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Subject: ROBERT EWING b. 1805 BROWN CO. OHIO
Date: 25 Apr 2004 17:38:49 -0600

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Surnames: EWING, SCHRIMSHER, SWIFT, RIMMER
Classification: Biography

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For those interested in the line of EWING's in OHIO, I am submitting the following. This bit of research has been very valuable in connecting my EWING ancestors.

This does tie in with other posts here regarding OH and KY EWING's. Now all we need is some documentation of the immigration ca. 1783 of this ROBERT, JANE and children!

As always, there are some discrepencies with other research efforts, but this will hopefully contribute to the ongoing efforts to document this line.

Here it is:

[This document is transcribed from a typed letter sent to me by Mrs. Carolyn Mettler, great granddaughter of Robert Ewing. The letter was heavily marked and edited, and it is clear she had difficulty typing. I have made some corrections, shown in the square brackets within the text. Otherwise, the document is faithful to her intent – Roy Ewing]
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ROBERT EWING FAMILY

Several Ewin/Ewings were taxpayers in Mason County Kentucky in 1800. By 1808 Jobn, Robert, and Samuel Ewing were on the tax list in Byrd township in Adams County (later Brown County OH.) ROBERT EWING, born 1805 in what is now Brown County is the subject of this article.

His siblings appear to be: Mary, wife of David Armstrong; Nancy, second wife of Thomas Wisby; John C. Ewing who married Isabel Hutson/Huston; Jackson Ewing, who married Catherine (Turner) Hopkins; Samuel Ewing,who married Sarah Wells; Sarah Ewing, who married Elisha Milton; Jackson Ewing, the younger, who married Mary Pettijohn, daughter of Thomas and Ruth Pettijohn.

Robert Ewing grew up in Brown County. He served as a fence viewer. He married in Highland County 10 November 1825 Elizabeth Milton, daughter
of Jesse and Martha Milton. Lydda [Lydia?] Milton, born 30 April 1764 was Jesse Milton's mother. After Jesse died Martha Milton married Edward Graham.

As no written record of Robert Ewing’s ancestry has been found, careful searching and sifting of existing records in Adams, Brown, and Highland counties, 0H, and Mason county KY has been done.

The biographical article about Huston Bare in Beers 1883 History of Brown County states: “Esther EWING Bare emigrated from Ireland with her parents Robert and Jane Ewing in 1783 and subsequently settled in Frank1in township where they were among the first settlers.”

Mason county KY records show that a Robert and Samuel Ewing signed an affidavit that their sister was of age [in] 1801 to marry. Esther/Easter Ewing married William BEARE 30 March 1801, [with] Samuel Ewing [as] bondsman in Mason County KY.

Also in Mason Co. KY, Samuel Ewing married Rachel Masterson, Dau. of John Masterson. After Samuel Ewing’s death in Brown county the land indenture did not include Robert Ewing or the others among the children of Samuel and Rachel. Robert T., son of John Jr. of Mason Co. was not same person as Robert of 1805, nor was Robert Ewing of Fleming Co KY who had some land on White Oak Creek Highland County or his son Robert. Thus by deduction and elimination the father of Robert b. 1805 and his siblings must have been Robert Ewing, the brother of Samuel Ewing and Esther Ewing Bare.

[It was] in Adams County 12 December 1811 that Robert married Isabella Smith, widow of Samuel Smith. There are land records dealing with Samue1 Smiths lands in both their names. This Robert Ewing enlisted as a private in Captain Joseph Kratzer's Company of Infantry, 1st Regiment of Ohio Militia War of 1812. William Bare also enlisted in this unit. Archives records show that Robert Ewing enlisted July 29, 1813 and was discharged sick August 4, 1813. The War Department papers did not show where. There is no further record of him in Adams-Brown County area. His name was removed from the tax list by 1816.

Isabella Ewing remarried 3 June 1820 to Archibald McNeel. It is evident that her Robert Ewing husband did not return from the War of 1812 or died soon after. Isabella appears to be the mother of the younger Jackson Ewing born in 1812.

John Ewing Sr. of Cedar Hills had married Mrs. Hannah Cutler December 11, 1809. No Adams county census showed any children in his household. However Brown County records show that Hannah Ewing accused Jackson Ewing and Robert Ewing of assault. The case was thrown out of the court. The boys may have felt that they had some interest in his land from the old tax records.
There is no further record [of] John Sr. in Brown county except his land being sold for unpaid taxes.

Other Ewings in Brown County are traceable to other origins. Adam to Pennsylvania and Abner Ewing of Cherry Fork Brush Creek was of the New Jersey Ewings as was the Honorable Thomas Ewing. In 1870 census Robert b. 1805 and many of his siblings said that their mother and father were foreign born as was Esther Ewing Bare.

Robert Ewing b. 1805 with his wife Elizabeth Milton settled on East Fork White Oak Creek in what became Highland County. There [were] at least the following children born: Amanda M., Jesse C., Robert M., John Newton, Mary, and Samuel Elliott. With related families they removed to Schuyler County Illinois in 1837. Known children born to them in Schuyler county were James, Sarah Ann, and Lorina I. The Milton Ewing who left Schuyler County IL. in the California goldrush could have also been a son.

Robert was a carpenter but acquired farming land in Eden township Schuyler County by 1850 census. Wisby’s, Arstrong’s, [and] Jackson Ewing the younger also settled there. So did John C. Ewing before moving to Hancock County, Il. near Jackson Ewing and his son John Parker Ewing all of whom remained in
that area. In 1857 Robert Ewing and several related lines moved to Linn County Kansas Territory hoping to acquire lands for their growing families and to further the settlement of Kansas by anti-slavery citizens.

In 1858 Robert Ewing was one of the four member delegation from Linn County to the Leavenworth Constitutional convention. This convention proved futile as did the first two at LeCompton and Topeka as their constitutions did not pass.

They took up farm land there and experienced border warfare all around them.
When the Civil War erupted at least four of Robert's sons and two of his sons-in-law served in the Union Army. His son John Newton Ewing (from whom the writer descends) married Amanda Hodgson, daughter of Jonathan Hodgson and Anna Lundy, who were married 4 August 1825 in Clinton County Ohio. They were of long time “Friends” [of the same] persuasion who had removed from Stark County Illinois to Linn County Kansas.

Elizabeth and Robert Ewing both died in Linn County and are buried in
Prairie Home (Formerly Ewing) Cemetery. Their descendants are widely
scattered over America.

Compiled by:
Carolyn Carnahn Mettler, (great granddaughter)
Wenatchee, WA

References not stated in the article:
a. Accelerated Indexing Systems Inc. Search 1, Censuses to 1810 on:
EWIN, EWING, EWINGS
b. Autobiography and Family History and Various Reminiscences By Jonas
Pettijohn, Green Kansas August 1889
Publlshed by Clay Center Kansas Dispatch Printing House 1890
c. Linn County Kansa, A History by William Ansel Mitchell 1928

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