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PART II
We are now to consider as a second part of our task the family from which sprang James Henry Ewing, late of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. (A third division of our work will be to examine at somewhat closer range the family which issued from the union of James Henry Ewing of this part of the book and Eleanor Jane Rhea, of Part First.) In this treatment we will endeavor to name all the direct ancestry known, together with such collateral lines as research has made possible and as time and space will permit. On other pages of this volume mention is made of many Ewings coming from the North of Ireland and elsewhere during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was for some time the author’s fond hope and expectation to discover a positive kindred connection between the ancestors of James Henry Ewing, his father, and the family of Findley Ewing, of Londonderry, the forbear of Eleanor Jane Rhea, his mother (page 35). Somewhat prolonged and careful study, however, of available data has failed to reveal any such tie. On the other hand, let it be observed that we have found no proof anywhere that these two families do not diverge from one family root in Ireland, early in or before the eighteenth century. (Appendix A.)
William Ewing (A)
William Ewing emigrated from Ireland some time before the national struggle for independence, and settled on the Connauteacheuge Creek in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was a native of Ireland, a grenadier, or member of the king’s bodyguard. This guard consisted of a company of men, every one of whom was distinguished for his great stature. There are no known records by which his early habitat in Ireland can be determined. His wife’s maiden name was Eleanor Thompson. Their marriage must have occurred as early as 1759 or 1760, for we have record that their third child, John, died on January 27th, 1842, at the age of seventy-seven years. They were the parents of six children, viz.: Adam, Isabella, John, James, Robert and Alexander.
Adam Ewing (B)
When about twenty years of age, ADAM, their first born was killed by the Indians, who fired on him as he was going down the Allegheny River in a canoe at some point below Kittanning.
Isabella Ewing (B)
Isabella was married to Manassah Coyle, a Roman Catholic. They resided in Butler County, Pennsylvania, and had several children. They have left a numerous progeny, both Catholic and Protestant, in various sections of Western Pennsylvania. She died at the advanced age of eighty-three years. (Appendix J).
John Ewing (B)
In the year 1788 the Ewing family moved westward and settled in the vicinity of what has since been called McFarland’s Mills. The second son of William and Eleanor Thompson Ewing was John. He is described as a man of strength of body, mind and character. He had the courage of his convictions, was a man of fiery temper, always a man of strictest integrity, and withal full of faith and of the Holy Ghost. One of his descendants (Mary Harbison) said that she was greatly impressed with his fervent importunities at the family altar in behalf of his children and children’s children. The writer’s father, James Henry Ewing, has left this reminiscence of John Ewing: “My grandfather, John Ewing, was left an orphan at the age of nine years. At that time he was bound out to Ezekiel Matthews. He told me that after they had settled at the old farm, near Ebenezer Church, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, that the first thing he did in the morning was to get his gun and go to the door, opening it a little to see if the Indians were there to shoot him; that when he grubbed the first field he kept his gun as near as he could, and when he plowed he kept it as near the centre of the land as possible, so that he could get his gun if not shot down.” The same authority has left as a recollection from his grandfather that William and Eleanor Thompson Ewing, the first of the line that can be traced in this country, died on the old farm one mile from Ebenezer Church. And, said my father: “An old man told me since grandfather’s death that they (referred to above) were the first persons buried in the graveyard at Ebenezer.”
John Ewing’s wife, Sarah Moore, was born two miles west of what is now New Alexandria, Pennsylvania. Her home was within a few miles of the fort at old Hannastown, a refuge from the Indians in those days. On one occasion, when she and some neighbor girls were gathering berries, some Indians sprang upon them, capturing her companions. Sarah was saved from capture by a white man on horseback, who took her on behind him. Finding the way to the Hannastown Fort intercepted, the friend carried her to Wallace’s Fort, near Blairsville. For weeks her friends supposed she had either been slain or was being held captive by the Indians. John Ewing’s death occurred January 27th, 1842. He was followed to the grave by his wife in 1851. The children of John and Sarah Ewing were: Rebecca, James, William, Sarah, John, Robert and Alexander.
