey, born February 25, 1855; died

July 31, 1855.

(d) Martha Hill, born April 4, 1822; died May, 1852,
unmarried.

(e) William Hickman, born December 3, 1824; died
December 5, 1867, unmarried.

(f) Jennetta Hall, born July i, 1827; died June 9, 1850;
married John T. Pendleton, October 21, 1846. Children:
Henry Ewin, born 1847, died unmarried, and James K.,
born and died 1850.

(g) Watts Davis, born March 29, 1830; died October
29, 1855; married Georgianna Sebree, October 25, 1853.
Child: Martha S., born 1854, died 1855.

(h) Mary Elizabeth, born April 2, 1833; married Wil-
liam P. Cannon, February 21, 1856. Children: William
Perkins, born January 31, 1858; John Hill, born September
6, 1859; Thomas F. P., born September 24, 1861 ; Elizabeth
Ewin, born August i, 1863, married O. Boxby, December
6, 1894.

(i) Theresa Green, born September 17, 1836; married

The Ewixo Gexealoqt with Cogxate Branches 23

Samuel F. Perkins, June 29, 1858; lived in Franklin, Ten-
nessee. Issue :

(aa) Leah Letitia Perkins, born April 30, 1859;
married Leland Jordan, January 15, 1879. Children:
Theresa A., born November 10, 1879; Samuel Per-
kins, born April 23, 1881 ; Mary, bom December 28,
1883; Leland, born March 14, 1885; Letitia Perkins,
born April 21, 1887; Montfort, born March 11, 1889;
Elizabeth Ev.in, born September 10, 1891, and Martha,
born December 6, 1893.

(bb) Elizabeth Ewin, born May 11, i860; married
John H. Henderson, May 21, 1879. Children: Sam-
uel, born July 24, 1880; died July 21, 1881. Thomas
Feam Perkins, born May 9, 1882; Theresa Ewin, born
April 26, 18S5; John Hughes, born June 2-j, 1888, and
Sally, born October 25, 1892.

(cc) Thomas Feam, born March 12, 1863; ^^^'^
January 29, 1872, unmarried.

(dd) Samuel F. and Theresa, twins, born Febru-
ary 3, 1865; former died January, 1866, unmarried, and
latter married Frank Y. McGavock, October 15, 1884.
Children : Theresa Perkins, born May 28, 1885, and
Louise Grundy, born June 3, 1890.
2ND. Watts Davis Ewing (John, Henry, William), born
January, 1791 ; engaged in mercantile business where Tren-
ton, Kentucky, now stands; in 1818 moved to Nashville,
Tennessee, and settled on a farm near what is now Fayette-
ville, where he remained until his death. Married his cousin,
Margaret Donley. Issue :

(a) William Ewing, dates of birth and marriage not
ascertained, nor name of wife. Children, three sons :
Charles, Robert and William.

(b) Charles died when a lad about eleven years old.

(d) John, said to have married and had nine daughters.

(e) Henry, dates and name of wife not known; had two
sons, Edwin and Henry.

24 Tjie Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Bkanches

(f) Watts.

(g) James.

3RD. Jennetta Ewing (John, Henry, William), married
Edwin Hall, of Virginia ; moved with him to Kentucky.
Issue : One child.

4TH. John Ewing (John, Henry, \\'illiani) died in in-
fancy.

(2) Henry (Henry, William), no record of him.

(3) Andrew (Henry, William) is said to have had sons
who lived in Southwestern Missouri.

(4) Sally (Henry, William), married John Davis. Chil-
dren : Margaret, Martha, Ewin, James, John and Allen ;
two last moved to Franklin County, Missouri, in 1820.

CHAPTER VI

ANDREW EWING, SON OF THE EMIGRANT WILLIAM EWING:

HIS CAREER AND DESCENDANTS

ANDREW EWING

son of the emigrant William, was born March 15, 1740; died
April 30, 1813. He married Susannah, daughter of Thomas
Shannon, of Virginia, and moved from Rockingham County,
Virginia, to Tennessee in 1780, and settled at the present
site of Nashville.

He was one of the founders of the City of Nashville, was
one of the Commissioners in laying off the town, and in
1783 became Clerk of the Court of Davidson County, which
then embraced a large portion of the State, and held this
position until his death.

Citizens of Nashville erected a granite shaft, in the Court
House square, in his memoiy and that of his associates. It
may be noted too that his wife was one of the founders of
the First Presbyterian church of Nashville, now the largest
church in that city. Issue :

(i) Andrew Ewing (Andrew, William), born July i,
1768; died May i, 1830; married Sarah, daughter of Wil-
liam Hickman. No issue.

(2) Margaret Ewing (Andrew, William), born June 4,
1769; died June i, 1862; married Andrew Castleman. Issue,
as far as known : Robert, and Cinthia, married Professor
Richard Beard, D. D., of Princeton, New Jersey.

(3) William Ewing (Andrew, William), born Novem-
ber 29, 1771 ; died November 24, 1845; niarried Margaret
Love, May 26, 1795. Issue:

1ST. Andrew B. Ewing (William, Andrew, William),
born July 27, 1796; died May 15, 1880. He was born on
the "Granny White" Pike, near Nashville, Tennessee; was
a physician ; tv/ice President of the Medical Society of
Tennessee, and several times President of the County So-
ciety. He married Eliza McGavock, daughter of Captain
Hugh McGavock, at Max Meadows, Virginia, May i, 1821.
Issue :

(a) William Ewing (Andrcv»' B., William, Andrew,
William), born May 2, 1823; married (first) Lucinda Mc-
Gavock, of Max Meadows, Virginia, and (second) Lida
Withers. He served both in the Mexican War and Confed-
erate Army, in the latter in command of a company of
cavalry at the time of his death. He was Representative of

26 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Beanches

Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1861. Issue by Lucinda :
(aa) Andrew B. Ewing (William, Andrew B., Wil-
liam, Andrew, William), born July 25, 1851 ; married
February 8, 1882, Blanche, daughter of Edwin
Crutcher.

(bb) Joseph William, born February 17, 1853; died
January 16, 1889, unmarried.

(cc) Lillie Eliza, born March 24, 1855; married
William J. Brown, October 25, 1882. Children : Susie
Elizabeth, born August 26, 1887; William Johnston,
born January 27, 1890; Milton Ewing, born May 10,

1895-
Issue by Lida :

(aa) William Milton (William, Andrew B., Wil-
liam, Andrew, William), born December 9, 1862; mar-
ried Maggie, daughter of D. F. Mills, May 18, 1886.
Children: Milton M., born January 21, 1887; died
March, 1887. William D., born May, 1889. Marga-
rette, born 1891.

(b) Hugh McGavock Ewing (Andrew B., William, An-
drew, William), born December 11, 1824.

(c) Randal Milton Ewing (Andrew B., William, An-
drew, William), born June i, 1829; resided in Franklin,
Tennessee; was appointed Attorney General of the Ninth
Judicial Circuit of Tennessee when the State seceded in
1861, and again held the same ofifice in 1864-1865; was
elected Vice President of the Tennessee Bar Association,
1884-1885 ; married Mary Ellen, daughter of James Rodgers
McGavock, September 13, 1853. Issue:

(aa) Carrie Eliza Ewing (Randal Milton, Andrew
B., William, Andrew, William), born September 17,
1854.

(bb) Charles Andrew, born September 25, 1857;
married Sarah Elizabeth Owen, November 22, 1887.
Children: Pleasant Andrew, born February 23, 1889;
John Owen, born December 26, 1890, and Ellen, born
June 20, 1893.

(cc) Francis McGavock, born December 26, 1861 ;
married Eliza McClung, daughter of John Marshall,
January 15, 1892. Children: Randal, born and died
December 26, 1892, and John Marshall, born September
3, 1894.

(dd) William F., born February 20, 1864.

The Ewino Genevlogy with Cognate Branches 27

(d) Andrew J. Ewing (Andrew B., William, Andrew,
William), born May 17, 1835; died about 1890, unmarried.

(e) Susan Mary Ewing (Andrew B., William, Andrew,
William), born January 2, 1841.

(f) Ann Eliza Ewing (Andrew B., William, Andrew,
William), born August i, 1843.

2ND. Joseph Love Ewing (William, Andrew, William),
born May 31, 1798; died 1864; married Sarah E., daughter
of David McGavock, November 11, 1824.

3RD. Felix Grundy Ewing (William, Andrew, William),
born September 2, 1800; married Sarah McRorry, Septem-
ber 2, 1824.

4TH. Susannah Shannon Ewing (William, Andrew, Wil-
liam), born July 4, 1804; married Major William Harts-
field, April 4, 1838.

5TH. Milton P. Ewing (William, Andrew, William),
born April 4, 1806; died September 28, 1837, unmarried.

6th. Eliza Milford Ewing (William, Andrew, William),
born December 24, 1807; married James G. Dunaway, Jan-
uary 3, 1828.

7TH. William L. Ewing (William, Andrew, William),
bom November i, 1890; married Nancy R. Thompson, Feb-
ruary 16, 1832.

8th. Jesse H. Ewing (William, Andrew, William), born
September 10, 181 1; married Martha Jane, daughter of
Matthew Johnson, of Williamson County, Tennessee, Janu-
ary 7, 1841.

9TH. Cyrus G. Ewing (William, Andrew, William),
born September 26, 1813; died November 27, 1835, un-
married.

lOTH. Margaret A. Ewing (William, Andrew, William),
born December 11, 1815; married (first) Dr. Andrew J.
White, December 7, 1835; married (second) Dr. Robert
Glass; married (third) Mr. D. Cameron.

iiTH. Mary Jane Ewing (William, Andrew, William),
born October 5, 1817; married Pleasant A. Smith, February
16, 1837. Issue:

(a) William C. Smith (Mary Jane, William, Andrew,
William).

(b) Pleasant A., married Martha Thompson Hamilton,
October 18, 1866. Children: William Ewing Smith, born
January 15, 1868; Mary Hamilton, born August 15, 1873;
Nannie F., born August 30, 1878, and Nellie French, born
February 23, 1882.

28 The Ewino Genealogy with Cognate Branches

(4) Amelia Ewing (Andrew, William), born January
7, 1774; died November, 1836; married in Nashville, Ten-
nessee, 1795, Moses Speer, who died July 11, 1840, in Hous-
ton County, Texas, said to be a descendant of an Irish
baron, Henry Speer, residing in County Londonderry. She
removed to Texas in 1833. Issue:

1ST. Andrew Ewing Speer (Amelia, Andrew, William),
born March 27, 1796; died 1837; married Elizabeth Wil-
liams. Issue:

(a) John Ewing .Speer, born 1826.

(b) Susan, born 1831 ; married A. P. Scruggs. Child:
Rosa Vulnor, born 1868.

2ND. Moses G. Speer (Amelia, Andrew, William), born
January 9, 1798; died 1814, unmarried.

3RD. Jesse Lee Speer (Amelia, Andrew, William), born
December 4, 1799; died 1890.

4TH. James Green Hill Speer (Amelia, Andrew, Wil-
liam), born July 28, 1801 ; died 1832; married Eliza O'Brien.
Issue :

(a) .Sarah Amelia Speer, married Mr. Jackson.

(b) John Moses, married, but date of marriage and
name of wife not obtained. Child : William.

(c) Mary Ann, born March, 1832; married Mr. Bartlett.
5TH. Thomas Hickman Speer (Amelia, Andrew, Wil-
liam), born June 6, 1803; died 1838.

6th. Nathan Ewing Speer (Amelia, Andrew, William),
born May i, 1805; died 1870; married 1830, Eliza Jane,
daughter of Erancis P. Blair, of District of Columbia. Chil-
dren: George; "Bettie," died 1872; married Dr. Fisher.

7TH. Edward Young Speer (Amelia, Andrew, Wil-
liam), born April 11, 1807; died 1881.

8th. Mary W. Speer (Amelia, Andrew, William), born
January 9, 1809; died 1849; married Rev. G. Garrett, No-
vember 15, 1832. Issue:

(a) Mary Susan Garrett, born April 11, 1834; married
Rev. James A. Peebles, June 11, 1855; lived in Arkansas.
Issue:

(aa) Seth G. Peebles, born August 11, 1856; mar-
ried Tennie Jackson, 1883.

(bb) Maria D., born July 16, 1858; married Eugene
Skillern, October 16, 1878. Children: Eugene Ander-
son, born November 21, 1879; Mary Gertrude, born
February 20, 1882; Valeria, born June 20, 1885; Julia

The Ewixg Genealogy with Cogxate Bbaxciies 29

Garrett, born July i6, 1887; Lottie, born September 21,
1889; William Albert, born October 28, 1891 ; Minnie
P., born March 2, 1894.

(cc) Julia A., born June 14, i860; married C. W.
Garner, January 12, 1881. Children: Myrtle A., born
January 13, 1882; died November, 1882. Walter, born
and died November, 1882. Laura Irene, born Novem-
ber, 1883. William, born July, 1886; died December,
1886.

(dd) John William, born November 25, 1862.

(ee) James Albert, born March 18, 1864; died
July, 1864.

(ff) Mary Elizabeth, born March 19, 1866; mar-
ried John A. McClure, October i, 1889. Children:
Florence, born July 17, 1890. Grace, born March 10,
1892; died March 11, 1893. John Peebles, born De-
cember 31, 1893.

(gg) Alberta G., born August 14, 1873; died Sep-
tember, 1873.

(b) Ann Amelia, born March 13, 1837; married Wil-
liam Wallace, September 11, 1863.

(d) William Andrew, born August 3, 1843; <^ied July
28, 1861, unmarried.

(e) Emma F., born November 24, 1846; married (first)
Goodwyn My rick, December 31, 1878, and (second) F. M.
Whitehead, November, 1890. No issue.

9TH. John Fletcher Speer (Amelia, Andrew, William),
born December 10, 181 1 ; died 1846.

lOTH. Samuel W. Speer (Amelia, Andrew, William),
born August 15, 1813; was a distinguished divine in Ken-
tucky. He married (first) Abigail Wilmath in 1837, ^"^
(second) Antoinette, daughter of John Bliss, of Witherham,
Massachusetts, August 20, 1850. Child by Abigail, a daugh-
ter, Abigail. Children by Antoinette : John Bliss, died in
infancy ; Charles Ewing, died in childhood ; Harriet, died
aged 9 years; Samuel Marshall, died aged 19 years.

iiTH. Susan S. Speer (Amelia, Andrew, William), bom
April 12, 1815; married William McPherson, September 21,
1837. She went to Talladega County, Alabama, 1835, and
organized the first school for girls in the county, at that
time of the Creek Indian Nation. Issue :

30 The Ewing Genealogy with Cog.nate Branches

(a) Harriett Janetta McPherson, born October 25,
1841 ; married H. J. Hamilton, a farmer, October 29, i860,
in Fayetteville, Alabama. Issue :

(aa) Daisy Ezelle Hamilton, born December 29,
1863; married Rufus P. Loony, October 25, 1884. Chil-
dren: Rufus Linton Loony, born August 10, 1885;
Annie Louise, born February 2, 1887; Hamilton, born
January 25, 1889.

(bb) Susan Stella, born November 14, 1866.

(cc) Hudson, born November 14, 1868; married
Ruby Avereth, December 7, 1893. Child : Erma, bom
October 14, 1894.

(dd) Ida Lucila, born September 2;^, 1873.

(ee) Jannetta, born May 5, 1876.

(ff ) Jessie Ewing, born July 16, 1878.

(gg) Margaret Williamson, born March 16, 1881.

(hh) Robert Irvin, born March 30, 1885.

(b) William G., born February 9, 1844; married Miss
Wallis, February 9, 1873, near Fayetteville, Alabama. Child:
Wallis D., born October 22, 1873.

(c) Robert J., born January 4, 1846; died March i,
1884; married Annabella Love, March 13, 1880, near York,
Nebraska. Children :

(aa) Jesse William, bom December 13, 1880.
(bb) Bessie, born December 25, 1882.

(d) Margaret Roxana, born August 28, 1848; married
James Mims, a merchant, January 15, 1868, at Fayetteville,
Alabama, and lived at Oxford, Alabama. Issue :

(aa) Eleanor, born March 31, 1870; married Kin-
alder W. Hawly, December 28, 1892.

(bb) Charles McPherson, born July 29, 1873,

(cc) James William, born June 20, 1876.

(dd) Susan Elizabeth, born February 18, 1879.

(ee) Mary Lou, born September, 1883.

(ff) Samuel McPherson, born October 12, 1891.

(e) Charles C, born February 7, 1851 ; became a bank-
er; married Louise Lehnhofif, November 25, 1884, near Lin-
coln, Nebraska.

(f) Samuel Speer, born June 25, 1855; was a farmer;
married Anna K. Kelly, August 25, 1881, at Wetumpka,
Alabama.

I2TH. Margaret C. Speer (Amelia, Andrew, William),
born February 12, 1817; died 1877; married Thomas Lew-
ellen, 1837.

The EvriNG Genealogy with Cognate Branches 31

(5) Nathan Ewing (Andrew, William), born February
II, 1776; died at Nashville, Tennessee, May i, 1830; mar-
ried Sarah, daughter of Daniel Hill, who died at Nashville
in 1855; moved to Tennessee in 1780 and was Clerk of the
County Court of Davidson County from 1813 until his
death. Issue :

1ST. John Overton Ewing (Nathan, Andrew, William),
born 1800; died 1826; married Lemira, daughter of William
Douglass in Louisville, Kentucky, November 6, 1823. He
was a physician, began the practice of medicine in Nash-
ville with Dr. A. G. Ewing as partner, under the firm name,
J. O. & A. G. Ewing; he had established a high character
in his profession before his death. His widow married
Major John Boyd and died June 12, 1838. Issue :

(a) Hill Ewing, who died in infancy.

(b) John Overton, born August 2^, 1826; died October
8, 1866; married (first) January, 1843, Margaret (daughter
of Alex Campbell, who died October 22, 1848; married (sec-
ond) Sarah E., daughter of John M. Bass, of Nashville,
Tennessee, December 14, 1852. Issue by Margaret: Alex.
Overton Ewing, born May 22, 1848; died October 5, 1849.
Issue by Sarah :

(aa) John Bass Ewing, born January 28, 1855.
(bb) Boyd, born August 8, 1856 ; died April 3, 1897.
(cc) Felix Grundy, born August 8, 1858; married
Jane, daughter of George Washington, of Robertson
County, Tennessee, October 28, 1891.

(dd) Henry Overton, born May i, i860; died
March 16, 1905; married Minnie, daughter of H. S.
Chamberlain of Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 20,
1892. Children: Margaret Louise, born March 5,
1893 ; Rosalind, born July 28, 1894; Winifred, born De-
cember 21, 1898.

(ee) Malvene Bass, born March 24, 1865; married

Dr. William H. Fox, of Washington, D. C, December

31, 1889.

2ND. Henry Ewing (Nathan, Andrew, William), bom

1802; died 1846-1847; married Susan, daughter of Samuel

Grundy, and sister of Hon. Felix Grundy. He was Clerk

of the Court of Davidson County, Tennessee, and later

moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Issue:

(a) Lemira Ewing, married William S. Eakin, a mer-
chant of Nashville. Child: Hugh.
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32 The Ewixg Genealogy with Cognate Branches

(b) Sarah, married Thomas Eaken, a banker of New-
York. Children : Henry, died unmarried ; Susan, died un-
married; Jeannie; Thomas.

3RD. Albert G. Ewing (Nathan, Andrew, William), born
1804; died 1872; married (first) Jane C, daughter of Alex.
Campbell, and married (second) Mary Jane Marsilliott. He
was a Campbellite minister and moved from Tennessee to
Illinois (Eureka and Bloomington). Issue by Jane C. :

(a) Margaret Ewing, married Joseph H. Pendleton, a
lawyer, October 31, 1848, at Bethany, Virginia, and lived in
Wheeling, West Virginia. Issue: Joseph Minor; John
Overton; Henry Harwood; Ida Ewing, married F. P. Jep-
son, having a child, Evelyn Ewing; Virginia Campbell, mar-
ried A. N. Wilson, child John Overton Pendleton ; Margaret
Josephine, married G. S. Hughes, child John Overton Pen-
dleton ; Elizabeth Winston.

(b) Henry, died at birth.

(c) Sarah, married J. W. Bush at Bethany, Virginia,
who was a planter and lived at Huntsville, Texas. Children :
Fanny Overton, married Mr. Lee; Kate Ewing, married Mr.
Heflin; Rawlings; Sarah, married Mr, London; Ewing;
Leonard, Mattie, and Etta.

Issue of Albert G. Ewing by Mary Jane :

(a) Rowena Ewing, married James B. Stevenson in
Eureka, Illinois, and lived at Coulton, California. Child :
Anna, married Mr. Bullis.

(b) Jane, married Mr. Davidson, Eureka, Illinois.
Child : Annie.

4TH. Orville Ewing (Nathan, Andrew, William), born
February 6, 1806; died October 10, 1876; married (first)
Milbrey H., daughter of Josiah Williams, in Nashville, Ten-
nessee, January 26, 1832, and married (second) Susan C.
Avery, a widow, in Groton, Connecticut, October 17, 1866.
He was a banker, president of the Planters Bank of Nash-
ville, the precusor of the American National Bank of Nash-
ville; lived in Nashville; died at Gainesville, Florida. No
issue by Susan C. Issue by Milbrey H. :

(a) Margaretta Williams Ewing, born February 21,
1833; died October, 1849, unmarried.

(b) Edwin H., born January 19, 1835; died July 26,
1873, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was a merchant;
married Emma, daughter of Alex. Eakin, June 10, 1856, in
Shelbyville, Tennessee. Issue :

The Ewing Genealocv with Coonate Branches 33

(aa) Alexander Ewing, born February 26, 1857;
died August 4, 1858.

(bb) Milbrey, born February 29, 1859; married
Edwin H. Fall, October 10, 1878. Children: Thomas
Malone, born September 16, 1881 ; Margaret Eakin,
born July 9, 1887, and Edward Hicks, born November
29, 1889.

(cc) James, born May 25, 1861 ; died December
31, 1873.

(dd) Andrew, born March 13, 1866; died Septem-
ber 13, 1891, unmarried.

(ee) Edwin H., born March 29, 1868.

(ff) Emma, born November 4, 1872; married Wal-
ter Keith, January 11, 1893. Child: Milbrey, born Oc-
tober 22, 1893.

(c) Albert G., born October 30, 1836; was a lumber
merchant; lived in Nashville, Tennessee; married Harriet
or Henrietta, daughter of Mark Cockrell, November 8. 1865,
in Nashville. Issue:

(aa) Rowena Ewing, born November 11, 1866;
married Risley P. Lawrence, October 8, 1884. Chil-
dren: Risley P., born September 9, 1885; died August
22, 1886; Albert Ewing, born September 7, 1887;
Thompson, born March 11, 1889; Benjamin Pontz,
born November 24, 1890; Rowena E., born February
3- 1893.

(bb) Albert G., born January 27, 1868.

(cc) Susan, born May 31, 1869; died March 13,
1870.

(dd) Mark C, born December 31, 1870.

(ee) Orville, born May 5, 1872.

(ff) Mary, born September 15, 1873.

(gg) Edgar, born March 7, 1875; died August
24, 1875.

(hh) Milbrey, born July 6, 1876.

(ii) Harrietta, born March 16, 1878.

(jj) Robertson C, born April i, 1880; died April
13, 1880.

(kk) Margaret, born August 28, 1884.

(d) Rowena W., born July 7. 1838; married October 2,

1865, John C. Thompson, a distinguished lawyer of Nash-
ville, Tennessee. Children : Ewing, born November 24,

1866. Morgan, born October 26, 1868; died May 3, 1893,

34 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

unmarried. Albert E., born January 28, 1871 ; died Novem-
ber 30, 1874.

(e) Henry, born December 23, 1840; died June 13,
1873; was a a journalist; lived in Nashville, Tennessee, and
St. Louis, Missouri; married Emma, daughter of Edwin T.
Burr, in Batesville, Arkansas. Issue :

(aa) Katheryne Burr, born November 9, 1865;
married (first) Alfred Rhodas, child Leigh E., born
August T.'j, 1886; married (second) George T. Pum-
pelly.

(bb) Henry, born May 21, 1867; married June 21,
1888, Laila, daughter of Ira Rowe. Children : Laila,
born April 7, 1889; Katheryne, born January 9, 1891 ;
Milbrey, born October 11, 1892.

(cc) Edwina B., born August 2-], 1872.

(f) Orville, born February 5, 1843; hardware and lum-
ber merchant in Nashville, Tennessee; married July 25,
1865, Irene, daughter of W. E. Watkins. Issue:

(aa) Jane Watkins, born December 5, 1866; mar-
ried James L. Morrow, February 28, 1889. Children:
Irene, born May 19, 1890; Elizabeth, born December
22, 1891 ; James L., born November 14, 1893.

(bb) Margaret, born October 10, 1868; died No-
vember 16, 1876.

(cc) Orville, born October 25, 1870; died Septem-
ber 5, 1871.

(dd) Samuel Watkins, born June 28, 1872; died
October 30, 1876.

(ee) Evans, born October 23, 1875.

(ff ) Orville, born September 14, 1881.

(g) Josiah Williams, born July 21, 1848; married Jen-
nie, daughter of Pryor Smith, of Rome, Georgia. Child :
Annie, born April, 1873.

5TH. Edwin Hickman Ewing (Nathan, Andrew, Wil-
liam), born December 2, 1809; was a lawyer of Murfrees-
boro, Tennessee; member of United States House of Rep-
resentatives (1845-1847) ; married Rebecca P., daughter of
Josiah Williams, December 20, 1832. He (Edwin H.
Ewing), was one of the great lawyers of Tennessee; served
by special appointment of Judge of Tennessee Supreme
Court, and was instrumental in establishing Peabody Col-
lege in Nashville. Issue:

(a) Josiah W. Ewing, born August 11, 1834; died Aug-

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ust 4, 1890; married Ada B. Hord, November 21, 1855.
Issue :

(aa) Thomas, born September 4, 1856; married
Kate Tutt, of Elizabeth, New Jersey. No children.

(bb) Orville, born 1864; married Evie Orman.
Child : Orman.

(cc) Emmet, born August 21, 1867.
(dd) Josephine, born January 20, 1871 ; died Sep-
tember, 1895; married Walter D. Fox, May 17, 1892.

(b) Jane C, born December 30, 1836; died February 14,
1871 ; married (first) December 3, 1856, Emmet Eakin, and
(second) August 17, 1868, Dr. James Wendell. Issue by
Emmet Eakin :

(aa) Rowena, born December 3, 1857; married
April 3, 1879, Dr. G. W. Overall. Children: George,
born November 10, 1880; died November 11, 1880, and
Ada, born October 12, 1882; died October 13, 1882.

(bb) Arthur, born January 6, i860; died 1882, un-
married.

(cc) Florence, born April 23, 1862; married James
H. Reed, May 24, 1881. Children: Ethel, born June
30, 1882; Lovie, born April 12, 1884; \\'il!iam, born
September 20. 1885; Emmet, bom April 10, 1888;
James, born November 29, 1891 ; Ellis Baskette, born
October 9, 1894.

(dd) Sallie, born January 10, 1864; married George
House, May 9, 1889. Child: Florence, born February
14, 1890.

Issue by James W^endell, M. D. : Jane Caroline, died
aged 10 years.

(d) Florence, born May 13, 1842; died June 13, 1896;
married (first) October 11, 1866, Andrew J. Fletcher, who
died April, 1871, and married (second), May 20, 1873,
Daniel Perkins. Children by Andrew : Edwin Ewing, born
August 20, 1867; died December 9, 1889, unmarried. Mary
Dean, born January 11, 1870; died June 3, 1877. Children
by Daniel: Thomas Moon, born April 30, 1876; died June
15, 1876. Rebecca W., born February 6, 1878. Sarah, bom
March 18, 1880.

6th. Andrew Ewing (Nathan, Andrew, William), born
June 15, 1815; died June 13, 1864, in Atlanta, Georgia; was
a lawyer, a member of the United States House Representa-

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tives (1849-1851), and Colonel in the Confederate Army;
married (first) Andrew Hynes' daughter Margaret, born
February i, 1819, who died January 7, 1840; married (sec-
ond) Rowena, daughter of Josia Williams. He (Andrew
Ewing), was a forceful and eloquent speaker; a man of
great public spirit ; a Democrat and party leader ; opposed
Secession but went with his people, and used his fortune to
build a Gun Factory in Nashville just before its fall; he
served as Judge of Gen. Bragg's Military Court. Issue by
Margaret :

(a) Hynes Ewing, married Hattie Hiter, and v^as killed
in Kentucky. No children .

Issue by Rowena :

(a) Rebecca Ewing, born June 30, 1842; married in
Nashville, Tennessee, December 25, 1865, Henry Watterson,
the famous editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Issue:

(aa) Ewing, born July 4, in or after 1866; married
Jean Black.

(bb) Milbrey, born August 4, 1871 ; married Wil-
liam Alonzo Miller.

(cc) Henry, born February 3, 1877.

(dd) Harvey, born February 12, 1879.

(ee) Ethel, born June 24, 1880.

(b) John, born February 10, 1844; died unmarried.

(c) Milbrey, born February 2."], 1846; married Septem-
ber 18, 1866, in Nashville, Tennessee, Spencer Eakin, who
was connected with the St. Louis, Nashville & Chattanooga
Railroad Company. Issue :

(aa) Rebecca, born December 24, 1868; died Jan-
uary 31, 1870.

(bb) Stella, born July 12, 1874; married February
6, 1895, Angus Allmond, who lived in Louisville, Ken-
tucky.

(cc) Spencer, born July 12. 1874.

(dd) Margaret, born March 24, 1876.

(ee) Rowena, born February 13, 1878.

(ff) Andrew, born November 9, 1879; died April
1880.

(gg) Milbrey, born July 9, 1881 ; died August, 1882.

(hh) Deery, born November 13, 1883.

(d) Nathan, born July 12, 1847; niarried Margaret Per-
kins. Issue : Elizabeth, Robert and Andrew.

(e) Robert, a lawyer, was born August 10, 1849; mar-

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ried Hattie, daughter of Rev. Thomas A. Hoyt, March 28,
1876. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was mar-
ried. Was Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court (1876-
1882), and in October 1883, became Chairman of the Board
of Public Works and Affairs; was later Mayor of Nash-
ville. Issue :

(aa) Mary, born January 3, 1877.

(bb) Alice, born September 15, 1878; died Sep-
tember 22, 1879.

(cc) Robert, born March 15, 1880; died July 26,
1894.

(dd) T. Hoyt, born November 14, 1881.

(ee) Andrew, born January 19, 1883; died October
2, 1883.

(ff) William Cooper, born April 29, 1884.

(gg) Harold, born July 15, 1885.

(hh) Lily Hoyt, born August 10, 1886.

(ii) Louise, born November 30, 1888.

(jj) Norris, born January 25, 1890.

(kk) Esmond, born August 4, 1891.

(11) Hattie H., born January 23, 1893; died June
22, 1893.

(mm) Rebecca, born November 15, 1894.

(f) Thomas, born March, 1852; died unmarried,

(g) Maggie, born July 15, 1854; died unmarried,
(h) William, born October, 1856; died unmarried.

(6) Elizabeth Ewing (Andrew, William), born March
14, 17795 married Thomas Shannon.

CHAPTER VII

JOHN EWING, SON OF THE EMIGRANT WILLIAM EWING :

HIS MARRIAGE AND DESCENDANTS

JOHN EWING

son of the emigrant William, was born 1741, died May 17,
1822. He married Phebe Davidson and remained in Rock-
ingham County, Virginia, with his father on the parental
homestead, which later was owned by his grandson, William
D. Ewing. Issue :

(i) Ann Ewing (John, William), born July 9, 1770;
married Thomas Shanklin.

(2) James Ewing (John, William), born April 4, 1773;
married Grace Shanklin; moved to Kentucky, afterwards to
Missouri. Issue : Joseph, Elizabeth, Cyrus, Jesse, Ruth,
Sophronia and William G.

(3) Mary Ewing (John, William), born October 8,
1775; married John Pruce.

(4) William Ewing (John, William), born August 15,
1780; died January 14, 1857; married Elizabeth Bryan. He
lived and died on or near the old homestead in Rockingham
County, Virginia. Issue :

1ST. Jesse Ewing (William, John, William), born 1808;
died 1870; married Lavinia Bryan about 1844.

2ND. Nancy B. Ewing (William, John, William), born
1810; died April 21, 1889, unmarried.

3RD. George W. Ewing (William, John, William), born
1813; died October 10, 1848, unmarried.

4TH. Henrietta Ewing (William, John, William), born
1816; died January, 1886; married Robert Sittington.

5TH. Phebe A. Ewing (William, John, William), born
1819; died May 11, 1892, unmarried.

6th. Benjamin B. Ewing (William, John, William),
born 1821 ; died October 8, 1862, unmarried.

7TH. Rebecca D. Ewing (William, John, William), born
1823; died February 2, 1889, unmarried.

8th. Daniel B. Ewing (William, John, William), bom
1825 ; died February 8, 1885 ; married Frances Barbour,
October, 1852. Issue: Bryan, died in infancy; William
Nicholson, Lucy Barbour, Carrie Summerville, Elizabeth
Bryan, Maybelle and Jeannie Pendleton.

9TH. Mary E. Ewing (William, John, William), born
May 2^, 1827.

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lOTH. Elizabeth A. Evving (William, John, William),
born 1828; married John T. Brown. No issue.

iiTH. William D. Ewing (William, John, William), born
1829; married October, 1859, Margaret Sellers, and lived at
the old homestead in Rockingham County, Virginia, near
his sisters Elizabeth and Mary E. No issue.

(5) Hannah Ewing (John, William), born December 8,
1782; married James Mallory.

(6) Elizabeth Ewing (John, William), born November
7, 1784; married Colonel Conner.

(7) John D. Ewing (John, William), born April 2,
1788; married Drusilla DeL. Tate; he was a minister, many
years in charge of the church at Falling .Spring, Rocking-
ham County, Virginia, where he died and was buried.
Issue :

1ST. Philander Ewing (John D., John, William), died
unmarried.

2ND. Phebe Jane Ewing (John D., John, William), mar-
ried Daniel Morgan.

3RD. William P. Ewing (John D., John, William), mar-
ried Anne Sturgess.

4TH. Anne Eliza Ewing (John D., John, William), mar-
ried Samuel Jetter.

(8) Jesse Ewing (John, William), born July 2, 1791 ;
died 1808, unmarried.

CHAPTER VIII

CHARLES EWING, THE EMIGRANT: HIS BIRTH, CAREER,

MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN

CHARLES EWING

the emigrant, was quite prominent in the early history of
Virginia, as indicated by the pubHc records/

Among the references to him is an ancient record of Bed-
ford County, showing that on March 24, 1755, he with other
"Vestrymen," took "usual oaths to his Majesty's person and
government," conforming to the "doctrine and discipline of
the Church of England."'

He died in the year 1770, leaving a will that v/as admitted
to probate July 24, 1770, in Bedford County, Virginia.

Surviving him were his wife, Martha, daughter of Rev.
Caleb Baker, and seven sons and two daughters. The sons
were Charles, William, Robert, Samuel, George, David and
Caleb. The daughters were Mary and Martha. The widow
Martha was a sister of Mary Baker, the wife of the emigrant
Robert Ewing ; in other words, the brothers married sisters.

The son William left a will, admitted to probate on April
23, 1810, in which he refers to his wife Anna, to his three
brothers, Charles, George and David, and to Polly and Betsy
as heirs of his brother Caleb, and to Mitchell Ewing, "his
brother's son," necessarily the son of the brother Robert,
or the brother Samuel.

This Mitchell Ewing, grandson of the emigrant Charles
Ewing, married on December 2y, 1797, Phebe Cox, and
later, on March 25, 1805, married Nancy Beard, daughter
of Samuel Beard.

William E. Ewing, son of William Ewing and grandson
of Mitchell Ewing just mentioned, is now living near Frank-
lin, Nebraska, on a farm, enjoying that simple pastoral life
which has been associated in all ages with the best and pur-
est in aspiration and deed.

He, William E. Ewing, was born May i, 1853 ; was gradu-

'Early Records of Bedford County, Virginia.
^History of Bedford County, Virginia, 1753-1907, page 10.
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ated in the Class of 1876 from what is now the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, at Blacksburg. He married, Decem-
ber 18, 1878, Eliza Cofer, of Bedford County, Virginia, and
from the union were born Lydia Buford, died unmarried;
Lewis, now residing at Santa Anna, California ; Loula, mar-
ried Calvin Ball, and resides at Guide Rock, Nebraska;
Ella, married Crenshaw Sprout, residence Yuma, Colorado ;
Edward M., resides at Cogswell, North Dakota; Charles G.
and Alice Lee, both of whom reside at Franklin, Nebraska.
The descendants of the emigrant Charles Ewing are
numerous, but are widely scattered, and owing to this fact
and loss of records from the ravages of war and time, we
have not succeeded in gathering authentic information of
many of them, though many have had successful and dis-
tinguished careers.

CHAPTER IX

ROBERT EWING, THE EMIGRANT: HIS BIRTH, CAREER,
MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN

ROBERT EWING I

was a man of distinguished ability, evidently a leader in his
community, of determined character and resolute purpose in
the execution of his plans and designs.

He was born in County Londonderry, Ireland, probably at
or near Coleraine, about 171 5-1725, and finally settled, as
we have seen, with his brother Charles, in what is now Bed-
ford County, Virginia. Some of his residence in Virginia
is understood to have been in what was at the time Augusta
County.

He qualified on June 22, 1754, under commission from the
King (George II), as one of the Justices of the County
Court for Bedford County, which was a court of general
jurisdiction, with records and a clerk, having chancery
powers besides other jurisdiction, and in that capacity he
served for a number of years, the records showing that he
was serving on July 22, 1754; on May 24, 1756, and on June
25, 1771-'

He was appointed and presided as one of the Judges of
the "Court of Oyer and Terminer" to try for murder one
Hampton, who was convicted and hanged.''

He was a member of Captain Thomas Buford's volunteer
company, raised in Bedford County, which constituted a
part of the army under General Andrew Lewis (Lord Dun-
more's War) in the battle with the Indians at Point Pleas-
ant, October to, 1774.'

It appears that he made a payment to the County in 1756
for provisions for the Militia.'

On August 27, 1770, he received a grant of 194 acres
of land.'

In religion he was a Presbyterian, an elder in that church ;
and he was the first signer (probably the author) of a re-
markable petition, full of point and vigor, from Peaks of
Otter Presbyterian Church, Bedford County, May, 1774, to
the General Assembly of Virginia, asking that the elders

Wide, Records of Bedford County, Virginia.
^History of Bedford County (1753-1907), pages 14-15.
'Virginia Colonial Militia, page 86.
*Boogher's Gleanings of Virginia History, page 63.
''Record Book 39, page 98.

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thereof be enabled to take and hold land and slaves (O
temporal 0 mores!) to the use of the minister under proper
regulations. This petition was signed, among others, by
Charles Ewing, Robert Evving, Jr., William Boyd, John
Ewing, Adam Linn, William Ewing, Joseph Linn, Adam
Linn, Abraham Ewin (sic), James Boyd and Caleb Ewing.'

The records of Bedford County disclose a deed, dated
July 28, 1783, recorded August 25, 1783, of which Robert
was the first signer, and from its vigorous style, probably
the author, conveying certain slaves in trust to the elders of
the Peaks of Otter Presbyterian Church, the profits of said
slaves or their issue to be used for supporting a regular
minister, and for such other church purposes as the elders
and a majority of the congregation might agree upon. This
deed was signed, among others, by William Ewing and
John Ewing.

As indicative of Robert's public spirit, we note that on
March 24, 1783, he wrote to the Governor of Virginia, from
Bedford County, informing him that the Sherifif had refused
to give security for collection of taxes, and intimating very
strongly that under the situation the people of Bedford
County, though it was one of the first inland counties of the
State, were not inclined to pay as demanded.'

Both Robert and Charles lived in Bedford County until
their deaths, Robert's death occurring in May or June, 1787,
his will being dated March 2, 1786, with a codicil dated
May 14, 1787, and having been filed for probate in the Bed-
ford County Court, June 25, 1787, as shown by the county
records. The will disposed of considerable land, both in
Virginia and Kentucky, the ownership in Kentucky being
explained by the fact that at least much of Kentucky was
carved out of Augusta County, Virginia.

He, the emigrant Robert Ewing, married about 1747- 1750,
Mary Baker, the children of which marriage (order of birth
unknown) were, as follows:

1. Sidney Ann, died prior to the death of her father;
married Adam Linn.

2. John, married Martha (surname unknown.)

3. Martha (Betty) who married Capt. John Mills of
Botetourt County, Va.

4. Robert (q. v.).

^Virginia Historical Magazine, Volume 12, pages 417 to 421.
'Calendar of Virginia State Papers, Vol. IV, p. 459.

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5. Baker, probably one of the eldest sons.

6. Young, also probably an elder son.

7. Urban, died in Cooper County, Mo., about 1828; mar-
ried Mary (Polly) Ewing, daughter of George Ewing.

8. Reuben, born 1766, died 1823; married Frances
Whitsett.

9. Polly (Patty), married John Ewing, son of George
Ewing.

10. Chatham, born in Bedford County, Va., 1770; died
in Lafayette County, Mo. ; married Elizabeth Campbell.

11. Jane, married Peter Kelley, a soldier of the Revolu-
tion.

12. Finis, the youngest child, born in Bedford County,
Va., July 10, 1773; died at Lexington, Mo., July 4, 1841 ;
married Jan. 15, 1793, Margaret Davidson.

MARY BAKER EWING

the wife of the emigrant, Robert Ewing, w'as, as stated, the
sister of Martha who was the wife of the brother, Charles
Ewing.

She was probably born in Virginia, in what became Prince
Edward County, about the year 1730; her father was Rev.
Caleb Baker, a prominent Presbyterian clergyman of that
county, and evidently a man of strong will and sterling
qualities of character.

Of her personal history, we have ascertained nothing
further, but surely the mother of a galaxy of sons like hers,
who are accredited by history so uniformly with worthy
achievements of high order, must have been richly endowed
with those attributes which make "a perfect woman, nobly
planned."

CHAPTER X.

SIDNEY, ANN, MARTHA (bETTY), POLLY, AND JANE EWING,

DAUGHTERS OF ROBERT AND MARY BAKER EWING,

AND THEIR DESCENDANTS

*SIDNEY ANN EWING

daughter of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was born
in Bedford County, Va. ; died prior to the death of her
father ; married Adam Linn, Issue :

(i) Nancy, married Abraham Boyd, 1796. Issue:

1ST. John, born Nashville, Tenn., about 1798; married
Betsy McLean; he removed with his parents while young, to
Trigg County, Ky., and later to Texas, where he was several
times elected to the Congress of the Republic of Texas ;
he was one of the founders of Trinity University, Tehua-
cana, Texas. Issue : Martha, Lucas, Horace and Putnam.

2ND. Linn, born Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 28, 1800, died
Paducah, Ky., Dec. 16, 1859; married (i) Alice Bennett,
and (2) Mrs. Dixon; he removed with his parents to Trigg
County., Ky., and later, in 1826, to Calloway County, Ky.,
and was a member of the State Legislature from that county
1827-30; he returned to Trigg County, and was elected to
State Legislature from that county 183 1-2, defeated for
Congress in 1832, elected to Congress in 1834, defeated for
Congress in 1836, elected to Congress in 1838, where he
served until 1854, being Speaker of the House, 1850-4; he
was Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1859. Issue with
Alice Bennett, (a) Ward, an attorney-at-law, married Miss
Ware, of Paducah, Ky. ; (b) Butler, never married; (c)
Linn, an attorney-at-law at Murray, Ky., and (d) Felix,
who was a physician. Issue with Mrs. Dixon, a daughter,
Rhea, deceased.

3RD. Martha, married 1816, George Haines Gordon, and
removed to Missouri in 1832. Issue: (a) Nancy Haines,
born 1817, married Lexington, Mo., 1838, Thomas Shelby.
Issue, Adelaide, married 1859, Evan Young; George;
Alice, married Travis Buford ; Martha, married Samuel
Huston, child Nancy, married Edward Lee of Kansas City,
Mo.; Thomas married (i) Ella Chinn, and (2) Ella Wash-
ington ; Nancy, married Mr. Thompson ; Linn, married

*We acknowledge indebtedness to F. M. Cockrell, Esq., of Louisville,
Kentucky, for some of the genealogy of Robert Ewing's descendants not in
the direct line of the authors; using the same in some instances in reliance
on its correctness without opportunity to verify.
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Lillian Kelly, and Forrest, married Belle McFadden.

(b) John Boyd, unmarried.

(c) William, born 1821, a physician, member of Mis-
souri Legislature from Lafayette County, i860, and sur-
geon 1st Missouri Cavalry, C. S. A.; married Margaret
Green, daughter Col. Lewis Green, war of 1812. Issue:
Martha, married James Harrelson; Mary, married M.
Graham; Katherine; Lucy; Florence, married Frank
Barnes ; Jane, married Robert Lankf ord ; Nancy ; Leila, and
two daughters who died young.

(d) Emevine, married James Ruffner, of West Virginia.
Issue : Henry, Charles, James, and Florence, married J. F.
Merryman, attorney-at-law, St. Louis, Mo.

(e) Mary, married 1849, Hiram F. Walker. Issue:
Martha, married Henry Winslow; Samuel, married Mary
Laws; Lucy, married W. R. Doran; Gordon, married
Beatrice Clinton ; Walter ; Mary Ellen, married John Ban-
nister; Addie, married Joseph Williams, and Paris, all liv-
ing at San Saba, Texas, at last account.

(f) Linn, married 1846, Catherine Fulkerson (sister of
Reuben B. Fulkerson). Issue: George, married Molly
Shelby; Fred, married Margaret Evans; Benjamin, married
Catherine Chanselor; John, married Edna Reaves; Martha,
married Travis Buford; Sally; Ella, married Edward
White, and Katherine, married John Bishop of St. Louis,
Mo.

(g) George, married Victoria Bennett. Issue, Alma,
married C. C. Marshall.

(h) Lucy, married Milton Ewing. Issue, see Milton
Ewing, infra.

4TH. Alfred, married Lucy Harrison, Issue : John, an
attorney-at-law, married Sarah Cook; George, a physician,
unmarried ; Abraham, an attorney-at-law, married Miss
O'Bannon ; Agnes, married Mr. Grimes, of Paducah, Ky. ;
Adeline, and Martha, married Mr. Small.

5TH. Rufus, married Eliza Bennett. Issue: Rufus,
married Adelia Noel.

MARTHA ( BETTY) EWING

daughter of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was born
in Bedford County, Va., and married John Mills, of Bote-
tourt County, Va., a captain in the Revolutionary War.
Issue :

(i) Robert (Bartus), mentioned in the will of Robert

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Ewing I ; he removed to South Kentucky, and thence to
Louisiana.

(2) Mary, born 1780, married George Scroggins, of
Virginia, in 1809; removed from Virginia to Kentucky, and
thence to Missouri in 1838. Issue: Martha, born 1810,
died 1891, SaHne County, Mo., married James Brown 1826;
Sally, married 1834, Samuel Durley; George, married Mary
Rollins; Charles M., married 1848, Mary Rice; Mildred,
married 1837, Milton Thompson, and she died 1851;
Thomas, married 1850, Rebecca Curry.

(3) John S., married Agnes Hayden.

(4) Caleb, lived near Little Rock, Ark.

(5) Ulysses, also lived near Little Rock, Arkansas.

(6) Archie, nothing known of him.

(7) Nancy, married John B. S. Ewing, who died dur-
ing Civil War; and she died in Texas, March, 1852. Issue:
Polly; Martha, married Mr. Paschal; Butler, reared partial-
ly by Wm. Lee Davidson Ewing (son of Finis Ewing) ;
John, married Miss Davis; Charles; Sally, married Mr.
Carter; George, and Ephraim.

(8) Charles Ewing, born 1796, died Jan. 1859, married
Elizabeth Allen Bell, near Lexington, Ky., 1822; she was
born 1795, died in Cass County, Mo., March 1881 ; was a
daughter of John Bell and Jane Mills, sister of Capt. John
Mills. Issue :

1ST. Elizabeth Jane, born 1824, died 1900, unmarried.

2ND. John Henderson Bell, born 1826, died 1844, un-
married.

