Biography of D C Ewing, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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D. C. Ewing, M. D., a well-known physician of Batesville, was born in
Madison County, Tenn., on November 7, 1846, and is a son of David C. and Sophia
(Dixson) Ewing, of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively. The elder Ewing
immigrated to Tennessee about the year 1819, and settled in Madison County,
where he died in 1858, his wife following him in 1888. They were the parents of
ten children, of whom six are yet living: Elizabeth C., wife of W. S. Carson, a
grandnephew of the celebrated scout and Indian fighter, [p.666] Kit Carson;
Jane W., who was married to James Steed, and died in 1871; Adeline E., wife of
James F. Bray; Newton A.; the Doctor; Joseph D., who died in Los Angeles, Cal.;
Fannie, wife of Granville Ingram, and Margaret, wife of Robert Davis, deceased.
The Doctor was reared on his father's farm, in Madison County, Tenn., and
received his education at the Madison Academy. On September 13, 1861, he
enlisted in Company A, Thirty-first Tennessee Infantry, and served sixteen
months, afterward joining Company B, Twenty-first Tennessee (Forrest's)
Cavalry, in which he continued until his surrender at Gainesville Junction,
Ala., to E. R. S. B. Canby, who was killed by Capt. Jack, a celebrated Indian
chief. The Doctor served in a number of the most important battles, and, though
one of the foremost in the ranks and in the thickest of battle, he was never
once wounded nor captured. After the war was over he remained in Madison
County, Tenn., where he read medicine under Dr. D. M. Spencer, at the same time
obtaining a knowledge of the drug business in a store at that place. In 1869 he
entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, and upon
graduating, in 1871, came to Arkansas and located at Batesville, where he has
been a resident and practiced medicine ever since. He has built up a large and
lucrative practice, and is well known throughout this section, not only for the
skill displayed in his profession, but also for his personal qualities. The
Doctor is a member of the Arkansas State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. He also belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Knights
of Honor, and was an alderman of Batesville for four years. On July 2, 1874, he
was married to Mrs. Laura A. Cox, of Mississippi, but reared in Arkansas. He
has made his home one of the most attractive in Batesville. The Doctor owns
considerable town property, and his residence is unsurpassed.