Rebecca Harbison (C)
Rebecca married Joseph Harbison, Esq. Their children were Annie, Sarah, Francis, William, Polly, John, Catherine and Jane. Annie (D) married Silas Fulton, from which union there were children as follows: Sarah, Caroline, Elizabeth, Hamilton, Robert, Joseph and Rebecca. Sarah (D) married Joseph Cunningham. Their children were Nelson and Thomas. Francis (D) married Parmila Cooper. Their children were Wilson, Calvin and Matilda. Wilson (E) married, first, Mary Anne Hart, and had children, Alva Virtue and Ella Mary and Harry Hart. Alva (F) was born October 28, 1869. He is married and has three children, Mary Helen, born August 2nd, 1897; Edith Margaret, born July 29th, 1899, and Joseph Boyle, born June 16th, 1903. Ella Mary (F) was born June 19th, 1873, and died October 3rd, 1907. Harry Hart Harbison died June 14th, 1874. Wilson Harbison’s second wife, who was Sarah Galbraith, died April 10th, 1904. Calvin (E) married Emma Hart. They have two daughters. Matilda (E) married Albert Ewing (see page 52). William (D) married Margaret McNutt. Their children were Alexander, Rebecca (who married Albert Jewell and resides at Livermore, Pennsylvania), and another daughter, who married ------ Campbell. John (D) married Elizabeth Beatty. They were the parents of one daughter and one son. Sarah Cunningham (above) died at the home of her son Thomas, at Gardner, Kansas, May 31st, 1899, in the seventy-sixth year of her age.
James Ewing (C)
James Ewing married Jane Harbison. They lived and died in the vicinity of Ebenezer Church in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Their children were Catherine, Rebecca, John, Matthew, Joshua H., and Rev. T. D. Catherine (D) died in the summer of 1833. Rebecca married James Shields. They resided near Freeport, Pennsylvania. She died in 1897. Her husband preceded her about ten years. They had no children.
MATTHEW HARBISON EWING (D) was born August 21st, 1828. He married Elizabeth Cochrane, October 1st, 1857. They resided for many years at Jacksonville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. In later years the family home has been Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. His death occurred May 1st, 1905. Their children are as follows: Amanda Catherine, who was born October 26th, 1858, and died at the age of about five years. Elizabeth Jane (E) was born April 1st, 1860. On May 4th, 1888, she became the second wife of James Chambers Moore, of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. Their children are Helen, born April 18th, 1889; William Ralph, born April 11th, 1891, and James Edward, born January 5th, 1898, and died at the age of one year. Joseph Nelson (E) was born April 23rd, 1862, and died in infancy. Thomas Mabon (E) was born December 13th, 1863. On November 27th, 1887, he married Josephine R. Pierce. Their children are Archie Paul, who was born February 27th, 1891, and died in infancy. Arthur Ernest, who was born May 30th, 1892. Matthew Pierce, born September 14th, 1893, and died April 14th, 1899. Elizabeth Diaffa, born May 2nd, 1897. Edgar Eugene, born May 24th, 1898, and died in infancy. Thompson Davis Ewing (E) was married to H. Murilla Kier, October 7th, 1890. Their children are as follows: Bertha Margaret, born March 24th, 1892; Matthew Kier, born February 12th, 1894; Elizabeth Olive, born September 3rd, 1895, and Frederick Moore, born July 15th, 1897. George Cochrane Ewing (E) was born February 14th, 1870, and died in infancy. Mary Grace Ewing (E) was born November 15th, 1872. On April 4th, 1895, she married William S. Moore, of Saltsburg. Their children are Lawrence Ewing, born February 10th, 1896; Samuel Scott, born January 4th, 1898; Catherine Elizabeth, born May 16th, 1902, and William White, born March 21st, 1905. They reside at Latrobe, Pennsylvania. John Edward Ewing (E) was born December 6th, 1874. On August 5th, 1903, he was married to Rosalie Kettering. Their only child is Helen Winifred, who was born December 2nd, 1902. James Arthur Ewing (E) was born February 3rd, 1875, and died at the age of about five years. Olive Euphenia (E) was born August 12th, 1877, and Lillie Maude (E) was born March 11th, 1879.
JOHN EWING (D) married Mary Harold. They resided at West Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Their children were Albert W., Jennie, William and Joseph. Albert W. (E) was born October 14th, 1848. He married Matilda Harbison. (Page 50). They resided near West Lebanon. His wife’s death occurred December 12th, 1897. He resides in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Their children are Charles M. (F), born June 18th, 1874; James L. (F) born October 16th, 1877, and died March 26th, 1900; Mary P. (F), born November 3rd, 1881, and married Charles Books, June 10th, 1908, and Anna R. (F), born January 3rd, 1885. Jennie (E) married William Moorhead, October 12th, 1893. They resided at Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. His death occurred March 3rd, 1908. Jennie now resides at Saltsburg, making her home with the Galbraith family. William (E) went West in early manhood, and little has been known of him since. As recently as two years ago, however, he was known to be in Nevada. Joseph (E) was born May15th, 1868, and died December 2nd, 1902. He married Myrtill Davis in 1892. Their children are Paul (F), who was born April 15th, 1893; Marshall (F), born April 10th, 1895; Marion (F), born July 5th, 1897, and twin boys, who were born October 22nd, 1901. They resided in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The widow Myrtill Davis Ewing, by a second marriage has taken the name Myers.
