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     Frederic Fitch Hassam was born on 6 October 1825.¹ He was the son of Stephen Danforth Hassam and Mary Hunt.¹ Frederic Fitch Hassam married Rosa Hathorne, daughter of Peleg Hathorne and Mary Snow, on 7 January 1850.¹

     George Avery Hassam was born on 20 August 1832.¹ He was the son of Stephen Danforth Hassam and Mary Hunt.¹ George Avery Hassam married Lenora Babb, daughter of John Babb and Anna M. (?), on 2 November 1854.¹ George Avery Hassam lived in 1870 at Manchester, Hillsborough Co., NH.¹

     Lenora Babb was born on 2 November 1834.¹ She was the daughter of John Babb and Anna M. (?)¹ Lenora Babb married George Avery Hassam, son of Stephen Danforth Hassam and Mary Hunt, on 2 November 1854.¹

     Roswell Hunt Hassam was born on 16 February 1845.¹ He was the son of Stephen Danforth Hassam and Mary Hunt.¹ Roswell Hunt Hassam lived in 1870 at Manchester, Hillsborough Co., NH.¹

     Rosa Hathorne was born on 3 July 1832 at Bangor, Penobscot Co., ME.¹ She was the daughter of Peleg Hathorne and Mary Snow.¹ Rosa Hathorne married Frederic Fitch Hassam, son of Stephen Danforth Hassam and Mary Hunt, on 7 January 1850.¹

     James Ewing was born say 1722. He died before 14 July 1801 at Bath Co., VA.¹

Knapp's Creek it's called today. But its first white man's name, given to it some 235 years ago, was Ewing's Creek, in honor of the pioneer who first settled on it, James Ewing.

It flows in a range of mountains that separate Southern West Virginia and Virginia, rising above Frost in today's Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and flowing southward a few miles until it reaches Minnehaha Springs, where it turns a sharp right corner and then rushes west (it's downhill all the way) to spill out into one of West Virginia's mightiest rivers, the Greenbrier, at the place where Marlinton, the county seat, is today.

It was on Ewing's Creek, up near Frost, that James Ewing settled as early as 1750, to be one of the county's first settlers, and it was very likely here that one of his sons, William, was born in 1756, possibly the first white child to be born in the confines of what is today Pocahontas County.

The first thing we know for sure about James, is when he appears in what is today Bath County, Virginia. During the last week in April in 1746 there were surveyed for him 245 acres on the Jackson River near Muddy Run not far from today's Warm Springs, Bath's County seat.

James seems to have spent his last years with son William on Swago Creek. Son John was named executor of his estate but names of witnesses to James' various transactions place him nearer Little Levels than Stony Creek.

James did not leave a will but his estate was inventoried so we do know about when he died. John EWING SR. was executor of the estate and he, Moses MOORE, and John COCHRAN posted $1,000 bond for him. The inventory was dated 14 July 1801, and was signed by James WADDELL, Alexander WADDELL and Joshua BUCKLEY, and was entered into the record by Thomas GATEWOOD on 4 December 1801. In it were named the above SALISBURY, COCHRAN, DUFFIELD and SEARIGHT with accounts outstanding. The two WADDELLS and BUCKLEY reviewed it all and set it down for posterity.

     Jeanet Ann Ewing was born circa 1742.¹ She was the daughter of James Ewing and Sarah (?)¹ Jeanet Ann Ewing died in 1817 at Greenbrier Co., WV.¹

     Elizabeth Ewing was born circa 1750.¹ She was the daughter of James Ewing and Sarah (?)¹

     Jane Ewing was born circa 1753.¹ She was the daughter of James Ewing and Sarah (?)¹

     William Ewing also went by the name of Swago Bill Ewing. He was born on 24 December 1756 at Bath Co., VA.¹ He was the son of James Ewing and Sarah (?)¹ William Ewing died on 7 October 1822 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH, at age 65.¹

     William Ewing was born on 2 March 1775.¹ He was the son of Capt. John Ewing and Ann Smith.¹

     John Smith Ewing was born on 25 November 1778.¹ He was the son of Capt. John Ewing and Ann Smith.¹

