The Descendants of Benjamin David Ewing
Benjamin David5 Ewing (James4, Alexander3, John2, Alexander1, RobertA)
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1. Benjamin David “Ben” Ewing {41} was born 1 Jul 1831 in Wilson County, Tenn. He was the son of James Ewing {31} and Nancy Smith {32}. Benjamin died 24 Dec 1906 in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas, and was buried in the Dulaney Cemetery in Dulaney, Hunt County, Texas. He married Kate Temperance Weathers {722} 26 Feb 1874 in Hunt County, Texas. She was born 20 Dec 1852 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia. Kate came to Texas with her widowed mother in 1872 from Rome, Floyd County, Georgia. She was the daughter of L P Weathers {2655}. Kate died 29 Mar 1947, and was buried in Leonard Cemetery in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas. Ben moved to Hunt County, Texas in 1857 and then moved to Leonard in 1906. Ben purchased land in Hunt County, Texas on Indian Creek on 31 July 1867 located west of Celeste, Texas.
Known children of Benjamin are:
+ 2. i. Olan S Ewing {723}, born 16 Sep 1875, died 11 Dec 1915.
3. ii. Eula Lee Ewing {724}, born 7 Feb 1877 in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas, died in infancy 14 Nov 1878, and was buried in Dulaney, Hunt County, Texas.
4. iii. Urline B Ewing {725}, born 20 Oct 1878 in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas, died in childhood 29 May 1880, and was buried in Dulaney Cemetery Dulaney, Hunt County, Texas.
+ 5. iv. Vera Pearl Ewing {726}, born 7 Aug 1880.
6. v. Katie Ewing {727}, born 19 Jul 1886 in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas. Katie died 5 Aug 1955 in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas, and was buried in the Leonard Cemetery in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas. She married Charles H Blann {754}. He was born 26 Sep 1888. Charles died 29 Mar 1939, and was buried in the Leonard Cemetery in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas.
+ 7. vi. Benjamin Delta Ewing {728}, born 4 Dec 1887, died 29 May 1940.
+ 8. vii. Hubert Larkin Ewing {729}, born 21 Jun 1890.
On the 3rd day of October 1946, Kate T. Ewing completed and signed a Widow’s Application for Confederate Pension. From the pension application, we can learn a number of facts about Kate and Benjamin David.
She was living in Leonard, Texas when she made application for a pension and had lived there since 1906. Benjamin had died on 24 day of December 1906 in Fannin County. He was honorably discharged or paroled at the close of the war. Ben lived in Texas but went to Nashville, Tennessee to enlist. He was in the Calvary serving in the 2nd Tennessee Calvary under General Forest and served the whole duration of war. Kate was 93 years old and was born on December 20, 1852 and had lived in Texas since November 1872. She had lived in Leonard since 1906.
On November 5, 1946, The Adjuant General’s Office of the War Department wrote to the Comptroller of Public Accounts, State of Texas, indicating the following:
The records show that B. D. Ewing, name also found as Benj. D. Ewing, not found as Banjamin David Ewing, private, Company E, 1st Battalion (McNairy’s) Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States Army, enlisted 28 June 1861, at Nashville, Tennessee.
By consolidation of organizations in June 1862, this company became Company C, 22d Regiment (also called 2nd) Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate States Army and the muster roll of the last named company for May and June 1864, last on file, show him present.
This regiment was consolidated in February 1865 with another Confederate States Army organization from the 21st and 22d Regiment Tennessee Cavalry (Consolidated), Confederate States Army, which was paroled at Gainesville, Alabama , in May 1865.
B. D. Ewing, private, Company A, 2d and 21st Regiment Tennessee Cavalry, confederate States Army, was surrendered by Lieutenant General R. Taylor, Confederate States Army and paroled 11 May 1865, at Gainesville, Alabama. Residence Wilson County, Tennessee.
The pension was approved on November 12, 1946 and started on December 1, 1946.
The following letter dated April 21, 1971 was received from Hubert L. Ewing, San Antonio, Texas:
I am gathering some interesting data on our family history and I will forward it to you shortly. I am very much interested in your project and I want to help you in any way that I can.
On June 29, 1971, Hubert L. Ewing wrote to the author of this book the following letter:
I apologize for such a long delay in answering your letters about the history of the Ewing family. I hope my information is not too late for you to use. I am very interested in your project and I wish you success.