JOSHUA H. EWING (D) married Clara Clay, a relative of the distinguished “Henry of the West.” They had one daughter, Clara J. (E). Clara spent her young womanhood with her Aunt Rebecca Shields at Freeport, Pennsylvania. She married Thomas A Rigg, by whom she had one daughter. Their home is in Washington, Pennsylvania. JOSHUA H. EWING (D) married a second wife, a woman from Tennessee. They have several children. His home for many years was in the South.
REV. THOMAS DAVIS EWING (D) was born December 28th, 1832, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Washington College, Pennsylvania, in 1860, and from the Western Theological Seminary in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1864. He was ordained to the Gospel Ministry by the Presbytery of Saltsburg on May 10th, 1864. He was honored by the degree of D.D. in 1880. He was a Presbyterian pastor at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and at Fairfield and Corning, Iowa. In his later ministry he was in charge of educational institutions at Fairfield and Corning. He was married to Anna G. Graham. Their children are the following: Rebecca Miller, Jane Harbison, James Falconer and Anna Graham. The latter was born January 7th, 1877, and died April 26th, 1894. Rebecca Miller Ewing (E) was born September 20th, 1869. She married the Rev. Paul W. McClintock. They became missionaries at the close of their school-days and are located at Hainan, China. Their children are Donald Melrose, born May 2nd, 1898, and Paul Graham, born December 6th, 1902. Jane Harbison (E) was born July 29th, 1871. She married W. G. Blood, Esq., of Keokuk, Iowa, where they reside. Their only child is named as his father, William Graffen. He was born October 2nd, 1904. James Falconer (E) was born June 16th, 1873. He married Caroline Ladd Steel, of Portland, Oregon, where they reside. He is a member of the faculty of the Portland Academy. They have two children, Thomas Davis, who was born December 7th, 1900, and Margaret, who was born September 21st, 1902. Rev. Thomas Davis Ewing (D) was left a widower in 1884. He afterward married Annie Rogers and subsequently, February 8th, 1899, having lost his second wife by death, he was married to Ruth Van Kirk. His death occurred on the 30th of July, 1905.
William Ewing (C)
William, the second son of John and Sarah Ewing, was married to Margaret Elder. They lived out their days near Indiana, Pennsylvania. They had five sons, who were remarkable for their stature, aggregating about thirty-one feet. Their names were John, Robert, Joshua, Rev. James A. and William. JOHN (D) married Elizabeth Anthony. Their son, William D. Ewing (E), who died in 1903, was a prominent railroad official in Massachusetts. He married -----Watt, by whom he had one son, John, who resides near Boston. He (F) is married and has children. ROBERT (D) went to California in early life and lived there all his days. He never married. JOSHUA (D) married, first, Elizabeth Hill, who died in August, 1858. They had one daughter, Agnes (E), who married Webb Wood, of Alabama. Agnes lived in widowhood at Livermore, Pennsylvania, until death claimed her, on December 14th, 1905. By a second marriage to Nancy Davidson, Joshua had several children: Charlotte, Frederick, Francis, Arthur and Jessie. Jessie died January 3rd, 1895. Joshua (D) died January 27th, 1888. REV. JAMES A. EWING (D) married Martha Burt. They resided at Wheeling, West Virginia. Both have been deceased for several years. WILLIAM (D) married Mary Noves. They lived at Palatka, Florida. They had no children. Her death occurred in 1899.