3RD. Benjamin Franklin, born 1828, died 1899, Cass
County, Mo., married Elizabeth Griffith, of Georgetown,
Ky. Issue: Charles, of Pleasant Hill, Mo., and a daugh-
ter, who married William Bean, of St. Louis, Mo., grand-
son of Rev. J. L. Yantis.

4TH. William Milton, born 1831, died 1901, Warrens-
burg, Mo., married 1867, Mary Eliza Dunlap, sister of
Louise G. (infra), daughter of James Dunlap of Boyle
County, Ky. Issue : A daughter, of Warrensburg, Mo.

5TH. Charles Ewing, born April, 1834, died August 12.
1905 ; was private on staff of Gen. Marmaduke, C. S. A,,
for three years; married 1859, Louise G. Dunlap, sister of
Mary Eliza (supra). Issue: Benjamin, married Margaret
Robinson; Virginia O., married Henry Engels; William
Dunlap, married Lula Routt; Katherine M., married L. M.
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48 The Ewixg Genealogy with Cognate Branches

Helmerick; Emma B. married E. L. Brannock, of Pleasant
Hill, Mo. ; Henry Ewing, married Nell Noland. Issue :
Florence, died in infancy.

6th. Mary Bell, married 1856, Levin D. Foree. Issue:
Charles Mills, unmarried; Lucy, married Barton Wherrett;
Lilly, married B. B. Thornton ; Edward, married Ada Skill-
man; Flora, married (i) Roger Blackwell, and (2) Walter
Foree. There were probably several other children, whose
rrames we have not been able to secure.

/TH. Joseph Henry, born and died in 1841.

POLLY (patty) ewing

daughter of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was bom
in Bedford County, Va. ; married John Ewing (son of
George Ewing), born June 20, 1761, who was a member of
the first County Court, Campbell County, Ky., 1794-95.
The marriage was in Bedford County. Issue :
(i) Adeline, born Sept. 2, 1787.

(2) Robert Mills, born March 20, 1789.

(3) Baker, born Nov. 5, 1795.

(4) Polly Baker, born Sept. 3, 1797.

(5) Urban Epinetus, born Feb. 25, 1799, died Louis-
ville, Ky., was a practicing physician ; married ( i ) April
10, 1823, Sallie Lloyd Robert Moore, born Feb. 24, 1807,
died Aug. 4, 1833, only child of Robert K. Moore and Mrs.
Katherine Allen Price. Issue :

1ST. Robert Allen Karney Moore, born June 14, 1824,
died May 27, 1825.

2ND. Katherine Allen Karney Moore, born October 13,
1825, married Robert Barclay Hopkins, of Anne Arundel
County, Maryland. Issue: (a) Urban Ewing, born 1844,
died 1874, unmarried; (b) Robert Barclay; (c) Gerard,
died in infancy; (d) Kate Butler, married Hite Thompson,
of Louisville, Ky. Issue : Katherine Hopkins, married
Wm. Beard, Jr., of Chicago, 111., children, Katherine and
Elizabeth ; Sarah Elizabeth, married William Hall Wilson,
of Louisville, Ky., no children; (c) Thomas Ewing; (f)
Sallie Ewing, born 1859, ^^^^ 1879, unmarried; (g) Mar-
shall Ewing, lived in Louisville, Ky., married Mary Cook,
several children.

3RD. Robert Allen Karney Moore (2), born May 12,
1827, died Jan. 8, 1849.

4TH. Mary Lloyd Moore, bora Feb. 15, 1829; married

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(first) Thomas Eaches, and (second) Henry Hartman.
Issue by first marriage (none by second) : Ewing, lived at
Richmond, Va. ; married Somer Hayes; children: Katherine
Ewing and Elizabeth Travers ; Katherine Ewing, married
Benjamin H. Ridgeley ; no children.

5TH. Sallie Moore Ellen Adelia, born Jan. 19, 183 1 ;
died Louisville, Ky., May 20, 1907; married (first) Aug. 5,
1852, Dr. Nathaniel Burwell Marshall (Chief Justice John,
James Keith), born Mar. 16, 1824; died May 22, 1861.
Issue: (a) Sallie Ewing, married June 20, 1888,
William J. Harding; children: William Jarvis, born May
6, 1889; Marshall Burwell, born Oct. 22, 1890, and Ewing
Lloyd, born May 26, 1892. (b) Burwell Keith, born Mar.
9' 1857; graduated from University of Virginia; attorney-
at-law, Louisville, Ky., married June 21, 1883, Lizzie Veech.
Issue: Richard Veech, born Sept. 12, 1884; lived in St.
Louis, Mo.; married Ellen Chauncey; one child, Richard,
born Oct., 191 1 ; Elizabeth Veech, born Aug. 14, 1886; Mary
Louise, born April 9, 1888; Sallie Ewing, born Nov. 9, 1891 ;
Burwell Keith, born April 22, 1897. (c) Ewing, born
Sept. 16, 1858, M. D., Louisville, Ky. ; married Martha
Sneed; children: Alice Sneed, Mary Lloyd, and Evan, (d)
Claudia Burwell ; married James Bruce Morsen ; several
children ; one named Thomas, (e) Mary Lloyd ; married
Phillip T. Allen; one child, Phillip T. She (Sallie Moore
Ellen Adelia) married (second) Henry L. Pope; one child,
Henry L., of Louisville, Ky; unmarried.

6th. Urban John Donaldson, born Jan. 18, 1833; died
June, 1834.

He (Urban Epinetus Ewing) married (second) Jane
Butler. Issue :

1ST. Mildred; married (first) George Burgwin Ander-
son, who died during the Civil War. Issue : Ewing and
George Burgwin. She (Mildred Ewing) married (second)
James Manderson Carlisle. (Had a son, Calderson, by a
first marriage). Issue: Mildred, married Augustus Burg-
win (her cousin); home, Pittsburg, Pa.; Pierce Butler,
died young.

2ND. Nellie; married John Montgomery Wright. Issue:
Jean ; married Frank Swope ; no children ; Margaret Fors-
ter; married Mr. Waller, of New York City; one of their
children named George Wright.

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3RD. Jane Butler; married George Keats Speed. Issue:
Jennie Ewing; married Calvin Morgan Duke, son of Gen.
Basil Duke, of Louisville, Ky. ; children : Basil and Ewing;
Emma Keats; married Henry A. Sampson of Richmond,
Va. ; child, Emma Keats; Phillip; married Lucy Mason;
other children : Ewing, Nellie Ewing, Joshua Fry, and
George Keats.

(6) Nancy M., born Sept. 7, 1801.

(7) Winifred L., born Oct. 11, 1804.

(8) George W.

(9) Ellen (Nellie).

JANE EWING

daughter of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was bom in
Bedford County, Virginia; married Peter Kelly, a soldier
of the Revolution.

Their daughter, Sarah (1784- 1807), married Zadock
Adair. Child: Weyman, a distinguished Presbyterian
minister, married Delthia Staunton de Berry, daughter of
Lemuel de Berry and his wife, Delthia Ellis. Issue :

(i) Mary Adair, married John Magruder Wynne, of
Huntsville, Texas, and later Captain George W. Farris.
Issue by John Magruder Wynne : Gustave Adair, married
Samuella Gibbs. Children :

(a) Mae Samuella, married Ike Barton McFarland, of
Houston, Texas. She is a woman of scholarly attainments
and superior ability, and is President of Chautauqua Circle,
Houston, and has for several years been prominently and
officially connected with the Daughters of the American
Revolution, and is now (1919) State Secretary and one of
two candidates for State Regent (Texas).

(b) Jane Sophronia, married Dr. Joseph Revis Lay;
one child, Magruder Wynne.

(d) Florence Magruder, married Charles G. Barrett.

(e) Ara Adair, married Tyler Haswell; one child, Ara
Wynne.

(2) William de Berry, married Lulu Nors worthy; two
daughters, Katie and Louise.

(3) Priscilla, married Cowper Shelton Taliaferro.
Issue : Weyman, married Katie White ; two daughters,
Katie and Louise.

ERRATA

P. 50, I. 30, et seq.

Under Jane Ewing, (b), (c), (d) and (e) were sisters
and not children of Gustavus Adair Wynne, whose children
were :

(aa) Mae Samuella, married Ike Barton McFarland;

(bb) Gibbs Adair married Lela May Brown;

fee) Florence Sanford, died in childhood;

(dd) Sabra Lois married William Reynaud.

P. 96, I. 18.

The date of birth of Leila A^^ills Ewing should be 1855.

P. 123, I. 29.

Williard should be Willard.

P. 127, last line.

Jaunita should be Juanita.

CHAPTER XL

JOHN, BAKER, YOUNG, URBAN, REUBEN AND CHATHAM

EWING, SONS OF ROBERT AND MARY (bAKER) EWING

AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.

JOHN EWING

son of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was born in Bed-
ford County, Va.

He and his wife Martha, had a son Robert (Bartus),
mentioned in the will of the emigrant Robert Ewing, and a
daughter Sidney, who married in 1793 Micajah Roland, and
another daughter, name not known, who married a Mr.
Frazier.

John was one of the executors named in the will of his
father, Robert Ewing.

BAKER EWING

son of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was born in Bed-
ford County, Virginia.

He was a delegate to the General Assembly from Lincoln
County, Ky., in 1788; was first Registrar of the Kentucky
Land Office from June 26, 1792, to 1798, and was a mem-
ber of the Kentucky Legislature, from Franklin County, in
1802. He seems to have been, at one period at least, a mer-
chant, as he was taxed for a retail store in Franklin County,
Ky., June, 1797.

YOUNG EWING

son of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was born in
Bedford County, Va.

From the records of Christian County, Kentucky, it ap-
pears that Young Ewing was thrice married. The name of
his first wife is unknown ; by her he had a daughter, Polly
B., who married Ephraim B. Davidson. His second wife
was Winefred Warren, and his third, Evelina A. Jennings.'
Whether he had other children by these subsequent marri-
ages has not been ascertained.

He was one of the three original Magistrates of Logan
County, Ky., in 1792; was Justice of the Peace, Logan
County 1794; member of the Kentucky Legislature from
Logan County, 1795; one of the first Trustees of Newton
Academy, established by the Kentucky Legislature, Dec. 22,

^Deed Records of Christian County, Kentucky, and Perrin's History of
Christian County.

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1798; member of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention,
Christian County, 1799; an elder in the Cumberland Presby-
tery in 1804; member of the Kentucky Legislature, 1800-
1807; member of Kentucky State Senate, 1808-1816, 1819-
1826; Presidential Elector 1824; and Colonel in the War of
1812.

Contemplating the career of this distinguished man, we
are led to recall what is said by a local historian, in referring
to the Ewings :

"One of the eras in the history of Logan County, Ken-
tucky, is referred to as 'When the Ewings came and brought
the law with them.'"

URBAN EWING

son of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was born in Bed-
ford County, Virginia, about 1828; moved to Logan
County, Kentucky, about 1796, and was a member of the
Kentucky Legislature from Logan County, 1803, 1807, 1809,
1811, 1814, 1816; was a soldier in the war of 1812. He
moved to Cooper County, Missouri, about 1818-1819, where
he lived until his death, being buried there in the Lebanon
Cumberland Presbyterian graveyard.

He married at Abingdon, Virginia, March i, 1787, Mary
(Polly) Ewing, daughter of George Ewing. She died in
Lafayette County, Missouri, September 18, 1832, and is
buried about four miles west of Lexington, in the Ewing
graveyard. Issue :

(i) William Young Conn, born January 23, 1788;
married (first) in Logan County, Kentucky, October 14,
1 8 10, Ann Read (sister of Anthony Foster Read), who died
in Logan County, Kentucky, April 12, 1812. Issue of first
marriage :

1ST. James Urban; married (first) Amanda S. Stapp,
of Lafayette County, Missouri, and (second) Addie A. Wil-
son of Lafayette County, Missouri.

2ND. Sally Ann, died December 7, 1883; married Wm.
H. Renick, of Lafayette County, Missouri. Issue: Eliza-
beth Ann, married George W. Livisay; John Strother,
married Rebecca Pullett ; James William, married Elizabeth
Livisay; Columbus, married Clara Pullett; Mary Read,
married David J. Moore ; Ephraim Foster, and Susan P.

He (William Young Conn) married (second) October

^Sketch by Dr. A. L. Butt, of Russellville, Kentucky.

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22, 1840, Sallie D. Porter (Mrs. Sallie D. McKae). Issue
of this second marriage :

1ST. Mary M., married Robert R. Moore, of Lafayette
County, Missouri.

2ND. Pamela S., married F. L. Fishback.

3RD. L. Jane, married Dr. W. W. Woodward, of La-
fayette County, Missouri.

(2) Baker \\'\, born January i, 1790.

(3) Reuben A., born 1792, died Cooper County, Mis-
souri, May, 1871, buried there at Lebanon; he moved to
Cooper County, Missouri, in 1819- 1820; member of Mis-
souri State Senate 1840- 1844; married 181 3, Mary (Polly)
Hammond, who died 1875; buried at Lebanon. Issue:

1ST. William Caldwell, born July 14, 18 14; died January
20, 1882, at Eureka, Arkansas; went to Cooper County,
Missouri, with his parents, in 1819; member of the Missouri
Legislature, from Cooper County 1854-1855, 1879; married
February 3, 1845, Lucretia Perry Corum, daughter of Henry
Corum. Issue : Nine children, among them Oscar F., born
May 8, 1854; married October 23, 1888, Sue W. Rodgers;
Eva E., born November 22, 1859, married December 11,
1885, Sterling P. Coe; William Henry Clay, born August
5, 1864, married November 20, 1889, Celeste Stephens;
Lilly.

2ND. Mary J.

3RD. Jarvis H., born in Cooper County, Missouri, Oct-
ober 26, 18 19; married Martha A. Marye September 10,
1856; she was born July, 1836. Issue: Margaret S., Mary
D., Nanny Lee, Reuben A., Ida F., Everett L., Nadine,
Stella, Fanny Bell, married Emanuel Stephens, but died
seven months after marriage.

4TH. Margaret R., twin to Sally A. She married
June 20, 1855, John H. Stephens. Issue: Sally E., married
John W. Wheeler ; Anna R., married Robert L. Harrison,
and three other daughters, Mattie, Gussie, and Clara Lin-
dell.

The other children of Reuben A. Ewing and Mary
(Polly) Hammond were Sally A., twin to Margaret R. ;
Amanda F., married Dr. H. H. Miller; Robert Morrow;
Finis v., and Job.

(4) Nellie Caldwell, born September 9, 1793, died Jan-
uary 18, 1857, Cooper County, Missouri, married Logan
County, Kentucky, 181 1, Anthony Foster Read, born Nel-

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son County, Kentucky, December 30, 1788; died Cooper
County, Missouri, October 3, 1845, and buried there, at
Pleasant Green ; he was a member of the Kentucky Legisla-
ture for many years, and was Sheriff of Todd County, Ken-
tucky; they moved to Cooper County, Missouri, in 1826,
and settled near the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at
Lebanon. He was a Judge of the Cooper County Court,
1 831-1834; he was the son of John Read and Sally Foster,
born December 29, 1766, aunt of Hon. Ephraim H. Foster,
of Tennessee. His grandfather, John Read, came from
London, England, in 1725, settled in Alexandria, Virginia,
and married Nancy Sebastian, Spanish, a sister of Hon.
Benjamin Sebastian, Governor of Louisiana. Issue :

1ST. Sally Foster, born October 11, 1812, died Cooper
County, Missouri, July 28, 1848, married Henry Rubey
Foster, born March 4, 1803, died February 8, 1873. Issue:
Amanda Ellen, born February 17, 1832, died July 3, 1851,
unmarried; and Anthony Winston, born October 20, 1837,
died September 11, 1865.

2ND. Mary Elizabeth, born February 17, 1814, died
Cooper County, Missouri, June 20, 1872, and buried there,
at Pleasant Green; she married April 13, 1831, Anthony
Smith Walker, born Bourbon County, Kentucky, November
19, 1805, died at Pleasant Green, Cooper County, Missouri,
September 26, 1863; his father, Winston Walker, was born
in Henry County, Virginia, September 25, 1780, died Cooper
County, Missouri, August 30, 1855, moved to Kentucky,
and from there to Cooper County, Missouri, in 1826, mar-
ried August 19, 1800, Polly Rubey, born Berkeley, Virginia,
March 18, 1785, died June 13, 1872; his grandfather,
Samuel Walker, was an only son, born, Virginia, March
16, 1739, died Overton County, Tennessee, January 4, 1834,
moved to North Carolina after close of Revolutionary War,
married Nancy Smith. He, Anthony Smith Walker, was
Assessor of Cooper County, 1835, Judge of the Cooper
County Court, 1842, and member of Missouri Legislature,
Cooper County, 1844-1860. Issue: James Henry, born
April 8, 1832, married September 15, 1857, Belle West, of
Kentucky; Addison Read, born January 6, 1834, died
December 31, 1836; Mary Ellen, born September 23, 1836,
married John L. Hickman ; Anthony Addison Winston,
born April 15, 1839, married December 3, 1868, Margaret
Tutt, had a daughter, Margaret ; John Read Samuel, born

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March i8, 1846, died January 1900, married October 13,
1880, Alice Brevard Ewing (Robert, Finis, Ephraim
Brevard), (q. v.) ; Sarah Florence, born June 29, 1849, died
June 21, 1885, married Allen H. Conkwright.

3RD. William E., born April 19, 1820, died January 23,
1847, rnarried Caroline McQueen, daughter of Col. Mc-
Queen, of Lafayette County, Missouri.

4TH. Anthony James, born December 23, 1824, died
July 25, 1876, married January 14, 1847, Evaline J. Ewing
(Robert Chatham, Robert). Issue: Betty, married John
Deckard; Nannie, Foster, Eva, married George Titsworth;
Finis C, Sally, Blanche, Anthony James, and Katherine.

(5 Polly Baker, born February 6, 1795, died Lafayette
County, Missouri, buried in the Ewing graveyard, married
Maj. Bryant Sanders, of Kentucky, buried with his wife.
Issue, Mary J., Reuben E., Sidney C, and John W.

(6) Nancy W., born January 12, 1797, married Kyrum
Dunn, no issue.

(7) Sidney R., born February 2, 1799, married Joshua
Campbell, no issue.

(8) George N. E., born February 22, 1801, married
Lucinda Rubey, daughter of Thomas Rubey and Jane Car-
son ; he, Thomas Rubey, was a brother of Polly Rubey, who
married Winston Walker, they being, as we have seen, the
parents of Anthony Smith Walker. Issue :

1ST. Araminta.

2ND. Milton, married 1859 Lucy Gordon (Robert, Sid-
ney Ann, Nancy). Issue: George Gordon, married Ollie
Crockett, and lived at last account in Nevada, Missouri ;
Young, married Lizzie Taul ; William H., married Mary
Prewitt ; Betty R., married Willis Merrill ; Martha married
D. F. Woodward ; Lee Boyd, an attorney-at-law, married
Edith Moore, and at last account lived in Nevada, Missouri ;
Charles Milton.

3RD. William H., married Mrs. Susan Jane Ewing Fort
(Robert, Finis, Thompson McGready), (q. v.).

(9) Jane J., born January 23, 1803, in Logan County,
Kentucky, died in Cooper County, Missouri, and buried
there at Pleasant Green, with her husband; she married
September 6, 1821, William B. Rubey, born 1800, brother
of Lucinda, who married Jane J.'s brother, George N. E.
Ewing. Issue: Urban Ewing, George W., William H.,
Smith W., Francis M., Thomas, and Lavinia.

56 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Bkanches

REUBEN EWING

son of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was born in Bed-
ford County, Virginia, 1766, died 1823.

He was a member of the Kentucky Constitutional Con-
vention, 1799, from Logan County; one of the Judges of the
First Court of Quarter Sessions, Logan County, 1801 ; and
Associate Justice of the First Circuit Court, 1803, and a
member of the Kentucky Legislature, from Logan County,
1822; he married about 1791, Frances C. Whitsett, daughter
of William Whitsett and Ellen Menus. Issue :

(i) James W., married Lucile Breathitt, daughter of
Caldwell Breathitt (brother of Governor John Breathitt of
Kentucky). Issue: Ellen, married and had children,
Lucile and Cobie.

(2) Young, died unmarried.

(3) Mary, married Ephraim McLean. Issue:

1ST. Sarah Ellen, married George Thomas Blakey, of
Logan County, Kentucky. Issue : William, an attorney-
at-law of Evansville, Indiana, married Carrie McDonald, of
New Albany, Indiana; Lucile, married Dr. Thomas Whit-
sett Blakey (her cousin) of Hopkinsville, Kentucky; a child,
Sally George; Susan, married General Heard, of Washing-
ton, Georgia; George Davidson, married Miss Heard,
daughter of General Heard by former marriage.

2ND. George Davidson, went to California, and became
wealthy; he is supposed to have died November 4, 1897.

(4) Elizabeth, married Andrew Jackson McLean, of
Logan County, Kentucky. Issue : Two daughters, one of
whom married Rev. J. S. Guider, a prominent Cumberland
Presbyterian minister.

CHATHAM EWlNG

son of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing, was born in Bed-
ford County, Virginia, in 1770, and died in Lafayette
County, Missouri.

He moved from Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia,
to Logan County, Kentucky, in 1796, and thence to Lafay-
ette County, Missouri, in 1821, and lived there until his
death, he and his wife both being buried in the Ewing grave-
yard near his home.

He was a leading elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church; married April 14, 1790, Elizabeth Campbell, born
in Virginia, 1766, daughter of Moses Campbell. Issue:

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(i) Young, born January 1791, married Elizabeth
Renick, daughter of Col. Henry Renick.

(2) William, born September 23, 1792, died August 13,
1813, unmarried.

(3) Jane C, born February 25, 1795, married Rev.
Green P. Rice, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

(4) Calvin, born January 4, 1796, died January 2, 1798.

(5) Robert, born February 20, 1798, married Elizabeth
Campbell, daughter of Aaron Campbell and Grace William-
son.

(6) John D., born November 30, 1800, died and buried
in Clay County, Missouri, married in Clay County, Missouri,
Ruth Moore. Issue : Charles R., John D., Robert C, and
Nettie C, married L. Arnold, and she died in 1881.

(7) Chatham S., born November 30, 1800 (twin to John
D.), married Mrs. Mary Anderson Ewing Kavanaugh
(Robert, Finis). Issue: Willie A., married Charles Lee
Ewing (Robert, Finis, Thompson McGready), (q. v.).

(8) Mary (Polly), born October 13, 1802, married
Robert Archie Renick.

(9) Nellie W., born April 28, 1806, married Harvey
Gleaves,

( 10) Finis W., born November 30, 1809, having a daugh-
ter by his marriage, Aletha Jane, who married Washington
Perry Ewing (Robert, Finis), (q. v.).

CHAPTER XII.

FINIS EWING, YOUNGEST SON OF ROBERT AND MARY (BAKER)
EWING, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

FINIS EWING

the twelfth child and youngest son of Robert and Mary
(Baker) Ewing, was born in Bedford County, Virginia,
July 10, 1773, died at Lexington, Missouri, July 4, 1841.

He moved to what is now Tennessee, with his older
brothers and sisters, after the death of their father, and
settled about six miles north of Nashville, Davidson Coun-
ty, near the Spring Hill Church ; removed to Logan County,
Kentucky, in 1794, and settled about eight miles from
Russellville, near the Red River Meeting House. Began
preaching in 1800, and was ordained by the Cumberland
Presbytery in November, 1803. The Cumberland Presby-
tery seceded in December, 1809, and the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church was organized February 10, 1810, by
Finis Ewing, assisted by Samuel McAdoo, Samuel King and
Ephraim McLean.

He, Finis Ewing, removed to Christian (now Todd)
County, Kentucky, about 1811-1812; lived at Ewingsville
post office, was post master of Ewingsville, and had pas-
toral charge of the Lebanon congregation.

He left Kentucky for Missouri in May, 1820, settled in
Cooper County, Missouri; established there Ewingsville
post office, and was post master, and organized the New
Lebanon congregation.

He was appointed Registrar of the Land Office by Presi-
dent Jackson in 1830, and held that office until 1841.

He removed to Lafayette County, Missouri, in 1832, and
settled first near Lexington, and in 1836 moved to Lexing-
ton, where he lived until his death.

His sermons have been published, and a biography has
been written of him, entitled "Ewing, Rev. Finis E., one
of the Fathers and Founders of the Cumberland Presby-
terian Church."

He married in Davidson County, Tennessee, January 15,
1793, Margaret Davidson, born January 23, 1774, died
December 12, 1868, daughter of General William Lee David-
son, born 1746, and killed in the War of the Revolution,
while serving as a General on the side of Independence, at
the battle of Cowan's Ford on the Catawba River, February
I, 1781. He had succeeded Griffith Rutherford in com-

(58)

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mand. ' Mary Brevard, wife of General William Davidson,
and mother of Finis's wife, Margaret, was the daughter of
John Brevard and his wife, nee McWhorter. An interesting
biography has been written of General Davidson's wife,
Mary Brevard, entitled "Aunt Peggy."

Issue of the marriage of Finis Ewing and Margaret
Davidson :

(i) Winifred Warren, born August 23, 1794, died
Cooper County, Missouri, June, 1838; married February 28,
1822, Cooper County, Missouri, Henry Magrada Rubey,
born January 27, 1798, died July 3, 1876. Issue:

1ST. Mary Angeline, born December 3, 1822, died Sep-
tember 14, 1896, married October 31, 1845, Rev. Peter Rea
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church ; children : Ann
Winifred, Caroline Frances, married Professor T. W.
Johnston, of Booneville, Missouri; Joseph Henry; Mary
Harrison, and Robert.

2ND. Margaret Jane, born August 16, 1824, died Nov-
ember 3, 1875, married Charles Bohannon; children:
Charles, went to California soon after Civil War, and Alice,
married Mr. Fowler of Pettis County, Missouri.

3RD. Pamela McLean, born October i, 1826, married
Rev. James Martin of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
Marshall, Missouri; child, Minnie, married October 31,
1893, Rev. G. B. Beatty, of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, Westport, Kansas City, Missouri.

4TH. Thomas Lee, born November 18, 1828, died in
infancy.

5TH. Virginia, born November 12, 1832, married Wil-
liam Corum.

(2) William Lee Davidson, born in Logan County,
Kentucky, March i, 1796, died in Springfield, 111., March
25, 1846; he removed to Illinois about 1818, while it was
yet a territory ; was appointed Receiver of public moneys
for Vandalia District by President Monroe, February 11,
1825; member of Illinois Legislature, Fayette County, 1831 ;
elected Speaker of the House; Major of the Spy Battalion,
3rd Brigade, Illinois Troops, in the Black Hawk War of
1832; member of Illinois State Senate, 1832; elected Presi-
dent of the Senate.

He became acting Governor of Illinois November 15 to

'Arthur's Western North Carolina, pages 151-152; Wheeler's History of
North Carolina, Volume 11, pages 232-233; Moore's History of North Carolina,
Volume 1, page 305.

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December 9, 1834, on resignation of Governor John Rey-
nolds.

He was elected to the United States Senate December
29, 1835, to March 4, 1837, to fill vacancy caused by the
death of Honorable Elisha K. Kane.

He was a member of the Illinois Legislature, Fayette
County, 1840, elected Speaker of the House; was a General
in the Illionois State Militia ; elected State Auditor by the
Illinois Legislature March 6, 1843, re-elected February 18,
1845, si^<^ died in office.

He married May 3, 1827, Caroline S. Berry, died Sep-
tember 17, 1883, daughter of Colonel Elisha Berry, State
Auditor of Illinois, and prominent in early Illinois affairs.
Issue :

1ST. James Thompson, born March 16, 1828, died Jan-
uary 4, 1869, unmarried.

2ND. Margaret Mildred, born Fayette County, Illinois,
November 16, 1830, married May 24, 1849, Michael Gun-
daker Dale. Issue: Ewing (M. D.), born March 6, 1850,
died unmarried; Emma Berry, born July 26, 1851, died in
childhood; James B., born July 6, 1853, of Edwardsville,
Illinois, married January 23, 1887, Rebecca Lee Evans, a
child Douglas, born February 29, 1892; Carrie May, born
May 25, 1855, died April, 1871 ; Anna, born June 3, 1858,
died in childhood; Charles Stapp, born July 2, 1867, died
1904, St. Louis, Missouri, married 1895, Elba Stilwell ; Lee
Ewing, born August 3, 1872, of St. Louis, Missouri, mar-
ried and had child, E. Ewing; Samuel G., born August 25,
1877, died February 1905, unmarried.

3RD. Elijah Finis, born November 21, 1832, died in in-
fancy.

4TH. Charles Edgar, born July 18, 1837, died in infancy.

5TH. Alice Caroline, born August 31, 1839, died in in-
fancy.

6th. Jessie Marion, born Fayette County, Illinois, Sep-
tember 22, 1842, married June 4, 1868, Granville Malcolm
Cole, of Kansas City, Missouri, born Ashtabula County,
Ohio, November 20, 1834, died Kansas City, Missouri, Aug-
ust 27, 1909. Issue :

(a) Dale Stapp, born June 25, 1869, died December 6,
1885.

(b) Caroline Marie, of Kansas City, Missouri.

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December 19, 1900; Katherine Louise, born December 18,
1902; Caroline Mildred, born March 28, 1906; James Dan-
iel, born September 12, 1908.

(d) Clement King, born October 16, 1874; married
November 1905, Frankie Hyder; child, Clement King.

(e) Lynette, born June 15, 1876, died 1905, unmarried.

(f) Louise, born August 25, 1878, died January 23,

1895-

(g) Granville Malcolm, born May 18, 1880, of Kansas

City, Missouri.

(h) Margaret, born November 8, 1881, of Eugene,
Oregon, married October 16, 1909, Emmet Joseph Mont-
gomery Finneran.

(i) Edward Ewing, born January i, 1884, of Kansas
City, Missouri, married October 9, 1907, Emily Barzen;
child, Ewing Barzen, born September 12, 1909.

(3) Thompson McGready, born Logan County, Ken-
tucky, June 15, 1798; died February 20, 1871, removed to
Christian (now Todd) County, Kentucky, with his parents
about 1811-1812; member of the Kentucky Legislature,
Todd County, 1827-1828; Presidential Elector, Kentucky,
1832; moved to Missouri, settled in Lafayette County, and
was a member of the Missouri Constitutional Convention
of 1845.

He married (i) September 18, 1819, Mary Pettis
Barron, born in Virginia, 1804, died in Todd County, Ken-
aucky, 1833. Issue :

1ST. Susan Jane, born Todd County, Kentucky, July 8,
1821, died Roswell, New Mexico, September 10, 1890;
married (i) Todd County, Kentucky, 1838, Washington
Fort, who died in 1840. Lssue of this marriage, one child,
Mary D., born August 6, 1839, married 1858, C. Benjamin
Russell, of Robinson County, Tennessee. Their issue : Wil-
liam H., born February 18, i860, married at Whitesboro,
Texas, March 12, 1884, Ella Kelly. Their children: Ben-
jamin Kelly, born September 29, 1889; James C, born June
21, 1890, died May 21, 1892, and Lawson, born October
18, 1892; Fort, born January 26 1862, died December 3,
1862; C. Benjamin, born January 16, 1864, died March 7,
1864; Dora Myrtle, born January 11, 1866, married August
20, 1890, James B. Lockbridge, of Kansas City Missouri;
Mamie, born August 2j, 1872, married December 2(i, 1892,
M. J. Bowen, of Wilmington, Delaware; Daisy Ewing, born
March 6, 1875; Fannie, born December 20, 1877.

62 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Bbanches

Susan Jane Ewing married (second) William H Ewing
(Robert, Urban, George N. E.) of Lexington, Missouri.
Issue of this marriage :

(a) Medora, born October ii, 1842; married March
28, 1861, James H. Catron, of Lexington, Missouri. Issue:
Bedie, born March 13, 1862, married 1885, E. K. Bradley
of Nebraska City, Nebraska; child, Henry C, born 1893; a
son (M. E.) born December 6, 1866, married July 21, 1891,
Mary W. Lawton, of Nebraska City, Nebraska; a child (J.
H.) born March 2, 1872.

(b) Betty G., born April 13, 1849; married March 21,
1866, Charles W. Haines, of Liberty, Missouri. Issue : Jen-
nie B., born January 6, 1867; married March 22, 1888, W.
C. Burris, of Windsor, Missouri. Children : Mildred, born
March 21, 1889, died February 7, 1890; D. Haines, born
October 20, 1891, and Katherine, born January 11, 1894;
Mittie S., born July i, 1869, died February 9, 1872; Dola
E., born December 29, 1873; Ewing, born September 28,
1876, died October 31, 1877; William H., born July 24,
1878, died July 27, 1882; Mamie B., born November 6,
1887.

in California ; unmarried.

3RD. Pamela Margaret, born Todd County, Kentucky,
November 9, 1825; died Danville, Kentucky, March 13,
1879; married Lafayette County, Missouri, June 18, 1845,
Charles E. Bowman, of Danville, Kentucky.

Issue: Mary G., born 1846, died in infancy; Sally An-
nette, born 1848; Georgette Ewing, bom 1852; Wilmoth
Wallace, born 1856; Charles Ewing, born 1859, died 1896,
St. Louis, Missouri; unmarried.

4TH. Charles Lee, born Todd County, Kentucky, May

10, 1827; removed with his parents to Lafayette County,
Missouri; married Lafayette County, Missouri, December
6, 1 85 1, Willie A. Ewing (Robert Chatham, Chatham S.).
Issue :

(a) Sonoma D., born October i, 1854, died February 20,
1859.

(b) Chatham H., born September 6, 1858; died May
28, 1859.

11, 1883, Chatham E. Prather, of Lafayette County, Mis-

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souri; children: Albert Ewing, born September i, 1884;
Henry Lee, born October 10, 1886; John L., born January
17, 1888; Willie T., born April 17, 1891.

(d) Charles Lee, born March 17, 1866.

5TH. Theodore Thompson, born March 11, 1829; died
1855, in Central America.

6th. Mary Barron, born Todd County, Kentucky, Oct-
ober 6, 1831; died Nappa, California, May 1881 ; married
December 6, 1853, Judge William C. Wallace, of Nappa,
California; died 1895. Issue, William C, born 1858; Belle,
born 1862, and Lee Ewing, born 1864, all in California.

He, Thompson McGready Ewing, married (second), on
April 6, 1836, Mrs. Piety D. Greenfield, who died in Ken-
tucky, 1840. Issue of this marriage :

1ST. Finis, born August 30, 1837, Todd County, Ken-
tucky, and removed with his parents to Lafayette County,
Missouri.

He married (first) October 14, 1858, Mrs. Delinia Wim-
berly of Montgomery County, Tennessee, died April 6, 1867.
Issue :

(a) Ella D., born September 7, 1859; married February
7, 1878, Thomas C. Mimms; children: Sallie D., born Dec-
ember 9, 1878; Thomas C, born March 19, 1883; Maude,
born August 1886, died in infancy; George D., born January
16, 1889.

(b) Maude, born 1861 ; died August, 1863.

He, Finis Ewing, son of Thompson McGready Ewing,
married (second) February 8, 1870, a lady, surnamed Polk,
of Tennessee. Issue:' Bowman C, born July 7, 1871 ;
Finis J., born April 28, 1874; Bessie May, born September
6, 1876, died October 7, 1882; Maude, born August 5, 1879;
Polk T., born April 19, 1883 ; Robert Lee, born June 4,
1885; May D., born June 28, 1890.

2ND. Piety Fort, born March 6, 1840; died August 18,
1840.

He, Thompson McGready Ewing, married (third) in
Lafayette County, Missouri, February 3, 1842, Anne Marie
Windsor. Issue of this marriage :

1ST. Isadora Windsor, born Lafayette County, Mis-
souri, April 12, 1843; di^d Lexington, Missouri, June, 1882;
married Lexington, Missouri, December 1862, John E.
Burden, of Lexington, Missouri. Issue:
5

64 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Bbanches

(a) Eugene M., born October, 1863; died 1868.

(b) Eldridge, born January, 1865.

(d) Anna Patti, born 1870; married 1893, Thomas J.
Burgess of St. Joseph, Missouri; child: Irene Patti, born
1894.

(e) Isadora Maude, born 1873.

2ND. Eugene M., born December 21, 1845; ^i^^ un-
married.

3RD. Arnold Thomas, born July 20, 1847; ^i^d June,
1882, at Lexington, Missouri.

4TH. Thompson McGready, born July 15, 1849; married
1884, Alice G. Hill, of Nappa, California; died 1884.

5TH. Henr}' B., born June 21, 1851.

6th. Maria P., born Lafayette County, Missouri, July
27, 1853; married February 19, 1884, Charles W. Sullivan,
and lived near Garden City, Cass County, Missouri. Issue :
Anna M., born December 1885; died August 1886; Edgar
H., born February 10, 1887; Bessie, born July 7, 1889;
Willie, born December 15, 1891.

7TH. Betty R., born July 17, 1855; married January 10,
1895, James M. Warren, of Warrensburg, Missouri.

8th. Ida M., born June 15, 1857.

9TH. Lee Davidson, born February 18, 1859; died 1909;
married October, 1893, Jessie Warmack, of Clarksville,
Tennessee. They are understood to have had two sons.

(4) Polly, born September 15, 1800; died October 9,
1800.

(5) Dovey Bryan, born September 13, 1801 ; died
October 27, 1802.

(6) Baxter McGee, born September 9, 1803; died
August 16, 1822.

(7) Mary Anderson, born Logan County, Kentucky,
June 25, 1805; married (first) July 11, 1821, Archibald
Kavanaugh ; died September 1837. Issue :

1ST. Baxter, who married and had a daughter, Fanny;
he died in Ray County, Missouri, and she moved to Califor-
nia.

2ND. Anna, married (first) Dr. Diggs, of Lexington,
Missouri, and (second) Rev. Dr. C. A. Davis, of Memphis,
Tennessee, of which union were born a daughter, Molly, and
two sons.

3RD. Finis (M. D.), was a surgeon in the Confederate
States Army, and afterwards died in Mexico.

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4TH. Pamela, died in New Mexico; she married Reuben
Letton. Issue, two sons. Buck and Archibald.

She, Mary Anderson Ewing, married (second) Chatham
S. Ewing (Robert, Chatham). Issue, see Chatham S. Ewing,
supra.

(8) Margaret Davidson, born Logan County, Kentucky,
July 28, 1807, died September, 1897; married Cooper Coun-
ty, Missouri, December 13, 1826, Rev. Robert Sloan of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church; he was born May 11,
1801 ; died May 27, 1868, and was a son of Alexander
Sloan, who came to Cooper County, Missouri, about 1819-
1820. Issue:

1ST. Alfred Baxter, born September 24, 1827; M. D. ;
lived Kansas City, Missouri; married December 20, 1855,
Mary A. Railey. Issue :

(a) Charles Clarence, born October 18, 1856; married
November 27, 1878, Mary Townsend Addams; children:
Edith Terrill, born October 16, 1879; Helen, born March
]6. 1881 ; died June, 1881, and Earl Bodgess, born December
9, 1884.

(b) Sally Lee Davidson, born April 3, 1859; lived Kan-
sas City, Missouri; married May 11, 1881, William Rankin
Hogsett; child: William Sloan, born September 29, T883.

(c) Robert Tarlton, born March 30, 1861 ; M. D. ; lived
Kansas City, Missouri; married May 25, 1887, Carrie R.
Parks; child: Mary Roberta, born May 17, 1888.

(d) Rowland Bodgess, born December 29, 1866.

(e) Alfred McGready, born July 10, 1870.

(f) Alice Patton, born December 3, 1875; married Wil-
liam Smallwood.

2ND. Frances Kavanaugh, born September 16, 1829;
married January 14, 1847, Greenup J. Jones. Issue :

(a) William Stone, born October 5, 1847. He married
(first) October 9, 1870, Mary Depp; died May 15, 1884.
Issue: Walter Lee, born November 15, 1872; Jessie
Frances, born August 23, 1874; married June 6. 1896,
Louis Dougherty; Harry, born April 2, 1876; Mary D..
born May 7, 1884. He married (second) August 18, 1885,
Eva C. Smoot.

(b) Robert Lewis, born January 28, 1850; married
January 18, 1872, Louisa Columbia Snider. Issue, Mary
Edith, born January 8, 1873; married October 9, 1893,
Charles Rarick ; Children: Hazel Ewing, born June 3. 1894;
died April 30, 1895, and Charles De Leon,, born September

66 The Ewing Genealogit with Cognate Branches

9, 1896; Fanny Marilla, born May 14, 1878; Charles Clin-
ton, bom December 11, 1881 ; William Snider, born August

5, 1886; Robert Sloan, bom October 15, 1889.

(d) Porter McClanahan, born January 3, 1854.

(e) Alexander McGready, born April 2y, 1856; married
May 21, 1895, Lizzie Walker. Issue: Mary Frances, born
September 5, 1896.

(f) Lizzie M., born April 8, 1858; married November

6, 1879, Reuben K. Johnson. Issue: Alfred Givens, born
August 21, 1880; John Wornald, born July 22, 1883; died
November 11, 1886; Finis Ewing, born July 16, 1886; Fan-
nie Kesiah, born March 7, 1888,

(g) Charles Lee, born June 29, i860; married June 6,
1886, Ella Stewart. Issue: Raymond Stewart, July 29,
1889; died October 6, 1895.

(h) Mary Katherine, born June 15, 1866; died Decem-
ber 6, 1896; married August 3, 1887, William T. Longshore.
Issue: Jones William, born July 17, 1892; Mary Lillian,
born July 17, 1892.

(i) Edwin Franklin, born December 17, 1868.

(j) James Bryant, born April 5, 1871.

(k) Clarence Givens, born May 18, 1873; died March
18, 1893.

(1) Claude Emmet, born February i, 1875.

3RD. Ewing McGready, born August 10, 1831, died St.
Louis, Missouri, February 3, 1906; married November 6,
1856, Helen Chew. Issue:

(a) Katherine L.

(b) Mary L., married David Humphreys. Issue: Ew-
ing L. and David.

(d) Frances L., married Charles P. J. Bryant, of Kan-
sas City, Missouri.

(e) Helen Chew, married William W. Keyser.

(f) Ewing D.

4TH. Katherine Winifred, born October 13, 1833; died
August 12, 1867; married January 13, 1852, Silas Price
Keller. Issue :

(a) Mary Bartriff, born Febmary 18, 1853; married
October 8, 1879, Allen Glenn. Issue: Hugh Gibson, bom
February 13, 1881 ; Price Keller, born September 7, 1882;

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Mary Elizabeth, born April 22, 1884; Allen Bristol, born
December 25, 1885; Margaret, born and died December 13,
1887, "Winifred Sloan, born February 3, 1889; Robert
Charles, born April 8, 1891 ; Ewing Suggett, born April 16,
1893; Helen Brown, born August 18, 1895.

(b) Fannie, born December 24, 1854. She married
(first) October 9, 1878, Sumner C. Bristol; died September
13, 1884. Issue: Katherine Curtis, born August 9, 1879,
and Helen Glenn, born May 21, 1883; died January 6, 1885.
She married (second) Franklin Lee Miller, of Kansas City,
Missouri; no issue.

(d) Helen Campbell, born November 3, 1859; married
June 3, 1891, William Bailey Upton. Issue: William Bailey,
born March 15, 1892; Mary Frances, born February 22,
1894; died October 7, 1895.

(e) Charles Price, born May 27, 1862; married Septem-
ber 25, 1890, Maude Irwin. Issue, Margaret McLellan,
born November 29, 1891 ; Helen Davis, born September
16 1896.

(f) Robert William, born January 30, 1865; died June
10, 1894.

(g) Katherine Sloan, born June 26, 1867; died May 3,
1869.

5TH. Alexander Thompson, born February 18, 1836;
married Mary McClanahan, February 7, 1871. Issue:
Harriet Lee, born June 25, 1872, died November 5, 1879;
Margaret C, born October 25, 1874, and Charles W., born
April 16. 1876.

6th. Robert Lee, born July 18, 1838; died November
ro, 1885; married February, 1873, Anna Wood; died July
1885 ; no issue.

7TH. Finis Ewing, born December 23, 1840; died Feb-
ruary 21, 1851.

8th. Charles W., born December 24, 1842, at Harrison-
ville, Missouri. He married (first) April 8, 1875, Alice
Patton ; died December 10, 1875; no issue. He married
(second) January 28, 1880, Jennie Todd. Issue:

(a) Florence Ewing, born May 10, 1881 ; married
December 20, 1900, Harry Scott Vaughn, of Nashville,
Tennessee. Issue: William Scott, born December 8,
1902; Charles Sloan, born October 31, 1904; Houghton
Davidson, born August 12, 1907.

(b) Helen Todd, born July 13, 1885.

68 The Ewing Genkalogy with Cognate Branches

9TH. Margaret Pamela, born February ii, 1845; died
December 18, 1866; married August 20, 1865, William L.
Yantis; no issue.

lOTH. Mary Phoebe, born September 6, 1847; died
August 5, 1849.

iiTH. Ephraim Perry, born February 19, 1850; died
December 24, 1879; married November 25, 1874, Ada
Hunter. Issue: Ephraim Hunter, born January 8, 1876,
and Lee Roman, born October 6, 1878.

I2TH. James Finis, born February 7, 1852; died October
15, 1852.

(9) Pamela Jane, bom Logan County, Kentucky,
August 4, 1809; died in Austin, Texas, 1881 ; she married
(first) James W. Read, of Danville, Kentucky; died Febru-
ary 6, 1829. Issue :

1ST. Mary, married Robert Mitchell Forbes; born in
Virginia, afterwards of Port Lavaca, Texas. Children :

(a) Fannie, married W. G. Sterrett, of Dallas, Texas.

(b) Alice, widow of W. J. Townsend, of Dallas, Texas.

(d) Robert Ewing, living in State of Washington.

(e) Maggie, married Otto Staerker, of Cuero, Texas.

(f) Richard, of St. Joseph, Missouri.

Pamela Jane married (second) in 1830, Horsely Rea,
born 1804; died December 7, 1849.

2ND. Carrie, a daughter of this union, was born in
Booneville, Missouri, May 13, 1836; married November 16,
1854, at Lavaca, Texas, George Preston Finlay, who be-
came a prominent and distinguished lawyer of Texas, and
was an orator of great force and eloquence; he was born
November 16, 1829, in Augusta, Perry County, Mississippi,
and died March 24, 191 1, being buried in Austin, Texas.
Issue :

(a) Julia Howard, born August 27, 1855; married May
17, 1881, Hart H. Settle, of Galveston, Texas. Issue:

(aa) Julia Finlay, born July 29, 1882; married May
2.2, 1907, Robert Lawson Pierce; children: Julia Settle,
born June 25, 1908, and Elizabeth Lawson, born May
17, 1910.
(bb) George Finlay, born January 4, 1885.

(b) Quitman, born July 21, 1865; married November
6, 1889, Alice Josephine Downs, of Waco, Texas. Child:
Alice Dorothy, born January 31, 1897.

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(c) Virgilia Octavia, born March 12, 1870; married
February 26, 1895, David Edw. Simmons, a lawyer of
distinction, who was Assistant Attorney General of Texas,
and later U. S. District Attorney for the Southern District
of Texas. Children :

(aa) George Finlay, born October 25, 1895, who was
Second Lieutenant Adjutant of the Medical Corps in
the War with Germany, and

(bb) David Andrew, born May 31, 1897, who was
Second Lieutenant of the air service in that war.

(10) Finis Young, born in Kentucky, October 19, 181 1 ;
died May 12, 1891 ; married Jane T. Price. Issue:

1ST. Anna, married Benjamin Newsom. Issue:

(a) Emma, married Joseph D. Sheppard. Issue: Lucy,
Benjamin N., Joseph D.

(b) Rush Elmore.

(d) Grace, married twice (first), George Miller Clarke.
Issue : George Miller.

2ND. Carrie A., married John D. Clayton.
3RD. William Lee Davidson, married Lizzie Ballantine.
Issue : Willie, died in infancy.
4TH. Finette. died in infancy.
5TH. Katherine, died unmarried.
6th. Emma, died in infancy.
7TH. Charles, married Dora Hall.

(11) Washington Perry, born March 16, 1814; died
June, 1867; married December 18, 1834, Aletha Jane Ewing
(Robert, Chatham. Finis W.). Issue:

1ST. Aletha Olivia, married Frank W. Shattuck, lived
in California. Issue : Arthur Ewing; William Finis, married
Millie Camm, child Paul ; Rena ; Frank Olivia ; Mattie
Newell; Aletha Lee, married Henry Ellsworth. Children:
Arthur Shattuck, Olivia, Rena, and Mildred Aletha.

