Cherokee County AlArchives Biographies.....Ewing, Reuben T. June 24 1824 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    REUBEN T. EWING, an experienced and extensive farmer of Cherokee county,
Ala., is a descendant of an old English family that made settlement, in the
persons of two brothers, in the Old Dominion, in its early colonial days. The
descendants of these two brothers scattered in later years, and among them were
ten brothers who went to Tennessee, and an eleventh, Samuel Ewing, the
grandfather of Reuben T. Ewing, chose Newton county, Ga., as his place of
residence, where he married a Miss Whaley and reared his family. Of this family,
one son, Green B. Ewing, married Miss Rhoda Martin, and continued to reside in
Newton county until 1852, when he came to Alabama and located in Cherokee
county, where he resided until 1867, and then removed to Colbert county, Ala.,
where his death occurred in 1869. His widow then returned to Cherokee county,
where she died in 1883, the mother of five sons and four daughters, of whom two
are now living in Texas and five in Alabama, the other two being deceased. The
father of Mrs. Rhoda (Martin) Ewing was George Martin, who was born in Abbeville
district, S. C., served seven years in the Revolutionary war and was an early
pioneer of Newton county, Ga. Reuben T. Ewing was born in Newton county, Ga.,
June 24, 1824. When a young man he had resolved to make his home in Texas, and
was on his way thither when he stopped in Coosa county, Ala. Being charmed with
the country, he decided to make it his home, and there was married, in 1851, to
Miss Mary S. White, who died in 1857, leaving four children: Nancy C., Martha
M., Rhoda A., and Mary T. When the Civil war broke forth, Mr. Ewing took his
children to Cherokee county, and placed them in the care of his mother, and then
enlisted in company C, Seventh Alabama infantry, for twelve months; most of
which time was passed at Pensacola, Fla. His term of enlistment expired just
before the battle of Shiloh, and his regiment was disbanded; but he, with others
of his late regiment, took part at Shiloh, without being a member of any
company, but simply as an independent volunteer. Returning to his home, he
enlisted in company C, Forty-eighth Alabama infantry, and was sent to Virginia
as a private, was soon after appointed captain, and then elected first
lieutenant. He saw service in the seven days' fight around Richmond at Slaughter
Mountain, second Manassas, Sharpsburg, the Wilderness, Gettysburg, in the second
series of battles around Richmond and in the trenches at Petersburg; was at the
surrender at Appomattox. Throughout all these engagements he sustained but one
serious injury - a wound in the left hip at the second battle of Manassas.
Finally returning to his home in Cherokee county at the conclusion of
hostilities he married, in December, 1865, Mrs. Mary E. Bishop, nee Tate, but no
children have blessed their union. Mr. Ewing has confined himself almost
exclusively to farming since residing in Cherokee county, taking no particular
active part in politics until 1892, when he was elected representative of
Cherokee county, to the state legislature, on the reform, or Kolb ticket, by a
majority of 1,064. He has always been, however, a Jefferson democrat. He has
served several times as worshipful master of A. F. & A. M. lodge at Centre, and
is a consistent member of the Missionary Baptist church. His farm comprises 640
acres of good land, located about three and a half miles from the town of
Centre, and he is regarded as one of the useful and substantial citizens of the
county.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 636-637

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