Sarah Ewing (C)
Sarah Ewing, the second daughter of John and Sarah Ewing, was married to John McCurdy. They lived near Ebenezer Church in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Their children were Mary, John Ewing, Robert Lemon, William, Rebecca Jane, Ralston and Thomas Alexander. MARY (D) married John McCurdy, a distant relative. They had no children. JOHN EWING (D) married Hanna Weaver. Their children are: Ewing, John W., Ida, Thomas, Melvin and Frank. Ewing (E) married Clara Hough. They have one son, Earle. Ewing has spent most of his life in the service of different lines of railroad. John W. (E) married Elizabeth Herr. They have no children. John is in the service of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He is a Ruling Elder in the Hazelwood Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Ida (E) married William Coad (page 60), and has one child, Helen. Thomas Melvin (E) resides in Indiana County. He never married. Frank (E) married Della Watson. They reside in Cuba. Frank is in the employ of the United States Government. ROBERT LEMON (D) was born October 26th, 1824, and died August 26th, 1906. He married Mary E. Redick and practiced medicine through a long period of years at Freeport, Pennsylvania. Their children are Elizabeth, John Redick (who died in infancy), Richard Coulter, Myra Etta, Freeman Swift (who died in infancy), Luella Grant, Calvin Wistar and Mary de Bure. Elizabeth (E) married Andrew S. Warner. They have one child, Paul. Elizabeth has been a widow for several years. Richard Coulter (E) is a practicing physician at Livermore, Pennsylvania. He married Margaret W. Wier. Their children are: Jane, Emily, Elizabeth and Florence. Myra Etta (E) is a telephone operator in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Louella (E) is a teacher of art, and Mary de Bure (E) is an educational superintendent in connection with the Pittsburg Public Schools. Calvin Wistar (E) died at Rio de Janeiro, South America, March 7th, 1898, in his thirty-first year. Eliza Jane McCurdy, who for a long time has made her home with the Robert Lemon McCurdy family, is a daughter of Robert McCurdy and a full cousin of Robert Lemon McCurdy. WILLIAM (D) married, first, Dorcas Duncan, and, second, Mrs. Harriet Hunter. They had no children. The resided at Livermore, Pennsylvania. He died April 18th, 1903, aged seventy-six years. REBECCA JANE (D) married Frank Pitts. Their children were William (who married Charity Swearingen), Emma, Anna, Elizabeth and Frank.
RALSTON (D) married Mary Elizabeth Deise, and had children, William, Frank, James and Grace. His second marriage was to Belle Paul, by whom he had one child, deceased in infancy. This family lived in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. THOMAS ALEXANDER (D) was born in 1839 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania; was graduated from Washington College in 1862, and from the Western Theological Seminary in 1865. He received the degree of D.D. in 1878. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Saltsburg, and held pastorates in Steubenville, Wooster and Wellsville, Ohio; Peoria, Illinois, and Wilmington, Delaware. He was for a time the President of McCallister College in Minnesota. He is now the pastor of the Presbyterian church at Mandon, North Dakota. He married Elizabeth Woodend, of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. Their children are Allen (E) who entered the Gospel ministry and is pastor of the Morning Side Presbyterian Church of New York City; Earl (E) who is married to Helen Pennypacker; Elliott (E), Ernest (E) and Paul (E). Dr. McCurdy married a second time, Mrs. Eva J. G. Simpers, on the 30th of June, 1900.
John Ewing (C)
John, the third son of John and Sarah Ewing, was married to Martha Hart in May, 1824 (Martha was the daughter of Moses and Ann Henry Hart and the granddaughter of Roger Hart). They lived near Ebenezer Church in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. By her he had one son, JAMES HENRY (D) (See pages 47, 64), born February 1st, 1825, and two daughters, SARAH ANN and MARGARET. Both daughters died in March, 1831. Their mother died in August of the same year. John Ewing married a second time, on March 12th, 1833. His wife’s name was Sarah McCurdy. They lived first in Indiana County, and later in Armstrong County, near Rural Village. By the second marriage there were children as follows: ROBERT (D), who was born April 14th, 1835, and died in October, 1845. JOHN McCURDY (D) was born in Indiana County, March 23rd, 1837, and moved with his father’s family to Armstrong County in 1845. He was by occupation a teacher of music. He lived much of his life in Armstrong, Jefferson and Clarion Counties, Pennsylvania. He died at Brockwayville, June 21st, 1904. WILLIAM F. (D) was born February 15th, 1840. He prepared for college at Rural Valley and Glade Run Academies, graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in the Class of 1871 and from the Western Theological Seminary in 1874. He served seven months in the Union Army. He was