Ewing Family, Butler County, Kansas Genealogy Trails

BUTLER COUNTY, KANSAS

DAVID EWING

Submitted by Susan Ewing Wolfe

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David Ewing

ADDENDA

After this book was in type Mrs. Lucile Turner, widow of the late distinguished Judge Jesse Turner, Van Buren, Arkansas, sent me a copy of arms and data showing very conclusively her descent from the old Balloch, Scotland, family which, as I have shown, is a branch of the oldest Loch Lomond Ewings of Lowland origin. Mrs. Turner was born in Knoxville, Illinois, in 1877, the daughter of Emma Ruth Ewing (1831) and her husband, J. F. Price. emma Ruth was the daughter of George Marshall Ewing, born in Uniontown, Pa., in 1818. He married Elizabeth Maria Taylor, of Illinois; and was the son of David Ewing (1770), probably born in Ireland. David's Bible states that he "left Ireland and went to America November 1, 1792." Reaching America he visited relatives in Maryland, then settled in Uniontown and married Ruth Brown of Virginia-Maryland in 1797. Her father owned and leased the land on which Brownsville is built. Ruth's sister, Elizabeth, married a Cox and their daughter married Gen. Thos. Ewing, one of the descendants of the Hon. Thos. Ewing. he and Mrs. Turner's branch recognized relationship. Elizabeth, another of David Ewing's children, married Wm. Whitton. Many of this David Ewing's descendants live in California and elsewhere.

This David Ewing was a younger son of Alex Ewing, the youngest of the Balloch Ewings, and was born about 1722. He married, first, Janet, a daughter of John Ewing of Noblistown, Scotland; and second, Rachel Marshall and had David and three other boys. This Alex, was a younger son of Alexander of Balloch, born about 1692, the younger son of Alex of Balloch, born about 1660.

The copies of arms extant in this American branch of the family show the figures of the old Ewing arms of 1565, except that the cheveron is not embattled; and for difference, denoting the descent from younger children, the three birds (martlets) are shown and an indented border. The shield is set upon another shield used as mantelling in order the better to show the indented border of the first.