     Jeanet Ewing Jr. was born on 3 March 1781.¹ She was the daughter of Capt. John Ewing and Ann Smith.¹

     Nancy Ann Ewing Jr. was born on 27 May 1785.¹ She was the daughter of Capt. John Ewing and Ann Smith.¹

     Elizabeth Ewing was born on 22 February 1790.¹ She was the daughter of Capt. John Ewing and Ann Smith.¹

     Lydia Ewing was born on 6 May 1792.¹ She was the daughter of Capt. John Ewing and Ann Smith.¹

     Samuel Ewing was born on 1 May 1797.¹ He was the son of Capt. John Ewing and Ann Smith.¹

     Elizabeth Ewing was born on 15 February 1787 at Swago Creek, Greenbriar Co., VA.¹ She was the daughter of William Ewing and Mary McNeill. Elizabeth Ewing made marriage banns on 5 November 1804 at Bath Co., VA.² She died on 30 June 1852 at Huntington Twp., Gallia Co., OH, at age 65.² She was buried at Ewing Cemetery, Ewington, OH.²

     Thomas Ewing was born on 30 July 1788 at Swago Creek, Greenbriar Co., VA.¹ He was the son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill.¹ Thomas Ewing married Anstis Kellison, daughter of Daniel Kellison, on 10 April 1810.¹ Thomas Ewing died on 27 May 1874 or 28 May 1874 at Huntington Twp., Gallia Co., OH.

In the 1810 Bath County census, Thomas was listed as the head of a household of himself and a female 16 to 26 years of age. Shortly after that census the Ewings, and several other families, headed for Ohio.

About the same time as the Ewing arrival in Ohio, Huntington was formed as a township from Raccoon Township. That happened on 5 June 1810. On the last Saturday of July in 1810 the men of the township gathered at the home of Stephen and Susannah Holcombe for election purposes, and Thomas was the 17th of 18 to cast a vote.

Thomas chose land in Section 2, in the northeasternmost corner of the township, 80 acres, the east half of the southeast quarter. He immediately set about building a house. It was, as all in that area were then, of logs. It was roomy and well built and it served as his, and Anstis' home through all their years.

     Anstis Kellison was born circa 1788; based on age at death. She was the daughter of Daniel Kellison.² Anstis Kellison married Thomas Ewing, son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill, on 10 April 1810.¹ Anstis Kellison died on 21 June 1866 at Huntington Twp., Gallia Co., OH.²

     Jonathan Ewing was born on 1 August 1790 at Swago Creek, Greenbriar Co., VA.¹ He was the son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill. Jonathan Ewing married Margaret McMillin, daughter of Edward McMillin and Sarah Reid, on 16 January 1817.¹ Jonathan Ewing died on 14 September 1850 at Harmony Twp., Hancock Co., IL, at age 60.¹

     William Ewing Jr. was born on 8 April 1792 at Swago Creek, Bath Co., VA.¹ He was the son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill.¹ William Ewing Jr. married Sarah Mannering on 26 March 1818 at Huntington Twp., Gallia Co., OH.² William Ewing Jr. died on 11 July 1847 at Gallia Co., OH, at age 55.² He was buried at Ewing Cemetery, Ewington, OH.²

For many years the little Ewing cabin on Swago Creek had been in Greenbrier County, Virginia. In 1791 a new county, Bath, was created, and when it was, it took over most of what is now Pocahontas County, and Greenbrier was reduced to its present size. Thus it was that while William and Mary's first three were born in Greenbrier County, their fourth, who came along on the 8th of April in 1792, was born in Bath County.

William was 18 years old when the move was made from the West Virginia mountains to the gently rolling hills of Gallia County in Ohio. He played a large part in preparing for the trip and helping along the way, and in establishing their new home near the banks of the Raccoon where one day Ewington would come into the being.

When the United States was involved in a war with England in 1812 and 1813, William and others of Huntington Township did their part. William had a longer stint in the Army than most. Many only served during the brief thrust into Northeast Ohio to quiet the Maumee Indians in July and August of 1813. William enlisted on 13 February 1813. He was in Captain William S. Drake's company and he served until 14 August 1813 - the second William Ewing to go off to war.