2ND. Lee Davidson, died in infancy.

3RD. Mary Henrietta, died St. Louis, Missouri, 1866, of
cholera ; married David K. Newell. Issue : a daughter. Bet-
tie, married Robert A. Barr. Child : Aletha Mary.

4TH. Finis Young, of Vernon County, Missouri. He
married (first) Mattie Davis. Children: Finis Lee and
Mattie Olivia. He married (second) Anna Phillippy.
Children, besides one who died in infancy ; Jane Elizabeth,
Anna Washington, and Arthur Washington.

70 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

5TH. Washington Perry, married (first) Roberta Kava-
naugh. Issue: Carrie Kavanaugh. He married (second)
Hattie Rees. Issue: William Rees, Mary Emma, Frank
Finis, and Bessie.

6th. Lee Davidson, was a practicing physician, lived in
Texas ; married Bettie Harris. Issue : Delmar Harris, mar-
ried Nannie Gordon Drake; Finis Waldo; Duke; Lee Bre-
vard ; Forest Otha.

(12) Robert Chatham Donnell, born in Todd County,
Kentucky, March 16, 1816; married November 9, 1841,
Maria L. Harris. Issue : Ella Harris, married J. C. Robin-
son. Children : Roberta, Norma, Aubrey E., Wirt J., and
Irene F. ; Roberta M., married John E. McCormick; Clar-
ence O. ; Norma D., married W. F. Chadwick; Minnie R.,
died in infancy; Finette W., died in infancy; Mary A., died
in infancy; Robert Finis, died unmarried.

(13) Ephraim Brevard (Barnett), born Todd County,
Kentucky, May 16, 1819; died in Missouri June 21, 1873,
of brain fever; moved to Cooper County, Missouri, with his
parents in May, 1820, and thence to Lafayette County,
Missouri, in 1832; attended Cumberland College, Prince-
ton, Kentucky ; studied law in private law school of Judge
Buckner, St. Louis, Missouri ; completed his law studies in
the office of his brother, Robert Chatham Donnell, in Rich-
mond, Missouri; admitted to the bar, Richmond, Missouri,
1842, and immediately formed a partnership with his said
brother.

He was Secretary of the Missouri State Senate, 1846;
member of the Missouri Legislature, from Ray County,
1848; Presidential Elector the same year; appointed Secre-
tary of State, Missouri, April 7, 1849, and served to 1852;
was elected Attorney General of Missouri August, 1856;
elected to Missouri Supreme Court, August, 1859, office
vacated by Convention of 1861.

He resumed the practice of the law in Jefferson City,
Missouri, in the autumn of 1861 ; moved to St. Louis, Mis-
souri, in 1864, and there continued his law practice; was
elected Circuit Judge, St. Louis, Missouri, and was elected
to Missouri Supreme Court, November, 1872. for eight
years, dying in office.'

He married, Ray County, Missouri, June 4, 1845; Ehza-

>The Green Bag, Oct., 1899, containing his biography by Judge Charles W. Sloan;

Phelan's Hist, of Tenn., pp. 135, 224; 51-53 Mo Repts.; Biogra-
phy of Finis Ewing, entitled "Ewing, Rev. Finis E., one of the Fa-
thers and Founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church."

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 71

beth Ann Allen, died Jefferson City, Missouri, daughter of
Dr. Thomas Allen and Nancy Watkins, said Nancy a daugh-
ter of Col. Thomas Watkins and his wife, Elizabeth A.
Venable, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Woodson
Venable, and grand daughter of Abraham and Martha
Davis Venable, of Virginia. Issue :

1ST. Anna, born Richmond, Missouri, March 29, 1846;
died Washington, D. C, January 6, 1894; she was a very
brilliant and accomplished woman. On July 23, 1873, she
married Francis Marion Cockrell, a distinguished leader,
born October i, 1834, son of Joseph Cockrell and Nancy
Ellis, of Johnson Co., IMissouri; he was a Brigadier General,
C. S. A.; U. S. Senator from Missouri, 1875-1905; was
Interstate Commerce Commissioner to relocate the boundary
lines between Texas and New Mexico. Issue :

(a) Ewing, born May 28, 1874; an attorney at law,
abode, Warrensburg, Missouri ; graduate of Harvard, A. B,,
University of Virginia, LL. B., Columbia University, A. M. ;
prosecuting attorney of Johnson County, Missouri, 1902-
1910; married Staunton, Virginia, June 3, 1896, Leacy
Peachy Williams, daughter of Leroy Eustace Williams and
Flora McDonald of Virginia. Issue : Anna Ewing, born
June 22, 1898; Flora McDonald, born June 14, 1900;
Francis Marion, born December 14, 1906; Eustace Williams,
born November 5, 1909.

(b) Marion, born August 3, 1875, abode Norwich, Con-
necticut; married Februar}^ 14, 1903, Edson Fessenden
Gallaudet, a graduate of Yale. Issue : Francis Cockrell,
bom April 14, 1904; Marion Cockrell, born Februar}' 10,
1907, and a child Denise.

(c) Francis Marion, born Januarys 17, 1877; attended
Columbian University, Washington, D. C. ; married Nov-
ember 5, 1902, jMiller Pope, born February 6, 1879; daugh-
ter of W. S. Pope and Lucy Miller, of Jefferson City,
Missouri. He is a leading business man, of enterprising
capacity, and has been engaged in discharge of the active
duties of president of the Cockrell Manufacturing Co., Ltd.,
operating at Gramercy, Louisiana, with his headquarters in
Louisville, Kentucky.

(d) Ephraim Brevard, born May 7, 1881 ; married St.
Louis, Missouri. Hazel Hogan.

(e) Allen Vardaman. born January 22, 1883, married
Mrs. Frances Elliot Reed.

72 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

(f) Anna Ewing, born May 26, 1884; abode Athens,
Greece; married July, 191 1, Lambros A. Coromilas.

2ND. Alice Brevard, born 1847-1848, Richmond, Mis-
souri; died January 10, 1914; married Jefferson City, Mis-
souri, October 13, 1880, John Read Samuel Walker (Robert,
Urban, Nellie Caldwell, Mary Elizabeth), born March 18,
1846; died January, 1900, a man of marked prominence,
who attended Yale, was admitted to the bar at Booneville,
Missouri, a member of the Missouri Legislature, from Coop-
er County; U. S. District Attorney for Western District of
Missouri, removing after his appointment as such to Kan-
sas City, Missouri, where he lived until his death. Issue;
Alice Brevard, bom July 29, 1881, died 1897; John Read,
born December 31, 1882; Ewing Anthony, born December
16, 1885; Ephraim Brevard, born November 17, 1893. She
(Alice Brevard Ewing W^alker) was a woman of dis-
tinguished and remarkable ability, of not only State but
National fame. She was Vice President General and Hon-
orary Vice President General of the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, and a lifesized por-
trait of her is hung in the Continental Memorial Hall, Wash-
ington, D. C. She was possessed of much oratorical ability ;
was the chosen speaker on "Daughters' Day" at the Lou-
isiana Purchase Exposition, and at the Jamestown Exposi-
tion, and once before a Committee of the United States
Senate. She had served as President for the Daughters of
the Confederacy and the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, and was the organizer of the Round Table Club of
Jefferson City, being the first study club of Missouri. At
the time of her death, she was Honorary member of the
Booneville Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution ; Honorary member of the .Stonewall Jackson Chap-
ter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ; Honorary
member of the Old Men's Association ; a Charter member
of the 19th Century Club; a member of the Kansas City
Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution ; Vice-
President General for life of the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, and a member of
the Missouri Valley Historical Society.'

3RD. Henry Watkins, born Richmond, Missouri, July 4,
1849; died Battle Creek, Michigan, September i, 1898; was
educated in the public schools of St. Louis, Missouri, grad-

' Resolutions of the Kansas City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Rev*
olution, adopted Jan. 19, 1914

ALICE BREVARD EWlNGi WALKER

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uating from the High School with the highest honors ; he
was graduated from the Missouri State University, 1872,
B. A., winning orator's medal. He was elected Clerk of the
Missouri Supreme Court in 1873, after the death of his
father, and served until 1891, declining re-election. In 1884,
he purchased a controlling interest in the Tribune Printing
Office, of Jefferson City, Missouri, and was editor of the
Tribune until his death; he was president of the Missouri
Press Association, 1896-1897; was a charter member of the
Missouri Society, Sons of the Revolution, and on the first
Board of Managers ; also a member of the Society of Colon-
ial Wars. He married, Jefferson City, Missouri, Mattic
Chappell. Children: Mary, Clay, Jack, and Dorothy; last
named born January 1894.

4TH. Margaret, married in 1877, John Cabell Wilkin-
son, born December 13, 1846; son Jane Browder Cabell,
born July 14, 1823, died January 21, 1849, and Thomas
Parks Wilkinson, a lawyer. He, John Cabell Wilkinson,
served in the C. S. A., and afterwards was prominently
connected with the Hargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods Com-
pany, in St. Louis, Missouri. Issue of this marriage : Mar-
garet, William Tudor, Jane Alice, John Cabell, Elizabeth
Allen (dead), Florence Ewing and Dorothy Brevard.

CHAPTER XIII.

ROBERT EWING II., SON OF ROBERT AND MARY (BAKER)

ewing; his birth, career, marriage and
children.

robert ewing ii
son of Robert Ewing I and Mary Baker, {q. v.), was bom
in Bedford County, Virginia, 1760, died in Logan County,
Kentucky, July 14, 1832; buried in the old Red River
Churchyard, about five miles northeast of Adairville, Ken-
tucky.

He was one of the signers of the petition of the Peaks
of Otter Presbyterian Church, Bedford County, Virginia,
May, 1774, to the General Assembly of Virginia.

He was a soldier in the War of the Revolution.

He moved to Davidson County, Tennessee, then North
Carolina, in 1784; was a member of the North Carolina
Legislature from Davidson County, 1 787-1 789, and was a
member of the North Carolina Convention of 1789 for
adoption of the United States Constitution.

He moved to Logan County, Kentucky, in 1792; was a
member of the Kentucky Legislature, from Logan County,
1797; member of the Kentucky State Senate, 1806-1818,
and President of the Senate, 1818.

He was Presidential Elector in 1808, and again in 18 12,
and again in 18 16,

He was commissioned Brigadier General, December 19,
1799, commanding the nth Kentucky Brigade, including
regiments of Logan, Henderson, Muhlenburg, Christian and
Livingston Counties.

He was Brigadier General in the War with Great Britain
in 1812.

The inscription on his tombstone is suggestive of his illus-
trious career, and his fine qualities of character. It
follows :

IN MEMORY

GENERAL ROBERT EWING,

"A Soldier of the Revolution, who departed this
life 14th of July, 1832, in the 73rd year of his age.
He was born in Virginia in 1760, removed to
West Tennessee in 1781, from whence he was
elected and served two sessions in the North Caro-
lina Legislature. Was married to Jane McLean
(74)

The Ewing Genealogy wpih Cognate Branches 75

on the 4th of July, 1787; removed to Logan
County, Kentucky, in 1792; was elected to the
Legislature of Kentucky in 1797 and served 21
years in succession, sixteen (16) in the Senate and
the last two as its President. He was the Oracle
of his family, and among his neighbors, emphatic-
ally a Peacemaker."
As we read that epitaph of service, speaking to us from
the moldering dust of a hero who toiled in the wilderness of
the land we love, we are much impressed by what is said
in Foote's Sketches, page 83, in these words :

"Men will not be able to understand till they
have opened the treasures of history and drawn
forth some few particulars respecting the origin
and religious habits of the Scotch-Irish and be-
come familiar with their doings previous to the
Revolution — during the painful struggle — and the
succeeding years of prosperity."
He, Robert Ewing H, married at Adairville, Logan
County, Kentucky, July 4, 1787, Jane McLean. Issue:

I. ELIZABETH (Bctsy) DAVIDSON, born June i, 1788,
Davidson County, Tennessee, died May 14, 185 1 ; married
General Thomas Jefferson Townsend. Issue :

(i) Robert Jefferson, born August 18, 1807; died of
cholera, July 23, 1849; married December 23, 1845, Sarah
Ann Beauchamp. Issue:

1ST. Gilson Columbus, born September 24, 1846; died
October 5, 1861.

2ND. Robert Presley, a prominent physician and sur-
geon of Adairville, Kentucky, born April i, 1848. He
married (first) November 25, 1875, Emma Tyler Smith,
daughter of Rev. Darrell B. Smith, of Todd County, Ken-
tucky. Issue: A daughter, Martha Smith, unmarried, liv-
ing in Nashville, Tennessee. He married (second) June,
1900, Thomsie Moore, daughter of William Moore of
Adairville, Kentucky. Issue : Roberta Moore, born July
9, 1902, now a beautiful girl in her teens, as the poet would
say, "where the brook and river meet."

(2) Albert B., born January 12, 1810; died October
31, 1873, unmarried.

(3) Jane Pamela, born October 7, 1813; died February
20, 1892; married (first) Samuel Bowling; no issue. She
married (second) Joseph Link. Issue:

Joseph P., married (first) Georgie Radford. Issue, Wil-

76 The Ewixg Genealogy with Cogxate Branches

liam Whitfield, married Sallie Thurman ; children : Anna
May, Emmet, Robert Edward, and Joseph, died at lO
years of age. He, Joseph P. Link, married (second) Eliza-
beth Crozier. Child: Kathleen, married Mr. Barker, abode
Western Canada.

(4) Eliza Ann, born November 4, 1815; died October
30, 1865; married John W. Judkins. Issue:

1ST. Jane, born April 2.^, 1834; died July 18, 1880,
unmarried.

2ND. Florence M., born July 2, 1836; died February 15,
1895; married 1865, Edwin R. Moore. Issue:

(a) Roy, born 1866; married July, 1900, Addie May
Phelps. Children: Edward Richard, born September 12,
1902; Smith Judkins, born November 3, 1905; William
Herbert, born April i, 1913.

(b) Presley, born July 18, 1869; died February 4, 1895,
unmarried.

3RD. John, born 1846, died 1894; married, 1868, Nannie
Burns. Issue :

(a) Thomas R., born 1869; married Nettie Ryan.

(b) Callie, born 1871 ; died unmarried.

(d) Maud, born 1875; died unmarried,

(e) Harold, born 1877.

(f) Norma, born 1879.

(5) Mary M. A. D., born August 4. 1818; died July,
1874; married 1833, Francis Marion Beauchamp. Issue:

1ST. Victoria E., born May 2, 1838; died June 24, 1877;
married May 14, 1868, Thompson E. Fort. Issue:

(a) Daisy Catharine, born April 15, 1870; died July
30, 1870.

(b) Frank Thomas, born September 11, 1871.

(d) Mabel, born July 30, 1875; married January 10,
1903, E. F. True. Child : Frank Fort, born September
20, 1907.

2ND. Francis Marion, born March 19, 1840; married
May I, 1867, Frankie Simmons. Issue: Robert E., bom
January 3, 1869; married June 8, 1909, Bennie Lett. Child:
Robert Coleman, born March 24, 191 1.

3RD. Thomas Jefferson, born 1843.

The Ewing Gexealogy with Cognate Bbaxcties 77

4TH. Elizabeth, born 1844; married Joseph Fort;
moved to Arkansas.

5TH. Presley, born 1847; died in infancy.

6th. Robert B., born March 8, 1850; married July 8,
1869, Columbia Fuqua. Issue :

(a) Paul, born May 6, 1870; married October 12,
1898, Chester Weldon. Issue: Helen C, born December
6, 1900; Worthington, born October 3, 1904; Frank H.,
born July 23, 1906.

(b) Eulalie, born December 11, 1872; married October
II, 1894, C. C. Simmons. Issue: R. Tilden, born August
8, 1895; Pauline W., born September 3, 1896; Lon B., born
March 3, 1898; Charles H., born April 19, 1901 ; Felix M.,
born September 24, 1909.

1, 1900, Cora B. Perry. Issue: Mary Hazel, born Decem-
ber 14, 1900; Roberta, born August 10, 1902; Paul, bom
December 24, 1904; Virginia E., born March 23, 1907;
Douglas, born May 9, 1909; Isabel, born June i, 1911.

(d) Wilbur, bom October 31, 1879; married April,
1905, Fannie Britt. Issue: Bertha M., born February,
1906; Eulalie, born June 1907; Robert H., born July, 1910.

(e) Felix, born July 3, 1884; married May 1909,
Theresa Dolores Witz. Issue : Robert Cameron, born
February, 1910; Norma, born February, 191 1.

(f) Norma, born August 19, 1887; married February

2, 1909, Charles A. Sweatt. Issue : Cecelia B., born 1909.

(g) Egborn, born February 19, 1890; married Novem-
ber 2^, igi2, Hattie E. Browning.

7TH. Anna, born 1859; ^^^^ 1889; she married Mr.
Warren.

8th. Edwin Eugene, born 1864; died 1892; he married,
1886, Capitola Tisdale.

(6) Martha M. C, born June 13, 1821 ; died August
17, 1855; married 1848, P. O. Gilbert. Issue:

1ST. Elizabeth, born 1849; died 1880, unmarried.

2ND. Martha, born 1851 ; married Lewis C. Garrigus,
abode Portland, Oregon. Children : Mary Edith, Hallie,
Lewis, and Annie.

3RD. Presley, born, 1853; died 1913; married 1877, AUie
Dardon.

(7) Presley Ewing, born February i, 1823; died Dec-
ember 21, 1896; married 1844, Amanda Offutt. Issue:

78 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

1ST. Robert Ewing, born March 24, 1845; died March
20, 1863, Confederate States Army, killed at Milton,
Tennessee.

2ND. Thomas Jefferson, born July 3, 1846; married
(first) Anna Ewing (Robert, Robert, George Washing-
ton). Child: Claud. He married (second) Bettie V.
Wooten. Children : Wooten and Robert.

3RD. Martha Jane, born July 6, 1848; married October
5, 1876, Reuben Burrow Penick. Issue : Lola M., born
June 1878, unmarried; Eva Gilson, born January 20, 1886,
abode Nevada, Missouri.

4TH. Tighlman, born February 2, 1850; died without
issue.

5TH. Presley, born February 19, 1852; married Febru-
ary, 1874, Fannie Calloway. Issue:

(a) Virgil Emmet, bom 1875, abode Oklahoma; mar-
ried Mattie Soyer.

(b) Joseph, born July, 1876, abode Fort Worth, Texas;
married Lena Lowe.

(d) Tighlman Offutt, born 1881, abode Galveston,
Texas.

(e) Sabrie Elizabeth, born 1885, abode Oklahoma; mar-
ried Oscar Campbell.

(f) Robert, bom 1886; died 1890.

(g) Richard, born 1888, abode, Galveston, Texas,
(h) Edward, born 1891, abode, Oklahoma.
6th. Susan Ann, born 1854.

7TH. Joseph, born January, 1856; died December 28,
1868.

8th. Gilson Ewing, bom March 18, 1858; married Sep-
tember 29, 1886, Beulah Eubank. Children: Hal Eubank,
born June 19, 1888, and Mary A., born July 14, 1892.

9TH. William (Major), born August, 1862; married
May 5, 1881, Mattie Grider Hunt. Issue:

(a) Bessie Ewing, born September 4, 1883; married
September 5, 1904, James Leslie Orndorff. Children :
Martha Grider, born June 8, 1906, and Joseph Tilden, born
June 13, 1910. She, Bessie Ewing (Townsend) Orndorff,
of Bowling Green, Kentucky, is a member of the National
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, an-
cestor Robert Ewing II. ; her National Number being

The Ewing Genealogy wrrn Cognate Branches 79

104334, citing National Number 64894, and National Num-
ber 98957.

(b) George Hunt, born December 15, 1888.

lOTH. Elizabeth Davidson, born November 2"], 1863;
married June 7, 1882, Dr. A. L. Britt. Issue : Winnie
Estelle, born March 2, 1884; married October 15, 1913;
Henry G. Sandifer; AUyne Amanda, born December 13,

ERRATA.

P. 75.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Davidson died May 14, 1867.

P. 79.

Elizabeth Davidson Townsend's husband was Dr
A. L. Butt, not Britt.

P. 82.

Sarah Temple Holeman was born August 28, 1897.

ne was uiic ui mc v^umniiaonjin-io w.*. m.^ k^v*^^»^».»^ ^

of the State, in association with Justices John F. Phillips
and Alex H. Martin."

The author of the sketch cited in the foot-note refers to
Henry Clay Ewing as being a grandson of General Robert
Ewing, saying:

"His grandfather on his father's side was Gen-
eral Robert Ewing, of Logan County, Kentucky,

^Sketch by Ex-Gov. T. T. Crittenden, in St. Louis Christian Advocate
of Jan. 15, 1908.

78 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

1ST, Robert Ewing, born March 24, 1845; died March
20, 1863, Confederate States Army, killed at Milton,
Tennessee.

2ND. Thomas Jefferson, born July 3, 1846; married
(first) Anna Ewing (Robert, Robert, George Washing-
ton). Child: Claud. He married (second) Bettie V.
Wooten. Children : Wooten and Robert.

3RD. Martha Jane, born July 6, 1848; married October

_ ,O^C r>„..U \i,.^^r...r V>^.^\fA^ Tcci^. T /^lo A/r Krvrn

born June 19, 1888, and Mary A., born July 14, 1892.

9TH. William (Major), born August, 1862; married
May 5, 1881, Mattie Grider Hunt. Issue:

The Ewing Gknealogy wiih Cognate Branches 79

104334, citing National Number 64894, and National Num-
ber 98957.

(b) George Hunt, born December 15, 1888.

lOTH. Elizabeth Davidson, born November 2^, 1863;
married June 7, 1882, Dr. A. L. Britt. Issue : Winnie
Estelle, born March 2, 1884; married October 15, 1913;
Henry G. Sandifer; AUyne Amanda, born December 13,
1886; Mattie Alberta, born September 15, 1892.

2. EPHRAIM MCLEAN (g. V.).

3. ROBERT ALLEN, born March 4, 1792; died December
8, 1857, near Jefferson City, Missouri; studied law in Ken-
tucky under Honorable John J. Crittenden; moved to Mis-
souri, located at Jefferson City, and practiced law; was
County Judge of Cole County, in that State.

He married, Callaway County, Missouri, Jane Ramsey,
daughter of General Jonathan Ramsey. Issue :

(i) Missouri, married Robert Randolph Jefferson.
Issue : Jennie, married Mr. Dunscombe ; Maria, married
Charles McCarty ; Mary, married Joseph F. Edwards.
Children : William, married Sophie Kaiser, and Ethel,
married John Boone.

(2) Robert, unmarried.

(3) Maria, born Februar}^ 9, 1826; died January 31,
1905. She married Judge Alton Long, who was a mem-
ber of the Missouri State Senate, 1846- 1850.

(4) Henry Clay, born August 15, 1828; died March
22, 1907. He was Attorney General of Missouri, from
1 873- 1 874, to 1875-76, Charles Hardin being at the time
Governor; also one of the Fish Commissioners of Missouri
for several years.

He was a member of Missouri Legislature, from Cole
County, 1 881 -1883.

He was one of the Commissioners of the Supreme Court
of the State, in association with Justices John F. Phillips
and Alex H. Martin.'

The author of the sketch cited in the foot-note refers to
Henry Qay Ewing as being a grandson of General Robert
Ewing, saying:

"His grandfather on his father's side was Gen-
eral Robert Ewing, of Logan County, Kentucky,

'Sketch by Ex-Gov. T. T. Crittenden, in St. Louis Christian Advocate
of Jan. 15, 1908.

80 The Ewing Genealogy wrrii Cognate Branches

a soldier of the Revolution, and a general in the
War of 1812."
He (Henry Clay Ewing) married Georgia Childs, hut
it is understood there was no issue of the marriage.

(5) Ephraim, died young.

(6) Hannah, died at twelve years of age.

(7) Ashley W., born December 28, 1838; died March
22, 1905; was a member of the Missouri Legislature, from
Cole County, 1877-1879; married Sallie Bolton, but no
issue.

(8) Gilson (twin to Ashley W.), born December 28,
1838; married and had issue: Janet, married Howard
Boone, of Kansas City, Missouri; Paul, unmarried; Olive,
married W. A. Dallmeyer, of Jefferson City, Missouri;
Anne, married George W. Hobbs; Ephraim.

4. POLLY BAKER, born April 30, 1794; died May 22,
1873. She married (first) Rev. Philip McDonald, of the
Cumberland Presbyerian Church, born 1794; died 181 5.
Issue: Philip Monroe, a minister; married and had child:
Molly. She married (second) Barksdale Spencer. Issue:

(i) James B., born 1824; died September 16, 1854.

(2) Robert, born 1826; died without issue.

(3) John, bom October 20, 1828; married Caroline
Porter; no issue.

(4) Mary Jane, married (first) Mr. Winlock. Issue:
Eliza, Mattie, Richard, and Robert.

She married (second) Mr. Tisdale. Issue: William,
Wilson and Capitola, married Eugene Beauchamp.

(5) Ephraim Ewing, married and had several children.

(6) Randolph, married and had several children.

(7) Martha G., born June 10, 1835; died June 3, 1870.
She married Dr. William Simmons. Issue :

1ST. Richard L., died in infancy.

2ND. Ewing, married (first) Forest Hendrickson, sev-
eral children, and married (second) name of wife not
known, by whom he had several children.

3RD. Myrtle, born April 10, 1867; died May 29, 1897;
married January 20, 1887, Robert Henry Fugate, by whom
she had a child^ Myrtle, bom April 20, 1897.

5. PATSY MILLS, born February 4, 1796; she married
(first) Mr. Fort., no issue, and (second) James Ross, by
whom she had a son, James, lived in Mississippi and killed
during the Civil War; also another child, Trippe.

Dr. jas. b. bowlin:

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 81

6. CHATHAM TOMLiNSON, borii April 4, 1798; died
December 17, 1819, unmarried.

7. SOPHRONIA, born May 15, 1800; died October 17,
1868; married April 22, 1819, Dr. James B. Bowling, an
eminent physician and surgeon, of Adairville, Kentucky,
under whom the authors' ancestor, Fayette Clay Ewing I.,
began the study of medicine and surgery, and of whom the
tenderest memories were always cherished and transmitted
to his children, one of whom, — his eldest daughter Leila —
frequently corresponded with Dr. Bowling during his life.

The issue of the marriage of Sophronia Ewing and James
B. Bowling follows :

(i) Robert Chatham, born February 19, 1820; died
March 3, 1886; was a member of the Kentucky Legislature,
from Logan County, for six years, and Circuit Judge for
ten years; married January 7, 1845, Lucy C. Temple.
Issue :

1ST. James R., born March, 1846; died 1901 ; married
October 5, 1870, Emma Walters. Issue:

(a) Robert Walters, born August 12, 1871 ; M. D. ;
abode. South Pasadena, California; he married July 4,
1900, Margaret Duncan. Children: Robert W., born June
12, 1903; Anna Margaret, born December 16, 1905; Wil-
liam C, born October, 191 5.

(b) Willett Lee, born May 20, 1881 ; M. D. ; abode,
Pasadena, California; married December 22, 1912, Mar-
guerite Newman. Children: James Robert, born Novem-
ber 7, 1913, and a child born June, 191 5.

2ND. Temple, born August 10, 1849, died July 9, 1884;
married October 3, 1877, Ladie Anderson. Issue:

(a) Ula, born July 4, 1878; married E. Ruff Barnes,
June 9, 1897. Children: Justus Mac, born December 2,
1902, and Robert Bowling, bom June 9, 1906.

(b) Temple, born July 2-], 1880, unmarried.

1910, Minnie Hails. Children : Umphrey, born August 3,

191 1, and Ella U., born December, 1913.

3RD. Ella, born August 10, 1851, abode Bowling Green,
Kentucky; married September 21, 1886, James Umphrey;
no issue. She is a member of the National Society D. A. R.,
National Number 98957, ancestor, Robert Ewing, and is
entitled also to a bar under ancestor, Ephraim McLean.

4TH. Elizabeth, born July 10, 1853; died July, 1886,
unmarried.

82 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

5TH. Annie B., born July, 1857; died November 6, 1896;
married December 31, 1884, George W. Eichelberger.
Issue: Roberta, born February 9, 1888; married Septem-
ber II, 1907, Emmet R. Trippe. A child: Gordon, born
October 18, 1908.

6th. Lula, born December 10, 1859; married George
A. Holeman, October 26, 1881. Children: Lucy McGin-
nis, born July 9, 1883, and Sarah Temple, born August 28,
1887.

(2) William E., born June 16, 1821 ; died June 3, 1878;
married Eliza Jane Winston; no children,

(3) James M., born December 22, 1822; married Lucy
C. Snadon; no children.

(4) Henry Gilson. born October 16, 1828; died Decem-
ber 24, 1874; married Sallie Snadon, August i, 1849.
Issue :

1ST. Mary Helen, born March 28, 1851 ; married Dr.
Benjamin Wood November 22, 1866. Issue:

(a) Sallie B., born October 4, 1869; married Alex G.
Warfield, February 28, 1887. Issue: Gilson H., born July
10, 1888; Ben S., born May 20, 1890, and Alex G., born
October 27, 1892.

(b) Henry G., born October 20, 1874; married Nellie
Robinson, November 30, 1898; one child, Salaida Robinson.

(d) Ewing C., born January 28, 1881 ; married Sallie
Harris, April 11, 1900. Children: Ewing H., born in
1902, and Ben S., born in 1908.

(e) James Weston, born June 15, 1884; unmarried.

(f) Bowling S., born July 12, 1886; unmarried.

(g) George M., born June 16, 1888; unmarried,
(h) Louise E., born December 5, 1896; unmarried.
2ND. George S., abode Clarksville, Tennessee; married

Lady Bugg, June 19, 1876; no issue.

3RD. James M., abode Clarksville, Tennessee; married
Sallie Sugg, January 9, 1878; daughter Martha Bell, bom
June, 1881 ; married Dr. James Whitworth, December,
1904. One child: James Bowling, born July 29, 1912.
'8. JANE HOWARD, bom April 30, 1804; died September
6, 1831 ; married General Thomas W. Townsend. Issue:
Martha Jane, died young; William, moved to Texas, mar-
ried Penelope K. Campbell, several children.

9. GILSON PAYNE, born April 27, 1807; died February
16, 1879; unmarried.

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 83

10. GEORGE WASHINGTON, bom Logan County, Ken-
tucky, November 29, 1808; died May 20, 1888.

He was a member of the Kentucky Legislature, from
Logan County, 1842-1844, and 1859-1863.

He was a member of the Provisional Confederate Con-
gress, 1861-1862, and a member of the Permanent Confed-
erate Congress, 1863-1864/

He married (first) January 18, 1836, Susan C. Moss,
who died September 15, 1841. Issue:

Henry Clay, born November 9, 1837; died February 18,
1879; married November 10, 1863, Bettie Carr. Issue:
Susan Moss, born August 13, 1867; married November 16,
1886, Samuel Hart. Their issue: Clay Ewing, born
October 19, 1887; married October 25, 191 1, Mrytle King;
Henry, born November 13, 1889; Gilson Ewing, born
August 25, 1894.

He (George Washington Ewing) married (second)
August 28, 1846, Nannie L. Williams, died December 4,
1883. Issue:

John Anna, born April 30, 1848; died June 25, 1879;
married three times; (first) James Fetter. Children:
James and Blossom, both died young; (second) Dr. T. J.
Townsend. Child : Claud, abode Oklahoma ; married
twice and had issue; and (third) Leonard T. Brawner, no
issue.

JANE (MCLEAN ) EWING

wife of Robert Ewing II., was the daughter of Ephraim
McLean and his wife, Elizabeth Davidson.

She was born in Western North Carolina in 1769, and
died in Logan County, Kentucky, in 1847, having married
as stated, on July 4, 1787.

She was in statue tall and stately, of the handsome rather
than pretty type, a queenly woman of the strong and self-
poised sort, well calculated to give to the world sons and
daughters for useful service of an exalted character.

^Wood's Confed. Handbook, p. 18; McEIroy's Kentucky in the Nation's
History, p. 511.

CHAPTER Xi^.

THE MCLEAN* TREE: LINEAGE OF JANE MCLEAN, WIFE OF
ROBT. EWING II.

The McLean family was among the most illustrious of
the clans of the Scottish Highlands, famous in achievement
and of ancient ancestry. The name is authoritatively stated
to have originally been written "Mac-Ghille-eain." reduced
under Gaelic contraction to Gilleain, meaning "Servant of
St. John." The family is said to trace with precision to
"Old Dougall of Scone," from whom through several gen-
erations was descended Gilleain, the first chief and founder,
about 1250, of the Clan Mac Gilleain, afterwards abbre-
viated to McLean. The clan originated in the Island of
Mull, which is separated from the mainland of Scotland
by the Sound of Mull on the north and the Firth of Lorn
on the east. After defeat of the Danes by Somerled,
Thane of Argyle, Mull and Morvern became free. Subse-
quently Angus Og MacDonald, fifth in descent from
Somerled, received for faithful services rendered to Robert
Bruce considerable land, including the island of Mull, and
on July 12, 1390, granted to Lachlan MacLean, probably
the fifth chief of the clan, a large estate in Mull and other
isles. It would be interesting, but tedious in detail, to pur-
sue the history of the clan through the periods of its suc-
cessive chiefs,, one of whom (Lachlan Og, 8th Chief) mar-
ried Catherine, daughter of Colin Campbell, ist Earl of
Argyle; therefore, lest interest should lag, we pass over as
undecisive of any controlling event, the intermediate his-
tory down to Lachlan, i6th Chief, whose leadership began
in the earlier part of the seventeenth century. The clan
was then at the zenith of great power and influence, and
was in high favor with Charles I, King of England, who,
about 163 T, created the chief of baronet by the title of Sir
Lachlan MacLean of Morvern. But the outskirts of this
promising sky were fringed with dark clouds. The civil wars
which resulted in the decapitation of King Charles I changed
into hostility the attitude of the kingly power towards the
clans, which unfriendliness was encouraged by jealousies
among the clans themselves, notably the Clan Mac Lean, the
Clan Mac Donald, and the Campbells, the latter Marquises
of Argvde. Oppressive laws soon followed, among them the

*This is properly and was formerly spelled MacLean, but we follow the
spelling pretty generally adopted by the historians of America.

(84)

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 85

disarming act by which the clans were deprived of their
weapons under heavy penaUies, and worse still, the act for-
bidding the national costume of the Highlands, under penal-
ty for second offense of transportation, and compelling the
use of the Lowland garb, so despised by the Highlanders.
These and other acts of oppression, notably religious per-
secutions, which we have already described, drove thous-
ands of Highlanders from their native heath, sadly and
tearfully, many immigrating to America, among them the
ancestors of the McLeans of whom we are writing.'

EPHRAIM MCLEAN

son of Mr. and Mrs. John McLean, of Scotland, latter
daughter of Ephraim Moore of that country, was born in
Scotland in 1730, and immigrated for America with his elder
brother Charles in 1750, settling in Western North Caro-
lina, where in 1761 he married Elizabeth Davidson, daugh-
ter of John Davidson.^

He, Ephraim McLean (name sometimes by clerical in-
advertence written McLain or McClain), was a recognized
patriot of the Revolution. He was probably a member of
the Convention which adopted the Mecklenburg Declara-
tion of Independence, and was certainly a member, present
and actively assisting, at an important meeting of the Com-
mittee of Safety, which was a sort of legislative body
created for the purpose of aiding the cause of Independence,
and he was a member of the House of Commons of the
General Assembly of North Carolina, from Burke County
(which was formed from Rowan County), for the year
1778, and a senator from such county for the years 1779-
1780, which was a service promotive of the cause of
Independence.'

He was probably also a soldier for Independence in the
War of the Revolution, and severely wounded in the Battle
of King's Mountain, fighting against immediate relatives
in the British Army commanded by a Scotchman, Patrick
Ferguson.*

He shortly after removed to Harrodsburg, Kentucky,
thence to about four miles above Nashville, Tennessee,
where he settled on a tract of 600 acres in the bend of the

^McLean Ancestry and Posterity, by John J. McLean, pp. 4-15.

"Hist. Sketch of McLean Family in America (1750-1885), by Alney Mc-
Lean, of Rutherford Co., Tenn.

nVheeler's History of North Carolina, Vol. II, pp. 368, 62, 356, 101-108.

^"Western North Carolina (1730-1913)" by John Preston Arthur, p. 101,
citinp; Mattic S. Candler's "History of Henderson County," and also Id.,
pp. 151-152.

86 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

Cumberland River, known as "McLean Bend;" in the Nash-
ville Centennial, 1880, he was referred to in a history of the
early settlement, then published in the newspapers, as hav-
ing been one of the three school trustees a hundred years
before; he returned to Harrodsburg about that time, and
near the close of that century removed to Maury County,
Tennessee, and settled on Knobb Creek, where he remained
until about 1820, when he went, at the advanced age of 90
years, to spend his remaining days with his sons, Alney and
Robert, in Kentucky, where he died in 1823 at 93 years
of age.'

By his marriage, he had eleven children, besides a daugh-
ter dying in infancy, who was the last child. They were
nine sons and two daughters, as follows :

1. John, born 1762, and was killed by the Indians.

2. George, born 1764, married his cousin, the eldest
daughter of General William Davidson, and settled in
Logan County, Kentucky, about 12 miles west of Russell-
ville, where he lived, reared a family and died. His young-
est son, Andrew Jackson, lived on a farm in that vicinity
and died there in 1884 at y^ years of age.

3. Ephraim, bom 1766, and died in Tennessee, and wa.
buried on Snow Creek, Maury County, in that State.

4. JANE, born 1769, married General Robert Ewing, and
was the mother of Justice Ephraim McLean Ewing (q. v.)

5. Mrs. Robert (McLean) Brank, born 1770, and was
the mother of two sons, Houston and Ephraim ; the latter,
a lawyer, was a student under Judge Alney McLean.

6. Samuel, born 1772, lived and died near Lawrence-
burg, in Tennessee.

7. Alney, born 1774, a lawyer and jurist, who married
and had children, including (i) William, a farmer; (2)
Thornton, a Presbyterian minister of distinction, who re-
sided in Mississippi and there died; (3) Robert Davidson,
who was a lawyer and jurist (Judge of Circuit Court),
lived in Grenada, Mississippi, and died there in the yellow
fever epidemic of 1878, as did his wife, two daughters and
a son; (4) A daughter Eliza Ann (McLean) McBride,
and (5) a daughter Tabitha, who is understood to have
been quite accomplished and learned. She never married.

8. Charles, born 1776, lived in Maury County, Tennes-
see, until 181 1, and died in Rutherford County, Tennessee,
in 1825. He married in 1799, Sallie Vance, who died in

'Hist. Sketch of McLean Family in America, supra.

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1847 ^t the age of 69 years. From this union were born
ten children, six sons, namely, David, Ephraim Baxter,
Charles Grandison, William (M. D.), Robert Brank and
Alney, and four daughters, Susan Howard Davidson, Pris-
cilla Brank McCutcheon, Sarah Jane Baird and Cynthia
Nadley. All lived and died in Tennessee except Dr. Wil-
liam McLean, who lived and died in Tyler County, Texas,
and Mrs. McCutcheon, who lived and died in Arkansas.
The son Alney, who is the author of the sketch to which
reference is herein made, lived at Middleton, Tennessee.
He married in 1845, when he was 30 and she was 18 years
of age, Martha J. Moore, a sister of Honorable William
R. Moore, of Memphis, Tennessee, who was elected to
Congress from that District in 1882. From this union
were born several sons, including Robert Moore, William
Watkins, Walter Baxter, and four daughters, Fannie, who
married L. B. Jarmon, a baptist minister, and Sallie, who
married H. H. Norman, a farmer, and Ella, who married
W. S. Early of Nashville, and Lela Vance, all of whom
lived in Tennessee.

9. William, born 1778, lived and died in Tennessee, and
was buried on Snow Creek, in Maury County, He married
and had three sons, Andrew, William and Samuel, the first
named of whom lived in Nashville, and the others in Mar-
shall County, Tennessee.

10. James, born 1780, and lived and died in Hinds
County, Mississippi. He married and had one son. Dr.
Ephraim McLean, and a daughter, Eliza Hannah, who
married and lived at Hot Springs, Arkansas.

11. Robert, born 1782, at Harrodsburg, Kentucky. He
married a Miss Wilson, by whom he had five children,
three sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Robert, was
a physician in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky ; the sons
Edward and Alney went with their father to Mississippi
and settled there. The daughter Celia married Robert Rus-
sell, and lived in Clarksville, Tennessee. The other daughter
was Eliza.^

Ephraim McLean, the subject of this division, was a
magistrate of Rowan County, North Carolina, under ap-
pointment December 23, 1778.°

He has been accepted, under application of Gladys Ewing
(now Mrs. Abbot Carson Combes), National Number

^Hist. Sketch of McLean Family in America, supra.
'North Carolina Colonial Records, Vol. 23, p. 996.

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123437, by the National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, as a recognized patriot who, with
unfailing loyalty, rendered material aid to the cause of
Independence — ■

(i) "In his services as a member from Rowan County,
North Carolina, of the Committee of Safety, which, in con-
junction with the Mecklenburg Declaration of Indepen-
dence, was created and existed as an aid to the cause of
Independence," and

(2) "In his services as a civil officer, being a member
of the House of Commons, of the General Assembly of
North Carolina, from Burke County (which was formed
from Rowan County) for the year 1778, and a Senator
from Burke County for the years 1779 and 1780, which
was promotive of the cause of Independence.'"

ELIZABETH DAVIDSON

wife of Ephraim McLean, was bom about 1743, died about
1820; married, as before stated, in 1761.

The Davidsons came to Western North Carolina from
near Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, probably Lancaster
County. George Davidson was the father of General Wil-
liam Lee Davidson, born in Lancaster County, Pennsyl-
vania, 1746, who was killed, as we have seen, in an en-
gagement with Cornwallis at Cowan's Ford on the Catawba
River, February i, 1781.' Robert Davidson, of Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, was the father of John Davidson,
born December 15, 1735, Major in the War of the
Revolution, and a signer of the Mechlenburg Declaration
of Independence, who married Violet Wilson, daughter of
Samuel \\''ilson.'' John Davidson (not Major John David-
son) was the father of Elizabeth Davidson, wife of Ephraim
McLean and mother of Jane McLean (q. v.), and of Wil-
liam Davidson, Colonel in the War of the Revolution, and
he was also probably the father of the John Davidson who
married Nancy Brevard, and of the Ephraim Davidson
who married Jane Brevard.*

George Davidson, father of General William Lee David-
son, and Robert Davidson, father of Major John David-
son, and John Davidson, father of Elizabeth Davidson,

nVheeler's Hist, of North Carolina, Vol. 2, pp. 368, 62; Alney McLean's
Hist. Sketch, supra.

nVheeler's Hist, of North Carolina, Vol. II, pp. 232-3, 263-4.

«Jd., Vol. II, p. 262; Application Madeline Orr, N. S. D. A. R., Nat.
No. 66823.

*Id., Vol. II, p. 238; Alney McLean's Hist. Sketch of the McLean Family
in America, 1750-1885.

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were probably brothers as they all appear to have come
from near Philadelphia, the near-by county of Lancaster,
in Pennsylvania, at or about the same time, 1760, with
their ages corresponding in that relationship, and the estab-
lished fact that General William Lee Davidson and Colonel
William Davidson were cousins, tends to confirm this
conclusion/

The intermarriages of the illustrious Davidson and Bre-
vard families are worthy of mention.

There were eight sons and four daughters in the family
of John Brevard and his wife, who was a Miss McWhorter.
Mary Brevard, the eldest daughter, married General Wil-
liam Lee Davidson; Nancy Brevard married John David-
son, and Jane Brevard married Ephraim Davidson, these
latter two husbands being probably the sons of John David-
son, the father of Elizabeth Davidson, wife of Ephraim
McLean. It may be remarked that the fourth Brevard
daughter, Rebecca, married a Mr. Jones, and moved to
Tennessee." Alexander Brevard, one of the eight sons
mentioned, married Sallie Davidson, a daughter of Major
John Davidson.^

John Brevard's eight sons, to-wit: Ephraim, John, Hugh,
Adam, Alexander, Robert, Benjamin and Joseph, were all
soldiers in the War of the Revolution, and while he, John
Brevard, the father, was too old to serve as a soldier, he
was a recognized patriot, who, with unfailing loyalty, rend-
ered in every way material aid to the cause of Independence,
even contributing to the soldier service his youngest son,
Joseph, then under his control as only 17 years of age; and
in consequence of his loyalty, he suffered as a penalty the
burning of his home by the infuriated Tories, who greatly
hated the Brevard family on account of its united and ex-
tensive support of the Revolutionary cause.*

A distinguished branch of the Davidson family sprang
from William Davidson, the Colonel in the War of the
Revolution, who was, as we have seen, a son of John
Davidson, the father of Elizabeth Davidson, wife of
Ephraim McLean.

Colonel William Davidson was the first Representative
from Buncombe County in the North Carolina State Senate ;
he was the father of William Mitchell Davidson, of Hay-

'Arthur's Western North Carolina, pp. 151-152.
-Wheeler's Hist, of North Carolina, Vol. II, pp. 237, 238.
'Id., Vol. II, p. 240.
nVheeler's Hist, of North Carolina. Vol. II, pp. 237-238

90 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

wood County, North Carolina, who was born January 2,
1780, died in Washington County, Texas, May 31, 1846,
married January 10, 1804, Elizabeth Vance, who was born
March 23, 1787, died April 15, 1861, she being the daughter
of David Vance, of Revolutionary fame, who was the
father of David Vance, a Captain in the War of 1812, and
grandfather of "the great war Governor and Statesman of
the old North State," Zebulon Vance, who was born May
13, 1830 and died April 14, 1894, while serving as United
States Senator from North Carolina, having been a member
of Congress, Captain and Colonel in the Confederate Army,
and Governor of the State.'

William Mitchell Davidson had a son. Colonel Allen
Turner Davidson, born on Jonathan's Creek, Haywood
County, North Carolina, May 9, 18 19, and died at Ashe-
ville, North Carolina, January 24, 1905. He was a promin-
ent lawyer, and represented his section in the Confederate
Congress. He married, 1842, Miss Elizabeth A. Howell,
and children of the marriage, worthy scions of a noble
lineage, are. Honorable Theo. E. Davidson, late Attorney
General of the State of North Carolina; Wilbur S. David-
son, President of the First National Bank of Beaumont,
Texas; and Honorable Robert Vance Davidson, late At-
torney General of Texas.

'Arthur's Western North Carolina, pp. 98-99, 151-52, 259, 645.

EPHRAIM MCLEAN EWING

CHAPTER XV.

EPHRAIM MCLEAN EWING, SON OF ROBERT AND JANE

(MCLEAN) EWING; HIS ACHIEVEMENTS,

MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN.

EPHRAIM MCLEAN EWING

son of General Robert Ewing and Jane McLean (q. v.), was
born December 4, 1789, in Davidson County, West Ten-
nessee; went with his father in 1792 to Logan County,
Kentucky, where he died June 11, i860, being interred
there in Maple Grove Cemetery.

He was prosecuting attorney of Logan County, Judge
Broadnax presiding.

He was a Presidential Elector in 1821-1822, and again
in 1832-1833.

He served in the Kentucky Legislature during the years
1 830- 1 832.

He was commissioned Justice of the Court of Appeals
of Kentucky, being the highest court of the State, March
5, 1835,* and in the spring of 1843, April 11, he was ap-
pointed Chief Justice," and served in that capacity until
he resigned, which was in the spring of 1847, after the
autumn term of 1846.'

In 1850, March 4, he was by Governor Crittenden ap-
pointed and served on the Commission to Codify the Laws
of Kentucky.

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky, recounting
his achievements, refers to him as "the son of General
Robert Ewing, a distinguished Revolutionary soldier," and
continues :

"He received a fine literary education and was trained
in the law at Transylvania University ; he lived at Russell-
ville, Kentucky, where he became one of the most able
lawyers and distinguished men of the State ; he was ex*
ceptionally successful and popular, and managed to ac-
cumulate a large fortune ; he was a man of finely balanced
mind, solid judgment and of noble sentiments and great
liberality of heart ; his conscientious convictions led him to
free his slaves and start them well in life for themselves.
In his will, he left a handsome bequest to Bethel College,
at Russellville, and Cumberland University, at Lebanon,
Tennessee; he was a learned and able lawyer, and one of

'3 Dana (Ky.) Repts., p. 8.
^3 B Monroe (Ky.), 389.
•7 B. Monroe (Ky.), 246.