I remember your grandfather and his family very well. When they moved to Celeste I was attending high school there and I got pretty well acquainted with them. Our family moved to Leonard in 1906 where I graduated. I then attended Baylor University – taught school two years before entering the merchandise field. I came to San Antonio at the out break of WW #1 and served with the 90th Division. After the war my wife who had come to San Antonio and I decided to make our home here. Since it has been more than 50 years since leaving North Texas I have lost contact with our folks in that part of the State.
I am sending three family records – my father’s, my own, and my son, George’s. I believe these are the ones you requested. I am also enclosing a copy of a letter that I wrote to George in which I gave some interesting information on the branch of our family that settle in Ohio. There are also many Ewings living in Western Penn. One of them, Wm. K. Ewing came to San Antonio in the early 20's. He established a large mortgage investment company. He inherited a few million from his father who had large mining interest in Pa. W.K. and I often talked about our ancestors – and traced our lineage back to the same family tree.
In one of your letters you asked about my mother’s family – They lived near Atlanta Ga. Her father was a Baptist preacher who died during the early part of the Civil War leaving my grandmother with six young children. My mother was the oldest. They moved to Hunt county shortly after the war. Two of my uncles became Baptist preachers. I am sorry I can’t give you much information about their families.
I will now tell you something about my father and his family. My grandfather, James Ewing owned a large plantation in Wilson County, Tenn. Near Statesville. He raised a large family by his first wife. After her death he married again and had several more children. My father was among the first group. He was well educated and taught school when he first came to Texas in 1857. He returned to Tenn. at the out-break of the Civil War and helped organize a cavalry unit of which his brother in law Timothy Allison was Captain. His company served a great part of the war under Gen. Bedford Forrest. After the war he returned to Hunt County where he engaged in farming and live stock. He built the first Cotton gin west of Jefferson City in East Texas. It was powered at first by heavy oxen on a tread wheel. He later installed a steam engine and more modern machinery. He educated all of us – which was unusual in those times.
My oldest brother was a prominent physician in Fannin County for many years. He married Lizzie Tomlinson of Bowie, Tex. . . . Ben Ewing King who served in WW#II and was a P.O.W. for three years in the Phillipines. . . . My father served throughout the Civil War in the same organization. His first Sergeant, R. R. Hancock kept a very interesting diary and published in book form in 1887 by the Brandon Printing Co., Nashville, Tenn. My copy is the only one that I know about. Several members of the Ewing family were mentioned including a biography of my father’s brother-in-law, Capt. Timothy Allison. I know you would enjoy the book, I wish I could lend it to you but I treasure it so highly that I don’t want to risk losing it in the mail.
By the way, James L. Ewing’s name appears in the roster of heroes that died in the Alamo. He was from Tenn. so I assume that he came from the clan.
This is a rather long letter but I have been trying to furnish some important records and I hope my efforts will help you in compiling information that will be useful to you in your history of the Ewing family.
I hope that we can meet sometime. If you ever come to San Antonio it will be my pleasure to have you visit me in my home.
Sincerely,
Hubert included the names and addresses of the different members of his family and gave information about their marriages and children. Since that information is contained below, it was edited out of the letter. Hubert referred to a letter to he had written to his son, George and the contents of that letter follows:
Oct 9, 1970
Dear George
I started this letter about a month ago and somehow I just haven’t had inclination to buckle down and finish it. About the time I started it my work at the store piled up and I didn’t feel like writing after a hard days work. So now I’ll try to finish.
First I want to thank you for sending me the Texas Eastern News. I am proud of the award that you received in New York – honoring you for the completion of the Stanton Island storage facility. I know that you worked hard and long in both Washington and New York before convincing the authorities that the project would be safe – not only safe but a most valuable asset to N.Y.C. and vicinity. I am glad that they now fully realize the value of your achievement. I congratulate you on a job well done. I am sure that your company and your co-workers and your many friends are proud of the accomplishments.