William is on the Huntington Township proprietors list of 1820 as owner of a house and land worth $120, two horses, and three veal and cattle. The land was part of his father's quarter section, the northeast quarter, in Section 11. In William Sr.'s will, William Jr. was the only one of the father's sons who were married and established to be mentioned in his will. "I also give and bequeath unto my son, William Ewing, the land lying and being across the creek on the east side of his improvements and adjoining the same." With that addition, William and Sarah's land added up to 40 acres.

Through the years William also acquired about 30 acres in the northwest quarter of Section 11, as well as 70 acres in the very southeastern most corner of Section 3. On 10 October 1846 the year before his death, William and Sarah sold half of that tract, the west half, 39.77 acres, to his brother-in-law, George DODRILL, for $50.

When the town of Ewington was laid out by William's brother, George EWING, in 1846 or 1847, William and Sarah acquired one of the town lots, No. 14.

Sarah lived for almost 30 years after William's death. By 1850 all of the children had married, except Letha, who never would. In the census that year Sarah was listed in a mighty busy household.

Sarah, Letha, a son William and his wife, Mary, were living at Ewington with William and Ann (WALLACE) MC CARLEY and their sons, Elliot and Franklin, and the latter's wife, William III's cousin, Mary DODRILL (12) and their son, William. Also with them was Sarah's older sister, Mary MANNERING, born in North Carolina in 1793. Listed next to them was Sarah's son Jordan and his wife Sarah.

In the 1860 census, Sarah was the head of the household, only this time the household was in Wilkesville, where several of her children were. Only daughter, Letha was with her.

After that Sarah and Letha cast their lot with Sarah's eldest, Enoch. After the war, in September 1866, he and his family headed for Missouri, to Gilead in Lewis County. The following year Sarah and Letha went out and joined him. Enoch was not there long, leaving in 1869 to go to Hancock County in Illinois where they had so much family. Sarah and Letha moved with him. They were listed with him in Pilot Grove Township in the 1870 census.

Eventually Enoch went out to Kansas with a daughter and her family, but his wife, Phoebe, remained in Hancock County, and so did Sarah and Letha. Sarah died there.

     James Ewing was born on 9 December 1793 at Swago Creek, Bath Co., VA; now Pocahontas Co., WV.¹ He was the son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill.¹ James Ewing married Mary McMillin, daughter of Edward McMillin and Sarah Reid, on 1 August 1816.² James Ewing died on 4 October 1824 at age 30.²

James was 16 years old when the Ewings said goodbye to the mountains of West Virginia and headed for a new home on the bend of Raccoon Creek in Huntington Township's Section 11. While his first years there were given over to helping get a farm going in that wooded wilderness, eventually he and his older brother Jonathan could get out and get a job to bring in some money. They chopped wood at Jackson Furnace, 6 or 7 miles east, and they walked all the way each day to do it.

James is listed among the Huntington Township proprietors in 1819 and 1820. In 1820 he had a house and property valued at $100, two horses and two veal and cattle, but his farm could not be located. It is likely that it was a part of his father's land in Section 11, though he also appears to have owned property in Sections 12 and 14.

James was not mentioned in his father's will, drawn in 1820. In 1823 he was delinquent on taxes for property in Section 12 and in 1827 his heirs paid taxes on land in Sections 11, 12 and 14.

     John Ewing was born on 9 September 1795 at Swago Creek, Bath Co., VA.¹ He was the son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill.¹ John Ewing married Rebecca Collins on 7 April 1818 at Gallia Co., OH.² John Ewing died in 1827.¹

John was 14 years old when the move was made from the mountains of Western Virginia to the Raccoon Creek area in Huntington Township, Gallia County in Ohio and he too had a hand in getting the new farm going.

John was the first of William and Mary's children to leave "Ewingville" - Section 11 on the Raccoon Creek. John and Rebecca made their home in Milton Township, Jackson County, according to the 1820 census, where John was a farmer and a wheelwright.

For the same reason as the other older brothers, John was not mentioned in his father's 1820 will as he was comfortably established.

John and Rebecca had two sons but that was all John could give to posterity, for he died soon after the birth of the youngest, in 1827. As he is not buried in Huntington Township, it is assumed he is buried in Milton Township, Jackson County, Ohio.