(91)

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the most just, upright and valuable men who have lived in
Southern Kentucky. He married the brilliant and accom-
plished Jane Mclntyre," etc.

He married in Logan County, Kentucky, September 8,
1 82 1, Jane Pope Mclntyre, of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Kentucky. Three sons were born of this marriage,
Presley Underwood,* born September i, 1822, Fayette
Clay, born March 4, 1824, and Henry Quincy, born August
15, 1826, besides a son, born September 5, 1830, who died
January 16, 1831.

I. PRESLEY UNDERWOOD, the cldcst SOU, was graduated
at Center College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1840; studied
law with his father, then Chief Justice of State, and was
graduated from the law department of Transylvania Uni-
versity, at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1842; then went on an
European tour, and upon his return, in 1848, was elected
to the Kentucky Legislature, and served in 1848-9. In
185 1, he was elected to the United States Congress over a
worthy and popular opponent, Beverly L. Clark, and was
re-elected in 1853 without opposition. He died, unmarried,
at Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, on September 27, 1854, of
cholera, and was buried in Logan County, Kentucky.' The
Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky says of him :

"He was the eldest son of the distinguished Judge E. M.
Ewing, of the same town (Russellville), and Jane P. Mc-
lntyre, one of the most brilliant and accomplished women
of her time. He was the opponent in politics of John C.
Breckenridge, and served in the Legislature several times
with him — both equally brilliant and commanding in ap-
pearance, equally handsome and chivalrous, and both equal-
ly matchless in their oratory; he possessed traits of charac-
ter to a remarkable degree of both his parents ; like his
father, learned and brilliant; and like his mother, gentle,
vivacious, and fond of society, in which he was a natural
leader; the evening before his death he was surrounded by
a charming circle of friends, who were entranced by the
sweet strains he was drawing from a violin, of which in-
strument he was master; his untimely demise was sincerely
mourned by his large acquaintance, among them a beauti-
ful and accomplished young lady of Cincinnati, to whom it
was said he was engaged to be married ; on his tomb, the

*This middle name was complimentary to Chief Justice Ewing's asso-
ciate on the Bench, Justice Underwood (vide, Ky. Reports above cited).
^Biographical Ency. of Ky., sub nom.

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words 'Died ere his prime,' are a touching tribute to his
memory."

George D. Prentice, the great editor of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, editorially referred to him in that paper at
the time of his death, as follows :

"Thus has perished in the pride of early manhood one of
the most brilliant young men of our State, He was a wit,
a scholar, a politician, an orator, a man of genius and a
statesman. Though young, he had won a distinguished
position in Congress. He did not speak often in that body,
but every speech added to his reputation. If his life had
been spared, he would have placed himself high among the
ablest and most useful men of the nation.

"The death of Mr. Ewing is a public calamity, but it
will carry peculiar affliction to the hearts of many who
knew him personally. He was the soul of every society
in which he mingled. There are thousands who will cherish
his memory, for 'none knew him but to love him.'"

2. FAYETTE CLAY, (q. V.).

3. HENRY QUINCY, the third son, who died January 5,
1858, was a lawyer of great promise, and lived and died
at Russellville; he was an ardent lover of Shakespeare, and
possessed of marked histrionic ability. He never married.
It is said that, on an occasion, his father sent him to Chicago
to look into a title he was buying, in preference to Presley,
who was four years older, appraising him as the safer law-
yer of the two, though Presley was undoubtedly more
brilliant.

The "Ewing Lot" in Maple Grove Cemetery, at Russell-
ville, Kentucky, besides dates of births and deaths on separ-
ate slabs, shows these inscriptions :

"Hon. Presley Ewing, Elected to the Kentucky
Legislature August 1848. Re-electced August,
1849. Elected to U. S. Congress August, 1851.
Re-elected August 1853. Died ere his prime."

"Jane Pope Ewing, a wife, a mother, a Chris-
tian. She is not dead but sleeping."

JANE POPE (mCINTYRE) EWING

wife of Ephraim M. Ewing, is described in every contempo-
raneous reference to her as one of the most brilliant and
accomplished women of her time. This consensus of
encomium leaves no doubt of her intellectual superiority.
She was also an inspiring wife, a devoted mother, and

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possessed of the Christian graces, as attested by the in-
scription on her tombstone.

She was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, October 30,
1795, and died in Logan County, Kentucky, August 26,
1851, where she was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, at
Russellville.

DR. FAYETTE CLAY EWING

CHAPTER XVI.

DR. FAYETTE CLAY EWING, SON OF EPHRAIM MCLEAN AND

JANE (mCINTYRE) EWING; his CAREER, MARRIAGE AND

DESCENDANTS.

FAYETTE CLAY EWING

was the second son of Ephraim M. Ewing and Jane P.
Mclntyre; he was born in Logan County, March 4, 1824;
studied medicine under his uncle, Dr. James Butler Bowl-
ing, at Adairville, in that county, and later was graduated
in medicine and surgery ; he then in early life went South,
and settled in Thibodaux, Louisiana, Lafourche Parish, a
rich sugar section, and soon enjoyed a lucrative practice
in his profession, in which he became distinguished, both in
medicine and surgery, notably in the treatment of yellow
fever, cholera, and the malignant type of typhoid fever
often prevalent in that section.

He was army surgeon of recognized superior capacity
in the Civil War (C. S. A.), and was specially esteemed
in his profession as a remarkable diagnostician, quick and
accurate, and equally ready of execution — it was with him
in life, one to decide and to do.

He married, in Assumption Parish, Louisiana, on Febru-
ary 3, 1852, Eliza Josephine Kittredge, the handsome and
accomplished daughter of Dr. Ebenezer Eaton Kittredge
and his wife, Martha Wills Green, at "Elm Hall," the
luxurious home where she was bom August 3, 1833. At
this wedding, which was a brilliant function, the Rt. Rev.
Leonidas Polk, then Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana, and
afterwards General in the Confederate Army, officiated.

Dr. Ewing was an ardent democrat, particularly during
the period of reconstruction, and was always a generous
compaign supporter.

He acquired a large estate, consisting of three very valu-
able sugar plantations, in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana,
bearing the names, "Raceland," "Ariel," and "Melodia," the
last of which he purchased from a sale of Chicago property
which his father. Judge E. M. Ewing (q. v.), shortly be-
fore dying, had given him while he was on a visit to the
parential home at Russellville, Kentucky; and during the
same visit, his father also gave him the family silver, in-
cluding a massive sterling silver tea set, now owned by his
son, Presley Kittredge (q. v.).
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Dr. Ewing died at his plantation home, "Ariel," May 31,
1872, and was buried in St. John's (Episcopal) Cemetery,
Thibodaux, Louisiana.

His was a life, apart from his successful worldly career,
overflowing with nobility of soul, with charity for the fail-
ing, with kindness for the suffering, and at all times merci-
ful ; and he was as man and physician, with every society in
which he mingled, the fascination and attraction of all.

He was tenacious of his positions, which he regarded as
based on the just and right — as firm as adamant with the
outer world, but with the inner circle of home, yielding as
the marble, tenderly twining as the vine ! The inscription
on his tomb —

"The Beloved Physician"
attests the beauty of his life in the practice of his profession.

Issue of Dr. Ewing's marriage with Eliza Josephine
Kittredge :

I. LEILA WILLS, bom at "Elm Hall," September 7, 1851,
and graduated, with first honor, from Locquet Institute, in
New Orleans, Louisiana, 1873 ; she was married at "Ariel,"
Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, January 24, 1878, to the Rev.
Shepard Halsey Werlein, B. A., D. D., New Orleans,
Louisiana, born in that city June 23, 1851, s. of Philip
Peter Werlein and his wife, Margaret Halsey. Issue :

(i) Halsey Werlein, Junior, an Episcopal minister, of
fine pulpit oratory and engaging presence, late of San Jose,
California, born November i, 1878; he is a graduate of
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Harvard Uni-
versity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in theology, of the
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, and has had
conferred upon him the degrees, B. A., M. A., from Van-
derbilt; M. A. from Harvard, and B. D. from the Univer-
sity of the South. He married November 22, 1905, Sarah
Elizabeth Reynolds, born July 27, 1885, daughter of Dr.
Dudley S. and Mattie (Bruce) Reynolds. Children: Sarah
Elizabeth, bom at Jackson, Mississippi, August 22, 1909,
and Mathilde Bruce, born at San Jose, California, April
7, 1912.

(2) Wilmer, born and died in Houston, Texas, January
31, 1881.

(3) Quincy, now rapidly advancing in the United States
Government service, Washington, District of Columbia,
born December 14, 1886; married June 23, 1914, in Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania, where the bride was visiting rela-

CAPT. EWING WERLEIN

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tives, Miss Margaret Reid, of Amite, Louisiana, born
August 2, 1892, daughter of Judge Robert R. Reid, of that
city. Child: Leila Margaret, born February i, 1917,
Washington, District of Columbia.

(4) Ewing, born August 4, 1889, a lawyer of recognized
ability in Houston, Texas, having the degrees, B. S. and
LL. B., from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana;
he promptly volunteered on war being declared against
Germany, went into the officers' training camp at Leon
Springs, near San Antonio, Texas, and after three months'
training, without previous military experience, was on
August 15, 191 7, commissioned as Captain of the U. S. A.
(Reserve), and went into active service as such officer,
where he remained until honorably discharged at the end
of the war. He acquitted himself throughout with distin-
guished ability, serving as adjutant of the Third Officers'
Training School, Camp Kearny, California, and being com-
mended in terms of great praise by the commanding Gen-
eral of his division for his skilful and efficient services,
with direction that the commendation be placed to the credit
of his army record. He also served as Company Com-
mander in the Fourth Officers' Training School, Camp Fre-
mont, California, as Assistant Adjutant of the Eighth
(Regular Army) Division, and as Adjutant of the 115th
Ammunition Train.

(5) Presley Ewing, a physician and surgeon, of New
Orleans, Louisiana, having the degree, M. D. He was
born September i, 1891 ; married July 21, 1915, Sarah
Richard, born August 13, 1891. One child: Presley
Ewing, born San Jose, California, May 8, 1916. He en-
listed as a volunteer in the war with Germany, was com-
missioned as lieutenant to the Medical Corps, assigned to
Nose, Throat and Ear Department ; first served at the Base
Hospital, Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, later serving
with the American Expeditionary Forces, France and the
U. S. Army of occupation at Coblenz, Germany.

(6) Philip Prentiss, born May 7, 1893, has degree B.
A. from Tulane University; was a student for three years
at Oxford, England, under a Cecil Rhodes scholarship, then
returned to enter the U. S. A. in the war with Germany, in
which he served under commission as lieutenant.

2. IDA MAY, born at Thibodaux, Louisiana, August 6,
1858; died in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 21. 1918;
she was graduated with first honor from the Virginia

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married October 21, 1885, in Washington, District of
Columbia, Martha Mac Donald, of that city, born 1862,
daughter of James Whitsitt Mac Donald, who was a Con-
federate soldier, and his wife, Sarah Magdalen Cooper,
daughter of Douglas H. Cooper, who was an officer of the
United States Army in the war with Mexico in 1848.

In the war with Germany, Dr. Ewing served with the
Medical Corps, Nose, Throat and Ear Department, at
Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, with several assistants; he
was at first commissioned as Captain, later as Major.

The issue of the marriage of Dr. Ewing and his wife,
Martha MacDonald :

(i) Fayette Clay, born May 18, 1887; married May 14,
191 3, Fairfax Cary, of Memphis, Tennessee, daughter of
Hunsdon Cary, and died at Sewanee, Tennessee,
without issue, November 28, 1914, in the flower of his
youth, while success and honor were widening for him.

The following excerpts from the resolutions adopted at
the joint meetings of the "Faculties of the University of
the South," December i, 1914, tell the story of his too brief
life:

"The sudden death of Professor Ewing at Sewanee, Nov-
ember 28, 1914, came as a shock to his colleagues in tl.ie
Faculties of the University of the South. * * * Mr. Ewing
came of good stock, of a fine old Southern family distin-
guished for intellectual ability, as well as for learning and
culture. His gifts were, doubtless, partly hereditary, but he
had begun to make the most of them.

"He received his academic training in part at Sewanee,
and then went to the University of Virginia, where he
graduated in June, 1910, with the degree of Civil Engineer.
Soon after his graduation, he secured a position in the Con-
struction Department of the Frisco Lines, where he served
about two years, and was rapidly promoted, becoming a
Resident Engineer. In June, 1912, he was appointed Resi-
dent Engineer with the Vandalia Railroad (Pennsylvania
Lines). In May, 1914, he became Associate Professor of
Civil Engineering in the University of the South. * * * In
May, 1913, he was married to Miss Fairfax Cary, of Mem-
phis, Tennessee, a most worthy daughter of one of the oldest
historic families of Virginia."

We may add that on April 24, 191 1, as though premoni-
tory of his death (which was from sudden heart failure),

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he wrote for the Sewanee Purple a poem, the last stanza of
which follows :

"Nowhere is there a spot so fair

As at Sewanee;
For earth and sky are blended there,

Down at Sewanee ;
And when life's twilight falls for me,
I trust it will my future be
To rest beneath some shelt'ring tree

In old Sewanee."

He was buried in the beautiful forest cemetery at "old
Sewanee."

(2) Ephraim Mac Donald, now of New Orleans, Lou-
isiana, born September 18, 1889; married March, 1914, his
cousin, Olivia Munson (daughter of E. P. Munson and his
wife, Nellie Jones), born at "Glenwood," 1882. Child:
Olivia Munson, born in New York City, December 28,

1915-

He has taken the degrees, A. B., M. A., Sc. D., and M. D.,
and has thus early in life filled the position of Associate
Professor of Physiology in the University of New York and
Bellevue Medical College, and also that of Acting Professor
in charge of the Department of Physiology in Fordham Uni-
versity Medical College, New York, during 1914-1915, in
the absence of Professor Knaur, who went to the European
war; and, in addition to the above, he has been quoted as
authority on the physiology of the heart, three times in
Stewart's Text Book of Physiology, 7th edition, a standard
work; and in the last edition of Green's Farmacology, like-
wise a standard work, reference is made to his original
research work, when twenty years of age, at the University
of Missouri.

(3)Presley Kittredge, born July 11, 1891 ; married at
"Glenwood," June 11, 191 1, his consin, Mrytle Munson
(daughter of E. P. Munson and his wife, Nellie Jones),
born December 21, 1889; he is now a journalist, in New
Orleans, Louisiana, having formerly been manager and
editor-in-chief of the Hamilton Press, in Hamilton, Illinois.
Children :

1ST. MYRTLE MUNSON, bom March 15, 1912.

2ND. PRESLEY KITTREDGE, born AugUSt 13, I9I4.

3RD. FAYETTE CLAY, bom Novcmbcr 5, 191 5.

Ill

REV. QUINCY EWING

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate BranchEvS 101

(4) Donald MacDonald, a journalist, born April 11,
1895; was a student at the University of Missouri, and
there gave fair promise, in view of remarkably good work
as business manager and editor on the University publica-
tion, the Daily Missourian, of success in his chosen vocation.

After exhausting every effort to enlist for fighting service
in the war with Germany, failing to get in on account of a
foot ball accident, he secured a position and served as
photographer in the Aviation Corps.

5. JESSIE ALINE ("Maggie"), born in New Orleans,
Louisiana, May 18, 1864; died October 18, 1900, in Lou-
isiana, near Patterson, where she was buried; she was
married at "Ariel," December 23, 1880, to Charles E. Gillis,
a sugar planter of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. Issue :

(i) Ewing, born March 9, 1888; married at Gulfport,
Mississippi, September 18, 1917, Martha Brown, bom
November 21, 1899. He volunteered promptly for service
in the War with Germany, first serving as Second Lieuten-
ant, then promoted to First Lieutenant, and later promoted
to the office of Captain.

(2) Wallace, born January 21, 1890; he also volun-
teered for service in the war just mentioned, was not ac-
cepted, but was later drafted into service.

(3) Gary, born March 17, 1893; he as a volunteer
joined the U. S. Marines in the beginning of the war, went
across, and was in gallant serv'ice until the close of
hostilities, having been in the engagements with the enemy
in the Sectors Champagne (Blanc Mont), Argonne, St.
Mihiel, Verdun, Toulon, Marbache, Soissons, and Chateau-
Thierry, and participated in the march to the Rhine for
the occupation of the Coblenz Bridgehead.

(4) Aline, born January 26, 1896; died and buried in
New Orleans, Louisiana, September 14, 1912.

6. QUINCY, Episcopal minister and writer of renown,
also successful farmer, postoffice, Napoleonville, Louisiana;
born at "Ariel," January 11, 1867; was educated in the
academic and theological courses, University of the South,
Sewanee, Tennessee; assistant minister Trinity Cathedral,
Cleveland, Ohio, 1890-1891 ; Dean Christ Church Cathedral,
New Orleans, Louisiana, 1891-1893; Rector St. James
Church, Greenville, Mississippi, 1895-1903, and of Church
of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama, 1903-1906, and of
Christ Church, Napoleonville, since 1906; author of

102 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

"Education," "The Heart of the Race Problem," "The
Higher Education," and other treatises.'

He married in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2.2,
1895, Mary Carter (Bower) Hart, a widow of that city,
daughter of E. L, Bower, who was a Major in the Con-
federate Army; she is a cultured and highly educated wo-
man, a descendant on her maternal side of the distinguished
Carter family, of Virginia, who owned "Shirley," a beauti-
ful and picturesque home-site, located about the point where
the Appomattox enters the James, in Charles City County,
which in 1723 became the home of John Carter, eldest son
of Robert Carter. It stands, as has been well said, "four-
square to the world, three stories high, in the midst of a
lawn shaded by giant oaks.""

The issue of this marriage :

(i) Enid, born August 8, 1896, very brilliant and ac-
complished; she was graduated from the University of
Louisiana, Baton Rouge, degree of Bachelor of Arts, with
first honor, before she was eighteen years of age, and was
shortly after awarded the position, at Baton Rouge, of
Directress of Organized Charities, a position she filled
with marked ability until her resignation, to enter Tulane
University, to fit herself for a higher order of work. Later
she performed service of importance with the Red Cross in
the war with Germany. She is a member of the National
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, with
five ancestral bars. She was married July 14, 1919, at
Christ Church Chapel, New Orleans, to Edward Austin
Cary of Port Arthur, Texas. He served as a Lieutenant
with the U. S. Aviation Corps, in the War with Germany.

(2) Quincy, junior, born February 6, 1903, a graduate
of the High School, Napoleonville, Louisiana, where he
gave evidence of a sharp and incisive intellect, and evinced
qualities of leadership and aptitude for public speaking; he
was winner in the State Spelling Test of March 29 and 30,
191 7, and is now a student of Tulane University, New
Orleans, Louisiana.

7. Kate Adelaide, a beautiful blonde, born at "Ariel,"
November 16, 1870; died in New Orleans, Louisiana, of
pneumonia, February 5, 1884. She had at her early age
written a story that was published in the Donaldsonville
Chief, thus commended by the managing editor:

'Who's Who in America, 1912-13.

'^Lancaster's Hist. Va. Homes and Churches, pp. 98-104.

ELIZA JOSEPHINE (KITTREDGE) EWING

CH. XVI

120

The Ewing Genealogy with Cogxate Branches 103

"The composition is very creditable for one so young,
and gives promise of future achievements of a brilliant
character."

ELIZA JOSEPHINE (kITTREDGE) EWING

the wife of Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing, senior, was the daugh-
ter of Dr. Ebenezer Eaton Kittredge and his wife, Martha
Wills Green, and reference is made for her Kittredge and
Green ancestry to the cognate branches to follow.

She was born at "Elm Hall," Assumption Parish, Lou-
isiana, on August 3, 1833, and married on February 3,
1852; she was highly educated and a gifted musician, played
the piano with great proficiency, having a remarkable
touch ; she spoke English and French with equal erudition
and fluency. After her graduation, she traveled extensively
with her father through the East, incidentally visithig his
relatives in Boston, Massachusetts.

She was no ordinary woman — commanding and hand-
some in appearance, of superior endowments and high cul-
ture, courageous and strong of purpose, she went about
daily doing her duty as she saw it, brooking no opposition
in its performance; and until the last, in her eighty-first
year, clear of mind and thought, and in close sympathy
with the ebb and flow of life and the progress of things, she
preserved what in all vicissitudes had been characteristic
of her, a never-failing indomitable spirit, the same as that
which Lord Lytton immortalized as present to the end in
the unconquered and unconquerable Armand Richelieu.

It was a leading thought with her to have her three sons
a lawyer, a physician and a minister, and having moulded
their ambitions to that end, she derived great pleasure from
the fact that her hope was realized, and that each was dis-
tinguished enough in his profession to appear in "Who's
Who in America," among the leading men of the Nation.

Withal the. tributes paid to her husband's mother, Jane
Pope Mclntyre, as besides brilliant and accomplished, "a
wife, a mother, a Christian," would equally apply to her.
She loved her husband with a worshipful and almost
idolatrous devotion, regarding him always, like an English-
man traditionally does his King, as one who can do no
wrong; tov/ards her children, her love was one continuous
illumination of motherly sacrifice or willingness to sacrifice,
never dimming, never waning. She was a confirmed mem-
ber of the Episcopal Church, and from her religion, ex-

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emplified in many kindly acts, light and comfort came to
her.

After her husband's death, in 1872, she managed the
estate, and completed the education of their children; later
she lived at her home, "Idlewild,"* an attractive cottage in
a yard banked with flowers, at Sewanee, Tennessee, the
Alma Mater of her youngest son, Quincy (q. v.), whence
during each winter she would visit her children in the
South ; and on one of these perennial visits, March 29,
1914, at New Orleans, where her two eldest daughters re-
sided, she fell asleep in death, and was buried beside her
husband in vSt. John's Episcopal Cemetery, Thibodaux,
Louisiana. The tombstone inscription to her is a fitting
memorial :

"Her life
'Pure in its purpose and strong in its strife.'"

*Tlie cottage remains in the family, being the summer home of her son,
Presley Kittredge Ewing (q. v.)-

^itttBiiig^B

CHAPTER XVII.

THE KITTREDGE TREE: PATERNAL LINEAGE OF ELIZA

JOSEPHINE KITTREDGE, WIFE OF DR. FAYETTE

CLAY EWING.

The Kittredge family is noted for its numerous and dis-
tinguished physicians and surgeons, extending back through
each generation, and particularly is this true of the family
in the New England States. In James Thacher's "Medical
Biography and Memoirs of Eminent Physicians Who Have
Flourished in America" (published in Boston in 1823), re-
ferring to Thomas Kittredge, M. D., M. M. S. S., as "a dis-
tinguished practitioner of surgery and medicine throughout
the State of Massachusetts," it is said :

"The family of which he was a member has become so
distinguished for surgical skill in New England, that in
many places the name alone is a passport to practice, and
the number of practitioners of the name is very
considerable."

Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes' portrayal of Dr. Kitt-
redge, in "Elsie Venner," as the leading and gifted physi-
cian in the town in which he lived, was the recognition from
a high source of the name as appropriate for one illustrat-
ing the ideals of the noble profession.

The achievements of the Kittredges, however, have not
been confined to medicine and surgery, but many of the
family have become distinguished in other pursuits, among
whom we mention a few, all descended from John Kitt-
redge, the English emigrant who shared in the founding
of Billerica, Massachusetts.

Abbott E. Kittredge, born at Roxbury, Massachusetts,
July 20, 1834, was graduated from Williams College, and
became a famous clergyman, being at one time president
of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America;
he died December 17, 1912.'

Alfred B. Kittredge, born Cheshire County, New Hamp-
shire, March 26, 1861, was graduated from Yale; removed
to Sioux Falls, and after practicing law there, and holding
other important offices, was elected and served as United
States Senator from South Dakota, 1901-1909; he died

'Who's Who in America, (1903-1905).
"Who's Who in America, 1912-1913.

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106 The Ewino Genealogy with Cognate Branches

George Lyman Kittredge, of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
graduated from Harvard (A, B.) and University of Chi-
cago (LL.D.), is Professor of Enghsh at Harvard, Fellow
of American Academy Arts & Sciences, and author of The
Mother Tongue (with Sarah Louise Arnold), Words and
Their Ways in English Speech (with late James K.
Greenough), and Old Farmer and his Almanack (1905).'

Henry Grattan Kittredge, born at Claremont, New
Hampshire, January 22, 1845; son of Thomas B. Kittredge,
of Keene, New Hampshire ; descendant of Dr. Francis Kitt-
redge, surgeon in the War of the Revolution (q. v.), was
educated at Trinity College ; married Worcester, Massa-
chusetts, October 12, 1870, Martha S. Hodges; he was (in
addition to other distinctions) a specialist in industrial
journalism, a famous organizer of textile exhibits, well
known as a writer and expert on textiles in the United
States and England, and author of Utilization of Wastes
and By-Products. He died June 5, 1909.'

Walter Kittredge, born at Merrimac, New Hampshire,
October 8, 1834; son of Eri and Lucretia Kittredge,
graduated from Merrimac Normal Institute; married in
1861, Annie E. Fairfield, of New Boston, New Hampshire;
was after 1856 until his death, 1905, a song composer, writ-
ing words and music of many songs and giving concerts,
singing his own songs, including "Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground," and "Scatter the Flowers Over the Gray and the
Blue," besides a number of others.'

George Watson Kittredge, born North Andover, Massa-
chusetts, December 11, 1856; son of Joseph and Henrietta
Frances (Watson) Kittredge, B. S. from Massachusetts
Institute Technical (1877); married Georgia Davis, of
Louisville, Kentucky, October 17, 1888, is a civil engineer
of rare accomplishments, and after holding other important
railroad positions, has been since 1906 Chief Engineer of
the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, and of
the Terminal Railway of Buffalo, and of the New Jersey
Shore Line Railroad.*

Josiah Edwards Kittredge, born Boston, October 12,
1866; died December 21, 1913; son Josiah (M, D.) and
Sarah Whiting (French) Kittredge, was graduated from

nVho's Who in America, 1916-1917.

-Who's Who in America, 1903-5, and 1914-15.

^Who's Who in America, 1903-5, and 19L'6-7.

<Who's Who in America, 1912-13.

The Ewing Genealogy wrrn Cognate Branches 107

Yale (A. B.) ; married (first) Emma MacNair, of Grove-
land, New York (died 1898), and (second) Nettie S. Long,
of Genesee, New York, December 30, 1903 ; he became a
distinguished clergyman, filling many important positions.'

Mabel Hyde Kittredge, born September 19, 1867, Boston;
daughter Abbott Eliot and Margaret Ann (Hyde) Kitt-
redge; is distinguished as a sociologist — the Founder and
President of Practical Housekeeping Centers, New York,
and the author of Housekeeping Notes (1911).'

Charmian Kittredge, daughter of Captain Willard Kitt-
redge, who went from Maine to the West and who was
Provost Marshal of Salt Lake City (1865-1866), and mar-
ried her mother, a young poetess of Wisconsin, on his ad-
venturous journey, is the great granddaughter of Dr. Ken-
dall Kittredge, born October 19, 1773, in Billerica, Massa-
chusetts; son of Nehemiah and Mehitable (Dutton) Kitt-
redge; married at Billerica, February 28, 1770.'' She is now
living at Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, and is the
widow of that inimitable and universally mourned West-
erner, a child of nature, Jack London, born in San Fran-
cisco, 1876, author of numerous writings with which the
public is familiar, including "The Call of the Wild," and
"John Barleycorn," which we instance as perhaps the best
known. She, the second wife, is understood to have been
very congenial with him, he often indicating their closeness
in calling her "Mate-woman," and "Comrade-wife;" and
she seems to have caught the vision of his life, and to have
drunk of his inspiration, for she too has become famous as
an author, in producing her brilliant book, "The Log of
the Snark," to which every scion of the Kittredge stock
may point with just pride.

JOHN KITTREDGE

was an emigrant from East Suffolk, near Lowestoft, Eng-
land, sometime prior to 1660, and in that year was one of
the founders of Billerica, Massachusetts. He married at
Woburn, Massachusetts, on November 2, 1664, Mary Lit-
tlefield, who was the daughter of Francis Littlefield and
his wife Jane Hill, of Woburn, and who was born there
December 14, 1646.* He died October 18, 1676,' and it is

lid., 1912-13, and 1914-15.

2Id., 1914-1915.

'Records of Rillerica.

^History of Billerica, Gen. Reg., p. 68.

»Id., Vol. 1, p. 80.

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said there is a tablet to his memory in Bath Cathedral,
England. Children of the marriage were:

1. JOHN, born January 24, 1666.

2. James, born March 21, 1668.

3. Daniel, born July 22, 1670.

4. Jonathan, born July 16, 1674.

5. Benoni (posthumous), born May 2, 1677.
Lowestoft is a Suffolk seaport on a declivity a hundred

miles northeast of London, and famous for its herring fish-
cries and as one of the most fashionable watering places on
the west coast of England. It became noted in English
history when, in 1665, the Dutch fleet under admiral Opdam
was defeated by the Duke of York's fleet. It was at Lowe-
stoft, in 1784, that John Adams, the first ambassador from
the United States to England, landed. In the World War
(1914-1918), Lowestoft had its historic interest much re-
vived as the result of the unique triple attack on it from
the Germans by zeppelins, cruisers and undersea craft.

DR. JOHN KITTREDGE

was the son of John Kittredge and his wife, Mary Little-
field; he was born in Billerica, January 24, 1666, and mar-
ried Hannah French of Billerica before Jonathan Danforth,
junior, on August 3, 1685.'' He died at Billerica, April 2^,
1714, and she died October 19, 1745.' Children of the mar-
riage were :

1. John, born September 14, 1685.

2. James, born August 22, 1687.

3. Hannah, born May 4, 1689; died March 21, 1690.

4. Jacob, born February 15, 1691 ; died August 18,
1692.

5. Hannah, 2nd, born May, 1693.

6. Joseph, born March 31, 1695.

7. Jonathan, born January 10, 1697.

8. William, born February 11, 1699.

9. Abigail, born November 15. 1700.

10. Jane, born March 2y, 1703.

11. Mirah, born February i, 1705; died February 3,

1705-

12. FRANCIS, born October 2^, 1706.'

DR. FRANCIS KITTREDGE I.

was the son of John Kittredge and his wife, Hannah French

'Records of Billerica, Vol. 1, p. 80.

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 109

(q. v.). He was born October 2j, 1706, at Billerica, and
married there on August i, 1736. To him and his wife
Lydia, were born, at Billerica, three sons :

1. FRANCIS, born July i, 1728.

2. Josiah, born July 25, 1730; died May, 1744.

3. Zephaniah, born May 2y, 1732/

To them were also born at Tewksbury (which was found-
ed in 1734, formerly a part of Billerica) :

4. Lydia, born July 28, 1734, and

5. Solomon, born June 9, 1736.

The wife L.ydia, died at Tewksbury, August i, 1736/
SOLOMON KiTTREDGE, the son, born as stated, June 9, 1736,
died August 24, 1792; he settled in Amherst, Massachusetts,
about 1766; married Tabitha Ingalls, of Andover, Massa-
chusetts, May 14, 1755, she dying May 8, 1794. He was
a prominent man in the parish, living in the northwestern
part. The children of the marriage were :

(i) Solomon, born in 1755; died in Mt. Vernon,
October 22, 1845 ; was a Revolutionary soldier.

(2) Zephaniah, born August 24, 1757; died August 17,

1843.

(3) Tabitha, born July 28, 1758; married Benjamin
Sawyer.

(4) Josiah, born July 26, 1761.

(5) Phoebe, born June 5, 1763; married Aaron
Townsend.

(6) Stephen, born June 27, 1765.

(7) Lydia, born August 29, 1767; married Joshua Kitt-
redge, November 29, 1787.

(8) Ingalls, born December 10, 1769.

(9) Betsy, born September 16, 1771 ; married Mr.
Wheeler, and died November 9, 1865.

(10) Peter, born September 25, 1773.

(11) Asa, dates not known.

(12) Sally, born April 19, 1779; married Abial Stick-
ney, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, and died August 28,
1847.

ZEPHANIAH KITTREDGE, the grandson, married Elizabeth
Slickney, of Tewksbur>% who died in Mt. Vernon August 6,
1851 ; he was a physician and surgeon, and (to use the
words of the historian) "he was long and favorably known
as a skillful surgeon and physician." The children of his

'Records of Billerica.

^Town Records of Tewksbury.

110 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

marriage were: ist, Betsy, born May i8, 1782; died August
5, 1786. 2nd., Nabby, born 1790; married Jesse Smith. 3rd,
Zephaniah, born September 15, 1785; died August 3, 1873;
married Mary Wheeler of Hancock, who was born in
August, 1788, and died February 25, 1880. 4th, Betsy,
born 1788; died March 5, 1799. 5th, Nancy, born 1790;
married Uriah Wilkins, and died in Stowe, Vermont, Jan-
uary 10, 1832, and 6th, Fanny, born 1799; died September

16, 1821.'

DR. FRANCIS KITTREDGE II

was the son of Dr. Francis and Lydia Kittredge. He was
born in a part of Billerica, July i, 1728, afterwards called
Tewksbury, and died in Walpole, New Hampshire, April

17, 1808. He married February 20, 1752,' Abigail Richard-
son of Billerica, daughter of Andrew and Hannah J. Rich-
ardson, who was born March 6, according to the town
records, 1725, but according to the tombstone, 1730.' Born
of this marriage were sixteen children, the youngest re-
corded being Melicent, born September 30, 1777.' The
children of this marriage noted in the town records of
Tewksbury are :

1. Jesseniah, born March i, 1764; died August 8, 1829;
married Lydia Newton Bond.

2. STEPHEN, born January 19, 1766; married Elizabeth
Eaton.

3. Rhoda, born December 19, 1767; married Amaziah
Porter.

4. Achsa, born April 30, 1772; married Job Giddings.

5. Susanna, born November 29, 1773.

6. Melicent, born September 30, 1777; married (first)
Earle Giddings, (second) Jason Beckwith.*

Other children of this marriage were Paul ; Francis, mar-
ried, Lucy Crosby ; Molly ; Elizabeth, and Abigail, married
Zephaniah Kidder.° Of the remaining children, there was
another Achsa, born June 16, 1770, and died January ^y,
1771." Three children were Amy, married, Timothy Crosby;
Rachel, married Mr. Foster, and Lydia, married Mr.
Mathews.' The remaining child is not accounted for, prob-
ably died in infancy.

^History of Amhurst, pp. 661-662.

^Records and History of Billerica, and Tombstone at Walpole, N. H.

'Records of Tewksbury.

^Records of Tewksbury.

^History of Walpole, N. H.

"Records of Tewksbury.

'Nat. No. 101542, N. S. D. A. R., App., Martha Hodges Kittredge Bearce.

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As explanatory and interesting, we quote from the Wal-
pole Town History, publisiied in 1880, sub nom. Kittredge,
Francis, Dr., as follows :

"It is curious to note how some incident, seemingly trivial
at the time, and wholly disconnected with what follows,
changes the whole aspect and condition of an individual's
future life. Following is a case in point. More than a
hundred years ago (the precise time not known), one of
the Bellows family of this town broke his leg, and as sur-
geons were not plenty in the vicinity, his friends were forced
to the alternative of sending to Tewksbury, Massachusetts.
There they found Dr. Francis Kittredge, who came to Wal-
pole, set the bone, and stayed till his patient was out of
danger. During his stay, he was persuaded to take up a lot
of land and remove to Walpole. He selected the farm now
owned by Charles E. Watkins, which was then an unbroken
forest. He had by his wife Abigail sixteen children, several
of them dying in infancy. Dr. Frank, as he was called, was
a celebrated 'bone setter.' which in those days was a special
gift. In connection with his son, Jesseniah, the celebrated
salve, known at the time as 'Kittredge grease' was prepared,
which was highly valued for its supposed healing properties.
He was famous, as was also his son Jesseniah, in treatment
of old sores and chronic complaints in general. How many
of Dr. Frank's children were born in town, has not been
ascertained nor how many lived to maturity. Their ages
are not known, and consequently cannot be methodically
arranged. He died April 17, 1808, aged 80 years, and she
died February 15, 181 2, aged 82."

DR. JESSENIAH KITTREDGE, the son abovc noted, who died
August 8, 1829, married February 28, 1793, Lydia Newton
Bond, who was born March 22, 1772, died September 4,
1837, and was a daughter of Thomas Bond of North Brook-
field, Massachusetts, and to them were born Lydia Kitt-
redge, who married Francis Fisher, and the children to her
by this marriage were Francis K., Horace N., and John H.
Fisher. Horace N., a soldier, scholar and author of great
renown, married Kiameche C. Mason, of Charlestown,
Massachusetts, November 13, 1865,' and from this union
were born Francis M., Mary L., Sarah G. and Horace C.
Fisher.

There was also born to Dr. and Mrs. Jesseniah and Lydia
(Bond) Kittredge a son, Thomas Bond, who was a physi-

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112 TiiK p:\ving Gknealogy wrrir Cognate Branches

cian and surgeon, at Keene, New Hampshire, born Feb-
ruary 17, 1802; died December 8, 1881 ; married October 24,
1836, Caroline A. Smith, descendant of one of the Colonial
Governors of Connecticut. A son of this marriage, Henry
Grattan Kittredge, born January 22, 1841 ; died June 5,
1909.' He married Martha Sargent Hodges, October 12,
1870, and from this union were born five children, namely:
Alice, Isabel, Thomas Bond, Louise, married Samuel B.
Haynes, West Hartford, Connecticut, and Martha Hodges,
married Clarence P. Bearce, East Providence, Rhode
Island. The authors have enjoyed with the two latter an
interesting correspondence, which bespeaks for them the
high culture and refinement to be expected from their noble
lineage.

The son, Thomas Bond, born March 20, 1878, Reading,
Massachusetts, died October 14, 1918, at Providence, Rhode
Island; married Emily Volk, born Hitchcock, Texas, Feb-
ruary 16, 1889. Issue, a daughter, Arielle, born San An-
tonio, Texas, November 15, 191 5. The v>'idow, Mrs. Emily
Volk Kittredge, whom w^e know, is an admirable type of
fine womanhood, such as might well be selected for alliance
with the Kittredge family.

Another son of the marriage of Dr. Jesseniah and Lydia
Kittredge, was Jesseniah, junior, also a physician and sur-
geon, born in Walpole, New Hampshire, February 24, 1800;
died in Waverly, Massachusetts, November i, 1877, who
married May Bellows Stone (born August 22, 181 1; died
February 20, 1886), in October, 1833, at Watertown, Massa-
chusetts, her home; and of him, Thomas Bellows Peck, in
his w^ork. The Bellows Genealogy, at page 478, observes :

"Dr. Kittredge belonged to a well known and highly re-
spected family of physicians, and was the fifth in direct
line to follow that profession. He was in the sixth genera-
tion from John Kittredge, the emigrant ancestor, who came
to this country from Oulton, or Lowestoft, Suffolk County,
England, and was one of the original settlers, in 1660, of
Billerica, Massachusetts, living in that part of the town
which was afterwards set off as Tewksbury. The line of
descent was through Dr. Jesseniah and Lydia (Bond) Kitt-
redge, of Walpole; Dr. Francis and Abigail (Richardson)
Kittredge, of Tewksbury and Walpole; Dr. Francis and
Lydia Kittredge, of Tewksbury ; Dr. John and Hannah
(French) Kittredge, of Tewksbury, to John Kittredge, the

iWho's Who in America, 1912-1913

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 113

immigrant, and his wife, Mar}^ Littlefield, from whom all
of the name of Kittredge in this country are believed to be
descended. Dr. Kittredge's mother, Lydia Bond, who was
bom March 22, 1772, and died September 4, 1837, was
daughter of Thomas Bond, of Brookfield, Massachusetts,
and was in the fifth generation from William Bond, of
Watertown, the ancestor of most of the families of Bond
in New England. His grandfather, Dr. Francis Kittredge,
removed from Tewksbury to Walpole about 1790,* and
built and lived in the large Colonial house about two miles
and a half southeast of the village on what is still sometimes
called 'Kittredge Hill.' "

FKANCis, son of Dr. Francis and Abigail Kittredge, who
himself became a physician and surgeon, was a soldier for
Independence of the Revolutionar}^ War, bom at Tewks-
bury, Massachusetts, July 2, 1758, and served three months,
in 1776, private in Capt. Edward Farmer's Company, Col.
Jacob Gerrish's Regiment. February 20 to May 20, and for
six months, 1776, private in Capt. Samuel Tay's Company,
Col. Jonathan Reed, and for three months, 1777 or 1778, in
Capt. Edward Farmer's Company, Col. Jonathan Reed, and
for two months, 1779, surgeon's mate in Capt. Nathaniel
West's Company on ship "Black Prince," serving in the
Regiment of Guards at Bunker Hill, and engaging in the
Penobscot Expedition, and perhaps performing other ser-
vices.* He died at Tewksbury, Massachusetts, on Novem-
ber 9, 1837. He was married August 26, 1782. to Lucy
Crosby, of Amherst, Massachusetts, who died September
4. 1803. Their children were Francis, born Januar}' 26,
T783; Paul, born August 26, 1784; Lucy, born September
17, 1786; Lydia, born August 21, 1788; Susanna, born
September 8, 1790; Joel, born March 30, 1893, died August
8, 1793, and Joel Crosby, bom July 31, 1794, died Septem-
ber 7, 1832.° The son Paul Kittredge, who was also a phy-
sician and surgeon, was born as stated, August 26, 1784,
and died August 10, 1845; he married January 17, 1808,
Rebecca Martin, of W"etherfield, Vermont, by whom he
had fourteen children, four of them being physicians."
Under this line, Mrs. Estelle S. (Kittredge) Perham, wife
of Walter Perham, of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, has been

•Probably in or before 1784.

^Records of Mass. Archives, Boston State House, Vol. 19, p. 76; File 29947,
Revolutionary V^ar, Department of the Interior, T'ension Bureau, Wash-
ington, D. C.

-Records of Tewksbury.

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accepted as a member of the National Society of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, National Number 22736,
she being a daughter of Cullen Fordyce and Amy (Hull)
Kittredge, and her father a son of Dr. Paul and Rebecca
(Martin) Kittredge, thereby making her a great grand-
daughter of the Revolutionary soldier, Dr. Francis Kitt-
redge, and his wife, Lucy Crosby.'

The subject of this division. Dr. Francis Kittredge, was
surgeon for the side of the patriots in the War of the
Revolution, for which see —

Journal of the Third Provincial Congress of Massa-
chusetts, page 374.

Bond's History of Watertown, page 57.

Hazen's History of Billerica, pages 85, 86.

Aldrich's History of Walpole, pages 303, 304, 305.

Under this service by him as hospital surgeon, Mrs.
Martha Hodges (Kittredge) Bearce has been accepted as a
member of the National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, National Number 101542, besides
quite a number of other descendants, some of whom are
elsewhere mentioned in that connection.

ABIGAIL (RICHARDSON) KITTREDGE

wife of Dr. Francis Kittredge, was born at Billerica, Massa-
chusetts, March 6, according to the town records, 1725, but
according to the inscription on her tombstone 1730, and died
February 15, 181 2, at Walpole, New Hampshire. She was
married February 20, 1752, at or near Billerica, and had
sixteen children. She was the daughter of Andrew and
Hannah (Jefts) Richardson, her mother being the daugh-
ter of Henry Jefts.'

The Richardsons were one of the earliest and most noted
of the New England families.

ANDREW RICHARDSON, father of Abigail, was one of three
brothers, the other two being Thomas and Jonathan, and
these are the three brothers mentioned in history as having
gone in a company of thirty-six soldiers under Capt. John
Lane to Dunstable and Groton as a "relief," July 4, 1706.
He (Andrew) was born in Billerica, Massachusetts, June
16, 1678; married by Joseph Williams, a judicial officer, to
Hannah Jefts, December 9, 1707; she died October 31, 1749,

^Application Estelle S. Perham, Nat. No. 22736, N. S. D. A. R.

'Records of Billerica and Tewksbury, Mass.; Tombstone Inscriptions,

Kittredge Lot, Walpole, N. H., and John Vinton's Richardson Memorial,
pp. 513-14.

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and he on December 23, 1752, in Billerica ; he left a will
dated December 10, 1750, probated January 15, 1753; he
lived and died on a farm in the easterly part of Billerica,
which his father gave him by will dated October 14, 1705.
Children of this marriage were : i. Andrew, born January
18, 1709, married Elizabeth Winn of Billerica, December 25,
1733, having one child, Andrew. 2. Hannah, born July
7, 1712; married Benjamin Kidder. 3. Phoebe, bom
March 4, 1716; married Mr. Marshall, having children,
Isaac, Phoebe and Samuel. 4. Elizabeth, born December
9, 1719, married John Blanchard. 5. Mary, born May 26,
1722, married Joseph Danforth. 6. Abigail, bom March
6, 1725.'

THOMAS RICHARDSON, the father of Andrew and grand-
father of Abigail above mentioned, was born in Woburn,
Massachusetts, October 1645, married Mary Stimpson.'

THOMAS AND MARY RICHARDSON were the father and
mother of Thomas and great grandparents of Abigail Rich-
ardson. This grand-parent, Thomas, who died in Woburn,
August 28, 165 1, was the youngest of three brothers,
Ezekiel, Samuel and Thomas, who in co-operation with
others were the founders of Woburn, and the formation
therein, in 1641, of a church. Ezekiel, the eldest brother,
came from England in the fleet with W'inthrop, in 1630, by
the 6th of July, when fifteen ships of that fleet had arrived.
It is supposed that the two younger brothers, Samuel and
Thomas, arrived as much as five years later. This is in-
dicated by the fact that their names did not appear in a list
of the inhabitants of Charleston, dated January 9, 1633,
and the first notice of either is when Mary, the wife of
Thomas, joined the Church, February 21, 1635. Later, in
1637, t)0th Samuel and Thomas united with the church
and received the grant of a house plot, and were admitted
as freemen of the Colony and made citizens. The children
of this marriage of the immigrant Thomas with Mary,
which probably occurred on the eve of their departure from
England, were: i. Mar>% born at Charleston, baptized
November 17, 1638; married John Baldwin. 2. Isaac, born
May, 1643; married Deborah Fuller. 3. thomas, born
October, 1645; married Mary Stimpson. 4. Ruth, born
April. 1647. 5- Phoebe, born January, 1648. 6. Nathaniel,
bom January, 1650; married Mary, whose surname seems

'John Vinton's Richardson Memorial, pp. 513-14.
-Jd.. pp. 506-507.

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to have been lost in the charm of the first. These last five
vi^ere born in Billerica. Ruth or Phoebe, the records leave
it uncertain which, married Lieutenant Thomas Fuller, of
England, ancestor of many of the Fullers of Nev/ England.

DR. STEPHEN KITTREDGE

was the son of Francis Kittredge and his wife, Abigail
Richardson, and was born at Tewksbury, Massachusetts,
January 19, 1766, and died at Walpole, New Hampshire,
July 25, 1800; he married Elizabeth Eaton in Walpole, New
Hampshire, on June 16, 1791, the Rev. Thomas Fessenden
officiating.^

The children of this marrage were :

1. Stephen, became a physician and surgeon, went to
Cincinnati, and died early.

2. Roswell, born May 8, 1793, also a physician and sur-
geon, who went West and died young.

3. Susan (Suky), born December 5, 1795.

4. EBENEZER EATON, born February 3, 1799.'

The probate records of Cheshire County, at Keene, New
Hampshire, show that the widow, Elizabeth Eaton Kitt-
redge, qualified as administratrix of the estate of her de--
ceased husband, Stephen Kittredge, August 13, 1800, and
that she afterwards (some time prior to June 18, 1807)
married Amos Garnsey, of Westminister, Vermont, which
is directly across the Connecticut River from Walpole.^

From the record of deeds of that county, it appears that
he (Amos Garnsey) was guardian of the minor children,
Stephen Roswell, Suky and Ebenezer Eaton, conveying as
such land of theirs on October 29, 1806,^ for a considera-
tion of $942, and that he resigned as guardian on May 13,
1807.'

