Coordinators

Genealogist

Karen Avery ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Karen Avery began genealogical research in 1995.  Her Mother's Ewing family ancestry has eluded numerous researchers for over sixty years. Recently some ancestors have been found who were residing in Connecticut as early as the 1730s.  Sisters Beth Ewing Toscos and Jane Ewing Weippert are 1st cousins of Karen.  Beth and Jane's Father is participant RC in the Ewing Surname Y-DNA Project.

Karen's Ewing database continues to grow and now totals over 10,800 Ewing-born individuals. Karen will be happy to search her data base and help others in their search for ancestors.

Born and raised near Fort Wayne, Indiana, Karen is the wife of Commander Robert Avery, USN, Retired. Duty stations during twenty-four years of service included tours on both the East and West coasts, Gulf of Mexico, Guam and Hawaii before the family retired to Northern Virginia in 1984.

Ewing Surname Y-DNA Project Administrator

David Neal Ewing ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

David Neal Ewing has been a member of the Ewing Family Association since 1996 and has served as its Chancellor since 2006. He previously served as Chair of its Board of Directors from 2004-2006. He is also Administrator of the Ewing Surname Y-DNA Project, which he founded in 2004, and he is a regular contributor to the Association's Journal.

Dr. Ewing has a private practice in clinical geriatric neuropsychiatry in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his M.D. degree from the University of New Mexico and did his residency training at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

EFA Forum Coordinator, Co-Webmaster

Martin S. Ewing ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Martin S. Ewing is the great-great-great-grandson of Noble Ewing (ca 1783-1846). He has been a member of the Association since about 2008. He established the Association's Forum. His computer has data on over 3,000 forebears, only a tiny number of whom are Ewings or Scot-Irish.

Martin is retired from careers in astronomy, engineering, and information technology. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. He maintains an active interest in amateur radio.

Archivist

Mary Gosline ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Mary Ewing Gosline coordinated Echoes of the Shenandoah, the Association's 2008 Gathering.

A member of the EFA since 1990, she has been interested in family history since 1970 and is a descendent of John Ewing of Carnashannagh and his son Samuel. In 2005 she wrote a booklet on her great-grandfather's family, Joseph Henry Ewing (1837-1925) and Ann Louisa McDonald (1841-1918), Coles County and Douglas County, Illinois. Future plans are to extend this work to include ancestors and children of Joseph and Ann.

With a B.S. degree from DePauw University, she taught mathematics at the middle school, high school, and community college levels.

Archivist

Esther Johnson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Esther Johnson claims a dual Ewing heritage through her mother, Lula Ewing Jackson (1888-1947).  Well-documented research by Margaret Ewing Fife on Ewings who settled in Cecil County, Maryland in the mid-1720’s, traces her line to a granddaughter of Nathaniel (1693-1748), Margaret 'Peggy' Ewing, who married Robert Ewing, a grandson of John Ewing (1698-1754) of East Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, from the James Ewing of Inch line.

Esther joined 'Clan Ewing' in 1990 and has missed only one gathering since then. In 2004 she helped plan and coordinate the gathering in Cecil County.

Since retiring from Federal Government service in 1991, she has carried on a very busy tax practice as a Maryland CPA.

Merchandise Coordinator

Virginia Ewing Okie ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Virginia Ewing Okie was born Virginia Ewing Hustead. When she married, she kept her middle name, Ewing, to recognize that she was named after her maternal great-grandmother, Belle Kennedy Ewing, a daughter of Hon. John Kennedy Ewing. Her genealogical research concerns the Evans, Hustead, Loudon, McClelland, Rowe, Willard and Willson families

Journal Editor, Co-Webmaster, Ewing Genealogy Documentation (EGD) Project Coordinator

William Ewing Riddle ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

William Ewing Riddle is a great-great-great-grandson of Squire James Ewing (son of Alexander who was son of James Ewing of Inch Island). Bill is a Webmaster for the Association's website and Editor of its Journal.

Outside his genealogical work, Bill helps organizations certify that their software development procedures satisfy regulatory requirements and lead to high-quality products. He holds advanced degrees from Cornell and Stanford and has worked in academia, industry and government.

Membership Coordinator

Jill Ewing Spitler ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Jill Ewing Spitler joined the Ewing Family Association in 1998 when Rev. Ellsworth S. Ewing and wife Dorothy visited and stayed with her and her brother Joe in Loudonville, Ohio. Ellsworth had written Joe a couple times thinking we might be related, because Ellsworth's family came from Hayesville, just a few miles down the road in Ashland County, Ohio. Jill has been a Board Member since the Board was first formed in San Antonio, Texas. She has also been Chair of the Board, Chair of the Lancaster, Ohio, Gathering, instrumental in starting the Research Room as a get-acquainted and find-information resource for gathering attendees, and Editor of the Journal for four years. She is starting her fourth term as Membership Coordinator.