     Sarah Ewing was born on 23 May 1797 at Swago Creek, Bath Co., VA.¹ She was the daughter of William Ewing and Mary McNeill.¹ Sarah Ewing married John Wallace on 22 June 1823.² Sarah Ewing died in 1827 at Huntington Twp., Gallia Co., OH.²

     Enoch Ewing was born on 31 July 1799 at Swago Creek, Bath Co., VA.¹ He was the son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill.¹ Enoch Ewing married Susannah Radabugh, daughter of Henry Radabugh and Catherine Buzzard, on 20 December 1821 at Jackson Co., OH.² Enoch Ewing died on 10 December 1885 at age 86.² He was buried at Ewing Cemetery, West Woodbridge, Hillsdale Co., MI.²

Enoch's formative years, his teens, were spent in helping to establish a new home on the bend of the Raccoon Creek in Huntington Township's Section 11. Here too he was surrounded by family, but closer kin than back on the Swago Creek - brothers and sisters here, nine brothers, many of whom had families of their own by the time Enoch approached adulthood.

Like his older brothers, Enoch put in his time at Keystone Furnace in neighboring Jackson County, chopping wood to be made into charcoal for the smelting process.

Enoch appears on the 1819 and 1820 tax lists, being taxed for chattel goods. In 1819 that was one horse for which he was required to pay 30 cents, and in 1820 it was for two horses, the amount of tax paid not noted.

Neighbors of the McNeels were the Radabaugh family, Henry and Catherine and their 10 children, who included Susannah, about Enoch's age. Enoch had been acquainted with Susannah since he was 13, but it was not until he was 21 years old that he realized that this was "it" - and it took a barking dog to do it.

One day in 1820 or 1821, Enoch was riding to the McNeel home in Madison Township. He was on the main road from Gallipolis to the Salt Licks (Jackson Town) and was very near the Madison Furnace, when he had an accident.

As Enoch was riding along on that road, a dog came into his path, yipping and yapping as dogs do. Enoch's horse shied and he was thrown.
He was not seriously injured but enough so that he was carried to the nearest house where he was put to bed and nursed for two or three days.

It happened to be the home of the Widow Catherine Radabaugh, and Enoch's nurse was the young Susannah. Enoch began to hope he would never get well.

They asked Uncle Gabriel to perform the ceremony and the gentleman obliged. Now Gabriel had many virtues but attention to detail doesn't seem to have been one of them. After the wedding he dutifully recorded the data on a little slip of paper, but when he went to the courthouse to record it, instead of actually making the entry in the marriage book, he merely slipped the little piece of paper into the book, to be recorded later, he thought.

Well, it never was. The little piece of paper fell out of the book and dropped to the floor to be trod, trampled and spit upon in the ensuing years, until one day in June of 1900 - and here again it was editor-historian Williams to the rescue. On that day, Williams was prowling around the garrets and cellars of the courthouse, as he was wont to do in search of material for his column in his paper, when he stumbled on the paper. He turned the valuable little document over to the Clerk of Courts but later mentioned his find to Dr. G.A. EWING of Jackson, A.E.'s cousin, who asked the clerk for permission to send it to A.E. for safekeeping.

Thus it was that while Enoch and Susannah's marriage never made the Jackson County records, we have proof positive of it. That little piece of paper now yellow with age is written in Gabriel's hand in brown ink, and says, "I do hereby certify that on the 20th day of December, 1821, I joined together in Holy Marriage Enoch Ewing and Susannah Radabugh. Given under my hand this 2nd day of January, 1822, Gabriel McNeel, M.G."

In March of 1827, Samuel Radabaugh bought some government land in Jefferson Township's Section 2, and a month later, on the 16 of April, he and his wife Rhoda, sold 80 acres of it to Enoch and Susannah for $1 an acre.

Thus did the Ewings come into possession of the farm that was to be their home for the next 26 years.