ELIZABETH ( EATON ) KITTREDGE

wife of Dr. Stephen Kittredge, was born in 1769, probably
at Hampton Falls or Candia, New Hampshire, and died in
the West in 1853; she was married, as stated, (first) to
Dr. Stephen Kittredge, June 16, 1791, and (second) to
Amos Garnsey. Her parents were Ebenezer Eaton and his
wife, Anne Brown, who were married at Kensington, New
Hampshire, by the Rev. Jeremiah Fogg, on June 9, 1762.°

'Records and Hist, of Walpole, N. H.

2 Id.

^Probate Records of Cheshire County, Keene, N. H.

^Records of Deeds, Vol. 50, p. 347, Cheshire Co., N. H.

■'Registry of Deeds, Id.

■^Department of Vital Statistics, Concord, N. H.

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EBENEZER EATON, the father, was born at Hampton Falls,
April lo, 1735, son of John and Hannah (Fowler) Eaton,
and died at Walpole, New Hampshire, August 27, 1805. He
married (first) Anne Brown as above stated, and (second)
Comfort Emerson, in Walpole, New Hampshire, Novem-
ber 10, 1793.' Children by his marriage with Anne Brown
were: Eliphalit, eldest son, married about 1792, Elizabeth
being his wife's first name; Elizabeth, born 1769; Josiah,
married Zeruah Robinson, in Walpole, New Hampshire,
April 23, 1809; Abigail, dates not known; Calvin, born
1786; died March 4, 1809.' There were probably other
children.

The father, Ebenezer Eaton, was a Revolutionary sol-
dier, ranking corporal, in the cause of Independence; he
was a corporal in Capt. Joshua Bailey's Company, Col.
Thomas Stickney's Regiment, General Stark's Brigade of
New Hampshire Militia, which marched from Hopkinton,
July, 1777, and joined the Northern Continental Army, and
he participated in the engagement in which the company
took part on July 22, of that year.' He probably otherwise
served in the great struggle for freedom. His removal to
Cheshire County, New Hampshire, in or near Walpole, was
probably after the close of the Revolutionary war, as indi-
cated by the records of family events.

ANNE BROWN, the first wife of Ebenezer Eaton, and
mother of Elizabeth Eaton, was born at Kensington, New
Hampshire, March 15, 1743; died in or near Walpole, New
Hampshire, between 1786 (the year of her youngest child's
birth) and 1793 (the year of her surviving husband's second
marriage). Her lineage comes through many prominent
families of New Egland ; she was the daughter of Nehemiah
Brown and Anne Longfellow, who were married January
26, 1738, at Kensington, New Hampshire. Anne Longfel-
low, born August 2, 1719, was the daughter of Nathan
Longfellow and his wife, Mary Green, who were married
May 28, 1713. Mary Green, born April 15, 1701, at Hamp-
ton, New Hampshire, was the daughter of John Green and
his wife, Abiel Marston, who were married December 23,
1695. Abiel Marston, born April 12, 1677, at Hampton,
New Hampshire, was the daughter of Ephraim Marston
(born December 2, 1654, son of Thomas Marston), and his

^Records of Walpole, N. H.

=Id.

•'N. H. Revolutionary Rolls, at Concord, Vol. 2, p. 182.

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wife, Abiel Sanborn, who were married February 3, 1666.
Abiel Sanborn was the daughter of Jabez Sanborn and
Abiah Masten, who married December 29, 1716, groom
nineteen years and bride fourteen years of age.*

Other children bom to Nathan and Mary (Green) Long-
fellow were: Jonathan, born May 23, 1714; Samuel, born
May 8, 1716; Jacob, born July 20, 1722; Sewall, born
October 6, 1724; Abigail, born February 5, 1726; Nathan,
born June 8, 1729, and Green, born April 5, 1731.

Other children born to John and Abiel (Marston)
Green were: Jeremiah, born November 26, 1697; Abraham,
bom August 28, 1707; John, born March i, 1710; Phoebe,
born June 19, 1715; Anna, bom May 18, 1718.

Other children born to Ephraim and Abiel (Sanbom)
Marston were: John, born February 11, 1680; Thomas,
born July 14, 1687; Jeremiah, bom November 5, 1691, and
Ephraim, born July 14, 1687.'

*We have conformed the early dates to the present reckoning of time,
instead of commencing the year at March 25, as was in some instances done
before 1752.

'Department of Vital Statistics, Concord, N. H.

DR. EBENEZER EATON KITTREDGE

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE KITTREDGE TREE CONTINUED: DR. EBENEZER EATON, HIS
CAREER, MARRIAGE AND DESCENDANTS.

DR. EBENEZER EATON KITTREDGE

the son of Stephen Kittredge and his wife, Elizabeth Eaton,
was born in Walpole, New Hampshire, February 3, 1799;
was qualified to practice in medicine and surgeiy, then went
to Mississippi, going on a flat boat from Cincinnati down
the Mississippi river; he settled in Jefferson County in that
State, and shortly afterwards obtained his medical degree
and diploma as physician and surgeon. He was profession-
ally called by Mrs. Elizabeth Green, widow of Everard
Green, to "Gayosa," their family home, and there met the
daughter, Martha Wills Green, whom he soon after mar-
ried, October 5, 1820, the marriage license being issued
October 3, 1820.'

We pause here for a bit of romance : It is a tradition
in the family, well recognized, that the mother of Martha
Wills Green (Mrs. Elizabeth Kirkland Green) fiist saw
Dr. Kittredge at Washington, in Jefferson County, Miss-
issippi, where he had located, and was so impressed with
his appearance, that she inquired who he was. The answer
came: "A young Yankee doctor who has just hung out his
shingle." To which she replied : "Well, I like his looks,
like the way he moves; he is smart, I see that." Not long
after, when a doctor was needed in her home, she sent for
him ; then followed his courtship of Martha Wills, at that
time a slip of a girl, and later his proposal of marriage to
her. The marriage was opposed pretty generally by her
relatives, probably because of the prejudice among the aris-
tocratic families of the South in its early days agamst matri-
monial alliances with new arrivals from families of the
North. The mother, however, was very friendly to the
marriage, discerning, no doubt, the merit and strong char-
acter, and foreseeing the success, of the expectant groom.
The climax of her argument was, "If he ever gets drowned,
there will be no use looking for him down stream" — mean-
ing, of course, that he would never "go with the current."

About 1828, Dr. Kittredge removed with his family to
Assumption Parish, Louisiana, near Napoleonville, being a

^Record Book of Marriage Licenses, Jefferson Co., Miss., from 1805 to
1827, p. 158.

(110)

120 The Ewing Genealogy wrrii Cognate Branches

pioneer in that section, where he acquired what afterwards
became one of the most magnificent sugar plantations in
the State, which he called "Elm Hall," and where he con-
structed a mansion home that remained the residence of
the family during his life and until long after his death. He
was one of the wealthiest of the Louisiana planters, eminent
in his profession, and honored and esteemed by all.

His elegant home was the center of education, culture,
and refinement. When Dr. Kittredge and his gifted son,
Joseph Kirkland, were surrounded by the former's bril-
liant sons-in-law, Fayette Clay Ewing, George Wesley
Race, George W. Jones, Joseph B. Whittington and Robert
N. Sims, all scholars and wits, there was an assembly of
men, flashing out fires of intellect, rarely witnessed in
any home — all possessed of grace and charm of manner,
handsome and commanding in appearance, and gifted with
a fluency and resource of conversation at once attractive,
interesting and ornate.

Dr. Kittredge (E. E.) died October 19, 1867, at his sum-
mer home, Winchester Springs, Tennessee, lamented by
numerous relatives and friends, especially in the East, and
South.

MARTHA WILLS GREEN

(wife of Dr. Ebenezer Eaton Kittredge) was born at
"Gayosa" December i, 1804; died November 18, 1836, at
"Elm Hall." She is buried in the family vault at Napoleon-
ville, Louisiana, in the cemetery of the Episcopal Church
which was built by her husband, and the Rector of which
at this Avriting is her grandson, the Rev. Quincy Ewing.
She was a very beautiful woman, of patrician cast, as may
readily be seen from her accompanying picture.

Issue of Dr. Kittredge's marriage with Martha Wills
Green, his first wife :

1. Elizabeth Eaton, born March 9, 1822, in Jefferson
County, Mississippi; died August 31, 1847, ^t "Elm Hall,"
Assumption Parish, Louisana. She married Edmund Par-
sons Dwight, a lawyer then practicing in New Orleans,
Louisiana. No issue survived her.

2. Mary Louise, born October 11, 1825, in Jefferson
County, Mississippi ; died at "Glenwood," Assumption
Parish, Louisiana, February 3, 1887. She was much be-
loved for her kind acts and broad sympathies by all who
knew her, and her funeral, preceded at her special request

MARTHA WILLS (GREEN> KITTREDGE

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by a band of music, was generally attended by the people
of that section regardless of race or creed. It was indeed
a day of universal mourning. She was married on April 3,
1844, by the Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, to George Washington
Jones (son of John and Marion Jones,) born June 5, 181 7,
in Ohio; died at "Glenwood," Assumption Parish, Lou-
isiana, March 25, 1889; he was one of the most highly
esteemed sugar planters of that part of the State. Issue of
their marriage :

(i) Cora Wills, who was a brilliant belle of New
Orleans society, was born February 6, 1845; ^^^^ i" Chi-
cago, Illinois, October, 1899; married at "Glenwood" Jan-
uary 25, 1872, to Walter F. Moring, born Amelia Court-
house, Virginia, 1842; died Chicago, Illinois, June 25, 1886.
Issue: ist. ^'George Race, born January 24, 1873; married
June 21, 1898, in Chicago, Illinois, Fanny Pendleton Whit-
ten, born December 12, 1876, in Covington, Kentucky; died
June II, 1914, in New York City. Children: George P.,
born in Chicago, Illinois, April 8, 1899, and Dorothy, born
in Chicago, August 5, 1900. 2nd. Cora Martha, born in
Chicago, January 27, 1879, married in Napoleonville, Lou-
isiana, November 21, 1900, Weaker Irving Barton, born in
Louisiana in about the year 1863; died December 23, 1906,
in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Children: Walter Irving,
born August 23, 1901, and Cora Moring, born July 31,
1906, both in Ascension Parish, Louisiana.

(2) Stephen, died when five years old.

(3) Elizabeth Clarendon, born December 16, 1848;
married (first) April 3, 1869, William Sims, a Captain in
the C. S. A., and later a prominent lawyer of Napoleon-
ville, Louisiana, born in 1838; died at "Glenwood," Septem-
ber 8, 1876, and (second) she married on June 2, 1897, at
Gonzales, Texas, Edward Pugh Munson, born September
16, 1853; died June 25, 1911, at "Glenwood." She is a
lady of rare scholarly attainments, of imposing appearance
and charming personality, and was on December 13, 1916,
accepted as a member of the National Society of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, National Number 126582,
with two bars, ancestors Francis Kittredge, surgeon, and
Col. Thomas M. Green (q. v.), but entitled to a third bar,
ancestor Corporal Ebenezer Eaton (q. v.). No issue by
her second marriage; by the first the following: ist, Mary

"Italics are sometimes used for ready reference to great grandchildren.

122 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

Louise (Loulie), born February 21. 1870; married in Hous-
ton, Texas, December 31, 1888, George Burgess, of Gon-
zales, Texas, born in Wharton County, Texas, September
21, 1861, and a member of the United States House of
Representatives for sixteen consecutive years. 2nd. George
William, a physicion and surgeon, born December 26, 1871 ;
died September 16, 1915; married January i, 1906, his
cousin, Olivia Amanda Kittredge. No issue. Dr. Sims
was a self made man, and by his own efforts succeeded in
educating himself, being graduated from the Gross Medical
College, of the Rocky Mountain University, at Denver,
Colorado, Class of 1897; he practiced his profession for a
short time at Denver, then moved to Texas, practiced at
Kerrville; was assistant surgeon in the war with Spain
(1898), of Third Texas Infantry, serving at Camp Mabry,
Austin, Texas, at Fort Clark, Texas, and at Fort Mcintosh,
Laredo, Texas; was special examiner, appointed by the
War Department, in mustering out the Third Infantry
(1899); was appointed, on recommendation of United
States Army officers. Contract Surgeon (1899), and
ordered to the Phillipines, whither he went on the trans-
port Morgan City, having a journey of great peril and nar-
row escape. In 1906, after the marriage noted, he took a
post-graduate course at the Polyclinic Department of the
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, then removed
to Texas, and practiced at Karnes City and Falls City until
1910, when he went to San Antonio, and there practiced
until his death. He was a close student of "Anaesthesia,"
and wrote an exhaustive work on "Psycho-Dynamics;" he
was, shortly before his death, nominated by the People's
Municipal League, of San Antonio, Texas, for Commis-
sioner of Sanitation and Parks and Public Property, but
after an exciting race was defeated.

3RD. WILLIAM NICHOLS, bom March 10, 1873; died
July 10, 1885.

4TH. RUFFiN MORiNG, born November 20, 1875; died
in Houston, Texas, August 2, 1891.

(4) Kate Josephine, a first honor graduate of the
Locquet Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, and a highly
cultivated musician, was born November 14, 1852; died
September 6, 1905; married at "Glenwood" in 1878 to
William Henry Gibson, of Brooklyn, New York, bom 1844;
died 1884, in New York. Issue: Ethel May Gibson, born
August 5, 1880, now residing in Mount Vernon, New York.

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(5) Evelyn, distinctive in her aptitude for mathematics
and practical business, and her optimistic qualities, was
born October 4, 1855; married July 7, 1881, to John B.
Foley, of Assumption Parish, Louisiana, born July 2^,
1854; died December 14, 1910. Issue: ist. W'xlliard Jones,
born June 13, 1882; married October 14, 1908, Gertrude A.
Askev^, of Minnesota Junction, Wisconsin. One child, Wil-
lard Jones, born September 12, 1909. 2nd. John B., Jr.,
born May 5, 1886; died December 9, 1886. 3rd. Evelyn
FJodxe, bom December 5, 1887; married June 18, 1913,
William Whitmell Pugh, physician and surgeon, of As-
sumption Parish. Their children, William Whitmell, junior,
born March 25, 1914, and John Foley, born December 12,
T915. 4th. Arthur Moring, born August 28, 1889, He en-
tered the service as a volunteer, September, 191 7, in the
War with Germany ; went into the training camp at Camp
Lee, Virginia, in January, 1918, and was recommended for
commission as Second Lieutenant, but before receiving it,
was sent across as master engineer of the Corps of Civil
Engineer, and served to the end of the war. 5th. Kirkland
Green, bom August 4, 1892; died same date. 6th. Mary
Louise, born February 14, 1896.

(6) Isabel, remarkable for her classic beauty, was born
July 31, 1857, at "Glenwood;" died November 16, 1898,
at San Antonio, Texas; married at "Glenwood" December
7, 1882, to Judge John Warner Johnson, born August 2,
1830, at Bridgeport, West Virginia. One child, Loula
Belle, born Houston, Texas, February 28, 1884; married
January 4, 1907, at "Glenwood" Charles Williard Black, of
Cincinnati, Ohio, born January 25, 1879. Their children:
Virginia Louise, born December 8, 1910, and Barbara, born
May 24, 1913, both at Los Angeles, California.

(7) Nellie May, a woman of great energy and mas-
culine force of character, was bom May 3, 1859; died June
21, 1895; married April 28, 1881, Edward Pugh Munson,
of Assumption Parish, Louisiana, who after her death mar-
ried Elizabeth Clarendon (Jones) Sims (q. v.). He was
born September 16, 1853; died June 25, 1911. Issue: ist.
Olivia, born in April, 1882, married March, 1914, her cousin
Ephraim Ewing (q. v.) ; child, Olivia, born December 28,
1915. 2nd. Nellie May, bom September 8, 1883; married
October 2, 1907, Aubrey Bartlett, born about 1877, of New
Orleans, Louisiana. Children, Nellie May, bom August 5,
1908, Cosame Julian, born July i, 1913, Olivia, born

124 The Ewixg Genealogy wrni Cognate Branches

October 15, 191 1, and Walter, born Februar>', 191 5. yd.
Lilian Kittredge, born November 24, 1886; married March
10, 1909, Clarence Clifford Barton of Assumption Parish,
Louisiana, born in 1887. Children: Lilian M., born May
2"/, 1910; Rebecca, born April 13, 1912; Elizabeth, bom
May 13, 1914, and Flora, born December i, 1915. 4th.
Myrtle, born December 21, 1889; married June 11, 191 1,
to her cousin, Presley Kittredge Ewing 11, born July 11,
1891. Children: Mrytle, born March 15, 1912; Presley
Kittredge III, born August 13, 1914, and Fayette Clay, born
November 5, 1913. 5th. Stephen Clarendon, born Septem-
ber 28, 1892; married April 28, 1917, Adele Pratt, daughter
of Dr. George Pratt, of New Orleans, Louisiana. 6th.
Edward Preston, born July 26, 1894; married February 17,
191 7, Gertrude Graner.

He, Edward P. Munson, husband of Nellie May, was a
man of remarkable business capacity, and was one of the
wealthiest and most highly esteemed sugar planters of
Louisiana.

(8) Florence Olivia, possessed of a rare and beautiful
voice, was born January i, 1861 ; died July 31, 1901 ; mar-
ried James J. McConnell, M. D., of Georgia ; died 1903 ; no
issue.

(9) Lilian, the prototype of her beautiful grandmother
(q. v.), was born August 13, 1862; died December 8, 1897;
married August, 1890. Children: ist. Emma Lucile, born
April 12, 1891 ; married May i, 1914, Arthur Boyd Reese,
born November 10, 1881. Child: Arthur Boyd, Jr., born
November 30, 191 5. 2nd. Lilian Mary Louise Jamison,
born July 15, 1896.

(10) GEORGE wiLLARD, M. D., bom July 21, 1865; died
May 9, 1899; he married Rosa Lee Dickson; no issue.

3. Orvilie Milo, born December 26, 1827; died October
16, 1829.

4. Joseph Kirkland Green, born October 4, 1830; died
September 17, 1897; married Fannie Mary Ivy on Decem-
ber 4, 1866. He was graduated from Harvard, Class 1851,
which became famous for having produced from its sixty-
four members eleven distinguished professors. Issue :

( 1 ) Ivy, a lawyer, of New Orleans, Louisiana ; married
Marietta Larousini, having a child, Frances.

(2) Willoughby Eaton, a physician and surgeon, of
Napoleonville, Louisiana; married ist. a widow, Marie
(Fouche) Girard, who died September 17, 1915. Issue:

r^^m

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■R \^

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L.. i

ANN ELIZABETH KELLY KITTREDGE

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a son Willoughby. He married (second) Corinne (Suchon)
Hodges, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Edward Suchon, in New
Orleans, Louisiana, March 14, igiy.

(3) OHvia Amanda, married her cousin, George Will-
iam Sims (q. v.) ; no issue.

5. ELIZA JOSEPHINE, wife of Fayette Clay Ewing, M. D.
(q. v.).

6. Olivia Corinna, born October 6, 1835; died October
15, 1916, while residing at her picturesque home, Sewanee,
Tennessee; she was a scholarly and highly cultured woman;
the widow of George Wesley Race, born April 2y, 1821,
died June 17, 1881, who was a distinguished lawyer of New
Orleans, Louisiana, and a member of the noted firm of
Race, Foster & E. T. Merrick ; her marriage to him was at
"Elm Hall," April 19, 1855. The issue of this m.arriage
were five promising children, who all died in childhood,
the first not named, and the others, Stephen Kittredge,
Corinna Elizabeth, George Eaton, and Fannie Louise.

This daughter, Olivia Corinna (Kittredge) Race, was a
member of the National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, National Number 125569, entitled to
two bars, applications having been granted under two an-
cestors, original under Surgeon Francis Kittredge, M. D.,
and supplemental under soldier. Col. Thomas M. Green,
husband of Martha Wills* (q. v.). Copies of these appli-
cations which may be obtained, at a cost of twenty-five
cents each, along with blank applications, from the Regis-
trar General of the National Society, Daughters of Ameri-
can Revolution, Continental Memorial Hall, Washington,
Districtof Columbia, will be useful as guides in preparing
applications for membership by descendants of Dr. Ebenezer
Eaton Kittredge or of Col. Thomas M. Green.

DR. KITTREDGe's SECOND MARRIAGE

Three years after the death of his first wife, Martha
Wills Green, Dr. Kittredge, on September 20, 1839,
married

ANN ELIZABETH KELLY

born in Illinois, December 15, 1819, then of New Orleans,
Louisiana; died February 26, 1889; she was a very lovable
character, and highly esteemed by all who knew her for
her many splendid qualities of noble womanhood. The
issue of this marriage :

*She was also entitled to a third bar, under Corporal Ebenezer Eaton.

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I. Mary Ann, noted in the family for her strength of
character and fixed convictions, was born October 29,
1840, at "Elm Hall;" died September 19, 1915; married
(first) April 11, 1861, Joseph Benson Whittington, born
September 20, 1836; died November 12, 1884; he was a
prominent lawyer of New Orleans, Louisiana, and after-
wards of Napoleonville, Louisiana; she married (second)
on February 27, 1889, at Areola, Louisiana, W. S. Goodwin,
of Kansas City, Missouri, who died April 10, 1895. No is-
sue of this latter marriage, but by her first marriage the
issue was, as follows :

(i) Joseph Kittredge, born March 26, 1864; married
October 15, 1888, Marie de Gravelle, of Patterson, I^u-
isiana, born December 19, 1863; died January 13, 1902.
Children: St. Clair Joseph, born August 30, 1889; Gladis
lone, born September 30, 1891 ; Mary Jessie, bom October
19, 1893; Leila Marie, born April 12, 1895, died April 19,
1896; Lucille Marie, born September 27, 1896; Marion
Elizabeth, born January 22, 1898; Mary Adele, born Dec .r.-
ber 15, 1900, and Joseph Kittredge, junior, bom December
IS, 1900.

(2) Harry Kirkland, bom July 19, 1867; married
October 6, 1897, DoUie Belle Splane, of Washington, Lou-
isiana, bom April 22, 1867. Children : Harry Kirkland,
junior, bom September 14, 1898; Mary Belle, bom Novem-
ber 3, 1901 ; died February 25, 1902, and Mildred Louise,
born May 2y, 1903.

(3) Mary Louise, born October 19, 1869; died August
18, 1901 ; married January 27, 1897, Robert L. Baker, of
Hazelhurst, Mississippi, bom October 28, 1868, now a
sugar planter of Assumption Parish, near Napoleonville.
Louisiana. Children : Joseph Kittredge, bom October 1 5,
1897; Ralph Douglas, born November 10. 1898, and Mary-
Louise, born August 9, 1901.

(4) Bessie Kittredge, born June 21, 1873; died Febru-
ary I, 1916; married June 17, 1899, William M. Crawford,
merchant, of Washington, Louisiana, born May 4, 1863.
Children: William Benson, born April 14, 1900; Louise
Whittington, bom April 14, 191 1, died April 14, 191 1, and
Mary Delia, born April 26, 1912.

(5) Marion Wilmer, born March 24, 1875; married
June 22, 1908, Douglas Eldridge Rivers, of New Orleans,
Louisiana, bom September 3, 1875. Children: Bessie
Whittington, born May 20, 1909; Enid Louise, bora Decem-

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ber Q-j, 1910, died July 25, 19 12; Lena Marie, born Septem-
ber 26, 1912, died November 22,, 1912; Douglas Eldridge,
junior, born June 2, 19 14, and MoUie Kittredge, born July

12, 1915.

2. Henry Eaton, born at "Elm Hall" July 12, 1842;
died at Glasgow, Kentucky, October 19, 1862.

3. Jessie Amanda, of the attractive Saxon type of
beauty, was born at "Elm Hall," January 6, 1845; died at
Jackson, Tennessee, December 3, 1883; married October

13, 1869, Edward Benton McNeil, a Baptist minister, born
August 13, 1837; died August 1904, at Jackson, Tennessee.
Issue of this marriage:

(i) Eaton Kittredge, a physician and surgeon, born at
Winchester Springs, Tennessee, October 9, 1868, now of La
Mesa, New Mexico.

(2) Edward Benton, Junior, a lawyer, born at Long-
view, Mississippi, November 28, 1869; died at El Paso,
Texas, August 14, 1908.

(3) Walter Anderson, a lawyer and real estate broker
of San Antonio and Mercedes, Texas, born at Longview,
Mississippi, December 22, iSy2.

(4) Harr}^ Pendleton, born at Longview, Mississippi,
December 26, 1873, now a farmer at La Feria, Texas.

(5) Lessie Benning, born at Longview, Mississippi.
August 6, 1875; died a few weeks later.

(6) Robert Irving, a physician and surgeon of El Paso,
Texas, born at "Elm Hall," January 24, 1877; rnarried in
Washington, District of Columbia, June 10, 1908, Eliza-
beth Keeling, born in Memphis, Tennessee, May 15, 1885.
Children, Robert Irving, junior, born at El Paso, Texas,
July 21, 1913, and Mary Elizabeth, born at El Paso, Texas,
May 20, 1916.

(7) Percy Rutledge, born at Jackson, Tennessee, Nov-
ember 30, 1883; died February 2^, 1909.

4. Emma, a beautiful and buoyant girl, of marked ex-
ecutive ability, was born at "Elm Hall" July 16, 1847; <^ic<l
in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, July 9, 191 1; married March
30, 1869, Robert Nicholls Sims, a lawyer of distinguished
ability, born February 22, 1841 ; died May 27, 1899. Issue
of this marriage, as follows :

( I ) Robert Nicholls Sims, who has held high official
positions in Louisiana, including Bank Examiner, his pres-
ent position; he was born November 28, 1870, in Ascen-
sion Parish, Louisiana; married April 30, 1891, Jaunita
9

128 The Ewtnq Gexealogy wrrn Cognate Braxciies

Dalferes (De Alverez), born January lo, 1872, in Ascen-
sion Parish, Louisiana. Children: ist. Harry Vernon,
born February 11, 1892, went to Bingham School, North
Carolina, two years ; was graduated from Louisiana State
University, class 1910-1911, and from Tulane Medical
School, 191 5, and was Interne of the Charity Hospital, New
Orleans, Louisiana. He volunteered in the War with Ger-
many, and became captain, serving as physician of 2nd Bat-
talion, 5th Regiment Marines, 2nd Division. 2nd. Raton
Kittredge, born December 19, 1893; died August 10, 1894.
3rd. Nita, born March 9, 1895, in Ascension Parish, Lou-
isiana, a graduate with high honors from Washington
Seminary, Washington, District of Columbia, and remark-
ably attractive and accomplished. She is a member of the
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion (National Number 1 26109), with two bars, being for
Surgeon Francis Kittredge, and Corporal Ebenezer Eatc n ;
and under these ancestors, we may here observe, all female
descendants, as much as eighteen years old, of Dr. Ebenezer
Eaton Kittredge, regularly connecting with either of his
marriages, are eligible to this society. She (Nita Sims)
married on November 22, 1916, Hopkins Payne Brea;^eale,
a lawyer of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, born October 16,
1886, son of Hopkins Payne Breazeale and Camilla Lachs;
he is a graduate of Yale, and the scion of a noted family
of lawyers, including his father and three uncles, Ross
Breazeale, of New Orleans, Louisiana; Drew B. Breazeale,
of Natchitoches, Louisiana, and Phanor P. Breazeale, form-
erly a United States Congressman. He also volunteered for
service in the World War, serving with the 358th Infantry,
90th Division, and was promoted to the captaincy "for gal-
lantry in action" during the offensives in September, 191 8.

(2) Eaton Kittredge, physician and surgeon, of Don-
aldsonville, Louisiana, born August 8, 1872; married July
30, 1896, Alice Kline, born February i, 1878, died August

15, 1914; he married (second) December 7, 1915, Dorothy
Prosser. Children of first marriage : Eaton Kittredge,
born October 11, 1897; Christian Kline, bom November

16, 1899; Robert Nicholls, born November 12, 1901,
drowned February 13, 1910, and Alice, born August 2.
1904.

(3) Marguerite, born May 10, 1874; died December
29, 1874.

(4) Francis Kelly, born October i, 1875; married

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(first) January 20, 1903, Lavinia Barton. Children: Lavinia,
bom September 5, 1904, and Grace, born December 16,
1901. Separated 1908, divorced 1910; married (second)
191 1, Ernestine Courreges. Children: Ernestine, born
January 15, 1912; Emma Kittredge, born December j8,
1913, and Francis Kelly, junior, born August 3, 191 5.

(5) Harry Vernon born August 4, 1877; died January
19, 1888.

(6) Emma, born September 11, 1878; married April
25, 1906, Arthur Crownover, an eminent lawyer of Win-
chester, Tennessee, born November 16, 1874, son of Wil-
liam Crownover, a farmer, and great grandson of Joseph
Crownover, a Revolutionary soldier of Virginia. He is a
graduate of the University of the South, at Sewanee,
Tennessee, where he took the highest rank in the law de-
partment. He has been favorably mentioned for Governor
of the State. Children: Arthur, born September 2j, 1907;
Emma, born December 18, 1909; Robert NichoUs Sims,
born January 15, 1912, and Margaret Heloise, born Febru-
ary 7, 1914.

(7) Ann E., born October 25, 1881 ; married June 17,
1908, Llewellyn Alexander Williams, now of Crowley, Lou-
isiana. Children, Anne A., born May 25, 1909; Llewellyn
Alexander, born September 19, 1910, and Sims Cunning-
ham, born July 30, 1912.

(8) Heloise, born August 12, 18S3; married December
5, 1905, Granville D. Bentley, a journalist of Donaldson-
ville, Louisiana.

5. Francis Robert, born at "Elm Hall" December 17,
1849; di^d St. Claire Plantation, Louisiana, June 2, 1902,
unmarried and without issue.

6. Lucie Estelle, very popular in society, winning and
winsome, was born at "Elm Hall," January 17, 1853; died
at Jackson, Mississippi, September 9, 1918; married March
24, 1881, Elijah Donald Barton, born Orange County, North
Carolina, November 10, 1829, died St. James Parish, Lou-
isiana, June 1-8, 1895. Issue :

(i) Bonnie Carrie, born at "Elm Hall," Januarv 9,
1882.

(2) Robert Ruff in, born St. James Parish, Louisiana,
January 15, 1883; married Rutli Adele Potts, May 25,
T908. at Chehalis, Washington. Children: ist. Robert
Ruffin, born at Jackson, Mississippi, August 25, 1910. 2nd.
Elijah Donald, born at Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1912.

130 The Ewing Genealogy wnn Cognate Bbanches

(3) Sallie, born St. James Parish, Louisiana, July 17,
1885.

(4) Frank Kittredge, born St. James Parish, Louisiana,
August 23, 1886.

7. Carrie, remarkably gifted as a vocalist, was Ix^rn at
"Elm Hall," March 21, 1855; died June 11, 1890; married
at "Elm Hall" March 21, 1876, Carroll Barton, born Nov-
ember 12, 1853, died June 12, 1906. Issue:

(i) Carroll, junior (first), born July 31, 1877; died
August I, 1880.

(2) Clara Smith, born April 5, 1880; married Septem-
ber 15, 1903, Wharton Green, born October 17, 1879.
Children: Margaret Barton, born Washington, District of
Columbia, May 8, 1905; Clarissa Packard, born East
Orange, New Jersey, June 28, 1908, and Wharton, junior,
born East Orange, December 19, 1910.

(3) Maud Ethel and Ashton Clifford (twins), born
August 28, 1883; died former, September 11, 1883, and
latter, September 18, 1883.

(4) Samuel Kennedy, born September 15, 1882; died
December i, 1908, at Jackson, Mississippi.

(5) Clifton Ivy, born December 3, 1884; died April
16. 1885.

(6) Arvon Allen, born November 4, 1886; died March
15, 1887.

(7) Carrie Kittredge, born at Magnolia Plantation,
December 18, 1887; married July 18, 1906, Charles Man-
ship Gordon, born at Jackson, Mississippi, November 4,
1883, died October 23, 1910. Children: Carolyn Barton,
born May 5, 1907 ; Charles Manship, born December 2^,
1909. She married (second) December 2T„ 1916, f.ogan
Haynes McLean.

(8) Carroll Barton, junior (second), born June Q,
1890; married in Jackson, Mississippi, October 18, 191 1,
Margaret Wharton Green, born December 6, 1889.
Child: Margaret Green, born January 2, 1913.

8. Tola, in personal attractiveness much like her sister
Jessie, was bom at W^inchestor Springs, Tennessee, Septem-
ber t6, 1859; died in Memphis, Tennessee, May 17, 1903.
She was married October 6, 1885, to Lucius T. M. Canada,
born July 12, 1861, a prominent lawyer of Memphis,
Tennessee. Issue: A son. Barton Kittredge, born Febru-
ary 13, 1891.

9. Oena, the sturdiest and most practical of the daugh-

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ters, was bom at "Elm Hall," April 18, 1862, afterwards
of New Orleans, Louisiana; married at "Elm Hall," Feb-
ruary 23, 1882, Herbert William Barton, a sugar planter,
bom November 29, 1858, in Assumption Parish, Louisiana,
died in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 9, 1902. Issue
of this marriage, as follows :

(i) Norwood Packard, born November 28, 1882, in
Assumption Parish, Louisiana; married January 20, 1909,
Ellen (Nellie) McDermott, born August 3, 1885, in New
Orleans, Louisiana. Children: ist. Norwood Packard,
junior, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 4, 1910;
2nd. William Andrezv, bom in Mercedes, Texas, December

31. 1913-

(2) Mabel Lee, born in Assumption Parish, Louisiana,
July 12, 1884; married May 28, 1908, in Crowley, Lou-
isiana, James Dickerson Carlton, of that town, who was
born in Hardin County, Kentucky, July 7, 1878.

(3) Ethel May, born in Assumption Parish, Louisiana,
September 12, 1885, afterwards of New Orleans,
Louisiana.

(4) Maude Marion, born in Assumption Parish, Lou-
isiana, July 8, 1889, afterwards of New Orleans, Louisiana.

(5) Herbert William, junior, born in Terrebonne
Parish, Louisiana, October 6, 1894, afterwards of New
Orleans, Louisiana.

CHAPTER XIX.

THE GREEN TREE: MATERNAL LINEAGE OF ELIZA JOSEPHINE
KITTREDGE, WIFE OF DR. FAYETTE CLAY EWING.

This was one of the most renowned of the aristocratic
Southern families; it was of English descent, hailed from
Virginia, and settled in Mississippi, where the different
branches of the family owned and occupied extensive and
wealthy estates, the seats of their luxurious homes, which
were the centers of elegance, culture and refinement of
that high type distinctive of the first families of the old
South, and which have perhaps, tout ensemble, never been
excelled in the annals of time.

The family originated in America with

THOMAS GREEN I*

and his wife Martha, who came from England, their birth-
place, to Virginia at an early period of its history, bringing
with them two daughters, one of whom married Blocksom
and the other Eaton. During the voyage a son was born
to them, Thomas, nicknamed "The Seagull" because of his
birth on the ocean.

THOMAS GREEN II

called "The Seagull," son of Thomas and Martha Green
(q. v.), is said to have been a sea merchant; he married
Martha Filmer, daughter of Major Henry Filmer, a British
officer, whose wife's name was Elizabeth, both born in
England.

This Henry Filmer, the father of Martha (Filmer)
Green, was a member of the House of Burgesses from
James City County, Virginia, in the year 1642-1643.^

Children of the marriage of Thomas and Martha
(Filmer) Green:

1. John, wife's name Elizabeth. Children: (i)
Thomas, who moved to South Carolina, married and left
issue, and (2) Elizabeth, who married Payne and left issue:

2. THOMAS (q. V.)

3. Elizabeth, married John Crawley, left issue.

*We are largely indebted for the pedigree of the Green line to the Fil-
son Club Publications, No. 14, by Hon. Z. F. Smith and Mrs. Mary Rogers
Clay, Members of the Club, same published in Louisville, Ky., in 1899, John
P. Morton & Co., Printers.

^Hening's Statutes, Vol. 1, p. 239; Stanard's Colonial Virginia Register,
p. 63.

(132)

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4. Rebecca, married (first) Condon. Issue: daughter,
Mary, married William Booker, of Amelia County, Vir-
ginia. She married (second) Marston. Issue: WiUiam,
Elizabeth, Thomas and John.

5. Mary, married (first) James Wilkerson. Issue:
Priscilla and Sarah. She married (second) Thomas
Walker. Issue : Thomas and Elizabeth.

6. Abram, of Amelia County, Virginia, was a colonel.
He married and left issue: (i) Sally, married Terry
Keen; (2) Abram, married and left issue; (3) Susanna,
married Vodkin; (4) William, married Miss Archer and
left issue; and (5) Obedience, married William Green.

7. Filmer, married Mary Walker. Children : Elizabeth,
Ann, Mary, Filmer, Edmund and Susanna.

8. William, married Amy Clay. Children : Thomas,
Patty (married W^illiam Williamson), Filmer, William,
John, and Amy (married Edward Moseley, of Roanoke,
Virginia.).

9. Hannah, married James Turner. Children : Two
sons who died young.

THOMAS GREEN III

son of Thomas and Martha (Filmer) Green (q. v.), was
born 1665; he was engaged in mercantile enterprises in
James City County, Virginia, during the earlier part of the
eighteenth century, dying in the year 1730; he married
about 1712, Elizabeth Marston, born November 25, 1692;
died August 11, 1759, having survived her husband twenty-
nine years; her will, dated November 12, 1758, was pro-
bated January 24, 1760; she was the daughter, the eldest
child, of Thomas and Elizabeth (Marvel) Marston.
Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Marston) Green:

1. A daughter, who married Thomas Coles or Cowles.
Issue : A son, Thomas.

2. Elizabeth, married (first) Dawson. Born from the
union a son, Samuel. She married (second) Leonard
Cheatam. Issue : Leonard, Abbey, Edward and James,
besides several daughters.

3. William, died without issue.

4. Lucy, born 171 7; married Henry Clay, 1735.

5. Martha (Patsy), born 1719; married Charles Clay,
1 741.

6. THOMAS MARSTON GREEN (q. V.).

134 The Ewino Gejn^ealogy wttii Cognate Branches

7. Rebecca, married Francis Jones, removed to South
Carolina.

8. Marston, of Amelia County, Virginia, father of
Grief Green, a very prominent lawyer.

General Green Clay, of Kentucky, was a son of one of
the marriages noted; he became conspicuous in the early
history of that State ; he was a gallant officer of the Conti-
nental Army, and a cousin of Honorable Henry Clay of
Kentucky; he was the father of two sons, Brutus Junius
and Cassius Marcellus, the latter of whom was from early
manhood a pronounced adherent to the Abolition cause,
and during President Lincoln's Administration represented
the United States at the Court of Russia.

THOMAS MARSTON GREEN*

son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Marston) Green (q. v.),
was born in James City County, Virginia, November 19,
1723; died in Jefferson County, Mississippi, 1805; mar-
ried November 21, 1752, Martha WiUs, born March 31,
1734; died 1783-5, in New Orleans, Louisiana; she was the
eldest daughter of Filmer Wills and his wife, Ann Harwood.

Major William Harwood, the father of Ann Harwood,
was a member of the House of Burgesses from Warwick
County, Virginia, year 1714/ and for many years Justice
of the same County; he died June 2, 1737.'

Children of Thomas Marston and Martha (Wills)
Green :

1. Elizabeth, born October 21, 1753; died in infancy.

2. Henry Filmer, born November 11, 1755; died young;
no issue.

3. Thomas Marston, junior, bom February 6, 1758, in
James City County, Virginia; died 1812, in Jefferson
County, Mississippi; was Representative of the Mississippi
Territory in the Seventh Congress of the United States
(1802-1803); he married Martha Kirkland, February 15,
1780, who died November 15, 1805. Children (all bom in
Jefferson County, Mississippi) :

(i) Joseph Kirkland, born November 16, 1780; mar-
ried about 1803, Mildred Meriwether Cabell.' Their issue:

*The middle name appears to have been mostly dropped in historic
references to him, the usual designation being "Col. Thomas Green."

'Stanard's Colonial Virginia Register, p. 100.

■^Va. Gazette.

-For continuation of this line, see "The Cabells and Their Kin," pp.
306 et seq.

The Ewing Genealogy with Cog sath Branches 135

I St. Martha Augusta, born January 31, 1806; died October
10, 1864; married January 8, 1829, Joseph Eggleston Jones,
born January 2, 1793, died April 17, 1852. Children:
Joseph Cabell, Thomas Henry, Eugene D., Samuel Cabell,
Sarah V., Archelaus Kirkland, Wm. Syme, Meriwether
Lewis, James Railey, Lucy A., and Meredith Dabney. 2nd.
Samuel Cabell, married 1832, his cousin Augusta Kirkland,
daughter of Archelaus and Jane (Green) Kirkland, latter
sister of Joseph Kirkland (supra) ; no issue. 3rd. Lucy
Ann Green. 4th. Sarah Virginia, married Amnion Han-
cock, of Lynchburg, Virginia. 5th. Thomas Marston, died
young; no issue.

(2) Elizabeth, born January 18, 1783; died November
15. 1805 ; married John Davidson. Issue : ist, Thomas Green,
married Miss George, of Louisiana; had children. 2nd.
Martha Leminda, married Owen Dorsey; two children.
Holmes and Martha ; former married Jane West, and after-
wards, Mrs. Bowman, of Louisiana; and latter, C. H. For-
man, both having children. 3rd. John, married twice, sup-
posed to have descendants in Texas. 4th. Filmer William,
and 5th. Mary Eliza, both of w^hom probably died before
maturity.

(3) Mary (Polly,*), married Charles B. Howell.
Children: ist. Rebecca, married Thomas Jefferson Green,
son of Abram, brother of Thomas M. Green (the Congress-
man), who was her first cousin once removed, and had
children; 2nd. Kesia, married Stephen Forman. Children:
C. H. Forman (married Martha Dorsey, his second cousin
as above stated); Richard; Mary, married Reed; Patsy
(married Thomas West, her cousin), and Stephen.

(4) Martha Wills,* married John Hopkins; a daughter,
Mary Jane, married Armistead Bradford, of Tennessee.
Children : Thomas, who went to Texas, and Martha, who
married Robert (Bob) Foster, of Nashville, Tennessee.
Thomas, a descendant of this branch, married Susanna Bis-
land, and had two children, Thomas and Alexander, but the
information we have obtained leaves it uncertain whether
he was of the marriage of John Hopkins or of Armistead
Bradford, probably the son above mentioned of Armistead
Bradford.

(5) Jane Green, married Archelaus Kirkland; a daugh-

*A conflict appears in the documents before us as to which of the sisters,
M.-.rtha and Mary (Polly), married Howell and which Hopkins, but the
text seems best supported, and we suggest that in the final analysis, at this
late day, the wives being sisters of the whole blood, the only difference is
in a name.

136 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

ter Augusta, the only child who became of age, married
(first) Samuel Cabell Green, and (second) Blanton Ellis,
by whom she had two children, B. Smith and Helen
Augusta.

(6) Leminda, born July 5, 1761 ; died January 29, 1819;
married Major Thomas Hinds,* hero of the war of 1812,
ancestor of Captain Thomas Hinds of the Confederate
army.

Major Thomas Hinds, born in Burkley County, Virginia,
January 19, 1780; died Jefferson County, Mississippi,
August 23, 1840; had an illustrious career. In 1806 he
organized for defense of Mississippi a company of dragoons,
his first known act of public service; later, at the battle of
New Orleans (war 1812) he covered himself with immortal
fame by his marvelously brave attacks on the British while
leading as Major his Mississippi cavalry company, so much
so that his company, with personal mention of him, was
made the subject of a laudatory order issued by Major
General Andrew Jackson, there in command, on January
21, 1815. Major Hinds (referred to as General Hinds)
was defeated by George Poindexter for Governor of Miss-
issippi in 1819, but the next year (1820) he and General
Jackson were appointed commissioners to negotiate a pur-
chase from the Chocktaw Indians of a part of their territory,
and in 1821 Hinds County was named for him, and in the
same year, he with lieutenant Governor James Patton and
Dr. William Lattimore, were appointed by the Mississippi
Legislature as commissioners to select a proper site for the
seat of government, which they did, choosmg the present
city of Jackson, naming it for General Jackson. As further
recognition of Major Hinds' popularity and influence, it
may be noted that he was elected to Congress in 1827.

Children of Thomas and Leminda (Green) Hinds: John,
died in infancy, and Howell, married (first) Drusilla
Cocks, bom September i, 1809, in Jefferson County,
Mississippi; died April 9, 1841. Issue* Thomas, born
December 23, 1830; died in Greenville, Mississippi; Wilkin,
born August 3, 1833, and Leminda, born April 29, 1835.
He (Howell Hinds) married (second) Mrs. Mary
Ann (Coleman) Lape. Issue: Alice, John and Hov/ell,
first named dying when about twelve years old, and the

*The histories pretty generally refer to him as General Thomas Hinds,
but as he was Major in the war of 1812, and died before the Mexican war
of 1848, we prefer to ascribe to him the title of Major.

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other two, after their father's death (which was in Green-
ville, Mississippi, May 13, 1S68), going with their mother
to Missouri.

(7) Rebecca, born August 19, 1793; married Dr.
Thomas McCoy. Children : Mary, married Kavanaugh,
and Leminda, married Woldrich, of Hinds County,
Mississippi.

(8) William Marston, born January 10, 1796; married
Laura McCaleb; he died 1829; no issue.

(9) Filmer Wills, born May 25, 1798; married Emily
H. McCaleb. Children: ist. William H., no issue; 2nd.
Laura Leminda, married Robert Cox. Issue : William,
Drusilla, Emily, Laura, Ernestine, Holmes, and Evie
McCoy, who married John Cox Inge, of Meridian,
Mississippi.

(10) Augusta, born July 19, 1801; married J. Remsen
Holmes, about 1819. Children: ist. William Remsen, born
November 22, 1820; 2nd. Filmer Wills, born October 5, 1822,
died in infancy; 3rd. Joseph Forman, born July 24, 1824;
4th. Thomas Marston, born April 10, 1826, died young.
William Remsen Holmes above named, married June 22,
1841, Anna Maria Cox, born November 15, 1820. Children:
Howell Hinds, born January 2, 1843, Joseph R., born July
26, 1844, Martha Augusta, born March 4, 1846; William
M., born February 27, 1849; Robert, born January 28,
1851; Alice Anna, born December 10, 1852; Josephine,
born November 12, 1854; Aline, born April 27, 1856, and
Remsen, born December 26, 1857.

5. Abner Green, born January 21, 1762: died February
21, i8r6; married November i, 1784, Mary Hutchins, born
February 4, 1768; died February 4, 1825, daughter of Col.
Anthony Pintard Hutchins, a British officer who was re-
tired before the Revolutionary war, and of his wife, Ann
White. Issue :

(i) Thomas H., born January 23, 1787; no issue.

(2) James, born January 24, 1789; married Mary Met-
calf; his portrait now hangs in the library of his nephew.
Professor William W. Carson, of the University of Tennes-
see, at Knoxville.

(3) Mary A. M., born January 24, 1791 ; married April
17, 1807, General Cowles Meade, who was secretary and
also Acting Governor of Mississippi Territory. Issue: ist.
Cozvles, married Sallie Wolfolk, daughter of Joseph Harris
and Martha (Mitchell) Wolfolk, of Woodford County,

138 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

Virginia. Children : Emma and Ada, latter married
David Saf frans of Mississippi. Issue : Meade, Malvina
and Ada. 2nd. Martha, born October 14, 1826; married
Samuel Fisher, 1840. Child : Mary, married Thomas
White.

(4) Eliza Celeste, born November 26, 1792; married
(first) Joseph Bowmar, (second) David Wood; daughter
by first marriage, Mary Caroline, and by second marriage,
Eliza. Latter married William Conner, who was First
Lieutenant of the famous troop of cavalry from Natchez,
commanded by Col. (afterwards General) W. T. Martin,
and who later, after becoming Captain, v,'as promoted to
Colonel, and gallantly gave up his life as Gettysburg; they
left a number of children. The daughter, Mary Caroline,
born June 5, 1814, married Dr. Charles Abercrombie, son
of Rev. James Abercrombie, of Philadelphia, ]-'ermsylvania.
Children, among others who died without known issue,
were: ist. Elisa C, married J. J. Whoon, July 9, 1867;
had children. 2nd. John, of Florida, married and had a
large family. 3rd. Mary Josephine, born April 14, 1841 ;
married August 2, 1865, Clifford Stanley Sims, born Feb-
ruary 17, 1839, son of John and Emeline M. (Clarke) Sims,
who resided at Mt. Holly, New Jersey. Children : Charles
A., Clifford, Launcelot, Ralph A., John Clarke, Thomson
N., James Ross, and Ross Brainerd.