I was also glad to receive the article about George Ewing and his son,
Tom. The article was very interesting and gives more information on the branch of our family that settled in Ohio. An old friend of mine, Mr. Peterson, became interested in the history of the Ewing family. He must have spent considerable time and study to trace the lineage all the way back to Scotland. He described our family Coat of Arms. One of our ancestors was Knighted by the King and was sent along with large group of Scotch Presbyterians to Northern Ireland to try to tone down the wild Irishmen who was (as they say today) causing a great deal of trouble. One result was that the Scotch-Irish came out of the merger. Well you and I seem to lean toward the Scots–especially Cutty Sark Clan. They finally migrated to this country before the Revolutionary war–one branch went west to Ohio and our branch went to Tenn. The George Ewing family has quite an interesting history. Tom, his son, who stayed in Ohio became a Federal Judge. His close friend and neighbor Judge Sherman made the “Circuit”. Judge Sherman died leaving a large family and very few assets. Tom took over and found homes among friends and relatives for all the children except one little red head, William Tecumseh. No one seemed to want him so Tom and his wife raised him. Tom did very well both financially and politically. He became a United States Senator – He had an appointment to West Point to hand out – His own sons didn’t want it so “Old Salt” as he was called, gave the appointment to William. He served in the army for some time – married the Senator’s daughter. After leaving the army he engaged in several very unsuccessful business ventures. Each time papa came to the rescue and bailed him out. One of his most costly mistakes was opening a bank in San Francisco during the ‘49 gold rush. He loaned money right and left and when the boon was over he couldn’t collect so the Senator paid off. Sherman went back in the service and when the Civil War broke out he was Commandant of L.S.U. He resigned and went to Washington and accepted an assignment in the Union Army. I won’t try to recite the history of the Civil War but I will try to tell you why I learned to hate the name – William Tecumseh Sherman – my mother’s family was in the center of things around Atlanta when Sherman captured the city and started his infamous “march to the sea”. My maternal grandfather died during the early part of the war and left my grandmother with six young children. My mother was the oldest. Their home was destroyed - no food or live stock was left. They had buried some corn in the garden and they survived for a while on parched corn.
After Sherman captured Atlanta he burned most of the city and with an army of about 62,000 men he started the march to the sea. He cut loose from all communication from Washington and literally lived off the land. With no opposition and with imperfectly disciplined soldiers he literally laid waste to the land. His army fanned out – bridges, warehouses, railroad, homes and barns were burned and destroyed. Food to feed the army and its animals was taken and four times as much as was needed simply spoiled. Sherman was branded as “a thousand fiends centered in one”. It was said that you could follow his path by the smoke of the burning homes and towns. Thousands of Negroes followed the army and you can imagine the outrages that were committed. Throughout my early life I listened to stories that made ones blood curdle. So you can understand why Sherman was a dirty word.
What I’ve written about Sherman was not from the memories of the stories I so often heard from my mother and grandmother but are taken from “The American Heritage History of the Civil War” This is one of the many fine books that you and Ann gave me a few years ago.
I hope my long letter is not boresome to you. I thought there might be some things in it that you would like to have.
It was nice to have part of my family with me a couple of Sundays ago. It would have been more wonderful if you and your family could have been with us. We all enjoyed chatting with you over the phone.
Give my love to Ann and all the children.Dad –
The Ohio Ewing family referred to in the above letter is no doubt the Thomas Ewing family. William Tecumseh Sherman married a daughter of Thomas Ewing. After Sherman’s father died, Thomas Ewing, with the consent of Sherman’s mother, took Sherman into his home and was raised by the Ewing family.
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2. Olan S Ewing {723} was born 16 Sep 1875 in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas. He was the son of Benjamin David Ewing {41} and Kate Temperance Weathers {722}. Olan died 11 Dec 1915 in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas, and was buried in Leonard, Texas. He married Lizzie Tomlinson {730} 4 Dec 1901. She was born 16 Oct 1877. Lizzie died 2 Dec 1907, and was buried in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas. Return to parents
Known child of Olan is:
+ 9. i. Margaret Oline Ewing {731}, born 11 Sep 1902, died 14 Aug 1984.
5. Vera Pearl Ewing {726} was born 7 Aug 1880 in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas. She was the daughter of Benjamin David Ewing {41} and Kate Temperance Weathers {722}. Vera died 24 Sep 1982 in Austin, Travis County, Texas and is buried in the Austin Memorial Park Cemetery in Austin, Texas. She married Lewis Henry King {743} 2 Jun 1904 in Hunt County, Texas. He was born 2 Jun 1879. Lewis died 12 Oct 1952 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, and was buried in Austin, Texas. Return to parents
Known children of Vera are:
+ 10. i. Benjamin Ewing King {744}, born 11 Apr 1908, died 10 Dec 1966.