The first order of business was to build a house. Enoch built his, for some reason, smack dab up to the township line, so that he was almost in Franklin Township. Historian-Editor Williams wrote in his newspaper in 1904, "I have often wondered why Ewing built his house on a hill so far from water, some eighth of a mile, while all the others built near springs. Him home stood on the knoll almost south of Vaughn's Station. One of the large stone chimneys built by him is still standing. It was built of stone dressed by Ben White at his quarry

"On March 10, 1836, according to the records, Enoch bought another 40 acres, this from the government, and paid cash for it. This 40 acres was at the north end of the first 80 acres, thus was over the township line into Franklin Township. When the house was enlarged to accommodate the increasing family, the three children born after that never knew in which of the townships they were born.

Enoch and Susannah were very pious people, and they taught their children to be. The Methodist-Episcopal Church was very important in their lives. One of the first things Enoch did as his children grew up was to see to it that there was a Sunday School class established to give all the young people in the neighborhood religious training. He was secretary of the church, and as such kept a little record book of the Sunday School which has come down through the ages.

It must have been about 1845 that Enoch began taking stock, as his father had done back in Virginia 42 years before. He looked at his 160 acres and thought, "This is big enough for me, but is it big enough for my sons?"
He knew it wasn't, and he knew what he had to do.
He and his family would go to Michigan.

On 25 March 1853, a deal was consulated with Evan MORGAN. The long, narrow farm in two townships, the 160 acres that had been home for 26 years, was sold for $2,250.

As the wagontrain headed north out of Jackson County on
7 September 1853, John Ewing was at its head, he being an old vet when it came to covering the distance between the far reaches of Ohio. He looked back and saw the wagon carrying his 54 year old father and 53 year old mother and no doubt their youngest daughter, Elizabeth Parilla, 15.
The sons - Andrew, William, James and Henry probably drove the cattle behind as they rode horseback.

Janetta and Benjamin White and their two youngsters occupied another wagon. No doubt it was Janetta who was taking care of John's motherless daughter, 10 month old Mary Jane.

They were a week out of Jackson and at London, west of Columbus, 70 miles into their trip, when little Mary Jane got sick and died. The date was 14 September 1853, and the baby is buried there at London.

Enoch's land in Woodbridge joined his son John's on the east. He had 240 acres all told - the entire southeast quarter of Section 20 and 80 acres lying south across Camden Road in Section 21, which had the St. Joseph River coursing through it on its way to Lake Michigan. How Enoch loved his little river, and how much he enjoyed fishing in it in the next 30 years.

Eventually Enoch split his 240 acres giving half to Henry and half to James and Andrew. They bought several acres in the northeast quarter of the section from Josiah and Charlotte. So all of Section 20 was Ewing land. Across Cambria Road from Enoch and Susannah was daughter Elizabeth and her husband, DeWitt Clinton CHERRINGTON. Benjamin and Jenetta White had their sawmill on 240 acres in the south half of Section 30, 2 miles or so by road from Enoch, and William and his wife, Isabelle HANK, lived across Austin-Harmon Road from the Whites, into Amboy Township.

That put all of his family close around Enoch, except Isaac, who was only 15 or so miles south into Ohio. How proud Enoch must have been to know that his family was such a close-knit group, a little community of its own, with other assorted relatives and good friends and neighbors thrown in for good measure.

It stayed pretty much like that for some 30 years.

Once the family reached their new land, before anything else could be done, there was the matter of clearing all that land and getting homes built for all the family. What back-breaking work that must have been, even with eight brothers and brothers-in-law pitching in to help each other.
Enoch's first house was of logs and it was set well back from the road, where the big barn later stood. The frame house was built on the same spot in 1867 or 1868. That one had two fireplaces, a winding staircase and a wide veranda across the front, with two porches on each side, the farmyard porch on the west and the summer porch on the east. When the house was moved to its present location about 1876, it was remodeled and, in the process, both fireplaces and the winding staircase were eliminated. Just after the turn of the century, the veranda, beginning to sag, was removed and replaced by a smaller porch.

The moving of the house in about 1876 was to make way for the large barn that was raised on the spot, and finally completed in 1882.

By 1855 all of Enoch and Susannah's children had married and moved into places of their own except James and Henry. On James' marriage in 1858 to Elizabeth SMITH, sister of Emily who had married Andre, Enoch gave him the west half of the farm, and a house went up on Camden Road between Enoch and John, who had married again in 1855. After Henry's marriage in 1862 to Nancy Ann HANK, he brought his bride to live with Enoch and Susannah, and on Enoch's retirement, the place became theirs.