(^5) Caroline C, married May 17, 1814, Col. Joseph
Carson, who commanded a regiment of Mississippi Volun-
teers in the Creek War; he was born October 7, 1785; died
May 2y, 181 7. Their son, James Green, born March 8,
1815; died August 11, 1863; married July 28, 1835, Cath-
erine Waller, born January 20, 1815; died November 2,
1888, daughter of William S, Waller, of Frankfort, later of
Lexington, Kentucky, where he was for forty years the
cashier of the Bank of Kentucky. Children: Tst, Joseph
Carson, born October 19, 1843 ; died October 20, 1902, was
a Confederate soldier, has at the present six children living.
2nd. William. Waller, bom June 2, 1845; was a Confederate
soldier; he is at present Professor Emeritus of Ci/il En-
gineering in the University of Tennessee, at Knoxville,
having been active professor of that department from 1885
to 1916, when he resigned; he has been engaged as Con-
struction Engineer in important railroad building, and is
now a director on the Board of Naval Investigation, of
which Edison is President. 3rd. James Green, born March

The Ewixg Gk.nealogy with Cognate BiJANCiiirs 139

25, 1847; died unmarried, May 10, 1887; was a Confeder-
ate soldier. 4th. Edward Lees, born August 12, 184S; died
July 8, 1905; no issue. 5th. Katherinc, horn February 20,
1853, Carroll Parish, Louisiana; married November 21,
1876, Clifton R. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, born Novem-
ber 22, 1846, son of the late General John C. Breckenridge,
of Kentucky. He (Clifton R.) was a member of 48th to
51st United States Congresses (1883-1891), and later was
United States Minister to Russia (1894- 1897) under ap-
pointment of President Grover Cleveland.' Children: (a)
James Carson, now assistant Naval attache at Petrograd,
is senior Captain in the United States Marine Corps, and
has passed his examination for Major, which puts him in
line for the first promotion to that grade, (b) Mary Car-
son, wife of Richard Ryan Thompson, President of Cres-
cent College and Conservatory, Eureka Springs, Arkansas;
their child, two years old, being named Breckenridge. (c)
Susanna Preston Lees (called Lees) ; in 1916 a post gra-
duate student in French at Columbia, New York, (d)
Clifton R., junior, was born at Petrograd, then St. Peters-
burg, while his father was Minister at the .Russian Court,
and is now a student at Cornell University, having recent-
ly taken several medals and other distinctions in the military
line.

(6) Matilda .Susan, married James Railey, of Versailles,
Kentucky, son of Charles Railey and his wife Mary I\lay(),
daughter of Col. William Mayo, of Virginia. They had,
probably besides other children, a son, H. Otey Railey, who
married his cousin, Irene Green (q. v.), and a daughter,
Mary Eliza, born January 5, 1824, married January 24,
1844, Rev. Frederick W. Boyd, late Rector of the Episco-
pal Church, at Waukesha, Wisconsin. Children: ist.
James Railey, bom August 13, 1846. 2nd. Walter Stuart,
born November 9, 1859. 3rd. Lloyd T., bom December 19,
1 86 1, married Susan Patterson, and had a daughter named
for her mother. 4th. Charles Mayo, horn December 15,
1866.

6. Martha Wills, bom December 25, 1763; married Col.
Cato West, a man of great ability and extended influence
in Mississippi. Children : ( i ) Martha, married John
Davidson. (2) William, married Sarah Kirkland. (3)
Mary, married Edward Turner. (4) Thomas, died un-
married. (5) Eliza, married McCoy. (6) John, died un-

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140 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

married. (7) Anna, married Joseph Winn, of Franklin
County, Mississippi. (8) Susan, married her cousin,
Thomas West. (9) Charles, married Charlotte Neilly, of
Fayette, Mississippi. (10) Claiborne, died unmarried.
(11) Benjamin, married Pauline Wing.

7. Ann Harwood, born December 17, 1765; died young;
no issue.

8. Henry M., born November 8, 1767; married Jane
Davidson, of Nashville, Tennessee; their son, Thomas M,,
of Vicksburg, Mississippi, married Mary Templeton. Issue :
(i) Mary J., married Dr. William T. Stewart. (2) Lucy,
married Mr. McCutcheon, of Vicksburg. (3) Martha,
married (first) Mr. Caviness, and (second) John Calder-
wood. (4) John, married Lizzie Harris. He was a con-
federate soldier. (5) Malvina. married Captain John W.
Cobb. (6) Rosanna, died unmarried. (7) Joseph, a Con-
federate soldier, died unmarried. (8) William, married
Mary Paxton, of Vicksburg.

9. Elias, born October 9, 1769; no issue.

10. Filmer W., born April 6, 1772; no issue.

11. Abraham, born September 28, 1774, married Eliza
Caffrey. Children: (i) Filmer, born January 10, 1802.
(2) Thomas J., born June 6, 1804. (3) Mary Caffrey,
born March 17, 1806. (4) Rachel Jackson, born May
28, 1808. (5) John Donaldson, born 'June 8, 1810. (6)
Andrew Jackson, born January 31, 1812, (7) Robert
Hays, bom February 21, 1814. (8) Martha, bom Septem-
ber 2, 181 7. (9) Abram Ashbury, born April 3, 1819.
(10) Eliza, born August i, 1821.

Abram Ashbury, a cultured gentleman and profound
scholar, only recently died at Greenville. Mississippi, run-
ning a century close; he was the father of Mrs. Lucy
Yerger, wife of the late Col. W^illiam Yerger of that city,
and grandfather of the wife of Ben Humphreys, now one
of the leading Congressmen from Mississippi, being a mem-
ber of the United States House of Representatives.

12. EVERARD (q. v.).

Thomas Marston Green, senior, husband of Martha Wills,
is a conspicuous figure in the Green line; contemporaneous
history described him as a "bold, persistent and determined
man," and we may safely assert that he was brave in war,
daring in exploitation, and resourceful in peace. He was a
soldier of the War of the Revolution in the cause of In-
dependence, and his rank therein has been established as
that of Colonel.'' _^___

'Accepted Applications, N. S. D. A. R.. Nat. Nos. 146, 66217, 125,569 and

126,10'?.

8th. Robert Payne, born June 17th, 1862 married Lil-
lian Fowler November 7th, 1894 who died April 30th, 1895;
he afterwards married on September 19th, 1897 Clara
Fowler, younger sister of first wife, born January 14th,
1878, issue, Lillian, born September 22nd, 1900.

9th. Cora Louisa, born July 12th. 1864 died 6th day of
May, 1903, married James B. Lee, of Merigold, Mississ-
ippi, February 15th, 1888; issue James Holmes, Sidney
Baker, Thomas J., Joseph B., Cora Baker and Everard
Baker. All the Ijoys of this family with the exception of
Sidney, were in military and naval service in the late war
with Germany; Joseph and Thomas J. were in active serv-
ice in France, and Everard served two years in the Navy.

10th. Alice May, born July 7th, 1866. unmarried.

Thomas Francis Baker, together with his younger broth-
er, Everard Green Baker, after the death of their mother,
lived with their uncle and guardian, Abner Everard Green
[q. v.] at Gayoso. After his marriage, Thomas Francis
moved to the Baker home, adjoining the Gayoso planta-
tion, where he resided up to the time of his death. His
son, Robert Payne, now owns, and resides ar, the old Bak-
er homestead.

ADDENDUM.

TO BE INSERTED AT PAGE I4J OF

''THE EWING GENEALOGY."

(By Permission of the Authors.)

Thomas Francis BaKei was the oldest son of Thomas
Baker and Eliza McKinney Green, [q v.]. He was born
September 21st. 1824 and died March 18th. 1892; married
Martha Young Payne May 31st. 1849; born October 4th,
1830, died April 29th, 1868: she was the daughter of James
Payne and Jane Caroline Wood, and a grandaughter of
Col. James G. Wood. Her father was a native of Virginia
and her grandfather of Maryland; both settled at Church
Hill, Jefferson County, in the territorial days of Mississ-
ippi and reared large families:

The children of Thomas Francis Baker and Martha
Young Pavne were:

1st. Thomas Wilkins born July 30th, 1850. died Jan-
uary 17th, 1882, married Lula C Blake March 31st, 1880,
issue Martha Thomas,* born March 29th, 1881, married
Thomas Van Lear who died in 1920, issue Thomas Van
Lear. Jr.

2nd. Francis Johnson born F^'ebruary 21st, 1852, mar-
ried; no living issue.

3rd. Jane Caroline born August 1st, 1853, unmarried.

4th. Joseph Holmes Baker born October 4th. 1855.
married first, Virginia Brown October 3rd, 1882. born
xMarch 2nd. 1860, died. July 29th, 1911. Issue: Alice Vir-
ginia, born August 1st, 1883, married Junius Davidson
May 1906; Martha Pauline, born September 21st, 1884,
married William Richards Early, February 22nd. 1903;
Annie Louise, born October 6th, 1888, married Earle P.
Hogin April 15th, 1913. Joseph Holmes Baker's second
marriage was on January 31st, 1913 to Myra Lee Green-
wade, born April 15th, 1865, a sister of first wife and wid-
ow of P. M. Greenwade. deceased, of Whitnev. Texas.

5th. Martha Eliza, born May 20th. 1857, unmar-
ried.

6th. Edgar Wood, born November 19th, 1858. died
July 30th, 1902, married Cora Lee Vaughn March 3rd,
1885, issue Alma Lee, married F.arnest Thousseu; Edgar
Vaughn married Margarete Scott, and Charles.

7th. Everard Green, born November 16lh, 1860, died
August 18th, 1885, unmarried.

CHAPTER XX.

THK GREEN TREE CONTINUED: EVERARD GREEN, HIS
CAREER, MARRIAGE AND DESCENDANTS.

EVERARD GREEN

youngest son of Thomas Marston and Martha (Wills)
Green (q. v.), was born April 15, 1776, died at "Gayosa"
March 10, 1813; he married, in the year 1798, Elizabeth
Kirkland, of Virginia, born 1778, died at "Gayosa," Nov-
ember 6, 1833/ Issue:

I. Eliza McKinney, born November 15, 1802; died
January 27, 1837; married January i, 1818, Thomas Baker,
a widower, bom February 15, 1791, died March 15, 1832.
Issue of this marriage :

(i) Eliza Ann, born January 22, 1821 ; died August 23,
1821.

(2) Everard Green, born November 6, 1826; married
(first) September 6, 1849, Laura Lavinia Alexander, born
March 19, 1834, died July 2, i860. Issue: ist. Walter
Kirkland, born June 28, 1850; 2nd. Everard Green, born
March 4, 1853; 3rd. Mary Edith, born October 15, 1854;
4th. Laura Lavinia, born June 7, 1856; 5th. Eliza, born
March 12, 1858; 6th. Thomas Francis, born June 4, 1859.

Everard Green Baker, married (second) July 21, 1862,
Sallie Fleming, born July, 1842. Issue of this marriage:
Tst. Fred Nash, born .September 13, 1863. 2nd. Alice
Jeanetie, born February 21, 1867; 3rd. Robert L. and
Martha Gordon (twins), born October 28, 1868; former
married January 2y, 1897, his cousin, Mary Louise Whit-
tington, born October 19, 1870, died August 18, 1891. Chil-
dren: Joseph Kittredge, born October 15, 1897; Ralph
Douglas, born November 10, 1898, and Mary Louise, born
August 9, 1901. 4th. John F., born October 2, 1870; 5th.
Lizzie Antonia, born October 5, 1872; 6th. Sallie Bell, born
June 15, 1874; 7th. Florence, born March 15, 1876; 8th.
William C., born June 6, 1878; 9th. A^. Quintard, born
July 8, 1879; loth. Nellie, born April 22, 1881 ; nth.
Edzvard Oates, born May 24, 1885.

Robert L. Baker, who married Mary Louise Whitting-
ton, is novv' among the most prominent of the Louisiana
sugar planters; he is the owner of "Madcwood," one of the
ver>^ finest plantations of Assumpton Parish, and it is safe

'Tombstone at "Gayosa."

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142 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognaie Bbanches

to say that no citizen of that section is more highly esteemed
than he, not only for his skill and success as a planter, but
for his sterling character.

2. Louisa Sparks, born November 12, 1807; married
(first) Anthony Ferryman. Issue:

(i) Elizabeth, married Dr. Irvin Quinn, and had sev-
eral children, among them a daughter, who married Gordon,
whose son married Carrie Kittredge Barton.

(2) David, died without issue.

(3) Laura, married Dr. Stead, no issue.

(4) Martha, married Major Livingston Mimms, a very
brilliant man ; no issue.

After the death of Anthony Ferryman, the widow, Louisa
Sparks, married 2nd., Alexander Rogers Green,* January
14, 1836, at Holmesville, Mississippi. Issue of this
marriage :

(i) Margaret (Mag) Louisa, born July 2^, 1838, died
without having married.

(2) Caroline Frances, born near Terry, at Fine Spriiigs,
Mississippi, July 13, 1840; died July 13, 1875; married June
2^, i860, at Fine Springs, Hinds County, Misssisippi, to
Samuel Livingston. Issue: ist. Guy, born September 11,
1861, died June 29, 1863; 2nd. Clifton, born April 3, 1865,
died January 19, 191 5, married at Bentonia, Yazoo County,
Mississippi, January 28, 1897, Nettie Taylor; children:
Samuel Hilary, born January 9, 1898, and Clifton, born
August 25, 1899. 3rd. Bertha, a lady of rare gifts and
chamiing personality, born June 14, 1868; she is unmar-
ried, now residing in Jackson, Mississippi. 4th. Frank,
born August 26, 1871, died January i, 1898. 5th. Wills,
born May 20, 1875, died July 13, 1875.

(3) Cora Octavia, born September 11, 1842; married
William Wallace Montgomery, both dead. Issue: ist.
Louise, born February 15, 1865, married Joseph Lipscomb,
Jr. ; they have five children, two married, but names not
furnished. 2nd. Wallace, born July 26, 1867, and has died.
3rd. William Alexander, born January 25, 1870; married
Lillian Fastel Smith, December 8, 1897; children: Lillian,
born April 14, 1899, and Anna Davis, born June 18, 1901.
4th. Robert Estelle, born November 20, 1870, now living
in Chickasha, Oklahoma ; he is married and has two
children.

*He was from Maine, and was a scholarly and cultured gentleman, but
as far as known not related to the Greens of his wife's family.

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 143

(4) Antonio Mayson, born September 11, 1845; <iied
unmarried.

(5) Lucy Estelle, born April 18, 1S48; married William
M. Braoey. Issue: ist. Maggie Louise, born November
26, 1877; married May 3, 1898, Joseph Wyatt Grantham.
Children: Joseph Wyatt, born February 19, 1899; William
Bracey, born December 8, 1900; Lucy Green, born Decem-
ber 25, 1903, died in 1910; Malcolm Steven, born January
28, 1909; Robert Gordon, born July 29, 1912; Francis Wil-
lard, born January 17, 1916. 2nd. Albert Green, born
August 26, 1879, and has died. 3rd. Fanny Augusta, born
January 22, 1882, married September 24, 1903, at Terry,
Mississippi, William David Terr>', born November 25, 1882,
now residing in San Antonio. Texas. Issue, a son Robert,
born July 6, 1904.

4. Abner Everard, who measured up to the standard of
his proud family, married Sarah Jane Wood, daughter of
Ethan Allen and Nancy (Collins) W'ood, of Mississippi,
Ethan Allen Wood was a big man every way, honored and
honorable. Issue of the marriage of Abner Everard and
Sarah (Wood) Green were three sons and three daughters,
as follows :

(i) James Payne, a very cultivated and highly edu-
cated gentleman, who has long been prominent and influen-
tial in his section in public affairs ; he was graduated as a
lawyer, and taught school at one time in Port Gibson, Miss-
issippi ; married Felicia Anna W^ailes, daughter of Colonel
B. L. Covington Wailes, State Geologist, author of "Miss-
issippi Geology," a rare work and still a standard. They
had three sons and two daughters, all of whom died be-
fore maturity except the son, Abner Everard, who grew to
manhood, was graduated from the University of the South,
at .Sewanee, Tennessee, as a civil engineer, and later became
a licensed lawyer of both the common and civil law. At
the time of his death, in his young manhood, he was dis-
trict attorney of Tensas Parish, Louisiana.

(2) Robert A., died October 15, 1917; he married
Magda Turpin, of New Orleans, Louisiana, who pre-de-
ceased him ; no issue.

(3) W^illiam Kirkland, born October 29, 1849; married
April 29, 1885, Alice Smith, born March 12, 1866; he died
April 2-^, 1913. Issue of the marriage, a daughter, Leila
Lake, born May 9, 1886, who married October 9, 1907,
Grant Green Alexander, of Greenville, Mississippi, born

144 TuE EwiNG Genealogy mith Cognate Branches

September 12, 1882. They have one child, AHce Lake, horn
August 27, 1908.

(4) Fannie Adele, the eldest daughter, now living in
New Orleans, Louisiana, married Dr. Robert Payne, who is
dead ; no issue living.

(5) Irene, married H. Otey Railey, a cousin on the
Green side, both dead ; they had a promising son, Frank,
who grew to manhood, and died in New Orleans, Louisiana.

(6) Leila C, never married, and is now living at
"Gayosa," the old homestead, with her brother, James
Payne, and his wife, Anna (Wailes) Green.

Though all are old, each past "three score years and ten,"
and bereft of the dear ones gone before, they are yet young
in thought and feeling, awake with alertness to events of
interest; and, sustained by the "blessed hope of immor-
tality," they are patiently waiting to answer the final sum-
mons when it comes, "like one that wraps the drapery of his
couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams."

Everard Green, the head of this division, was a princely
man, and if we were asked what of his personal history,
what of his life and career, we would answer, that of a
wealthy Southern planter in the ante-bellum days, super-
vising imperiously his lordly estate, and enjoying luxuri-
ous, but remarkably cultivated and refined, association with
his equally high-born and grandly endowed neighbors who
were possessed of similar estates. Thus, in this gladsome
way, days would glide into weeks, and the weeks into
months and years, passing as swiftly and sweetly as tho
wafted along on the zephyr-laden notes of an Aeolian harp.
Yet, pausing a moment, may we indulge the reflection that,
deeply impressed as we are with the exaltation of service
dedicated to help of those engaged in moving the great en-
gine of the world's progress, we have no regret for the de-
parture of those halcyon times, grand as they were, when
contemplated from the dazzling splendor of their dizzy
heights. The burial of them, tho in tears and blood, has
resulted, as we think, in a resurrection where may be seen
glimpses of the radiance of a "New South" approaching
more nearly the equality of opportunity and the brotherhood
of man.

For a continuation of the Green line under Everard
Green's daughter, Martha Wills, who became the wife of
Dr. Ebenezer Eaton Kittredge (q. v.), see the Kittredge
tree, supra.

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 145

ELIZABETH KIRKLAND

wife of Everard Green (q. v.), was a Virginian by birth,
and while the name, sometimes written Kirtland, would in-
dicate Scotch origin, yet it is an old English name, the
family hailing principally from Cumberland. The "General
Armory" gives the family coat of arms as granted in the
time of William I.

The origin of the family in this country seems to have
been the arrival on the Hopetvell, in 1635, of two brothers,
Philip, born 1614, and Nathaniel, born 1616, who were sons
of Philip Kirkland, probably of Sherington, Bucks County,
England, whose wife's name is not known. Susanna, a sis-
ter of these brothers, married John Westall.

The son Nathaniel, with his brother Philip, went to Long
Island, and settled in Southold, but returned to Lynn, of
which he was selectman in 1678, and where he died in
1686. He married Parnell Kirkland, and their, issue were
three sons, Matthew, Philip, and John, born in Lynn
August 1659, died January 20, 1716, and five daughters,
Ann, Hannah, Elizabeth, born in Lynn, March 20, 1664,
married William Pratt, Mary, and Martha, born May 15,
1667, married (first) Joseph Blaque, and (second) Captain
William Southworth, of Compton, Long Island.

The son John, married Lydia, daughter of Lieutenant
William Pratt, and lived in Saybrook; he was adopted by
his aunt and uncle, Susanna (Kirkland) and John Westall,
and succeeded to their estate. He became quite prominent
in local affairs, having been appointed lieutenant of the fort
at Saybrook in 1702 and again in 1708.'

The issue of Lieutenant John and Lydia (Pratt) Kirk-
land were :

(i) John, born July 11, 1681, married Temperance,
daughter of Rev. Thomas and Hester (Hosmer) Bucking-
ham, of Saybrook, March 3, 1 702-3.

(2) Priscilla, married Thomas Jones.

(3) Lydia, married (first) Griffin, and (second)
Conklin.

(4) Elizabeth, married John Shipman.

(5) Nathaniel, married (first) Sara Chapman, and
(second) Phoebe De Wolf.

(6) Philip.

(7) Samuel, married Martha Whittlesey.

(8) Daniel (Rev.), born June 17, 1701, Alma Mater

'Colonial Records of Conn., vols. IV and V.

146 The Ewing GENEALociv with Cognate Branches

Yale, was first pastor of Newent Church, Norwich, Con-
necticut, 1720,' married July 15, 1723, Mary Perkins, by
whom he had five sons and seven daughters, among them
Rev. Samuel Kirkland, missionary to the Oneida Communi-
ty, and father of President John Thornton Kirkland (Kirt-
land) of Harvard.

(9) Parnell, married John Tully.

Temperance, daughter of John and Temperance (Buck-
ingham) Kirkland, married Lieutenant Andrew South-
worth, and Hannah, daughter of Elizabeth (Kirkland) and
John Shipman, married Samuel Southworth ; and Eliza
Lucy, daughter of one of these unions, married William
Goodwin Lewis, who had by her a son, Henry Martyn
Lewis.

Elizabeth (Kirkland) Green is doubtless a descendant,
through some ancestor who removed to Virginia, of the
Kirkland family above mentioned, but as a result of the
devastation in the South of the Civil War, the connecting
links have been lost.

This we know, however, that she was worthy of the best
in ancestr}' ; she was resolute of purpose, active in endeavor,
and courageous in her convictions — no namby-pamby
woman she, but a patriotic daughter and wife, ready ever
to dare for the right ; like Portia, "so fathered and so
husbanded."

James Hampton Kirkland, of Nashville, Tennessee, the
very distinguished scholar, linguist and author, now Chan-
cellor of Vanderbilt University, is probably of the same
lineage as Elizabeth (Kirkland) Green, but unfortunately
his family records have not been preserved, so that verifi-
cation is impossible.'

Among other descendants of the illustrious family may
be reckoned the family of the name in Houston, Texas,
formerly of Mississippi, which is held in high estimation
and includes Rosa B'.lizabeth (Kirkland) Noyes, widow of
L. T. Noyes, a high Mason and successful business man ;
Louise (Kirkland) Haralson, widow of E. M. Haralson,
who was a lawyer; Ida (Kirkland) Mullen, wife of Dr.
Joseph Mullen, a leading specialist of the eye, nose and
throat ; Edwin Wells Kirkland, a successful business man,
and the descendants of William Hinds (named for Major
Hinds) Kirkland, deceased.

^Saybrook Records, Vol. II, p. 4.
nVho's Who in America, 1916-17.

CHAPTER XXI.

THE GREEN TREE CONTINUED: THE FAMILY ACHIEVEMENTS
AND DISTINCTION.

We observe, in closing our narrative of the Greens, with
the cognate branch of Kirklands, that confusion has arisen
in some of the histories as to the different Thomas's of the
Green Hne, and as to the habitat of Colonel Thomas M.
Green during certain periods ;' but the confusion it is be-
lieved can be easily cleared away. Weaving the threads of
history into the woof of family tradition, with harmoniz-
ing effect, we have no difficulty in concluding that Colonel
Thomas M. Green, he of Revolutionary fame, lived in
James City County, Virginia, where he was born and mar-
ried, until in or about 1766, when he removed to North
Carolina, and Georgia, remaining there until hostilities
broke out between Great Britain and the Colonies ; that he
then went back to Virginia for service in the war, and
there enlisted and served in the war as soldier, with the
rank of colonel, and later returned, after the Revolutionary
war was over, to the Georgia section, and thereafter for a
time, before permanently becoming established, may have
lived or had his headquarters in Natchez, Mississippi; that
about 1783, he became involved in the altercation to be men-
tioned with the .Spanish authorities, was arrested and taken
to New Orleans, J-ouisiana, but was released, and that in
or before 1785, he became finally settled on his vast estate,
the homestead of which was known as "Gayosa," in what
is now Jefferson County, Mississippi. These conclusions
are supported by cogent circumstances. The result of a
close investigation which we procured to be made in the
Congressional Library, Washington, District of Columbia,
is that the arrest and incarceration in New Orleans must
have taken place between 1783 and 1785. The grant for
the estate, including "Gayosa," is understood to have been
in 1785, at any rate preceding a will made that year, now
held as an heirloom, whereby he devised "Gayosa," to his
youngest son Everard, and made therein no mention of
his wife, Martha Wills, which indicates that she had already
died, and that hence the perilous journey to New Orleans
on the occasion of his arrest, which cost her life, had pre-
viously occurred. "Gayosa" was named for the Spanish
Governor before whom he was taken when arrested.

'The Cabells and Their Kin, p. 306.
(147)

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Couple these circumstances with the certain evidence that
he, Colonel Green, did remove from Virginia before the
War of the Revolution, which as is known was being waged
between 1776 and 1781, and that he was a soldier, holding
the rank of Colonel, in that war, and the probable evidence,
that his soldier service was under enlistment in Virginia,
we are drawn almost irresistibly to the deductions
announced.

Since writing the above, we have been favored with an
apparently very ancient sketch of the Green genealogy,
dated August 28, 1867, by W. Holmes, a descendant of
J, Remsen Holmes, who married Augusta, daughter of
Thomas M. Green, the Congressman (vide, supra). It
tends to confirm the views we have expressed concerning
the abodes of Colonel Thomas Green, the officer in the
Continental Army, before and after the Revolution; for it
is there stated that Colonel Green's children whose nativity
was after 1765 and before 1774, namely, Henry Marston,
Elias and Filmer Wills were born in North Carolina, and
that the previous births of his children were in James City
County, Virginia, and the subsequent ones, that is, of Abra-
ham, September 28, 1774, and of Everard, April 15, 1776,
were in Georgia (Sketch, p. 2).

In Force's "American Archives," 5th Series, page 595,
proceedings of July, 1776, referring as we understand to
Thomas Marston Green, husband of Martha Wills, it is
said:

"Colonel Green, representing that only fifty (50) of his
Flying Camp Company are now in this town, armed, ac-
coutred and ready to march, and that a number of the
drafts of some of the companies of his Battalion have not
yet joined them, requests the sentiments of this Committee
whether those who are (ready) shall march for the camp
under his command, and what method shall be taken to
oblige the other drafts to follow."

The social eminence and political prominence and in-
fluence of the Green family are well attested by the his-
torical excerpts to follow.

In Lowry and McCardle's "Histoiy of Mississippi,"
Chapter VI, page 155, it is said:

"The Committee elected was Colonel Thomas M. Green*
Daniel Burnett, Justus King, Dr. John Shaw, Anthony

*He was a son of Col. Thdmas Marston Green, senior, the Revolutionary
ancestor.

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Hoggett, James Stewart, Chester Ashley, and Abner
Green* and these were all representative men, gentlemen
of character and education, who founded large families,
made fortunes, and their descendants to-day may be found
in large numbers in Mississippi and Louisiana."

In chapter VIII, page i86, it is stated:

"In December, 1802, the Legislature was again in ses-
sion. It enacted a number of laws, established Jefferson
College, and elected Colonel Thomas Marston Green a
delegate in Congress in place of Honorable N. Hunter, who
died at the Capital during the session."

Mrs. Clifton R. (Katherine Charlotte Green) Brecken-
ridge. National Number 146, and Mrs. John Cox (Evie
Green) Inge, National Number 66217, were accepted as
members of the National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, by descent from their great great
grandfather, Thomas Marston Green (husband of Martha
\\'ills), as a soldier with the rank of colonel in the War
of the Revolution; and in the former's application, in stat-
ing his Revolutionary services, the applicant quotes as fol-
lows from J. F. H. Claiborne's "Mississippi as a Province,
Territory and State," Vol. i, pp. 96, 228:

"Thomas Marston Green, an accomplished gentleman
and most useful citizen, was the son of Colonel Thomas
Green, the head of a numerous family and influential con-
nection. He (Colonel Thomas Green) was a Virginian
and an officer of the Continental Army. Removed to
Georgia and was associated with General George Rodgers
Clarke and General Elisha Clarke of Georgia, in their
schemes of attacks on the Spaniards. Colonel Green, with
a large party of friends, went to the Holston River, built
boats and descended the Tennessee to its mouth, expecting
there to find General George Rodgers Clarke, and his party,
but not finding them and being unable to ascend the Ohio
with their boats, they continued on to Natchez. Colonel
Thomas Green (the father of the delegate) had an inter-
view with the Spanish Governor, as agent for the State of
Georgia, and claimed the entire district for that State. He
was a bold, determined and persistent man. The Spanish
authorities, finding that he was likely to excite a tumult,
had him arrested and sent to New Orleans. His devoted
wife soon followed and from exposure and anxiety died
shortly after her arrival. This touched the heart of the

*He was also a son of Col. Thomas Marston Green, senior, tlif,' Revo-
lutionary ancestor.

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Spanish Governor and Colonel Green was released. The
family settled on the waters of Cole's Creek, in Jefferson
County.

"Colonel Cato West and General Thomas Hinds were
his sons-in-law, and by intermarriages it constituted one of
the largest connections in the district. Colonel Thomas
Green was a man of indomitable resolution. He made the
overland journey to Georgia, and was mainly instrumental
in getting the Legislature to pass the act asserting the juris-
diction of Georgia over the Natchez district, and organizing
it into a county named Bourbon, in 1785.

"His son, Thomas M. Green, was the second delegate to
Congress. His son, Abner Green, married a daughter of
Colonel Hutchins.

"Thomas Marston Green (the son just mentioned) was
a warm friend of General Jackson's. It was to his house
General Jackson sent his future wife (Mrs. Robards)
while her divorce was being obtained, and she remained
there fifteen months, and was married to Jackson in his
house."

In support of the statement of Revolutionary service
contained in her application, Mrs. Breckenridge gives the
following references :

" 'Mississippi as a Province, Territory and State," by
J. F. H. Claiborne, Vol. i, pp. 96, 228; 'Poore's Political
Register;' Sparks' 'Memories of Fifty Years,' pp. 150., 5;
Family Bible, Letters and Papers."

In William H. Sparks' "The Memories of Fifty Years,"
Chapter XI, pages 149, 151, referring to General Andrew
Jackson and his marriage to Mrs. Rachel Robards, a young
woman whose divorce was the result of her husband's
jealousy of Jackson, incidentally pays a high tribute to the
social standing and character of the Greens, as follows :

"It was during the period of his commercial enterprise
in Mississippi that he formed the acquaintance of the Green
family. This family was among the first Americans who
settled in the State. Thomas M. Green and Abner Green
were young men at the time, though both were men of
family. * * *

"The friends formed in this section of country by Jack-
son were devoted to him through life, and when he sent
(for it is not true that he brought) his future wife to Miss-
issippi, it was to the house of Thomas M. Green, then

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residing near the mouth of Cole's Creek, and only a few
miles from Bruinsburgh. * * *

"That there was any thing disreputable attached to the
lady's name is most improbable. She was more than fifteen
months an inmate of the house of Green, who was a man
of wealth and remarkable for his pride and fastidiousness
in selecting his acquaintances. He was the second Terri-
torial Representative of Mississippi in Congress, was at the
head of society socially, and certainly would never have
permitted a lady of equivocal character to the privilege of
a guest in his house, or to the association of his young
daughters. During the time that she was awaiting a
divorce (which she had applied for to the Spanish authori-
ties), Mrs. Robards was at times an inmate of the house
of Abner Green, of Second Creek, where she was always
gladly received; and he and his family were more particu-
lar, if possible, as to the character and position of those
they admitted to their intimacy than Thomas M. Green."

Lowry and McCardle (History of Mississippi, Chapter
VI, p. 140), speaking of the marriage of Mrs. Rachel
Robards and Andrew Jackson, and referring to the fact that
Colonel Thomas Green, as a magistrate of Bourbon County,
which then comprised the territory of Jefferson and other
counties, united them in marriage, similarly pronounces
high eulog>' upon the Green family, saying :

"Mrs. Robards divided her time between the families of
the brothers, Thomas M. and Abner Green, both of whom
were leaders in public affairs and in social life. The first
sat in the Congress of the United States as the second
delegate from the Mississippi Territory. * * * Both were
held in the highest esteem as men of courage and unsullied
honor. Thomas M. Green resided near the bank of Cole's
Creek, in what is now known as Jefferson County. The
next year, 1791, Andrew Jackson returned to Natchez and
during the summer of that year, he and Mrs. Rachel
Robards were married at the residence of Thomas Marston
Green in Jefferson County. * * *

"Colonel Thomas Green, the father of Thomas M. and
Abner Green, had been for years the agent of the State
of Georgia, and upon the establishment of the county of
Bourbon in the Mississippi Territory, was appointed a
magistrate of the county."

In "The Cabells and Their Kin," page 306, it is stated :

152 The Ewing Genealogy .vnii Cognate Ekanches

"Colonel Thomas Marstoii Green, a colonel in Conti-
nental Army. After Revolution removed* to Georgia. ***"

A family tradition has been, and it has found its way
into a history,' that Martha (W^ills) Green's mother was
Ann Howard, descendant of the noted Howard family of
England, of which Catherine, daughter of Lord Edmund
Howard, and niece of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey
and third Duke of Norfolk, was fifth wife of Henry VHI
of England; but unless the name was in America changed
to Harwood, the claim is illusory, at least a mistake.

It is interesting to note, as suggesting the recognition by
the people of the conspicuous services of the Greens in the
public affairs of Mississippi, that when the commissioners
mentioned as appointed by the Legislature, composed of
Major Thomas Hinds, Lieutenant Governor James Patton
and Dr. William Lattimore, had chosen the Capitol, naming
it Jackson, they "selected a site for the State House, and
called the square 'Capital Green ;' they set aside another for
a court house, and this was called 'Court Green;' a third
square was reserved for a college, and called 'College
Green.' "

The descendants of the Green line, if otherwise qualified,
are eligible to the patriotic societies predicated upon official
Colonial service, such as the Virginia Society of Colonial
Dames of America, under ancestors, as follows :

I. MAJOR HENRY FiLMER, a British officer, born in Eng-
land, who resided in the Colony of Virginia from before
1653 to after 1673, dying subsequent to 1673. He and his
wife Elizabeth, were the parents of Martha (Filmer)
Green, wife of Thomas Green H (q. v.), and he was a
member of the House of Burgesses from Tames City
County, for 1642-1643.'

Under him, Katherine (Carson) Breckenridge (q. v.),
a member of the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames of
America, thus presents in her application her claim for
membership :

"Henry Filmer, son of Sir Edward Filmer, of East Sut-
ton, Kent, England, came to Virginia before 1642; was a
Burgess for James City County 1642-1643, and soon after

"This should be, as the authors have shown, "returned" to Georgia, un-
less he lived in North Carolina before the Revolution and in Georgia after,
he having previously "removed" to that section and gone back to Virginia,
his old home, for enlistment in the War of the Revolution, in which he serv-
ed as Colonel from at least July, 1776, to its close in 1781 (Vide, supra).

'The Cabells and their kin, p. 306 et seq.

^Stanard's Colonial Virginia Register, p. 63.

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removed to A\'arwick County, where he was Hving as late
as 1673. He rnarried EHzabeth (surname not given) and
had a daughter Martha, who married Thomas Green. They
had a son Thomas Green (1665-1730), who married Eliza-
beth Marston (November 25, 1672 — August 11, 1759), and
had a son Thomas Marston Green who was born in James
City County, married Martha, daughter of Filmer Wills,
and later removed to Mississippi. Thomas M. and Martha
Green had a son, Abner Green, who was born January 21,
1762, married November i, 1784, Mary, daughter of
Colonel Anthony Hutchins, and dying February 21, 1816,
left a daughter Caroline C. Green, who married May 17,
1814, Colonel Joseph Carson (October 7, 1785 — May 2y,
1817) and had a son James Green Carson (March 8, 181 5
— August II, 1863), w^ho married on July 28, 1835, Cath-
erine, daughter of William P. Waller, of Frankfort and
Lexington, Kentucky. James and Catherine Carson had a
daughter Katherine Breckenridge, who married Clifton
Rhodes Breckenridge.

"References : Standard's 'Colonial Virginia Register,'
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography XV, 'Clay
Family' (Filson Club), 219-223."

2. Major William Harwood, born and resided in ^\'ar-
wick County, Colony of Virginia, died June 2, 1737, was a
member of the House of Burgesses from Warwick County,
1 714, and probably longer, and for many years Justice of
that County.' He married, but owing to the destruction of
the Warwick County Records, it has been impossible to
ascertain the name of the wife or date of marriage ; but
from the union there was born a daughter Ann, about
1714-1716, who became the wife of Filmer Wills, and to
them was born a daughter Martha, in James City County,
Virginia, March 31, 1734, who married Colonel Thomas
Marston Green (q. v.).

He, Major William Harwood, was the son of Major
Humphrey Harwood, who was a Burgess for Warwick
County, Virginia, 1685, and in 1692-1693;' he patented,
1652, a tract of 2070 acres of land in Warwick County,
granted in 1637, to his father. Captain Thomas Harwood.

He, Captain Thomas Harwood, came to Virginia in 1620,
and on June 28 of that year was appointed a member of
the Council (the higher legislative body), and was re-

'Stanard's Colonial Virginia Register, pp. 100; Virginia Gazette.
=Id. pp. 85, 89.

154 The Ewing Genealogy wmi Cognate Branches

appointed on July 24, 1621 ; but later, in 1629, 1630, 1633,
and 1642, he was a Burgess for Mulberry Island, and in
1644, 1645, 1648, and 1649, he was a Burgess for W^arwick
County, being Speaker of the House in 1648-1649. In
1652, he was again appointed to the Council/

Colonel William Harwood, Burgess for Warwick Coun-
ty, 1 742-1 775, and a member of the Virginia Convention
of 1776, was doubtless a son of Major William Harwood,
who died June 2, 1737; hence a brother of Ann Harwood.'

It has long been asserted in the Green family that Ann
Harwood mentioned was the daughter of Colonel William
Harwood, the member of the Virginia Convention of 1776.
To have been her father, he must have married her mother
when he was just grown, and have been about 80 years old
at the time he was a member of such Convention. Still
these restrictions are not inconsistent with his being her
father, but do tend strongly to make it probable that the
text is correct in ascribing Ann Harwood's paternity to
Major William Harwood instead of to his son. Colonel
William Harwood. However, as she was undoubtedly the
daughter of one or the other, and as each was in his time
a member of the House of Burgesses, either thus making
a descendant eligible to the Virginia Colonial Dames, dis-
cussion of the question would seem to be academic.

■Stanard's Colonial Virginia Register, pp. 115 et seq.

■Stanard's Colonial Virginia Register, pp. 29, 51, 54-58, 60, 62, 64, 67.

CH. XXII

PRESLEY KITTREDGE EWING

CHAPTER XXII.

PRESLEY KITTREDGE EWING, SON OF FAYETTE CLAY AND

ELIZA JOSEPHINE (kITTREDGE) EWING; HIS CAREER,

MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN.

PRESLEY KITTREDGE EWING*

son of Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing, senior, and Eliza Josephine
Kittredge (q. v.) ; born at "Ariel," Lafourche Parish, Lou-
isiana, July 21, i860; attended a preparatory school at
Pass Christian, Mississippi, between 1870-1873; shortly
after his father's death (1872), he temporarily discontinued
school, owing to financial reverses in his family, and then,
thirteen years old, personally solicited and obtained from
a New Orleans merchant, to whom he introduced himself,
advances on his own account for a country plantation store,
from which he made the money to resume school ; he later
(1878) entered the University of Mississippi, at Oxford,
whence he was graduated in 1881, before he was twenty-one
years of age, in both the academic and law courses, which
he had paralleled, taking in the former the degree Ph.B.,
and in the latter the degree LL.B. (first honor and valedic-
torian) ; he not only thus led his class, but developed high
talents as an orator, having taken the Phi Sigma and Wil-
loughby Read medals for oratory, and having been chosen
annual orator; his speech as a Junior, "The Wandering
Jew," thrilled and captivated his audience, eliciting an ova-
tion at the conclusion, and was published generally in the
Mississippi, Memphis and New Orleans papers.

He settled in Houston, Texas, where he was admitted to
the bar in the spring of 1882, and has since there resided
and engaged in the practice of his profession, which has
extended to the highest courts, Federal and State, including
important cases, personally argued by him, in the United
States Supreme Court.

His practice has been at all times general, varied as the
body of the law, and confined to no particular branch, but
perhaps the greatest display of his talents has been in the
equity field of jurisprudence and in litigation over land and
commercial interests ; he is said by his profession to have

"lulited by his wife.

(155)

156 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

pioneered or developed more or as many great juridical
principles as any lawyer of the South.'

He was for a number of years in his practice a partner of
Geo. Goldthwaite and Henry F. Ring, and an associate of
John Lovejoy, all distinguished lawyers, under successive
finn names, Goldthwaite & Ewing, Goldthwaite, Ewing &
Ring, and Ewing & Ring.

In 1899, he was elected and served as President of the
Texas Bar Association ; he is also a member of the Harris
County Bar Association, and of the American Bar
Association.

In April, 1905, he was commissioned and served as Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas."

He campaigned with brilliant success in the East for the
Democratic National Committee under invitations, begin-
ning in 1908; was one of the few Southern orators honored
by such choice for the sections allotted to him. During
his itinerary of 1908, he spoke at Syracruse, New York,
with Vice-Presidential candidate John W. Kern (after-
wards United States Senator from Indiana) to about ten
thousand persons, completely winning his audience, includ-
ing Senator Kern, who afterwards wrote of him :

'Vide, Texas Reports, Rutherford v. State, 15 App.. 236, 16 Id., 649; Cole
V. Bammell, 62 Tex. 108; Continental Nat. Bank of N. Y. v. Weems, 69
Tex. 489; Overstreet v. Root, 84 Tex. 26, s. c. 78 Tex. 571; Smith v. Swan,
2 T. C. A. 563, and XIV; Branch v. Baker, 70 Tex. 190; Cantrell v. Dyer, 6
T. C. A. 551; Cargill v. Kountze, 86 Tex. 386; Masterson v. Burnett, two
cases 37 S. W. 987, 27 T. C. A. 370; Houston Cemetery Co. v. Drew, 13 T. C.
A. 536; Inman & Co. v. St. Louis S. Ry. Co., 14 T. C. A. 39; Dunlap v. Green,
23 U. S. App. 24, s. c. 60 Fed. Rep. 242; Herman v. Likens, 90 Tex. 448; Ab-
lowich V. Greenville Nat. Bank, 95 Tex. 429, 433-4 (Though not the attorney
of record in these two cases, Judge Ewing in each prepared the argument
which resulted in the decision); Niday v. Cochran, 42 T. C. A. 292; Brown v.
Canterbury, 101 Tex. 86; Herndon v. Burnett, 21 T. C. A. 25, confirmed and
supplemented in his other cases of Sydnor v. Texas Savings, etc., Assn.,
42 T. C. A., 138, 94 S. W. 451, and Brewer v. Cochran. 99 S. W. 1033, and
Frugia v. Trueheart, 106 S. W. 736; Downey v. Hatter, 48 S. W. 32; Am.
Legion of Honor v. Giesberg, 17 T. C. A. 2, 42 S. W. 785; Tinsley v. Ander-
son. 171 U. S. 101, 1. ed. 91; House v. Am. Surety Co.. 21 T. C. A. 590, 54
S. W. 303; Besson v. Richards. 24 T. C. A. 64, 58 S. W. 611; First Nat. Bank
of Houston v. Ewing &• Ring. U. S. App., 103 Fed. 168, writ of certiorari de-
nied. 179 U. S. 686; Naquin v. Tex. Savings, etc.. Assn., 67 S. W. 85, 908,
s. c. 95 Tex. 313, 58 L. R. A. 711; Tinsley v. Magnolia Park. 59 S W. 629;
Nelson v. Bridge, 98 Tex. 523; Calder v. Davidson, 59 S. W. 300; Kimball v
Houston Oil Co.. 100 Tex. 336, s. c. 114 S. W. 662, and 103 Tex 94-
Moore v. Snowball, 98 Tex. 16, 66 L. R. A. 745; Peden Iron & Steel Co v.
Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp., Ltd., U. S. App., 151 Fed 992- Murphy
V. Galveston, H. & N. Ry. Co.. 100 Tex. 490. s. c. 101 S. W 439 9 'l R A
(N. S.) 762; Beaumont. S. L. & W. Ry. Co. v. Olmstead, 120 S. W. 596; Hous-
ton Oil Co. v Mason, U. S. App., 173 Fed. 1021; City of Beaumont v. Master-
son. 142 S. W. 984; Houston & Tex. Cent. Ry Co. v. Gray, 137 S W 729.
t u-ir^ Tex. 42; Central Bank & Trust Co. v. Hill. 160 S. W. 1099; Solan
& Bllhngs V. Pasche, 153 S. W. 672; Succession of Race (La. Sup. Ct.) 80 So
Kep. 234.

"Vide. City of Austin v. Cahill, 99 Tex. 172. 175 et seq.

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"Judge Presley K. Ewing of Texas, is a profound jurist,
a Prince amongst men, and one of the finest democrats
between the oceans,"

He is the author of treatises, legal and literary, which
have evoked great praise, among them. The De-facto Wife,
and The Rise and Progress of Education.

His renown as an orator is established and generally re-
cognized, and as a specimen of his eloquence as also of his
lofty professional ideals, reference is made to his speech,
at a Bar banquet, as published in part/

He represented successfully before the Trans-Mississippi
Commercial Congress, at Wichita, Kansas, in May, 1899,
the plan of United States Government appropriation for
deep water gulf outlet from Houston."

Upon the death of Mr, Justice Lurton (1914), and
shortly after of Mr, Justice Lamar (1916), and the resigna-
tion of Mr. Justice Hughes (1916), of the United States
Supreme Court, he was enthusiastically endorsed for
Justice of that Court ; perhaps no one was ever more
strongly or widely endorsed for the position. Among those
urging his appointment were Justices from four State
Supreme Courts, including that of his own State, and the
Senate of Texas unanimously, and it is affirmed by those
in a position to know, that he would have received one of
the two latter appointments, had the President given either
to the South.

Not for the purpose of eulogy, but merely as reflecting
the estimate in which Judge Ewing is held as man, lawyer
and jurist by his compatriots, we quote from a few of the
endorsements of him to the President for the Supreme
Court :

Honorable Joe H. Eagle, Member of Congress from
Texas :

"He would make one of the illustrious judges on that
exalted bench, whose labors would make — not only for the
establishing of justice — but also for the abiding glory of
the Supreme Court as the final arbiter, under tlie Consti-
tution, of questions affecting or determining the ultimate
result of our system of free government.

"I hope this may in no sense be taken as fulsome; and I
excuse my positive utterances concerning Judge Ewing on
the ground that I personally by long contact know these

»Shurter's Am. Oratory of To-day, p. 189.
= Who's Who in America. 1916-17.

158 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

statements are true ; and I know of no other man of whom
I would say these things."

Judge Norman G. Kittrell, jurist and journalist :

"Any man who attains, as Mr. Ewing has done, a place
at the head of the bar of Texas, must necessarily be a lawyer
of the highest order of ability; and that he stands abreast
of the ablest lawyers at this or any other bar, cannot be
truthfully denied."

Hon. Joseph C Hutcheson, ex-member of Congress from
Texas :

"In mental qualifications, temperament and physical ap-
pearance, nature has marked him for the position ; a
scholarly lawyer, a trained jurist, and a profound thinker."

Chief Justice T. J. Brown, of the Supreme Court of
Texas :

"I believe Mr. Ewing qualified to fill the place well and
ably, and 1 know that his character personally and profes-
sionally is such as to commend him to your kind considera-
tion. His professional training has given him a broad c-\n-
prehension of legal questions which enables him to reach
sound conclusions."