licensed by the Presbytery of Kittanning in 1873, ordained by the Presbytery of Redstone, and installed pastor of the church at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, in 1874. On January 16th, 1876, he married Ella K. Loomis, who was born September 13th, 1857. Ill health compelled him to leave his pastorate in 1883. He died at Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 15th, 1883. Their children are Ella Georgien (E), a school teacher near Baltimore, Maryland; Caroline Estelle (E), who married Rev. S. M. Gillam, December 9th, 1903, and is with him engaged in missionary work at Cawnpore, India. Their children are, Ruth Ewing (D), born on February 24th, 1905, and Sylvanus McCauley, Jr., born November 12th, 1909, and died at the age of about six weeks. Lulu May (E), who married Edward Hutton, a business man of Baltimore, on the 16th of September, 1903. They reside at Hillsdale, Maryland. Their children are, Edward Seymour (F), born September 5th, 1905, and William Ewing (F), born October 1st, 1909. William McCurdy (E) was born January 26th, 1882, and died January 24th, 1901. Mrs. Ella Loomis Ewing was married, a second time, to Charles Welby Dorsey, on February 8th, 1898, and resides with him at Hillsdale, Maryland. They have one son, Charles Welby, born January 8th, 1899. MARY JANE (D) was married to John Caruthers Rhea on October 26th, 1860. (See page 35 in Part I of this volume for full record of her family.) JOSEPH LEMON (D) was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, on March 26th, 1844, and died at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1902. He was a soldier in the Civil War. On September 27th, 1866, he was married to Sarah B. Totten, of Rural Village, who was born October 27th, 1833, and died at Apollo, Pennsylvania, September 21st, 1898. They had two children. John Hamlet (E) was born June 8th, 1867, and married Anna Frazier, September 23rd, 1891. Their children are Lillian, Eugene, Earl, Grace and DeVere. Anna M. Craig (E) was born December 4th, 1870. She was married to Edward Anderson, November 21st, 1893. Their children are, Edward Clair, Joseph Craig, Mary Catherine, Francis Lowry. Edward Anderson was born March 18th, 1868, of Scotch-Swedish parentage. Joseph Lemon was married, a second time, to Mrs. Annie E. Spencer, on January 11th, 1900. His death occurred August 2nd, 1902. His widow resides at Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Robert Ewing (C)
Robert, the fourth son of John and Sarah Ewing, was born August 23rd, 1804. He married Elizabeth Walker on March 13th, 1828. Their children were, William, Thomas, Walker, John, Margaret, Sarah, Maxwell, James Clark, Robert, Mary, Elizabeth, Rebecca Jane.
WILLIAM (D) was married to Mary Alexander in October, 1854. Their children were, Wilson Taylor, Annie Mary, Maxwell, Thomas C., Sarah. Sarah died in infancy, her mother passing away at the same time. William married a second time, Elizabeth Jack, in November 1864. Their children were, Robert Jack, Alice and William. Annie Mary (E), daughter of William and Mary Ewing, married John Uncapher, of Livermore, Pennsylvania, December 16th, 1875. Her death occurred March 6th, 1889. Their children were Louie May, Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Agnes, George, Mead and William Ewing. THOMAS WALKER (D) married Agnes Marshall, February 28th, 1868. He died July 14th, 1886. Their children were Cora, Ella, Aretta, Jane, Robert Nelson, John Walker. JOHN (D) married Margaret Wilson, March 22nd, 1860. She was born December 18th, 1838, and died September 13th, 1887. Their children were, Elizabeth (E), born January 20th, 1861; Wilson F. (E), born October 30th, 1863; Frank, born May 24th, 1865, and died June 22nd, 1891; Sarah Jane (E), born July 9th, 1867; Robert Alvin (E) born July 18th, 1870; Edward Chambers, born March 3rd, 1873, and died March 7th, 1897, and Angie Myrta, born September 12th, 1876, and died September 15th, 1906. Wilson F. (E) was married, on March 12th, 1895, to Elizabeth Jane Young. They reside in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Their children are, Frank Bennett and Florence Margaret. Robert Alvin married Laura Catherine Pierce on September 30th, 1908. John Ewing died February 3rd, 1905. MARGARET (D) was married to John McDowell, of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, on June 6th, 1871. His death occurred April 24th, 1898. She followed him to the grave February 16th, 1904. They had no children. ROBERT (D) married Martha Jane Miller, February 21st, 1878. They had one son, Alfred Dell. MARY ELIZABETH (D) was married to William Coad, February 21st, 1871. Their children are, Henry Ward, Robert Ewing, Sara Alice, William Edgar, Elizabeth, Deana Mary. William Coad married, a second time, Ida McCurdy (page 55). JAMES CLARK (D) was married to Margaret Mehan, June 1st, 1887. Their two children died in infancy. REBECCA (D) married Harry Rutledge, of Livermore, Pennsylvania, on March 4th, 1889. Their children were, James Coad, Harry Ewing and Margaret. Mr. Rutledge died in the spring of 1910.