One of the first things Enoch and Susannah did on arrival in Woodbridge was take the initiative in establishing the first school in the district - District 5, Union School. They donated 10 acres of their land at the north end of their property, on Cambria Road for the school in 1855.

They also had not been in Woodbridge long when they saw the need for a religious class, and they took the lead in organizing one. The class became the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Woodbridge, but that was only its official name. Unofficially it was the Ewing Church, because its membership was almost entirely Enoch and Susannah's large family.

Services were held for many years in the little log schoolhouse on Cambria Road, but in 1879, after Henry took over the Enoch farm, the church got a place of its own. Henry gave room on a corner of his property for the church and he was secretary of the building committee. The church, which stood at the corner of Cambria and Camden Roads, was moved when Henry sold the property on his retirement in either 1908 or 1910 to a location in Amboy Township where it stands today.

The church served Methodist-Episcopal of both Woodbridge and its neighboring township, Cambria.

There was a grand occasion to celebrate on 20 December 1871 - a Golden Wedding Anniversary.

At some point about then Enoch gave thought to retiring from active management of the farm. When he finally did retire he deeded the entire 110 acres over to Henry, but he and Susannah continued to live there, for awhile anyway. The farm is in Henry's name in the 1875 atlas.

Enoch and Susannah remained on at the farm with Henry and Nancy until 1880. Then for a year or so they made their home with daughter Janetta and her husband, Benjamin White. By the time of their 62nd wedding anniversary, 20 December 1883, they had moved to the Section 20 home of their daughter Charlotte, whose husband, Josiah Jenkins, had died in 1871. Here they had rooms to themselves and did their own housekeeping as long as Susannah was able to get around.

Susannah was ill only a short time when she died 17 May 1884, at the age of 83 years, 7 months and 1 day.

The funeral service was held in their little church on the corner, conducted by the Reverend William DENMAN.

About a year later, Enoch returned to Henry and Nancy's home to live, and there he died. Even before he left Charlotte's he had a good deal of trouble with his breathing, especially at night. He seemed unable to draw his breath lying down, and even while sitting up he had to keep awake to breathe. Often his children or grandchildren would sit up with him to help him pass the time. When awake he talked much and loved to recount incidents of the long ago. If conversation lagged he would doze off, only to awaken with a start to catch his breath. He laughingly called it "perpetual motion". He was not given to complaining, but took things very patiently.

Death came 10 December 1885, when he was 86 years, 4 months and 10 days old.

Another funeral service in the Ewing church on the corner, this one conducted by the Reverend E. TENCH, and another burial as Enoch was laid to rest beside his mate of 62-plus years in the Ewing Cemetery, West Woodbridge, Michigan.

     Jacob Ewing was born on 17 August 1802 at Swago Creek, Bath Co., VA.¹ He was the son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill.¹ Jacob Ewing married Rebecca McNeill, daughter of Enoch McNeill and Jane Moore, on 22 April 1825 at Gallia Co., OH.² Jacob Ewing died on 25 February 1878 at Hancock Co., IL, at age 75.² He was buried at McKay Cemetery, Pilot Grove, near Burnside, IL.²

Census records of Huntington Township, Gallia County, Ohio show that Jacob was a farmer worth $1,200 in 1850.

On the 24 March of 1859 Rebecca died in Ewington, Gallia County, Ohio and was buried in the Ewing Cemetery. Their youngest child at that time was 14 years old.

In October of that year, Jacob left Ewington. At that time Jacob was 57 years old and a widower of 8 months. A letter written by John Ewing HOWELL from Ewington, Ohio to John THOMPSON, 5 miles north of Luray, Clark County, Illinois on 12 November 1859 was found: "Jacob Ewing left here a month ago for Illinois and Missouri. He intends staying all winter. He said he would be at your house as he goes to his brothers (Andrew) in Mercer County and give you the items. We have heard from him once since he left. He was then in Schuyler County, Illinois building chimneys."
U.B.G. EWING wrote: "I remember Uncle Jake visiting Ewington and re-shingling our kitchen."