Justice F. A. Monroe, of the Supreme Court of
Louisiana :

"Would be an eminently proper person to be selected."

Justice W. R. Blakemore, of the Supreme Court of
Oklahoma :

"Judge Ewing is a man of the highest legal attainments,
a profound scholar, of judicial temperament, and a fine
sense of honor. No man better equipped for the perform-
ance of the duties of this high office can be found."

Justice Garret J. Garretson, of the Supreme Court of
New York:

"Judge Ewing is of irreproachable personal character
and reputation, of superior intellectual and educational en-
dowment, and as a lawyer ranks among the best and ablest
in the country. His high standing as a man and a jurist
is not confined to his State and the 'Southland,' but extends
as well throughout the "Northland' and the whole country."

The Houston Post:

"He is a man in the prime of life and activity, he is
recognized wherever he is known as one of the South's
most eminent jurists, and his high personal character would
splendidly accord with the traditions of the august tribunal
which his friends believe he would adorn."

The Ewing Genealogy wrrn Cognate Brancjies 159

The Houston Chronicle :

"Mr. Ewing has a wide acquaintance over the United
States. In several campaigns he has carried the battle flag
of democracy into doubtful states.

"His ability to meet the requirements of the position
is universally conceded. Physically, morally, intellectually
and in the element of professional attainments he measures
up to the dignity and to the responsible duties of the
position."

The Memphis News Scimitar:

"His profound scholarship and discursive reading have
enriched his mind with a fund of encyclopedic information,
both legal and historical, and he is looked upon by the
legal profession of Texas as one of the master minds at
the bar. Certainly if President Wilson should elevate him
to the position, he will select the peer of any of the great
lawyers whose names are being mentioned."

Judge Ewing was for many years President of the ZZ
Club, the oldest social organization in Texas, and as such
a social leader, with a personality and conversation easily
adaptable and of peculiar attractiveness ; he is a member of
the important local clubs; he is a Master Mason, a Knight
Templar, a Shriner and an Elk, and of the college fra-
ternities, a Beta-Bheta-Pi.

There has been reserved for the last what Mr. Ewing
declares the best achievement of his life, his marriage on
February lo, 1885, three years after he began practice, to
Mary Ellen Williams, to whom he had been engaged for
seven years — since their college days. From this marrige
were born two daughters :

1. josiE VESTA, born February 11, 1886, and

2. GLADYS, born April 17, 1893 (q. v.).

The career of these daughters, as students and socially,
has been very similar; both went to a private school until
qualified for the sixth grade, then advanced to graduation in
the Houston High School, each there receiving her diploma
at 16 years of age, with a leading record. After obtaining
the High School diplomas, both took a finishing course at
the Finch School, in New York City, where each received
with high honor a post graduate diploma, besides a special
diploma in elocution ; both have been social successes,
popular and attractive, and much sought after and honored
not only in Houston and sister cities of the South, but in
leading cities of the East and West ; both have always
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borne with them, as though an engravement on the family
escutcheon, their lofty ideals of womanhood, but never
obstrusively ; and finally, both have a genius for poetry,
V^esta winning when a High School student a prize offered
for the best Christmas carol, and Gladys being accorded
high honor at the Finch School for poems which have been
by critics likened to Wordsworth. Commenting on one of
her poems, "A Vision," inspired by seeing Maude Adams
in Peter Pan, the famous editor and writer, Michael Wil-
liam Connolly,' thus said :

"That child ought to write more; she has a message for
the world."

We insert, as an easy way of describing their poetic
work, the following:

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
(Vesta Ewing)
"Brave shepherds were watching
In Bethlehem,

When angels brought tidings
Unto them.

" 'Behold a child is born.
This very night.
The Savior, Christ Our Lord,
The Light of Light.'

"The simple peasants bowed
In homage there
Before the Child who lay
In manger bare.

"And Mary pondered these things
In her mind.

And knew her Child was bom
To bless mankind.

"And so in after years
We worship Him
Who gave His life to save
Our souls from sin.

"For though upon the cross
He nobly died.
Yet his great teachings were
Not Crucified."

Wide, Who's Who in America, 1916-17.

MARY ELLEN (WILLIAMS) EWING

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A VISION.
(Gladys Ewing)
"The wonders of the world are manifold —

That is God's gracious gift to all mankind ;

Yet some there are who do not seek to find
The treasures He bestowed. The quest of gold
Has lured till warm and tender hearts grow cold,

A sordid search of gain controls the mind,

The sacred thoughts of life are cast behind.
And love of self o'ershadows young and old.

Oh, Peter Pan, come from thine elfin home
And teach us to forget and laugh once more;

With thee to 'Never, Never Land,' we'll roam
And faith renew in childish fairly lore.

Let Youth and Joy and Love o'er all abide,

A Fairyland is Life when thou art guide."

Both of the daughters, Vesta (Ewing) Vinson, and
Gladys (Ewing) Combes (q. v.) are members of the Na-
tional Society of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion, National Numbers 123439 and 123437, respectively,
each with eight bars ; ancestors, Robert Ewing, Ephraim
McLean, Surgeon Francis Kittredge, Corporal Ebenezer
Eaton, Colonel Thomas Marston Green, Captain William
Field, Major Abner Field and John Mills (q. v.).

They are also eligible to membership in the Virginia
Society of Colonial Dames; ancestors, Robert Ewing V
(q. v.), and Henry Filmer and William Harwood.'

MARY ELLEN ( WILLIAMS) EWING*

wife of Presley K. Ewing, was born August 7, 1862, in
St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana; married at "Sunnyside," the
parental home, in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, on Febru-
ary lo, 1885.

Mrs. Ewing has, and deservedly so, a prominent place
in "The Texas Women's Hall of Fame," published by the
Biographical Press, Austin, Texas (page 220), for her life
has been checkered with deeds of public and philanthropic
service, acts of patriotic devotion, and sympathetic help-
fulness to the wear>^ of foot and saddened of heart.

'The Virginia Society excludes justices of the peace of colonial times,
liiit Kohert Ewing was not a justice of the peace; he was a judge under com-
mission of King (ieorge 11 (1754) with circuit court and chancery powers,
of a court record, having unlimited and general jurisdiction in civil mat-
ters, extending to capital felony in criminal cases. (V^ide, Records of Bed-
ford County, Va.)

-Vide, "Green Tree," supra.

•Edited by her husband.

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She has been secretary of the Ladies Parish Association,
Christ (Episcopal) Church, and of the Robert E. Lee
Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, and of the Ladies
Reading Club, all of Houston, Texas; she has been First
Vice-President of State Congress of Mothers, and of St.
Humane Society; she has been President of the Ladies
Reading Club, of Parent-Teacher Association, State Presi-
dent of Sunshine Society, and Chairman of Legislative
Committee of Harris County Suffrage Association ; she was
at the time of her death First Vice-President of the Harris
County Humane Society, Honorary President of Child's
Welfare League, President of the Nobis Club (social), and
comparatively recently, at San Antonio, refused the First
Vice-Presidency of State Suffrage Association, for want of
time to discharge the arduous duties of the position.

She was commissioned by Governor O. L. Colquitt on
April i6, 1912, as a delegate to represent the State of Texas
at the Southwestern Conference on Tuberculosis, at Waco,
Texas, and similarly she was commissioned on April 8,
1913, as a member of the Board of State Bureau of Child
and Animal Protection, and in like manner she was ap-
pointed a delegate to the State Conference of Charities
and Corrections, held at Fort Worth, Texas, November 30
to December 2, 1913, inclusive.

The thought of doing something for the public weal was
with her a dominant one, and in this line of pursuit, she
was an inventor, as a sanitary measure, of an improvement
in street cleaners, for the suction, ignition and immediate
consumption of street sweepings, and was granted there-
for Letters Patent of the United States.

Mrs. Ewing may be justly described as having been in her
advocacy of measures, aggressive and determined in her
positions, but at the same time she was of engaging and
winning personality, optimistic, and as before suggested,
genial and of sunny temperament, cheerful and fond of
society, public spirited, ready in debate and resourceful in
support of her contentions ; a philanthropist and benefac-
tress, full of sympathy for the weak or suffering, and often
eloquent in her appeals for reforms in their interests.

As a club woman, she ever turned towards helpfulness
of others less fortunate ; as president of the Ladies Reading
Club, she established a system of circulating libraries for
the benefit of the country people; as president of the Par-
ent-Teacher Association and United Mothers Club, she ably

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battled through the Press and by personal canvass for the
adoption, and largely succeeded in the establishment, of
twelve reforms in the public schools, called the "twelve
necessities," looking to improved sanitation, safety and de-
velopment of the children, and as an aid to that end, she
advocated women on the school board, which resulted in an
exciting municipal campaign over an amendment she had
proposed to the city charter, in which she acquitted her-
self with great honor, the Press, even in Canada, portray-
ing her as a woman who, though a social leader, had turned
her talents to the service of humanity. She ardently took
up the fight for shorter hours for the store clerks, known
as the "six o'clock movement," and was instrumental in
effecting that reform ; in the course of her advocacy of
it, she eloquently argued before the State Federation of
Women's Clubs at San Antonio, and the National Federa-
tion of Women's Clubs at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, much of
her speech in the latter instance being published as a special
dispatch by great dailies.

Through all her enthusiastic pursuit of public affairs,
she lost none of her domestic charm, but remained always
the cynosure of attractiveness in the home, loving and be-
loved by her husband, daughters, and grandchildren, de-
voted to their interests and successes, and often helpfully
promotive of them.

Mrs. Ewing was accepted as a member of the National
Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Na-
tional Number 130955, with three bars, ancestors, John
Mills, Captain William Field and Major Abner Field.

CHAPTER XXIII.

WILLIAMS, FIELD AND MILLS TREES: LINEAGE THEREUNDER
. OF MARY ELLEN WILLIAMS, WIFE OF PRESLEY K. EWING.

Mrs. Ewing was the daughter of Charles Clark Williams,
and of his wife, Eudora Elizabeth Cross, and the great
granddaughter of William Field and his wife, Elizabeth
Mills.

THE WILLIAMS TREE

Her father, Charles Clark Williams, who was bom
August 21, 1833, and died August 11, 1900, is understood
to have been descended from Honorable William Williams,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence,
whose life of great sacrifice and achievement is familiar to
all, and through him from the Pilgrim ancestor, Robert
Williams, who came to America, with his wife, Elizabeth
Stratton, in the Rose, 1625, and helped to found the town
of Roxbury, Massachusetts, but, owing to the destruction
by fire of the family records, the intermediate links cannot
be given with completeness.

Much historic interest centers in the name Williams; in
different forms it is found in German (Wilhelm, meaning
"helmet of resolution"), and in Dutch, Danish, Bohemian,
French, Italian and Greek. A tradition with many ad-
herents traces the name to a tribe of North Wales in the
ninth century. The great seal of William the Conquerer
"Willhelmus" indicates that he was a Williams.

Oliver Cromwell was a member of the Williams family;
Carlyle has it, "Cromwell alias Williams." His ancestor
of the blood was Morgan Williams, a Welshman of con-
siderable property, who married a sister of Lord Thomas
Cromwell, afterwards Earl of Essex, whose descendants
assumed the name of Cromwell. Morgan Williams' father
was William Williams, who held a position of honor in
the house of the Duke of Bedford. It is also asserted that
Cromwell was a descendant of Richard Williams, who as-
sumed the name of Cromwell from his maternal uncle
Thomas Cromwell, Secretary of State to Henry VIII., with
lineage extending to the barons of the eleventh century.
Roger Williams, born in Wales, the founder of Rhode
Island, was a contemporary of Cromwell, both born in 1599,
and it is said they were personal friends.

(164)

CAPT. CHARLES CLARK WILLIAMS

CH XXIII

The Ewing Genealogy wrrii Cogxate Bkanciies 165

The coat-of-arms of the Williams family of Wales, and
of Norfolk, England, which was that of the Pilgrim, Robert
Williams, here reproduced, is sable, a lion rampant, argent,
armed and languid, gules ; crest, a fighting cock, symbol
of watchfulness; motto, Y Fyno Dwy Y Fydd — "What
God willeth will be ;" side motto. Cognosce occasionem —
"watch your opportunity !"*

The author just cited in the footnote (Eleanor Lexing-
ton) to whom we are indebted chiefly for the above his-
toric narrative, thus observes upon the patriotic ardor of
the family :

"The Williams' have always been true to their flag in
war. Call to arms aroused their fighting blood. They
were in the ranks, they were fifers, drummers, drum-
majors, ensigns, surgeons, quarter-masters, sergeants, cap-
tains, corporals, colonels, lieutenants, adjutants, majors,
generals, brigadier-generals.

"Joseph Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill, was fifth in
descent from Robert Williams, Pilgrim. General Otto Wil-
liams was a confidant of Washington's. William Williams,
also a lineal descendant of Robert, was a member of Con-
gress, 1776, and a signer from Connecticut."

Charles Clark Williams, the father of Mrs. Ewing, re-
ceived his early education at Georgetown Military
Academy, Kentucky ; he was the son of Joseph Crawley
(born 1773, died 1857), ^ scholarly man, a college professor
of Greek and Latin, and of Harriett (Gark) Williams,
who were born in Culpepper County, C. H., Virginia, and
afterwards lived in Baltimore, Maryland, whence they re-
moved to Lexington, Kentucky, and later, in 1828, to
Lafourche, Louisiana. He accompanied his parents in
these removals, and, having espoused the cause of seces-
sion, he joined the Confederate army in 1862, was a gal-
lant soldier, serving as captain of company C in Colonel
Vick's regiment of infantry, and participating in the en-
gagements at Bisland, Brashear (now Morgan City) and
Vermillion bayou. In 1855, he married Miss A^melia Camp,
of New Orleans, Louisiana, who died the following year,
leaving no issue; and, on February 13, 1861, he married
Miss Eudora Elizabeth Cross, from which union was born
the daughter, Mary Ellen, who was the eldest child, and in
her are to be found many of her father's splendid qualities to

*Eleanor Lexington's sketch in the Times Democrat, of New Orleans, La.

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a very marked degree; among them, a resolute purpose,
dauntless and invincible, indefatigable energy in the prose-
cution of an endeavor, and withal a sunshiny temperament
like a benediction. His capacity to overcome opposition as
well as obstacles was strikingly shown by the readiness with
which he repaired the ravages of the Civil War, which
destroyed the considerable fortune he had accumulated ; for
thereafter, he rapidly became one of the wealthiest and
most influential of the sugar planters of his section (La-
fourche, Louisiana), and best of all, through the trying
ordeal of the regaining struggle, he preserved untarnished
his unswerving integrity and honor, bearing ever aloft the
family escutcheon, and so guiding his course that he, re-
spected by all and loved by those who knew him, might at
each nightfall exclaim : "Tomorrow, do thy worst, I've
lived to-day !"

THE FIELD TREE

This is a family woven illustriously into the history of
America, with talents in intellectual pursuits as diversified
as the affairs of men. Notable among the distinguished of
the name, being of the same family, are included David
Dudley Field, D. D. (1781-1867), of Connecticut (who
was graduated from Yale and became one of the most
venerable of the ministers of New England), and his re-
markably gifted sons, (i) David Dudley (1805-1904),
graduated from Williams College, a very eminent lav.yer;
(2) Stephen Johnson, bom 1816, famous Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States; (3) Cyrus West
(1819-1892), of great and successful business enterprise;
(4) the Rev. Henry Martyn, born 1822, a prominent minis-
ter and distinguished author."

The task of tracing the lineage of the Fields has been
in the main relieved of original research by us, as that work
has been so admirably performed by others, from whom we
quote freely.

In "Genealogy of the Fields of Providence, Rhode
Island," as traced by Mrs. Harriet A. Brownwell, we read :

"It is said by the genealogist of the family of Zachariah
Field, who first settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, that
'the first individuals of the name of Field, — William and
John — that settled in Providence, emigrated to this coun-
try in 1632, and no record of this family is to be found in

^Int. Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, pp. 830 831.

jfitlb

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 167

Rhode Island earlier than 1636. At tliat time we find the
name of William Ffeld, Ffeild, or Ffield, and a year later
that of John Ffeld, Ffeild, or Ffield, in the public records
of Providence.'

"Roth William and John Ffield were employed in the
transaction of the business of the colonies, and both were
appointed members of a Committee for arranging and estab-
lishing a 'General Court' at Newport, Rhode Island, in
1646.

"It is stated by Henry M. Field, the genealogist of the
family of his father, David Dudley Field, D. D., of Stock-
bridge, Massachusetts, that a few years after the arrival
of his ancestor, Zachariah Field, who settled in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, two brothers, William and John Field, ap-
peared at Providence, from whom are descended a large
number of Fields in the State of Rhode Island.' " (In-
troduction, p. 3).

Again (p. 5), as follows:

"Most of the descendants of Thomas Field, the nephew
and heir of the first William Field, settled in other States,
where they and some of their descendants have left an
honorable record. The sons of Captain (William) Field
of Field's Point, were all of them noted men. A person
who was familiar with the society of their day said of them,
'no young men in the State were more looked up to than
Abner and Nehemiah Field.' They both held commissions
in the Continental Army before they were 21 years old, and
were present at the battle of Bunker Hill. They were lead-
ing men in public life and some of their descendants are
among the most enterprising Western men. 'Hon. George
Field, of Cranston,' the youngest son of Captain William,
held a high social position and was noted for his moral
and social qualities. He was always in public life. His
stern sense of right and his unyielding integrity, his stately
and dignified bearing, caused him occasionally to be alluded
to as an 'Old Roman Senator.' One of our orators in
describing the Rhode Island Assembly of other days alluded
to 'George Field, the Cato of the Senate.' "

In "Record of the Family of the late Rev. David Dudley
Field, D. D.," by his youngest son, Henry Martyn Fiekl,
it is said (p. 5) :

"The name of Field is an ancient and honorable one in
England. Some who have made a study of the subject pro-

168 The Ewing Genealogy wrru Cognate Branches

fess to have traced it back to the time of WilUam the
Conquerer."

And again (same page) :

"It (the Field Family) runs back directly to one who
came to New England not more than lo or 12 years after
the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, who was himself
a Puritan and bore the old scriptural name of Zachariah.
A few years later, two brothers, William and John Field,
appear at Providence, from whom are descended the large
number of Fields in the State of Rhode Island. In 1644
Robert Field came to the Massachusetts Colony, and the
year after removed to Flushing, on Long Island, where with
others he obtained land from the Dutch Governor at New
Amsterdam, as New York was then called. He became
the ancestor of the Fields of Long Island and New
Jersey. * * * *

"This Zachariah Field was the son of John Field, a
grandson of John Field, the astronomer."

And (p. 10) :

"Timothy Field, a descendant of Zachariah, fought in
the Revolution — joined Seventh Regiment in Kentucky, and
was appointed sergeant major."

In the work of two volumes "Field Genealogy," by Fred-
erick Clifton Pierce, which purports to give a record of all
the Fields in America whose ancestors were in this Coun-
try prior to the year 1700, it is said (Vol. I, pp. 9-10) :

"The name of Field is an ancient and honorable one in
England, and can be traced far back of the Conquest.
Probably not a dozen families in England can prove so
high an antiquity. * * * Burke states in one edition of his
'Landed Gentry,' under the head of De La Field, that this
family was originally in Alsace near the Vosges Moun-
tains, where it was seated at the Chateau de la Field, near
Colmar from the darkest period of the middle ages ; and
the Counts de la Field were the once powerful proprietors
of the demesnes and castles near Colmar, of which the lat-
ter still bears their name. These lords had large possessions
in Alsace and Lorraine, and are frequently mentioned in the
wars of these countries. * * * The ancestor of the Field
family, the first of whom there is any record, was Huber-
tus de la Field, who went to England with William the
Conqueror in the year 1066 from near Colmar in Alsace,
on the German border of France. He was of the family
of the Counts de la Field, who trace back to the darkest

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period of the middle ages, about the sixth century. In
Alsace the de la Fields entertained in the XI Century Pope
Leo IX and his court on the way to consecrate Strasburgh.
The edifice received many benefactions at their hands, and
several of them are interred there in the Chanteries they
founded."

And at p. 23 :

"Hubertus de la Field received of William the Conqueror
large grants of land for military services. In the XIV
century, in consequence of wars between England and
France, the English de la Fields dropped their French pre-
fix de la, and ever after wrote their name Field. As previ-
ously stated, Sir Hubertus, the first in England, settled in
Lancaster near the city of Chester."

Again (pp. 108-113), it is said:

"In the sixteenth century the name is illustrated by a dis-
tinguished astronomer, John Field, who was the first to in-
troduce the Copernican system into England. Copernicus
died in 1543, leaving as a legacy to the world, his great
work, 'The Revolution of the Celestial Orbs,' in which he
overthrew the system of Ptolemy, which had ruled the
world for over 2,000 years."

The author just cited (Frederick Clifton Pierce), after
reviewing the Rev. Henry Martyn Field's proofs that .the
family to which these pages relate is descended from the
astronomer, John Field, thus comments (p. 113) :

"These testimonies create a probability, amounting to a
moral certainty * * * These combined proofs can hardly
leave a doubt in the minds of the several branches of the
Field family, in America, that they are descended from
John Field, the astronomer."

THOMAS FIELD

"the nephew and heir of the first William Field," was born
about 1648, in England, died August 10, 1717; he swore
allegiance to King Charles II., June i, 1667, and was chosen
Treasurer of the town of Providence, Rhode Island, where
he resided, on June 3, 1672' He married in Providence,
Rhode Island, Martha Harris, daughter of Thomas and
Elizabeth (Austin) Field; she died about 1717.'

He was the son of Thomas Field, probably bom in
Thurnscoe, England, grandson of William Field, great

^Early Records, B. 3, 323.

^Frederick C. Pierce's "Field Genealogy." Vol. 1, pp. 124-126.

170 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

grandson of John Field, and great great grandson of
Richard Field, and great great great grandson of Wil-
liam Field, whose father was also named William,
but the author just cited, while tracing these ancestors, does
not review their families, simply saying in a note: "Names
of early ancestors are dropped. See former generations.'"

Children born to Thomas and Mary (Harris) Field
were :

(i) THOMAS, born January 3, 1670; married (first)
Abigail Hopkins, and (second) Abigail Chaffee.

(2) Mary, born June i, 1673; married John Dexter.

(3) Amos, bom 1677, died unmarried.

(4) William, born June 8, 1682, married Mary
Mathewson.

(5) Martha, married Thomas Mathewson.

(6) Elizabeth, married John Yeats, junior, January 24,
1709=

THOMAS FIELD

son of Thomas and Martha (Harris) Field (q. v.), bom
Providence, Rhode Island, January 3, 1670; died there on
July 17, 1752; married (first) Abigail Hopkins, daughter
of William and Abigail Hopkins, and (Second) Abigail
Chaffee, April 28, 1737, she dying shortly after 1752.
Children, being by his first wife, were :
(i) Thomas, born 1696.

(2) Stephen, wife's name Sarah; he died at sea Sep-
tember 10, 1727.

(3) Jeremiah, bora before 1706; married Abigail
Waterman.

(4) Nathaniel, married Margaret Barstow.

(5) Anthony, married Mehitable Whipple.

(6) Joseph, born before 1699; died at sea October 5,
1736, probably unmarried.^

JEREMIAH FIELD

son of Thomas and Abigail (Hopkins) Field (q. v.), was
bom in Providence, Rhode Island, before 1706, died Sep-
tember 2, 1768, where he then resided, either Cranston or
Providence, Rhode Island; he was married December 27,
1725, to Abigail Waterman, daughter of Justice Richard
Waterman. Children of the marriage were:

'Id., Vol 1, p. 105.

-'Field Genealogy," Vol 1, pp. 124-126.

■Id., Vol. 1, pp.' 175-177.

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(i) WILLIAM, born April 30, 1728; married Waite
Wescott.

(2) Abigail, born Januar)^ 2j, 1730; married October
7, 1743, Benjamin Gorham ; he was the son of Jabez, son
of Captain John Gorham, of Gorhamburg, England, and
Desire Rowland, who came to America in the Mayflower.

(3) Sarah, bom March 16, 1735, died in Chester, Ver-
mont; married George Rounds, January, 1758.

(4) James, born July 31, 1738; married (first) Hannah
Stone, and (second) Jane Stone.

(5) Thomas, bom September 7, 1741, married Deliver-
ance Hammon.

(6) Daniel, born August 30, 1743; married Hannah
Whitman.

(7) Jeremiah, born July 14, 1746; married Lydia
Colwell.

(8) Hannah, born November 13, 1749; married Jere-
miah Randall.'

WILLIAM FIELD

son of Jeremiah and Abigail (Waterman) Field (q. v.),
was born, Providence, Rhode Island, April 30, 1728, died
in 1816; he married January 4, 1750, Waite Wescott,
daughter of Thomas Wescott; she was bom in 1732, died
September 23, 1808. Their children were:

(i) Remember, bom September 7, 1751 ; died April 12,

1755-

(2) Pardon, born May, 1753; died April, 1755.

(3) ABNER, bom July 5, 1754; married Rebecca Payne.

(4) Moses, bom March 21, 1756; died December 6,

1763-

(5) Nehemiah, born May 15, 1757; married Sarah
Whitman.

(6) Roxana, born February 20, 1759; died unmarried,
March 26, 1778.

(7) Esther, bom January 10, 1761 ; married July 13,
1783, Captain William Waterman, of Cranston, Rhode
Island.

(8) David, born March 2", 1763; married Mary
Greene.

(9) Huldah, born August 2, 1764; died April 11, 1S24;
married (first) Mr. Tabor, and (second) John Warner,
February 22, 1798.

i"Ficld Genealogy," Vol. 1. pp. 242-244.

172 The Ewinq Genealogy with Cognate Branches

(10) Rhoda, born February 14, 1767; died unmarried,
December 26, 1832.

(11) George, born December 25, 1768; died August 29,
1839; married Abigail Davis, daughter of Moses Davis;
she was born 1775, died August 26, 1873.

(12) Eleanor, born December 13, 1772; died unmar-
ried, March 8, 1864/

From the authority just cited, same reference, we quote,
as follows :

"The presence of the French allies inspired the life of
the town. * * * The officers were on terms of pleasant
intimacy with the leading families, and their presence im-
parted an additional charm to social gayety. * * * The
old Field homestead, at Field's Point, was much frequented
by the French officers, where they were always sure of a
hearty hospitality, and where they participated in social
assemblies. * * *

"The patriotism of the Field Family was of the purest
sort. In 1780, William Field was appointed captain of a
company in the 2nd regiment, ' of Providence County
Militia. * * *

"The Field family at the Point were numerous. The
last survivor of the William Field family was Eleanor, a
woman of uncommon natural endowments. She sold the
Point estate to the City of Providence, and removed to
Elmwood, and died March 8, 1864, aged 91 years."

Captain William Field, the subject of this division, served
as captain in the War of the Revolution, for the cause of
Independence, of Third Company Militia, Cranston, May,
1778, down to June, 1779, and was captain, appointed in
February, 1780, of a company in the Second Regiment of
Providence County Militia, which service is established by
the following references :

C. R. S. A., Vol. 8, p. 394, Vol. 9, p. 9 :

Field Genealogy (1901) by Frederick Clifton Pierce,
Vol. I, pp. 63, 364, 546.

Revolutionary Defenses in Rhode Island, by Edward
Field, pp. 7, 80, 88.

Records of State of Rhode Island and Providence Plan-
tations.

Rhode Island Society Military Papers.

'"Field Genealogy," Vol 1, pp. 364-365.

The Ewino Genealogy wpth Cognate Branches 173

ABNER FIELD

son of (Captain) William and Waite (Wescott) Field,
(q. v.), was born July 5, 1754, Providence, Rhode Island,
died in 1792; he married (first) Chloe Whipple, no chil-
dren, and (second) Rebecca Payne, daughter of Captain
John Payne, of Cranston, Rhode Island, February 2,2, 1779;
she was bom in 1760, died June 19, 181 1. He was survived
by four children, all born of the second marriage, namely :
(i) WILLIAM, born in 1780, died in 1845; married
Elizabeth Mills.

(2) Robert Wescott, born February 28, 1781 ; married
his cousin Lydia, daughter of Pardon and Elizabeth (Wil-
liams) Field.

(3) Abner Whipple, bom in 1775; married Betsy
Tarbell.

(4) Stephen, born January 10, 1791 ; married Mary
Jordan.'

The text just cited, same reference, has this to say:

"Major Abner Field * * * was the son of Captain Wil-
liam Field of Field's Point, Rhode Island. Abner was
noted for his personal bravery. When he heard the news
of the battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charleston,
he instantly (1777) joined the volunteers, the Pawtuxet
Rangers, at Cranston or Longneck, now called Pawtuxet
Neck, under Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Arnold, second de-
tachment. In July, 1778, he was on duty at Pawtuxet
under Colonel Benjamin Arnold."

Again (pp. 364-365) :

"Abner and Nehemiah Field were distinguished for per-
sonal bravery. When the news reached them of the battle
of Bunker Hill, and the burning of Charleston, like Putman,
they instantly left the field, and with rifle in hand joined the
volunteers crowding on the scene of action. They were
placed in the body of reserves. During the war Abner was
taken prisoner and thrust into the notorious Jersey ship
prison. Both Abner and Nehemiah held commissions."

The following references established the services of
Abner Field, above mentioned, in the cause of Independence
as a soldier of the Revolutionary war, also similarly of his
brother Nehemiah :

"Field Genealogy," by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Vol I,
pp. 63, 364-365. 546.

"■Field Genealogy," Vol 1, p. 546.

174 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

Revolutionary Defenses in Rhode Island, by Edward
Field, pp. 7, 80, 88.

Rhode Island Society Military Papers.

Genealogy of the Fields of Providence, Rhode Island, by
Harriet Brownwell, p. 5.

Records of State of Rhode Island and Providence Plan-
tations.

Nehemiah Field, the brother above mentioned of Abner
Field (q. v.), was a soldier in the War of the Revolution,
ensign in Captain Jeremiah Olney's 4th. Company, Colonel
David Hitchcock's Regiment of the Army of Observation,
1775. He (Nehemiah) was born May 15, 1757, Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, died May 15, 1815, married August
27, 1 781, Sarah Whitman, bom September 25, 1761, died
July 21, 183 1. Their children were: (i) Arthur F., born
December 18, 1782, wife's name Chloe; (2) Aaron Leland,
bom October 14, 1787, married (first) Anna Ostrander.
and (second) Diana Mowr)^ (3) William Whitman, and
(4) Amy Waite; the last two having died apparently witli-
out issue. Amy Waite certainly so, she dying in infancy.'

WILLIAM FIELD

son of Major Abner and Rebecca (Payne) Field (q. v.),
was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1780, probably in
January, died in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, in 1845;
married Elizabeth Mills, daughter of the Revolutionary
soldier, John Mills, in 1841 ; she was bom in 1795, died in

1845.

William Field left Rhode Island when young and un-
married, and went West, finally settling on the Lafourche
in Louisiana, and seems in consequence of drifting away
from early associations to have been lost sight of for a time
in the East and assumed to have died young, unmarried.

In point of fact, after settling in Louisiana, he was pros-
perous and accumulated considerable wealth. Field Lake,
near Lockport, Louisiana, was named for him. He was an
architect, but engaged in various business enterprises, be-
came prominent in the section of his domicile and when he
died on the Lafourche, in 1845, ^e was much eulogized by
the Press and lamented by a large circle of relatives and
friends.

As stated, he married Elizabeth Mills, in 18 14, and by
her he had eleven children :

i"Field Genealogy," pp. S46-.W.

EUDORA ELIZABETH (CROSS) WILLIAMS

The Ewixg Genealogy wirii Cogxate Branches 175

(i) William, born 1815, died 1848.

(2) Eliza, died 1897.

(3) Sarah C.

(4) John Haywood, died 1854.

(5) MARY PIERCE, born 1819, died March 13, 1893.

(6) Hudson, died 1866.

(7) Josephine, bom 1845.

(8) Edwin, died 1853.

(9) Fielding, died young.

(10) Adalia, died young.

(11) Maria, born September 21, 1835, ^i^^ Januarj^ 15,
191 1, married \\'illiam Darden.

MARY PIERCE FIELD

daughter of William and Elizabeth (Mills) Field (q. v.)
was born in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, in 1819, died
March 13, 1893, and was buried in St. John's (Episcopal)
Cemetery, at Thibodaux, the seat of the parish just men-
tioned; she was married March 3, 1844, to Benjamin
Franklin Cross, who was a sugar planter of the Lafourche,
born in 1823, died in 1868. They had one child, Eudora
Elisabeth, born February 12, 1845.

Mrs. Mary Pierce (Field) Cross, after the death of her
husband, lived at "Sunny side," the home of her son-in-law,
Charles Clark Williams, and by her tender care and gentle
ministrations she became so endeared to her daughter's
children, that they regarded her not as grandmother only,
but as their dualistic mother, and as such her memory re-
mained hallowed in their hearts.

EUDORA ELIZABETH CROSS

daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Mary Pierce (Field)
Cross, was born in Lafourche Parish, February 12, 1844,
died in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 21, 1918, married
February 12, 1861, Charles Clark Williams, before men-
tioned, who was born August 21, 1833, died August 11,
1900. They had eleven children:

1. MARY ELLEN (q. V.), bom in St. Mary's Parish, in
or near New Iberia, Louisiana, on August 7, 1862, wife of
Presley K. Ewing, and mother of Josie Vesta (Vinson) and
Gladys Ewing (Combes) ; she died April i, 1919.

2. Charles Albert, born and died in 1864.

3. Joseph Crawley, born February 12, 1866.

4. Dora Louise, born December 8, 1867, married at
"Sunnyside," April 4, 1888, Henry Garland Bush, of New

176 TiiE EwiNG Genealogy with Cognate Branches

Orleans, Louisiana, born October lo, 1866; he died Feb-
ruary 20, 191 1. Children:

(i) John Garland, born February 28, 1891, in New
Orleans. He was a first lieutenant in the World War.

(2) Phillis Gresham, born October 25, 1892, in New
Orleans; married December 14, 1916, William Victor
Wrightson, of New Orleans, born November 12, 1886.

(3) Harry, born September 3, 1893. He was also a
lieutenant in the World War, and fought overseas.

(4) Ruby Bethea, born December 26, 1901.

(5) Gretchen, born September 5, 1905.

AH born in or near New Orleans, Louisiana, except
Gretchen, born in Atlanta, Georgia.

5. William Franklin, born December 26, 1869, married
in New Orleans, March 4, 1916, Marie (LeFoul) Loubat,
a widow.

6. Charles Clark Williams, junior, born November 17,
1871, died at "Sunnyside," August 10, 1887.

7. Minnie Roberta, unmarried, born March 17, 1874.

8. Daisy Belle, born November 2^, 1875; married April
24, 1895, Beverly Smith, M. D., of Franklin, Louisiana,
born April 17, 1870. Children:

( 1 ) Beverly Chew, B. A., University of Virginia, and
later from same University, degree M. D., born at Frank-
lin, Louisiana, February 7, 1896.

(2) Daisy Belle, born same town, April 6, 1899, a
student at Sophie Newcomb, New Orleans, Louisiana.

9. Ruby Bethea, born July 28, 1877; ^^^^ November 14,
1918.

10. Morgan Whitney, born June 29, 1879; died in Nev»'
Orleans, Louisiana, May 19, 1914; married January 11,
191 1, near Zachary, Louisiana, at the bride's home, Judith
Coleman Mills, his cousin, born about 1880. Children:

(i) Morgan Whitney, born January 12, 1912; died
June 5, 191 7, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

(2) Judith Coleman, born May 29, 1914 — both born
near Zachary, Louisiana.

11. Warren Dudley, born February 12, 1881, married
in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, on June 24, 191 5, Elizabeth
St. Vrain Moebius, born November 14, 1892, Point Coupee
Parish, Louisiana, daughter of John and Ida Clara
(Brown) Moebius.

All the children of C. C. and Eudora E. Williams were

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Ckancues 177

born at "Sunnyside," Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, except
Mary Ellen, whose place of birth has been given.

The "Little Mother," as she was called in the family,
Eudora (Cross) Williams, removed from the old home-
stead, "Sunnyside," before her death, taking up her abode
in New Orleans, Louisiana. Possessed of a charming per-
sonality, with a certain poetic grace and alertness of in-
terest, she was in society a general favorite. Even to the
last, traces of her early great beauty were visible ; indeed
in every line of her face, it would not have been difficult
to discern, as some writer has expressed it, "a dimple of
her youth." Always devoted in her sacrifices as a wife
and of motherhood, and kindly considerate of others, her
life was luminous with virtues which have adorned exalted
womanhood in all the ages of enlightenment.

Minnie Roberta and Ruby Bethea Williams (q. v.) be-
came members of the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, National Numbers 1 25106 and
128979, under Captain William Field and Major Abner
Field, also under John Mills, each entitled to three ances-
tral bars.

The other descendants of William and Elizabeth (Mills)
Field, if otherwise qualified, are similarly eligible to the
patriotic societies.

THE MILLS TREE
JOHN MILLS

the great great grandfather of Mary Ellen (Williams)
Ewing, was the son of Amos and Mary (Wright) Mills;
he was born in Virginia, 1758, and removed thence with
his parents to Pennsylvania, where he engaged with them
in farming; he was a gallant soldier, under enlistment in
Pennsylvania, for Independence in the War of the Revolu-
tion; he stood (for he was one of them) "where stood the
embattled farmers and fired the shot was heard around the
world."

Mrs. Ewing (Mary Ellen) has been accepted as a mem-
ber of the National Society of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, tracing to him as her ancestor. National
No. 130955. In her application his soldier-service is refer-
red to as having been as "a Private in Captain Joseph Gard-
ner's Company, Second Battalion, East Notingham, Chester

178 The Evving Genealogy wrm Cognate Branches

County Militia, commanded by Colonel Evan Evans, 1778,"
and reference is made therefor to "Page 521, Volume Five,
Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series."

Under the evidence, with apparent proper elimination,
this is correct; but whatever the company or companies or
period or periods of his service, the essential fact is beyond
question, that he was a soldier for Independence in the
War of the Revolution.

In addition to family tradition and ancient letters, bear-
ing convincing evidence of his Revolutionary service in
Pennsylvania, there is still in the family of his grandson,
Thomas L. Mills, M. D., of Zachary, Louisiana, the sword
which has been handed down as worn by him, John Mills,
in the War of the Revolution, and upon which there is the
inscription : "Draw me not without reason, put me up not
without honor."

He (John Mills) removed about the beginning of the
year 1781 to Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana, where on
April 16, of that year, he was married to Ferine Marioneau,
who was born in 1762, and died in 1829; he died in 1825.*
Their children were :

1. Mary, born 1782, married Mr. Pierce.

2. Plaegah, born 1790, died unmarried.

3. Ferine, born 1793, married Hudson Tabor.

4. ELIZABETH, bom 1795, married William Field.

5. John, born 1797, married Eunice Lilly.

ELIZABETH MILLS

daughter of John and Ferine (Marioneau) Mills, and great
grandmother of Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing (q. v.) was
born in 1795, and died in 1845; she married William Field
(q. V.) in 1814.

From this point the Mills line is the same as the Field
line (supra), to which we refer.

'Records of Point Coupee Parish, La.

JOSIE VESTA (EWING) VINSON

CHAPTER XXIV.

JOSIE VESTA (eWING) VINSON, DAUGHTER OF PRESLEY

KITTREDGE AND MARY ELLEN (WILLIAMS) EWING!

HER LIFE, MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN.

JOSIE VESTA EWING

daughter of Presley Kittredge Ewing and Mary Ellen Wil-
liams (q. v.), was born at "Sunnyside," Lafourche Parish,
Louisiana, on February ii, 1886; educated as already stated
and passed her young ladyhood at the parental home in
Houston, Texas.

She was married at Christ Church (Episcopal), Hous-
ton, Texas, on April 22., 1908, to Joseph Carroll Vinson,
born April 28, 1878, son of Baldridge Tyler and Alice
(Baldridge) Vinson, of an old and honored Southern
family. At the wedding, which may be numbered among
the most brilliant in the South, the Rt. Rev. George H. Kin-
solving, Bishop of Texas, and the local rector, the Rev.
Peter Gray Sears, and the bride's uncle, the Rev. Quincy
Ewing, of Louisiana, officiated.

After her marriage, she and her husband lived in San
Francisco, California, then in Tucson, Arizona, and again
in San Francisco. Born of the union were two sons, (i)
Kittredge (baptized Joseph Kittredge), born at Tucson,
Arizona, April 27, 1910, and (2) Presley Ewing (first
called but not baptized John Dana), born at San Francisco,
California, November 22, 191 1, both vigorous and promis-
ing lads, and the pride, joy and hope of the entire family.

Since October 28, 1914, Vesta has been single, living at
the home of her parents, Houston, Texas, with her little
boys, in the midst of a circle of admiring and warm friends ;
she is Secretary of the Lady Washington Chapter of the
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution,
also a member of the Chatauqua, and her papers before the
Houston Circle have attracted attention and elicited much
praise for their high excellence; she is a voracious and re-
tentive reader, and is often appealed to in the family as
"The encyclopedia."

Joseph Carroll Vinson is as before stated the son of
Baldridge Tyler Vinson, born December 6, 1842, near
Franklin, Louisiana, died November 26, 1918, and
his wife, Alice Baldridge, born April 2.2^, 1848, at

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180 The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches

Franklin, Louisiana, died September 15, 1919; they
were cousins, married July 19, 1876. Alice Baldridge
was the daughter of Joseph Hodges Baldridge, born
August 20, 1824, died December 22, i860, and his
wife, Sue Ann Vaughan, born 1828, died April 15,
1850 at Franklin, Louisiana; they were married
May 12, 1847. Joseph Hodge Baldridge was the son
of J, W. Baldridge, born May 16, 1798, died September
3, 1876, and Sallie Wells Hodge, born May 20, 1807, died
October 17, 1887; they were married in Sumner County,
Tennessee, February 2/, 1823. Sallie Wells Hodge was
the daughter of Joseph Hodge, bom in England, 1755, died
February 28, 1822, in Sumner County, Tennessee, and his
wife, Euphemia Agnew, born about 1765, died about 1815;
they were married in Guilford County, North Carolina,
February 20, 1782. Joseph Hodge was an emigrant from
England, a settler in North Carolina, and was a soldier,
ranking major, in the Revolutionary War, on the side of
Independence; and, while under the command of General
Nathaniel Greene, he was severely wounded in the battle
of Guilford Court House, on March 15, 1781/ For his
gallant services in the cause of Independence, he received a
grant of valuable land in Sumner County, Tennessee, where
he later lived and died. He was the son of John Hodge and
his wife, Agnes Shaw, of England.

'Juhn Allan VVeyeth's "With Sabre and Scalpel," page 531.

CH XXV

GLADYS (EWING) COMBES

CHAPTER XXV.

GLADYS (EWING) COMBES, DAUGHTER OF PRESLEY KITTREDGE

AND MARY EI.LEN ( WILLIAMS) EWING: HER LIFE

AND MARRIAGE.

GLADYS EWING

daughter of Presley K. Ewing and Mary Ellen Williams
(q. v.), was born in Houston, Texas, April 17, 1893; ^'^^
her elder sister, she was educated in the Houston High
School, and the Finch School (post graduate) of New
York, and passed her young ladyhood at the parental home
in Houston. She had a leading part in the Carnival at
Houston the year she made her debut, and was Maid of
Honor the following winter to the Queen of the Rex Car-
nical, New Orleans, Louisiana. She was also a brilliant
figure in Washington, District of Columbia, society during
the winter of 1915-1916. Though thus prominent in social
life, she was never exclusively devoted to its behests, but
was much identified with church and charity work, and at
all times both earnest in endeavor and faithful in service.

She married at the family home in Houston, Texas, April
25, 191 7, Abbott Carson Combes, junior, B. S. and M. D.,
of Elmhurst, Long Island, New York. The wedding was
a very brilliant function, and the clergyman officiating was
her godfather vmcle, the Rev. Quincy Ewing, of Louisiana.

Since their marriage, she and her husband have lived in
Elmhurst, New York, where he is engaged in the practice
of his profession.

Dr. Combes was a volunteer for service in the war with
Germany, and was commissioned first lieutenant of the
Medical Corps, serving until his honorable discharge on
cessation of hostilities.

Born of this marriage, a son, named for his father, on
May 2f, 191 8, who passed away when about a month old,
June 16, 1918, but he lived not in vain, for he left at least
to his bereft parents the sacred memory of newly awakened
love, and the rekindled hope of blessed immortality.

ABBOT CARSON COMBES, JUNIOR

husband of Gladys Ewing, was born July 4, 1884, son of
Abbott Carson Combes, M. D., and his wife, Marie Louise
de Raismes ; he was graduated from Columbia College, New
York, degree B. S., and from the College of Physicians and

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182 The Ewinq Genealogy wpth Cognate Branches

Surgeons, Medical Department, of Columbia College, M.
D., and promptly entered the practice of his profession. He
is a Mason, Royal Arch, a member of a Colonial War So-
ciety and of the medical fraternity, Chi-Zeta-Chi.

The family from which Dr. Combes descends is a dis-
tinguished one, and in it men of importance may be particu-
larly noted ; for example, in the line of ancestry, we in-
stance Thomas Jones, a lieutenant, John Seaman a captain,
and Daniel Whitehead, a major; Robert Waterhouse, Chap-
lain to the King; William Pope, Knight of the Bath, Baron
and Earl; Sir Richard Combes, knighted Februaiy 5, 1660;
Pierre Charles de Raismes, Counsel to the King and Treas-
urer of France ; and Degory Priest, who came to America
in the Mayflower.

The emigrant ancestor of the Combes family was Rich-
ard, of Hemel Hempstead, England, and the family were
settled at Hempstead, Long Island, as early as 1669. The
line of descent is, Richard,' John,' Daniel,' Nathaniel,*
Nathaniel," Benjamin," Clinton,' Abbott,' Abbott."

Nathaniel* was a recognized patriot of the Revolution,
who with unfailing loyalty rendered material aid to the
cause of Independence.

Benjamin of the line is understood to have fought in the
War of 1812,

Dr. Abbott C. Combes, senior, formerly Adjunct Profes-
sor of the Post-Graduate Medical College, New York City,
a member of the Founders and Patriots Society, and for
twenty-two years of the New York National Guards, and
Captain therein, is a prominent physician and citizen of
Elmhurst, Long Island, born July 21, 1858, at East Rock-
away, New York, married January 18, 1882, Marie Louise
de Raismes. Issue : Martha married James Robinson ;
Abbott Carson, (q. v.) ; Clinton, a lawyer of New York
City, in the firm of which Elihu Root is head ; J. de
Raismes, Captain Medical Corps, United States Army in
France ; Marie Louise ; Rodney, in the Navy, and Richard,
in the Army, of the United States, in the War with
Germany.

Marie Louise de Raismes, wife of Dr. Abbott Combes,
senior, born November 2, 1857, died October 30, 1912, was
of noted French lineage, traceable as far back as the 12th
Century ; daughter of Jean Francois Joseph de Raismes,
born in Paris, France, 1803, and Martha Ella Holt, his
wife. The fam.ily name is associated Avith the town of

Dr. ABBOTT C. COMBES. J R.

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 183

Raismes, in French Flanders. A first cousin of Marie
Louise de Raismes was Maria de Raismes, an author and
orator, and a leading spirit in the Women's cause in France ;
except Joan d'Arc, she is the only woman whose statue
has been erected in a public square in Paris.

Martha E. Holt, the mother of Marie Louise de Raismes,
was a descendant of Nicholas Holt who came to America
in 1636, and a granddaughter of William Chaffee, who
fought in the Revolution, taking part in the important battle
of Stony Point.

Another ancestor, Samuel Manning, was an ensign in
the Billerica, Massachusetts, Militia, and under him the
family is eligible to membership in the societies based on
service in the Colonial Wars.

CHAPTER XXVI.

CONCLUSION

There are probably a few in every family who are ready
to debase brains as a means of exalting brawn — to these,
groping in the lower levels, there will be no vision for this
book.

There are others, however, who see in the world's ad-
vancement and greatness the accomplishments of both body
and mind, working together, but with the latter the soar-
ing quality, — to those, and there are many, we are per-
suaded these pages will be read not without pleasure, aye,
even largely as an incentive, and in some respects as an
inspiration.

The benefits likely to follow from a record of family
achievements, if worthy, are believed to be sufficient to
justify the labor and cost of preparation.

