Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....McEwen, George W. October 22 1828 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    GEORGE W. MCEWEN, planter and miller, of Rockford, Ala., is a son of Kirkham
and Mary. (Kanada) McEwen. The McEwen family is of Scotch-Irish extraction, the
great-grandfather of George W. McEwen having emigrated from Scotland before the
Revolutionary war, in which he took part as a private soldier. He settled in
North Carolina. Robert McEwen, the father of Kirkham, and his brother James,
were the only children. James went to Tennessee and lived there, as do his
descendants, but Robert removed to Georgia when a young man, and settled in
Newton county. Here he married and reared his family, Kirkham among the rest.
The family afterward removed to Gwinnett county, where Robert McEwen and his
wife died. In Gwinnett county, Kirkham McEwen grew to manhood and married.
Several of his children were born in this county. He then removed to Meriwether
county, where he lived two years, and he removed thence to Alabama, in 1836. He
settled on the Tallapoosa river, in the county of that name, about fourteen
miles south of Dadeville. In 1844, he moved to Coosa county, and in 1855, his
parents moved to Calhoun county, Miss., where they both died, the father in 1866
and the mother in 1889. He was a mechanic, as were nearly all the McEwens, both
before and after him. He was a justice of the peace for years while he lived in
Alabama, and he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Of his twelve
children, six are now living: George W., was born October 22, 1828, in Gwinnett
county, Ga., and for several years of his life followed farming. During the
later years of his life he has mainly followed milling. In 1860, he located
three and a half miles north of Rockford, on Hatchet creek, where he built a
mill, which has since been in operation. He also owns a plantation of six
hundred acres. He was married in 1949, December 29th, in Coosa county, Ala., to
Mary C. Sears, by whom he has nine children. viz.: Martha A., wife of S. M.
Adams, of Coosa county; J. K., of Rockford; W. P., George W., Jr., and J. T.,
all three of Coosa county; Emma J., wife of J. A. Miller, of Coosa county; Mary
S., wife of T. J. King, of Greenhill, Ark.; Arsular, wife of John Dobson, of
Coosa county, and Archie A., at home. Mr. McEwen enlisted as a private soldier
in company C, Fifty-third Alabama cavalry, and was soon afterward elected second
lieutenant, and was afterward promoted to first lieutenant. He served mostly in
the western army. He was wounded in the Atlanta campaign, having a finger of his
left hand carried away. Politically, Mr. McEwen is a democrat. He is a royal
arch Mason, and is treasurer of the blue lodge. He was worshipful master for
some years. He has been a Methodist and a steward of his church for twenty years.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 732-733



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