In 1860, Jacob was in Huntington Township, Gallia County, Ohio living with his son John Leroy EWING. In March of 1864, Jacob had traveled back to Illinois.

In 1870, Jacob was living with Eliza EWING, 32 years, census states she was born 1838 in Ohio. Recorded as "Keeping House." Jacob recorded as being a farmer, $800/200. In 1880, Eliza EWING, found in Pilot Grove, a widow, 41, daughter of Susan LONG, 72, born in Pennsylvania. In the 1870 census, Susan and Adam LONG lived next to Jacob and Eliza Ewing.

No record was located of Jacob Ewing marrying again after the death of Rebecca.

     Abram McNeel Ewing was born on 13 October 1804 at Swago Creek, Bath Co., VA.¹ He was the son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill.¹ Abram McNeel Ewing married Elizabeth A. Bowman, daughter of George C. Bowman and Evay (?), on 31 October 1828.² Abram McNeel Ewing died on 12 February 1891 at Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, at age 86.² He was buried at Indian John Cemetery.²

Abram was a farmer and a barrel maker - a Cooper. The census records gives the information of Abram in 1850 as being 46 years, living in Huntington Township, Gallia County, a cooper worth $300. In 1850, George and Eve BOWMAN were 67 and 62, both born in Virginia, George a farmer worth $600. In 1860 Abram was listed as a farmer $600/350; 1870, a farmer, $800/382; In the 1874 plat book, Abram had several acres (under the name of A. Mac EWING) on the Raccoon Creek outside - east of Vinton, between G. BOWMAN and J.H. PORTER and R.B. CARTER (his sons-in-laws). In the 1880 census Abram was a farmer in Huntington Township, he was 75 years old and Betty was 69.

     George Ewing was born on 21 January 1807 at Swago Creek, Bath Co., VA.¹ He was the son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill.¹ George Ewing married Rosanna Knox, daughter of William Knox and Eliz. Butler, on 5 August 1827.² George Ewing married Mrs. Mary E. Denney on 1 October 1880.² George Ewing died on 1 May 1882 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH, at age 75; of palsy.² He was buried at Ewing Cemetery, Ewington, OH.²

George was a farmer, cooper and blacksmith. He also laid out the town of Ewington in 1852. In 1880, Ewington had a population of 85.

In the 1850 census, George was a farmer $1,500. Lucinda HAWK, age 6 and Sarah EWING, age 12 were living with them. In 1860, he was still farming, $2,000/800. With them were, Lucinda HAWK, 16, a domestic and George MC MILLIN, 11, born in Ohio. In 1870, they had Mariah CONNER, 10 born in Virginia, "adopted."

     George Michael Dodrill was born on 24 April 1783 at Lewis farm near Swago Creek.¹ He made marriage banns on 5 November 1804 at Bath Co., VA.¹ He died on 19 June 1860 at Huntington Twp., Gallia Co., OH, at age 77.¹ He was buried at Ewing Cemetery, Ewington, OH.¹

     Anstis Kellison married Thomas Ewing, son of William Ewing and Mary McNeill, on 10 April 1810.¹

     John Jordon Ewing was born on 22 July 1811 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ He was the son of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹

     Mary Ewing also went by the name of Polly Ewing. She was born on 28 October 1812 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹ Mary Ewing died on 11 June 1888 at Vinton, Gallia Co., OH, at age 75.¹ She was buried at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹

     Elizabeth Ewing was born on 14 July 1814 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹

     Sarah Ewing was born on 8 November 1816 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹

     Rebecca Ewing died circa 1818 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was born circa 1818 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹

     Rebecca Ewing was born on 25 September 1819 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹

     Anstis Ewing was born on 11 September 1821 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹

     Samuel Ewing was born on 28 August 1823 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹

     Margaret Ewing was born on 12 December 1825 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹

     Zeruiah Ewing was born on 16 February 1828 at Ewington, Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of Thomas Ewing and Anstis Kellison.¹

     Sarah Dodrill was born on 11 October 1816 at Huntington Twp., Gallia Co., OH.¹ She was the daughter of George Michael Dodrill and Elizabeth Ewing.¹