We are inclined to largely agree with Edmund Burke,
that—

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn
at no other.'"

We do entirely agree with Edward Everett, where he
said in his famous speech of July 5, 1858:'

"The character, the counsels, and example of a great
man * * * may guide us through the doubts and difficulties
that beset us; they may guide our children and our chil-
dren's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while
America shall hold her place in the family of nations."

To the scoffer at family history, we commend a perusal
of thoughts to follow, from great men.

John Ouincy Adams, in his speech at Plymouth, Decem-
ber 22, 1802, said:

"Think of your forefathers ! Think of your posterity !"

If we may be pardoned another quotation from Edmund
Burke, it was he who observed :'

"People will not look forward to posterity who never
look backward to their ancestors."

No undue claim has here been made for ancestry, as the
preface indicates; indeed, the authors cheerfully concede,

'On a Regicide Peace, Vol. V, p. 331.
^"Washington Abroad and at Home."
'Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. Ill, p. 274.

(184)

The Grandsons
KITTREDGE AND PRESLEY EWING

The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches 185

as they themselves think, that family alone never made a
man truly great, and that "thought and deed, not pedigree,
are the passports to enduring fate." They also recognize,
with Seneca,' that "he who boasts of his descent, praises
the deeds of another."

But, at the same time, these observations are only part
of the truth, and standing alone are "lights that do mislead."
What Sallust'' says, is equally true :

"The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity;
it allows neither their good or bad qualities to remain in
obscurity."

A striking thought on the subject is that of Goethe in
Faust :'

"What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit ;
W^hat's genuine, shall posterity inherit."

While we have already sufficiently expressed our own
view, we may in emphasis of it adopt the following from
Whately's Annot. on Bacon's Essay of Nobility :

"Bishop Warburton is reported to have said that high
birth was a thing which he never knew any one disparage
except those who had it not, and he never knew anyone
make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of."

Dear reader, the point of parting has been reached. We
have wandered together in groves of sacred memories, to
be treasured ; we have stood with honored ancestors on
cliffs of immortal fame, but at every pause we have been
reminded, have we not, of the common end of all. For us,
the sun will soon be setting, with darkness closing in our
departure, but let us hope it may rise, and continue to rise,
with the effulgence of a radiant morning, upon generations
yet unborn, wearing worthily the name we bear.

FINIS

■Hercules Furens. CCCXL.

'Jugurtha LXXXV.

'Vorspiel auf dcni Theater, L.

INDEX

Page

"Across the Fields of Yesterday" 4

Adair, Mary 50

Priscilla 50

" Weyman 50

" William de Berry 50

" Zadock 50

Adams, John Quincy 184

Agnew, Euphemia 180

Alexander, Laura Lavinia 141

Allen, Elizabeth Ann 70

" Dr. Thomas 70

Alsace and Lorraine 168

Anderson, George Burwin 49

Ariel, the Home of Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing 10

Arnold, L 57

Avery, Susan C 3^

Baird, Sarah Jane (McLean) 87

Baker, Alice Jeanette 141

Rev. Caleb 40

Edward Oates 141

Eliza 141

Eliza Ann 141

Everard Green 141

Fred Nash 141

John F 141

Joseph K 126

Laura Lavinia 141

Lizzie Antonia 141

Martha Gordon 141

Mary 43

Mary Edith 141

Mary Louise 126

Nellie 141

N. Quintard 141

Ralph D 126

Robert L 126, 141

Thomas 141

Thomas Francis 141

Page

Baker, Walter Kirkland 141

" William C 141

Baldridge, Alice 179

Joseph Hodge 180

J. W 180

Baldwin, John 115

Ballantine, Lizzie 69

Barbour, Frances 38

Barrett, Charles G 50

Barron, Mary Pettis 61

Barstow, Margaret 170

Bartlett, Aubrey 123

Barton, Arvon Allen 130

Ashton C 1 30

Bonnie Carrie 129

" Carrie K 130

*' Carroll 130

" Clara Smith 130

" Clarence C 124

Clifton Ivy 130

" Elijah Donald 129

Ethel May 131

■' Frank Kittredge 130

" Herbert William 130, 131

" Lavinia 129

Mabel Lee 131

Maud Ethel 130

Maude Marion 131

Norwood P 131

Robert Ruffin 129

Sallie 130

" Samuel K 130

Walter Irving 121

Battle of the Boyne 4

Battle of Cowan's Ford 58

Battle of King's Mountain 85

Bearce, Clarence P 112

Beard, Nancy 40

Beard, Richard 25

Beauchamp, Anna yj

" Edwin E yy

" Elizabeth yy

" Francis Marion 76

INDEX III.

Page

Beauchamp, Presley yy

Robert B yy

" Sarah Ann 75

" Thomas J 76

" Victoria E 76

Beckwith, Jason no

Bell, Elizabeth Allen 47

Bennett, Alice 45

Eliza 46

Bentley, Granville D 129

Berry, Caroline S 60

Col. Elisha 60

Berthold, Bartholomew 15

Claire H, 15

Pelagie C 15

Billerica, Mass 108

Billups, John A 29

Black, Barbara 123

Charles W'illard 123

Virginia Louise 123

Blaine, Col. Ephraim 13

Ephraim II 13

" James 13

" James G 13

" Maria Gillespie 13

Blair, Eliza Jane 28

Blakey, George Thomas 56

Blanchard, John 115

Blaque, Joseph 145

Bohannon, Charles 59

Bond, Lydia Newton no, 1 11

Bonner, Edna (Ewing) 7

John 7

Bowling, Annie B 82

Elizabeth 81

Ella 81

George S 82

" Henry Gilson 82

Dr. James B 81

James R 81

James M 82

Lula 82

Mary Helen 82

IV.

Page

Bowling, Robert Chatham 8i

William E 82

" Temple 81

Bowman, Charles E 61

Bowmar, Joseph 138

Boyd, Abraham 45

Alfred 45

John 45

Linn 45

Martha 45

Rufus 46

Boyle, Maria 5

Bracey, William M 143

Brank, Ephraim 86

Houston 86

•' Robert 86

Breading, Anne (Ewing) 11

" Anne 11

" Caroline Margaret 12

" David II

" Elizabeth 12

" George 12

" Harriet 12

" James 11

" James Ewing 12

Mary 11

Mary Ann 12

Nathaniel 11, 12

Rachel 11

Sarah 11, 12

William 12

Breathitt, Caldwell 56

" Governor John 56

" Lucille 56

Breazeale, Captain Hopkins Payne 128

Breckenridge, Clifton R 139

" James C 139

" General John C 139

Mary Carson 139

" Susanna Preston Lees 139

Brevard, Adam 89

" Alexander 89

" Benjamin 89

Page

Brevard, Ephraim 89

" Family, The 89

Hugh 89

Jane 89

John 89

" Joseph 89

Mary 59, 89

" Nancy 89

" Nancy Young 16

Rebecca 89

Robert 89

Brown, Anne 116, 117

" James 47

" John T 39

" Nehemiah 117

Bryan, Elizabeth 38

" Lavinia 38

Buckingham, Hester (Hosmer) 145

" Temperance 145

" Rev. Thomas 145

Bugg, Lady 82

Burden, John E 63

Burgess, George 121

Burke County, North Carolina 85

Burke, Edmund 184

Burns, Nannie 76

Burr, Emma 34

Bush, Gretchen 176

" Lieutenant Harry 176

" Henry Garland i/S

" John Garland 1 76

" J. W 32

Phillis Gresham 176

Ruby Bethea 176

Butler, Jane 49

Cabell, Jane Browder 73

Mildred M I34

Caffrey, Eliza 140

Cameron, D 27

Camp, Amelia 165

Campbell, Aaron 57

Page

Campbell, Elizabeth 44, 56, 57

" Jane C 32

Joshua 55

" Margaret 31

Moses 56

" Penelope K 82

Campbells, The 3, 84

Canada, Lucius T. M 130

" Barton Kittredge 130

Cannon, William P 22

Carlisle, James M 49

Carr, Bettie 83

Carson, Catherine 139

" Edward Lees 138

" James Green 138

" Colonel Joseph 138

Joseph 138

William Waller 138

Cary, Lieutenant Edward Austin 102

" Fairfax 99

Castleman, Andrew 25

" Cinthia 25

Robert 25

Catron, James H 62

Chadwick, W. F 70

Chaffee, Abigail 170

William 183

Chapman, Sarah 145

Chappell, Mattie ']2, 73

Charles 1 84

Cheatam, Abbey 133

" Edward 133

James 133

" Leonard 133

Chew, Helen 56

Clan MacDonald 84

MacGilleain 84

" MacLean 84

Clarke, General Elisha 149

" General George Rodgers 149

Clay, Amy 133

" Brutus Junius 134

" Cassius M 134

Page

Clay, Charles 133

" Henry 133, 134

General Green 134

Clayton, John D 69

Cockrell, Allen Vardaman 71

Anna Ewing ^2.

" Ephraim Brevard 71

" Ewing 71

Francis Marion 71

Harriet 33

" Marion 71

Cole, Granville M 60

Combes, Dr. Abbott Carson, junior 181, 182

Dr. Abbott Carson 181, 182

" Benjamin 182

Clinton 182

Daniel 182

'■ Gladys (Ewing), Daughter of Presley Kitt-
redge and Mary Ellen (Williams) Ewing:
Her Life and Marriage, Chapter XXV. 181-183

Captain J. de Raismes 182

John 182

Marie Louise 182

Martha 182

Nathaniel 182

Richard, The Emigrant 182

Sir Richard 182

Richard (U. S. A.) 182

Rodney (U. S. N.) 182

Conclusion, Chapter XXVI 184

Condon, Mary 132

Conner, Colonel 39

Conwell, Mary 12

Coromilas, Lambros A 72

Corum, Lucretia Perry 53

William 59

Counts de la Field 168

Courreges, Ernestine 129

Cox, Phebe 40

" William 50

Crawford, Louise W 126

Mary Delia 126

William B 126

William M 126

Page

Cromwell, Oliver, alias Williams 164

Lord Thomas 164

Crosby, Lucy no, 113

Timothy no

Cross, Benjamin F 175

" Eudora Elizabeth 165, 175

Crownover, Arthur 129

" Emma 129

" Margaret Heloise 129

" Robert Nicholls Sims 129

Curry, Rebecca 47

Dabney, Ewing 98

" Thomas Ewing 98

Dr. Thomas Smith 97, 98

Dale, Michael Gundaker 60

Dalferes, Juanita 127

Danforth, Joseph 115

Darden. William 175

Daugherty, Eleanor 5

Davidson, Colonel Allen Turner 90

Elizabeth 85, 88

" Ephraim 89

" Ephraim B 51

Davidson Family, The 88

Davidson, George 88

" Jane 140

John 85, 88, 89, 135

Major John 88, 89

Margaret 44, 58

Robert 88

" Robert Vance 90

Sallie 89

Theo. E 90

Wilbur S 90

Colonel William 88, 89, 90

General William Lee 58, 86, 88, 89

William Mitchell 89, 90

Davis, Abigail 172

Allen 24

" Ewing 24

" James 24

Page

Davis, John 24

" Margaret 24

Martha 24

Mattie 69

Sallie 20

Dawson, Samuel 133

DeBerry, Delthia Staunton 50

De Gravelle, Marie 126

Del. Tate, Drusilla 39

De Raismes, Jean Francois Joseph 182

Maria 182

" " Marie Louise 181

" " Pierre Charles 182

Devier, Hugh 18

De ^Volf, Phoebe 145

Dexter, John 1 70

Dickson, Deborah 6

Rosa Lee 124

Dissenters, The 4

Donley, Margaret 23

Douglass, Lemira 31

Dunaway, James G 27

Dunlap, Louise G 47

" Mary Eliza 47

Dunn, Kyrum 55

Durley, Samuel 47

Dwight, Edmund Parsons 120

Eakin, Emma 32

Emmet 35

Spencer 36

Thomas 32

William S 32

Eaton, Corporal Ebenezer 116, 117

Eliphalit 117

Elizabeth no, 116, 117

Calvin 117

John 117

Josiah 117

Hannah (Fowler) 117

Elm Hall, the home of Dr. Ebenezer Eaton Kittredge. .131

Page

Emerson, Comfort 117

Emigrant Charles Ewing 7

Finley Ewing 5

" James Ewin 6

" Robert Ewing 7

" Nathaniel Ewing 6

" Thomas Ewing 5

" William Ewing 7

Eugenius 3

Evan 3

Ewen 3

Ewin 3

Ewin, James, Emigrant 6

James L 6

Mary 6

" William 6

Ewing Coat of Arms 2

Ewings in America, Different Branches of the,

Chapter II 5

Ewings, Origin and Early History of the. Chapter 1.. . . 3

(A)

Ewing, Abbie Jane 16

Adeline 48

Adlai Merriman 16

Adlai Osborne 15

Albert Barron 62

Alberta 32 '

Albert G 32, 33

Aletha Jane 57, 69

Aletha Olivia 69

Alexander 11

Alice Brevard 72

Alice Caroline . 60

Alice Sweet 16

Amanda F 53

Amelia 28

Ann 38

Anna 69, 71

Anne 7> 1 1

Ann Eliza 27

Ann Emily 15

Anne Eliza 39

INDEX XI.

Page

Ewing, Andrew 1 8, 24, 35, 36

Andrew, Son of the Emigrant William Ewing:
His Career and Descendants, Chapter VI... 25

Andrew B 25

Andrew J 2"]

Araminta 55

Arnold Thomas 64

Auguste Berthold 15

(B)

Ewing, Baker 44, 48, 51

Baker W 53

Bartus (Robert) 51

Baxter McGee 64

Benjamin B 38

Betsy 40

Betty G 62

Betty R 64

Betty (Martha) 45

Bryan . 38

Butler 47

(C)

Ewing, Caleb 40

Calvin 57

Caroline Sidney 14

Carrie A 69

Carrie Summerville 38

Caruthers 19

Charles 23, 40, 69

Charles, Emigrant 7

Charles, The Emigrant : His Birth, Career,

Marriage and Children, Chapter VHI 40

Captain Charles 4, 5

General Charles 5

Charles Edgar 60

Charles Lee 57, 62

Charles R 57

Chatham 44, 51, 56

Chatham S 57, 65

Chatham Tomlinson 81

Clara Louise 15

Clarence 0 70

Clay 73

Page

Ewing, Cyrus 38

" Cyrus G 2.'j

(D)

Ewing, Daniel B 38

David 40

Donald MacDonald loi

Dorothy 73

" Dovey Bryan 64

(E)

Ewing, Edwin H 32, 34

Elijah Finis 60

" Eliza 13

" Eliza Ann 17

Eliza Josephine (Kittredge) 103

Eliza M 2.-]

Elizabeth 18, 37, 38, 39, 56

Elizabeth A 39

" Elizabeth B 38

Elizabeth Davidson 75

Ella Harris 70

" Ellen 13, 50

" Ellen B 5

Elliot Winchester 16

" Emily Kennedy 15

" Emma 69

Emma Pike 9

Enid 102

" Ephemia 23

" Ephraim 47, 80

" Ephraim Brevard (Barnett) 70

" Ephraim MacDonald 100, 124

Ephraim McLean, Son of Robert and Jane
(McLean) Ewing: His Achievements,

Marriage and Children, Chapter XV 79, 91

" Ernest L 15

' Eugene M 64

Evaline J 55

(F)

Ewing, Fayette Clay 92, 93, 99

Dr. Fayette Clay, Son of Ephraim McLean and
Jane (Mclntyre) Ewing: His Career,
Marriage and Descendants, Chap. XVI 95

Page

Ewing, Dr. Fayette Clay II 98, 99

Felix Grundy i9> 27

Finette 69

Finette W 7°

Finis 44, 63

Finis, Youngest Son of Robert and Mary
Baker Ewing, and His Descendants,

Chapter XII 58

" Finis V 53

" Finis W 57

Finis Young 69

Finley, Emigrant 5

" Florence 35

Frederick Berthold 15

(G)

Ewing, George 5, 11, 12, 15, 17, 40, 47

George N. E 55

George W 13. 38

George Washington 83

Gilson 80

Gilson Payne 82

Gladys 159, 161, 181, 183

(H)

-wing, Hannah 39, 80

Harriet 14

Henrietta 38

Henry 18, 20, 23, 24, 31, 32, 34

Henry, Son of Emigrant William Ewing: His

Career and Descendants, Chapter V 20

Henry A 16

Henry B 64

Henry Clay 79> 83

Henry Clayton 20

" Henry Quincy 92, 93

Henry Wallis 16

Henry Watkins '/2, 73

" Hill 31

General Hugh 5

Hugh Boyle 5,9

Hugh McGavock 26

Hynes 36

XIV. INDEX

(I)

Page

Ewing, Ida M 64

Ida May 97, 98

" Isadora Windsor 63

(J)

Ewing, Jack 73

James 7, 11, 13, 15, 24, 38

James, Emigrant 6, 11

James Caruthers Rea 9

James Stevenson 9, 16

James Thompson 60

James Urban 52

James W 56

Jane 32, 44, 45, 50

Jane Butler 50

Jane C 35, 57

Jane Howard 82

Jane J 55

Jane (McLean) 82

Jarvis H 53

Jeannie Pendleton 38

Jennetta 24

Jennetta H 22

Jesse 38, 39

Jesse H 27

Jessie Aline loi

Jessie Marion 60

Job 53

John II, 18, 20, 23, 24, 36, 43, 47, 48, 51

John, Son of the Emigrant William Ewing :

His Marriage and Descendants, Chapter VII. 38
John, Baker, Urban, Reuben and Chatham,
Sons of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing,

and their Descendants, Chapter XI 51

John Anna 83

John B. S 47

John D. . . . 39, 57

John Gillespie 9

John H 12, 20

John Overton 31

John W 16

Joseph 38

Joseph Love 2y

Page

Ewing, Joshua 7

Josiah W 34

Josie Vesta 159, 160, 179, 180

(K)

Ewing, Kate Adelaid 102, 103

Katherine 69

Katherine A. K. M 48

Kitty II

(L)

Ewing, Lawrence B 16

Lee Davidson 64, 69, 70

Leila Wills 96

Lemira 3^

Lucinda G 21

Lucius Winchester 16

Lucy Barbour 38

L. Jane 53

(N)

Ewing, Nathan 31-36

Nathaniel, Emigrant 6, 8, 11

Nathaniel, The Emigrant : His Birth, Marriage,

Career and Descendants, Chapter III 11

Nathaniel Ewing 7, 13, 15, I7

Nathaniel P I5

Nancy 18

Nancy B 38

Nancy J 16

Nancy M 50

Nancy W 55

Nellie 49

Nellie Caldwell 53

Nellie W 57

Norma D 70

(O)

Ewing, Orville 32, 34- 35

(P)

Ewing, Pamela Jane 68

Pamela Margaret 62

Page

Ewing, Pamela S 53

Patsy Mills 80

Peggy II

Pelagie Isabel 15

" Phebe A 38

Phebe Jane 39

Philander 39

Philemon Beecher 5

Piety Fort 63

Polly 40, 45. 47, 5^, 64

" Polly Baker 48, 51, 55, 80

" Polly (Patty) 48

(M)

Ewing, Maggie 37

Margaret 11, 25, 32

Margaret A 2y

" Margaret Davidson 65

Margaret Mildred 60

Margaret R 53, 73

Margaretta W 32

Maria 5, 79

Maria F 64

Martha 40, 43, 45, 46

Mary 12, 13, 38, 40, 52, 56, 57. 73

" Mary A 57. 64, 65, 70

Mary (Baker) 44

" Mary Barron 63

Mary E 22, 38

Mary Ellen (Williams) 159, 161, 164

Mary Henrietta 69

Mary J 27, 53

Mary L. M 48

Mary M 53

Mary (Polly) 44

Medora 62

Milbrey 36

Mildred 49

Milton 55

Milton P 27

" Minnie R 70

" Missouri 79

Mitchell 40

Page
Ewing, Presley Kittredge, Son of Fayette Clay and
Eliza Josephine (Kittredge) Ewing: His
Career, Marriage and Children, Chapter

XXII 98, 155- 163

Presley Kittredge II 100, 124

Presley Underwood 9^

(Q)

Ewing, Rev. Quincy loi, 102

Quincy, junior 102

(R)

Ewing, Rachael n. I3

Randall Milton 26

" Rebecca 3^

" Rebecca D 38

" Reuben 44, 5^> 5^

Reuben A 53

" Robert 9» 36, 37, 40, 43, 5h 57, 79

Robert, Emigrant 7

Robert, The Emigrant: His Birth, Career,

Marriage and Children, Chapter IX 42

Robert II., Son of Robert and Mary (Baker)
Ewing: His Birth, Career, Marriage and

Children, Chapter XIII 74

Robert Allen 48, 79

Robert Chatham Donnell 70

" Robert C. 57

Robert Finis 7°

Robert ( ludge) 19

Robert Mills 48

Robert Morrow 53

Roberta M 70

" Rowena 3^

Rowena W 33

" Ruth 38

Ruth Stevenson 17

(S)

Ewing, Sallie Moore 49

" Sally 24, 47

" Sally A 52, 53

Page

Ewing, Samuel 7, 40

Sarah 1 1, 13, 14, 32

" Sarah Catherine 17

" Sidney 51

" Sidney Ann 43> 45

" Sidney Ann, Martha (Betty), Polly and Jane
Ewing, Daughters of Robert and Mary
Baker Ewing, and Their Descendants,

Chapter X 45

" Sidney R 55

Sophronia 38, 81

" Susan Jane 61

Susan Mary 2^

" Susannah Shannon 27

(T)

Ewing, Theodore Thompson 63

Theresa Green 23

" Thomas 5, 9, 37

Thomas, Emigrant 6

Thomas J 6

Thomas (U. S. Senator) 5

" Thompson McGready 61, 62, 64

(U)

Ewing, Urban 44, 51, 52

Dr. Urban Epinetus 48, 49

Urban J. D 49

(W)

Ewing, Washington Perry 57, 69, 70

Watts 24

" Watts Davis 22, 23

" William 6, 7, 11, 25, 37, 38, 40, 41, 57

William Caldwell 53

William D 39

" William, Emigrant 7

" William, Emigrant : His Birth, Children and

Family Distinction, Chapter IV 18, 19

" William E 41

William Gillespie 16, 38

William H 55. 61

William Lane 14, 15, 27

" William Lee Davidson, Major and Senator. .59, 60

INDEX XIX.

Page

Ewing, William Lee Davidson 69

William Nicholson 38

William Porter 12, 39

William Young Conn 52

Willie A 57, 62

Winifred L 50

Winifred Warren 59

(Y)
Ewing, Young 44, 51, 56, 57

Farrington, James 14

Farris, Captain George W 50

Ferguson, Patrick 85

Field Coat of Arms 166

Field Tree, The 166-177

Field, Abigail 171

" Major Abner 167, 171, 173

Abner Whipple 1 73

Adalia 175

" Amos I/O

" Anthony 1 70

Daniel 171

David 171

" David Dudley 166

Edward 1 74

Edwin 175

Eleanor 172

Eliza 175

" Elizabeth 170

" Esther 171

" Fielding 175

George 167, 172

Hannah 171

Henry Martyn 166

Hubertus de la 169

Hudson 175

Huldah 171

James 171

" Jeremiah 170

John 167, 168

" John, the Astronomer 168, 169

XX. INDEX

Page

Field, John Haywood 175

Joseph 170

Josephine 175

Lydia i73

Maria I75

Martha 170

Martha Harris 169

Mary 170

Mary Pierce I75

Moses 171

Nathaniel 170

Nehemiah 167, 171, 173, 174

Pardon 171

Remember 171

Rhoda 172

Robert 168

Robert Wescott 173

Roxana 171

Sarah 171

Sarah C i75

Stephen 170, 173

Stephen Johnson 166

Thomas 167, 169, 170, 171

Timothy (Sergeant Major) 168

William 167, 168, 169, 170, 173, 174, 175

Captain William 167, 171

Zachariah 166, 168

Filmer, Sir Edward 152

Major Henry 132, 152

Martha 132

Finlay, George Preston 68

" Julia H 68

" Quitman 68

" Virgilia Octavia 68

Fishback, F. L 53

Fisher, Betty ( Speer) 28

" Francis iii

Francis K 1 1 1

Horace N in

John H Ill

Fleming, Mary 15

Sallie 141

Fletcher, Andrew J 35

Page

Foley, Arthur Moring 123

Evelyn Elodie 123

" John B 123

John B., junior 123

Kirkland Green 123

Mary Louise 1 23

Willard Jones 123

Forbes, Robert Mitchell 68

Foree, Levin D 48

Fort, Mary D 61

Susan J. Ewing 55

" Washington 61

Fortescue, Winifred 9^

Foster, Ephraim H 54

" Henry Rubey 54

Rachel (Kittredge) no

" Sally 54

French, Hannah 108

Fuller, Deborah 115

" Lieutenant Thomas 115

Gallaudet, Edson F 71

Garnsey, Amos 116

Garrett, Ann Amelia 29

Emma F 29

" Rev. G 28

Helen J 29

Mary Susan 28

William A 29

Garrigus, Lewis C 77

Gayosa i47

Gibbs, Samuella 50

Gibson, Ethel May 122

William Henry 122

Giddings, Earle no

Job no

Gilbert, Elizabeth 77

Martha 77

" P. 0 77

" Presley 77

Gillespie Family 7

Gillespie, Niel 5

Page

Gillis, Aline lOi

" Charles E lOi

" Captain Ewing loi

" Gary loi

Wallace loi

Girard, Marie 124

Glass, Dr. Robert ^^

Cleaves, Harvey 57

Goethe 185

Goodrich, Ruth 16

Gordon, Carolyn Barton 130

Charles Manship 130

George Haines 45

Lucy 55

Gorman, Benjamin 171

" Captain John 171

Green Tree, The: Maternal Lineage of Eliza Jose-
phine Kittredge, Wife of Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing,

Chapter XIX 132

Green Tree, The, continued : Everard Green, His

Career, Marriage and Descendants, Chapter XX.. . . 141
Green Tree, The, concluded : The Family Achieve-
ments and Distinction, Chapter XXI 147

Green, Abner 137, 149

Abner Everard 143

Abraham 118, 140

Colonel Abram 133

Abram Ashbury 140

Alexander Rogers 142

Amy 133

Ann 133

Ann Harwood 140

Anna 118

Antonio Mayson 143

Augusta 137

Caroline C 138

Caroline Frances 142

Cora Octavia 142

Edmund 133

Elias 140, 148

Eliza Celeste 138

Eliza McKinney 141

Elizabeth 132, 133, 134, 135

INDEX XXIII.

Page

Green, Everard 140. I44. MS. H^

Fannie Adele I44

Filmer i33- mS

Filmer Wills 137. MO

Grief 134

Hannah 133

Henry Filmer 134

Henry M 140, 148

Irene I44

James 137

James Payne 143

Jane 135

Jeremiah 118

John 117-118, 132, 133

Joseph Kirkland 134

Lelia C 144

Leminda 136

Letitia 17

Louisa Sparks 142

Lucy 133

Lucy Estelle 143

Margaret Louisa 142

Margaret Wharton 130

Marston 134

Martha 132, 133

Martha Wills 119, 120, 134, 135, 139, 140

Mary ii7- ^33

Mary (Polly) 135

Mary A. M 137

Matilda Susan 139

Obedience 133

Patty 133

Phoebe 118

Rebecca 133, 134, 137

Robert A 143

Sally 133

Susanna 133

Thomas, Emigrant 132, 133

Thomas H, "The Seagull" 132

Thomas IH 133

Thomas H 137

Thomas Marston 133, 134, 140

Thomas Marston, junior 134

Page

Green, Colonel Thomas Marston 147, 148, 149

Colonel Thomas Marston (junior) 148, 149

Wharton 130

William 1 33

William Marston 137

William Kirkland 143

Greene, Mary 171

Greenfield, Piety D 63

Griffith, Elizabeth 47

Grundy, Felix 19

Susan 31

Haines, Charles W 62

Hall, Dora 69

" Edwin 24

Hamilton, H. J 30

Martha T 27

Hammon, Deliverance 171

Hammond, Mary (Polly) 53

Hanson, Perry 0 17

Haralson, E. M 146

Haralson, Louise (Kirkland) 146

Harris, Bettie 70

" Maria L 70

Rachel 5

Harrison, Lucy 46

Hart, Mary Carter (Bower) loi, 102

Hartsfield, Major William 27

Harwood, Ann 134, 153

" Major Humphrey 153

" Captain Thomas 1 53

" Colonel William 1 54

Major William 134, 153

Haswell, Tyler 50

Hayden, Agnes 47

Haynes, Samuel B 112

Hickman, Sarah 25

Hill, Elizabeth 20

" Jane 107

" Sarah 31

Hinds, General Thomas 150

" Major Thomas 136

Page

Hodge, John i8o

Major Joseph, Emigrant i8o

" SalHe Wells i8o

Hodges, Martha Sargent 112

Hogan, Hazel 71

Hogshett, Nancy (Ewing) 18

Holmes, J. Remsen 137

Holt, Martha Ella 182

" Nicholas, Emigrant 182

Hopkins. Abigail 1 70

John 135

Hord, Ada B 34

Howard, Ann 1 52

" Catherine 1 52

" Lord Edmund 152

Thomas, Earl of Surrey 152

Howell, Charles B 135

Elizabeth A 90

Howland, Desire 171

Hoyt, Hattie 36, 37

Hutchins, Colonel Anthony P 137

Mary 137

Hynes, Margaret 35, 36

Isle of Bute 4

Ivy, Fannie Mary 124

J-
Jackson, General Andrew 150

Sarah Amelia (Speer) 28

James II, King of England 4

Jamison, Lilian Mary Louise 124

Jefferson, Jennie 79

Maria 79

Mary 79

" Robert Randolph 79

Jefts, Hannah 114

Jencks, Daniel 13

Jennings, Evelina A 51

Jetter, Samuel 39

Johnson, Judge John Warner 123

Loula Belle 123

Page

Johnson, Martha J ^J

Jones, Cora Wills 121

Elizabeth Clarendon 121

Evelyn 123

Florence Olivia 124

Francis 1 34

George Washington 120, 121

George Willard 124

Greenup L 65

Isabel 123

Kate Josephine 122

Lilian 124

Nellie May 123

Stephen 121

Thomas 145

Lieutenant Thomas 182

Jordan, Mary 173

Judkins, Florence 76

Jane 76

" John 76

John W 76

Kavanaugh, Anna 64

Archibald 64

" Baxter 64

" Finis 64

" Pamela 65

" Roberta 70

Keeling, Elizabeth 127

Keen, Terry 133

Keller, Silas Price 66

Kelly, Ann Elizabeth 125

Anna K 30

" Mary Arden 16

Peter 44, 50

" Sarah 50

Kidder, Benjamin 115

Zephaniah no

Kirkland, Ann 145, 146

Archelaus 135

Rev. Daniel 146

Edwin Wells 146

Page

Kirkland, Eliza Lucy 146

Elizabeth 141, HS

" Hannah 145

Ida 146

John 145

" John Hampton 146

" John Thornton 146

" Louise 146

Lydia 145

Martha 134, 145

Mary 145

Matthew 145

Nathaniel 145

Parnell 145, 146

Philip 145

" Priscilla 145

Rosa Elizabeth 146

" Samuel 145

" Rev. Samuel 146

" Temperance 146

" William Hinds 146

Kittredge Coat of Arms 105

Kittredge Family, The 105

Kittredge Tree : Paternal Lineage of Eliza Josephine
Kittredge, Wife of Dr. Fayette Clay Ewing,

Chapter XVH ." 105

Kittredge Tree : Dr. Ebenezer Eaton Kittredge, His

Career, Marriage and Descendants, Chapter XVHI 119

Kittredge, Abbott E 105

Abigail 108, 1 10

" Achsa 1 10

Alfred B 105

" Alice 112

Amy no

" Ann Elizabeth (Kelly) 125

" Benoni 108

Carrie 130

" Charmian 107

" Cullen Fordyce 113

" Daniel 108

Dr. Ebenezer Eaton 116, 119, 120, 125

Eliza Josephine 105, 125, 132

Elizabeth (Eaton) 116, 120

XXVIII. INDEX

Page

Kittredge, Elizabeth no

Emma 127

Estelle S 113

Frances 124

Francis 108, 109, 1 10, 1 13

Dr. Francis 108, 109, 113

Dr. Francis II no

Francis Robert 129

George L.yman 106

George Watson 106

Hannah 108

Henry Eaton 127

Henry Grattan 106, 112

lola 130

Isabel 112

Ivy 1 24

Jacob 108

James 108

Jane 108

Dr. Jesseniah no, iii

Dr. Jesseniah (junior) 112

Jessie Amanda 127

Joel . . . 113

John, Emigrant 107, 108

Dr. John 108

Jonathan 108

Joseph 108

Joseph Kirkland Green 124

Josiah 109

Josiah Edward 107

Louise 112

Lucie Estelle 129

Lucy 113

Lydia 109, no, in, 113

Mabel Hyde 107

Martha Hodges 112

Mary Ann 126

Mary Louise 120, 121

Melicent no

Mirah 108

Molly no

Oena 130, 131

Olivia Amanda 122, 125

Page

Kittredge, Olivia Corinna 125

Orville Milo 124

Paul no

Dr. Paul 113

Rachel no

Rhoda 1 10

Roswell 116

Solomon 109

Dr. Stephen no, 116

Stephen 116

Susan 116

Susanna no, 113

Thomas 112

Thomas Bond 112

Walter 106

William 108

Willoughby 124

Dr. Willoughby Eaton 124

Zephaniah 109

Kline, Alice 128

Lane, Dr. William Carr 13

Law, Grace H 13

" John 13, 14

Lay, Dr. Joseph Revis 50

Lehnhof f, Louise 30

Letton, Reuben 65

Lewellen, Thomas 30

Lewis, Henry Martyn 146

William Goodwin 146

Lilly, Eunice 178

Link, Joseph 75

Linn, Adam 43

Nancy 45

Littlefield, Francis 107

Mary 107

Livingston, Bertha 142

Clifton 142

Frank 142

" Guy 142

Samuel 142

Wills 142

Page

Loch, Lomond 4

London, Jack 107

Long, Judge Alton 79

' 18

17
18
18
18
18
18
76

Longfellow, Abigail

Ann

" Green

" Jonathan

" Nathan 117,

" Samuel

" Sewall

Loubat, Marie Le Foul

Love, Annabella 30

" Margaret 25

Lowestoft, England 108

Mc.

McBeth, Malcolm 15

McCaleb, Emily H 137

McCaleb, Laura 137

McCausland, Mary 15

McClanahan, Mary 67

McConnell, Dr. James J 124

McCormick, John E 70

McCoy, Dr. Thomas 137

McDonald, Rev. Philip 80

Philip Monroe 80

McFarland, Ike Barton 50

McGavock, Eliza 25

" Lucinda 25

" Mary Ellen 25

" Sarah E 27

Mclntyre, Jane Pope 92-94

McKae, Sallie D. Porter 53

McLean Tree, The: Lineage of Jane McLean, Wife

of Robert Ewing II, Chapter XIV 84

McLean, Alney 86, 87

Andrew 87

Andrew Jackson 56, 86

Betsy 45

Celia 87

Charles 85, 86

Charles Grandison 87

Cynthia 87

INDEX XXXI.

Page

McLean, David 87

" Edward 87

Eliza 87

" Eliza Ann 86

" Eliza Hannah 87

Ephraim 56, 88

" Ephraim, the Emigrant 85, 86

" Dr. Ephraim 87

" Ephraim Baxter 87

" George 86

George Davidson 56

" James 87

Jane 84, 86

John 85, 86

Logan Haynes 130

" Priscilla Brank 87

Robert 87

Robert Brank 87

Robert Davidson 86

Samuel 86, 87

Sarah Ellen 56

Sarah Jane 87

Susan Howard 87

" Thornton 86

William 86, 87

McNeil, Eaton Kittredge 127

Rev. Edward Benton 127

Edward Benton, junior 127

Harry Pendleton 127

Lessie Benning 127

Mary Elizabeth 127

Percy Rutledge 127

Robert Irving 127

Walter Anderson 127

McPherson, Charles C 3°

Harriett J 3°

Margaret R 30

Robert J 3°

Samuel Speer 3^

William 29

William G 30

McQueen, Caroline 55

McRorry, Sarah 27

Page

Norsworthy, Lulu 5^

Noyes, L. T 146

Rosa Elizabeth (Kirkland) 146

O'Brien, Eliza 28

Offutt, Amanda 11

Oliphant, William 13

Osborne, Colonel Alex 15

Paschal, Polly (Ewing) 47

Payne, Captain John 1 73

Rebecca 171, i73

Dr. Robert I43

Peebles, Rev. James A 28

Pendleton, John T 22

Joseph H 32

Perham, Estelle S. (Kittredge) 113

Walter 113

Perkins, Daniel 35

Margaret 36

Mary 146

Samuel F 23

Perryman, Anthony 142

David 142

Elizabeth 142

" Laura 142

Martha 142

Phillippy, Anna 69

Pierce, Frederick Clifton 173

" Mary (Mills) 178

Pope, Miller 71

William, Knight of the Bath, Baron and Earl. . .182

Porter, and Gillespie Families 7

" Amaziah no

" Caroline 80

" Ellen Gillespie 12

" James 12

Mary 12

Rachel 11

Potts, Robert 11

Pratt, Lydia 145

Page

Pratt, Lieutenant William 145

William 145

Price, Jane T 69

" Katherine Allen 48

Priest, Degory 182

Prosser, Dorothy 128

Pruce, John 38

Q.
Ouinn, Dr. Irvin 142

Race, Corinna Elizabeth 125

" Fannie Louise 125

" George Eaton 125

George Wesley 125

Radford, Georgie 75

Railey, H. Otey 144

James 139

Ramsey, Jane 79

" General Jonathan 79

Randall, Jeremiah 171

Rea. Carrie 68

" Horsely 68

" Rev. Peter 59

Read, Ann 52

Anthony Foster 53

" Anthony James 55

" James W 68

" John 54

" Mary 68

" Mary Elizabeth 54

" Sally Foster 54

" William E 55

Reed, Frances Elliot 71

Reese, Arthur Boyd 124

Emma Lucile 124

Reid, Margaret 96

Renick, Elizabeth 57

Robert Archie 57

" William H 52

Rice, Rev. Green P 57

Mary 47

Page

Richard, Sarah 97

Richardson, Abigail 113, 114, 115

Andrew 114, 115

"' EHzabeth 115

'' £.zekiel 115

" Hannah 115

" Isaac 115

Mary 115

Nathaniel 115

" Phoebe 115

Ruth 115

Samuel 115

Thomas 115

Rivers, Bessie Whittington 126

" Douglas Eldridge 126, 127

" Enid Louise 126

Lena Marie 127

Mollie Kittredge 127

Robards, Rachel 1 50

Robinson, J. C 70

" James 182

" Zeruah 117

Rodgers, Jane 20

Roland, Micajah , 51

Rollins, Mary ' 47

Ross, James 80

Trippe 80

Rounds, George 171

Rubey, Francis M 55

George W 55

Henry M 59

Lavinia 55

Lucinda 55

Margaret Jane 59

Mary Angeline . 59

Pamela McLean 59

Smith W 55

Thomas 55

Thomas Lee 59

Urban Ewing 55

Virginia 59

William B 55

William H 55

Page

Russell, C. Benjamin 6i

Robert 87

Sanborn, Abiel 118

Jabez 118

Sanders, Major Bryant 55

John W 55

Mary J 55

Reuben E 55

Sidney C 55

Sargent, Hannah 11

Scott, Charles F 16

Scroggins, Charles M 47

" George 47

Martha 47

Mildred 47

Sally 47

" Thomas 47

Seaman, Captain John 182

Sebastian, Benjamin 54

Nancy . 54

Sebree, Georgianna 22

Sellers, Margaret 39

Seneca 185

Settle, Hart H 68

Shanklin, Grace 38

" Thomas 38

Shannon, Susannah 25

" Thomas 37

Shattuck, Frank \\' 69

Shaw, Agnes 180

" Eliza 13

Sherman, General William T 5

Shipman, John 145

Siege of Londonderry 4

Simmons, David Edward 69

Dr. William 80

Sims, Alice 128

" Ann E 129

" Christian Kline 128

" Dr. Eaton Kittredge 128

" Emm.a 129

Page

Sims, Emma Kittredge 129

Ernestine 129

Francis Kelly 129

Dr. George William 122, 125

Grace 129

Harry Vernon 129

Captain Harry Vernon 128

Heloise 129

Lavinia 1 29

Marguerite 128

Mary Louise 121

Nita 128

Robert Nicholls 127, 128

Ruffin Moring 122

William 121

William Nichols 122

Sittington, Robert 38

Sloan, Alexander Thompson 67

Alfred Baxter 65

" Charles W 68

" Ephraim Perry 68

" Ewing McGready 66

" Finis Ewing 67

Frances Kavanaugh 65

James Finis 68

" Katherine Winifred 66

" Margaret Pamela 68

Mary Phoebe 68

Rev.' Robert 65

" Robert Lee 67

Smith, Alice 143

Dr. Beverly 176

" Dr. Beverly Chew 176

Caroline A 112

Daisy Belle 176

Emma Tyler 75

II Jennie 34

Pleasant A 27

William C 27

Snadon, Lucy C 82

Sallie 82

South worth, Lieutenant Andrew 146

Samuel 146

Page

Sonthvvorth, Captain A\^illiam 145

Speed, George Keats 50

Speer, Abigail 29

" Andrew Evving 28

Bettie 28

" Edward Young 28

" George 28

" James Green Hill 28

Jesse Lee 28

John Ewing 28

John Fletcher 29

John Moses 28

Margaret C 31

Mary W 28

Moses 28

" Moses G 28

Nathan Ewing 28

Samuel W . 29

Sarah Amelia 28

Susan 28

" Susan S 29

" Thomas Hickman 28

Spencer, Barksdale 80

Catherine 16

" Ephraim Ewing 80

James B 80

John 80

Martha G 80

" Mary Jane 80

Randolph 80

Robert 80

Splane, DoUie Belle 126

Stapp, Amanda S 52

Steele, Colonel Clement F 5

Stephens, John H 53

Stevenson, Adlai Ewing 17

" Fielding Alexander 17

James 16

" James B 17, 32

" John Calvin 17

John Turner 17

" Julia Scott 17

Letitia Ewing 17

Page

Stevenson, Lewis Green 17

Maria McClelland 16

Mary Eliza 17

" Sophia Elizabeth 17

" Thomas \V 17

Stimpson, Mary 115

Stirling Castle 4, 6

Stone, May Bellows 112

Hannah 171

Jane 171

Stroup, Alex. R 17

Sturgess, Anne 39

Sugg, Sallie 82

Sullivan, Charles W 64

Sweet, Alice Elizabeth 16

Tabor, Hudson 1 78

Tarbell, Betsy 173

Taliaferro, Cowper S , 50

Taylor, Charles T 15

Mary Ella 16

Temple, Lucy C 81

Thompson, John C 33

Milton 47

Nancy R 27

Richard R .139

Tisdale, Mary J. (Spencer) 80

Townsend, Albert B 75

Eliza Ann . , 76

Elizabeth Davidson 79

Gilson Columbus 75

Gilson Ewing 78

Jane Pamela 75

Joseph 78

Martha Jane 78, 82

Martha M. C yj

Martha Smith 75

Mary M. A. D 76

Presley 78

Presley Ewing '/J

Robert Ewing , 78

Robert Jefferson 75

Page

Townsend, Dr. Robert Presley 75

Roberta Moore 75

Susan Ann 7^

Thomas Jefferson 78

General Thomas J 75

General Thomas W 82

Tighlman 78

William 82

Major William 78

Trevor, Caroline M. (Breading) 12

Turner, James I33

Turpin, Magda I43

Umphrey, James 81

Valle, J -. 15

Vance, David 9°

Elizabeth 90

" Sallie 86

■' Governor Zebulon 90

Vaughan, Sue Ann 180

Venable, Abraham 7^

" Elizabeth A 7^

Elizabeth \\'oodson JT-

" Martha Davis 7^

Nathaniel 71

Vickars, Sarah 5

Vinson, Alice (Baldridge) I79

" Baldridge Tyler 179

" Joseph Carroll I79

Joseph Kittredge 179, 184

Josie Vesta (Ewing), Daughter of Presley
Kittredge and Mary Ellen (Williams)
Ewing : Her Life, ]\Iarriage and Children,

Chapter XXIV I79- 180

" Presley Ewing 179, 184

Volk, Emily .' 112

VVailes, Felicia Anna I43

B. L. Covington I43

Page

Walker, Alice Brevard 72

" Anthony Smith 54

Elizabeth 133

" Ephraim Brevard 72

" Ewing Anthony 72

John Read 72

" John Read Samuel 72

Mary 133

" Thomas 133

Wallace, William 29

Judge William C 63

Waller, Catherine 138

" William S 138

Wallis, Sophia Goodrich Gillespie 15

Warburton, Bishop 185

Warmack, Jessie 64

Warner, John 171

Warren, James M 64

" Joseph 165

" Winefred 51

Waterhouse, Robert 182

Waterman, Abigail 170

Captain William 171

Watkins, Irene 34

Nancy 70

Colonel Thomas 70

Watterson, Henry 36

Wendell, Dr. James 35

Werlein, Captain Ewing 97

Rev. Halsey 96

Philip Prentiss 97

" Dr. Presley Ewing (Lieutenant) 97

Quincy 96

Rev. Shepard Halsey 96

" Wilmer 96

Wescott, Waite 171

West, Colonel Cato 139, 150

Whatley 185

Whipple, Mehitable 170

White, Dr. Andrew J 27

Whhehead, Major Daniel 182

F. M 29

Whitman, Hannah 171

" Sarah 171

INDEX XLIII.

Page

Whittington, Bessie Kittredge 126

" Gladis lone 126

Harry Kirkland 126

" Joseph Benson 126

Joseph Kittredge 126

Leila Marie 126

" Lucille Marie 126

Marion Elizabeth 126

Marion Wilmer 126

Mary Adele 126

" Mary Jessie 126

Mary Louise 126, 141

St. Clair Joseph 126

Whittlesey, Martha 145

Whitsett, Frances C 44, 56

William 56

Wilkerson, James 133

Priscilla 133

Sarah 133

Wilkinson, Dorothy Brevard 73

Elizabeth Allen 73

" Florence Ewing y^

" Jane Alice 73

John Cabell 73

" Margaret 73

" Thomas Parks 73

William Tudor y^

William and Mary 4

William the Conqueror 164

Williams Coat of Arms 162

Williams, Field and Mills Trees : Lineage thereunder
of Mary Ellen Williams, Wife of Presley K.

Ewing, Chapter XXVIII 164-178

Williams Tree, The 164-169

Williams, Anne A 129

Charles Albert 175

Charles Clark 164, 165, 166, 175, 176

Daisy Belle 176

" Dora Louise I75

Elizabeth 28

" Elizabeth Stratton 164

Eudora Elizabeth (Cross) 165, 175

Page

Williams, Harriet (Clark) 165

Joseph Crawley 165, 175

Judith Coleman 176

Leachy Peachy 71

" Llewellyn Alexander 129

Mary Ellen 159, 161-163, 175

Milbrey H 31

Minnie Roberta 176

" Morgan - • • 164

" Morgan Whitney 176

" Nannie L 83

General Otto 165

" Oliver Cromwell, alias 164

Rebecca P 34

Robert, Pilgrim 164, 165

Roger 164

Rowena 36

Ruby Bethea .176

" Sims Cunningham 129

" Warren Dudley 176

William 164

" William Franklin .176

Williamson, William .-133

Wills, Filmer i34

Martha I34

Wilmath, Abigail 29

Wilson, Addie A 52

" William Sidney 15

Winchester, E. B 16

Windsor, Anne Marie 63

Winlock, Mary J. (Spencer) 80

Winn, Elizabeth 115

Winston, Eliza Jane 82

Withers, Lida . .' 25

Wood, Anna . 67

" Dr. Benjamin 82

" David 138

Ethan Allen 143

Nancy Collins 143

" Sarah Jane 143

Woodward, Dr. W. W 53

Wright, James H 21

" John Montgomery 49

Page

Wrightson, William Victor 176

Wynne, Ara Adair 50

Florence Magruder 50

Gustave Adair 50

" Jane Sophronia 50

" John Magruder 50

Mae Samuella 50

" Mamie Staunton 50

Yantis, William 1 68

Yeats, John ' /O

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