11. ii. Lucien Templeton King {745}, born 12 Mar 1912, died in infancy 7 Jan 1913.
7. Benjamin Delta Ewing {728} was born 4 Dec 1887 in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas. He was the son of Benjamin David Ewing {41} and Kate Temperance Weathers {722}. Benjamin died 29 May 1940 in Leonard, Texas, and was buried in Leonard Cemetery in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas. He married Lena Douglass {755} 22 Jun 1909. She was born 4 May 1893 in Orangeville, Fannin County, Texas. She was the daughter of B F Douglass {2656} and Mary E [———?———] {2657}. Lena died 19 Sep 1969, and was buried in Leonard Cemetery in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas. Return to parents
Known children of Benjamin are:
12. i. Benjamin Delta Ewing, Jr {756}, born Aug 1912. He married Mary Jo Henry {758}.
13. ii. Mary Elizabeth Ewing {757}, born 23 Nov 1920 in Leonard, Texas.
8. Hubert Larkin Ewing {729} was born 21 Jun 1890 in Celeste, Hunt County, Texas. He was the son of Benjamin David Ewing {41} and Kate Temperance Weathers {722}. He married Miriam Galloway {759} 9 Jan 1916 in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas. She was born 18 Oct 1896 in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas. Miriam died 7 May 1969 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, and was buried in Sunset Cemetery in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
Known children of Hubert are:
+ 14. i. Florence Galloway Ewing {760}, born 25 Oct 1922.
+ 15. ii. George Hubert Ewing {761}, born 11 Jun 1925.
16. iii. James Larkin Ewing {762}, born 28 Jun 1938 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. He married Alice Grehan Witherspoon {772} 19 Dec 1964 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was born 1 Sep 1944 in New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana. She was the daughter of James Warlaw Witherspoon {2664} and Margaret Schramm {2665}.
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9. Margaret Oline Ewing {731} was born 11 Sep 1902 in Leonard, Fannin County, Texas. She was the daughter of Olan S Ewing {723} and Lizzie Tomlinson {730}. Margaret died 14 Aug 1984 in Kingsland, Llano County, Texas and is buried in the Lakeland Hills Cemetery in Burnet, Burnet County, Texas. She married Thad Duncan McAlpine {732} 11 Jun 1923 in Leonard, Texas. He was born 23 Apr 1896 in Courtney, Grimes County, Texas. He was the son of Dougal McAlpine {5114} and Minnie Holderby {5115}. Thad died 25 Mar 1985 in Kingsland, Llano County, Texas and is buried in the Lakeland Hills Cemetery in Burnet, Burnet County, Texas. Return to parents
Known children of Margaret are:
+ 17. i. Donald Ewing McAlpine {733}
+ 18. ii. Delia Katherine McAlpine {734}
10. Benjamin Ewing King {744} was born 11 Apr 1908 in Merkel, Taylor County, Texas. He was the son of Lewis Henry King {743} and Vera Pearl Ewing {726}. Benjamin died 10 Dec 1966 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, and was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. He married Marie Lee {746} 1 Mar 1940 in Austin, Texas. She was born 27 Jun 1915 in Austin, Travis County, Texas. She was the daughter of Charles E Lee {2658} and Susie Ada Hendrix {2659}. Return to parents
Known children of Benjamin are:
+ 20. ii. Richard Henry King {748}
21. iii. Robert Ewing King {749}
14. Florence Galloway Ewing {760} was born 25 Oct 1922 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. She was the daughter of Hubert Larkin Ewing {729} and Miriam Galloway {759}. She married Robert Harold Vereecken {763} 8 Jan 1944 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. He was born 27 Jun 1919 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He was the son of Philip Vereecken {2660} and Elfrieda Thor {2661}. Return to parents
Known children of Florence are:
22. i. William Robert Vereecken {764} He married Christine Pryor {766}. She was the daughter of William B Pryor {2668} and Helen [———?———] {2669}.
15. George Hubert Ewing {761} He was the son of Hubert Larkin Ewing {729} and Miriam Galloway {759}. He married Doris Ann Cannan {767}. She was the daughter of Arthur Milton Cannan {2662} and Doris Thompson {2663}. Return to parents
Known children of George are:
24. i. Susan Joan Ewing {768}.
25. ii. Beverly Ann Ewing {769}
26. iii. Bryan George Ewing {770}
27. iv. Mary Catherine Ewing {771}