Alexander Ewing (C)
Alexander, the fifth son of John and Sarah Ewing, was born in 1808 and died in 1882. He married Catherine Eaton McAfee, who was born in 1811 and died in 1897. The marriage took place in 1832. They had eight sons and three daughters. Four of the sons and one daughter died in early life. BOYD (D), who was a member of the Eleventh Regiment in the Union Army, died at Camp Pierpont, Virginia, of typhoid fever in 1861. JOHN MAXWELL (D) was born in 1833 and died February 5th, 1906. He married Emeline Rankin in 1869. Her death occurred in 1897. Their children are, Elmer Rankin, born in 1871; Minnie May, born in 1873, and William Boyd, born in 1877. Elmer Rankin (E) married Margaret Bergman, and they have three children. THOMPSON R. (D) was born in Indiana county in 1837. He was graduated from Washington College in 1863. He served in the Christian Commission in the army from 1863 to 1865. He was graduated from the Western Theological Seminary in 1866, and licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Blairsville in 1867. He was ordained the next year and installed pastor of the church at New Alexandria. There he remained for ten years. He became Principal of the Blairsville College for Women in 1878, and remained in that position until 1890. He was Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of the Grand Army of the Republic of Pennsylvania from 1877 to 1879. For some time previous to his death, which occurred on the 14th of January, 1898, he served the Southern Presbyterian Church at Hillsdale, Maryland. He was “a good scholar, an excellent preacher and a courteous Christian gentleman.” He married Minnie Hilts, of Illinois. She was born in 1844. A son and daughter died in childhood. Their children are Boyd Ross, who was born in 1870; Edward Hilts, who was born in 1872; Clara, born in 1874; Helen and Sara. Boyd (E), who is an attorney-at-law in Pittsburg, married Nan Guth. Their children are Boyd, Ross, Ruth and Edward Guth. Edward (E) married Agnes Kennedy. She died in 1905. Their children are Marjorie and Helen. Edward is a physician and resides at Stoughton, Massachusetts. In 1907 he married Margaret Allen. Clara (E) is a music teacher in Pittsburg. Helen (E) married Rev. Herman Hosick, of Blairsville, Pennsylvania, in 1907. Their first born died in infancy. Sara (E) married Ernest Foster in 1910. JAMES ROSS (D) was born in 1844, and is a physician practicing at Delmont, Pennsylvania. In 1871 he married Sarah Orr. They have one son, J. Herbert (E), who was born in 1873. He married Madge Shields. He is a practicing physician laboring in his profession jointly with his father at Delmont. Their children are Dorothy and Marjorie.
James Ewing (B)
The third son of William and Eleanor Ewing was James. He served in the War of 1812 under “Mad” Anthony Wayne. He lived to the ripe age of eighty-four years. James Henry Ewing, the writer’s father, relates that he was teaching school near Mahoning, Indiana County, at the time of his great-uncle James’ death. This was in 1851. In 1795 he married Mary Horn. They had two children, John and Mary. JOHN (C) married Letty Work. Their children were Miriam (D), who married Thomas Reed, of Ligonier, Pennsylvania; Mary (D), who married Peter Dilts; William (D), who married ----- Hindman, and Thomas (D), who married ----- Gourley. Mary (C) married James Work. Their children were James E. (D), Mary (D) (who married William McCreary), and William Sarah, Josiah and Harvey. The family of James Ewing settled in the vicinity of Georgeville, Indiana County, and left a numerous progeny.
Robert Ewing (B)
The fourth son of William and Eleanor Ewing was Robert. Like his brother James, he was a soldier in the War of 1812. He died at the age of seventy years, near Ebenezer Church, Indiana County. He married his cousin, Martha Thompson. They had four sons: JOHN, JAMES, ROBERT and WILLIAM, and four daughters: JANE, MARTHA, PEGGY and ELEANOR. John (C) studied for the ministry and went South and died in early manhood. Neither he nor William ever married. James (C) and Robert married sisters, viz; Martha and Catherine Graham. Robert had two children, Robert, who married Mary Jane Irwin, and one daughter, Linn (D) (Belinda), who married John M. Galagher. They reside in Blairsville, Pennsylvania. Their children are Wynona and Herbert. James (C) left children, but no trace of them is obtainable. Of the daughters of Robert and Martha Ewing only Jane married, and she died without issue.
Alexander Ewing (B)
The fifth son of William and Eleanor Ewing was Alexander. He died in the State of Indiana at the age of seventy years. He never married. Like his brothers, Robert and James, he had a part in the War of 1812.