Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ewing, Catherine M. (Gregg) 1909
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Ionia Daily Sentinel, 2 Mar 1909

Mrs. J. W. Ewing Dead

Wife of Former Ionian Passes Away at Alma

Mrs. Catherine M. Ewing, wife of the late Professor J. W. Ewing, who 
[unreadable copy] home of her son, Prof. J. T. Ewing, at Alma.  Her health had 
been failing for some time.  She will be remembered by many Ionia friends.
The Alma Record says:

“Mrs. Ewing’s death will affect a large circle of friends not only in Alma but 
wherever she has resided.  Her long life cannot be dissociated from that of her 
husband, Professor Joseph W. Ewing, whose death preceded hers by more than 
three years.  There were few people in the state so widely known as were they 
and probably none were so universally loved.  Their home was a place where 
friends were always welcome, and all who knew them were their friends.  Since 
the professor’s death Mrs. Ewing’s feeble condition would not permit her taking 
the interest in the life about her that she once dd.  To the students of today 
she was scarcely known, but not so to those of five, ten and more years ago.  
The old students knew her and will ever hold her in tender and loving memory.

“Mrs. Ewing was born near Sparta, Randolph county, Ill., and was one Mr. and 
Mrs. Thomas Gregg, were of seven children.  Her parents, sturdy Scotch stock, 
belonging to the Covenanter Presbyterian church.  Two of her brothers, Samuel 
Gregg and Thomas Gregg, both of Girard, Kansas, survive her.  In 1855 she was 
married to Joseph W. Ewing, the young couple living in Sparta until 1859, when 
Mr. Ewing entered the University of Michigan to work his way through that 
institution.

In 1871 they were called to Ionia, to the superintendency of schools, and here 
they remained until Alma college opened its doors in 1887.  

“To be universally loved and to deserve that love was a distinction won by 
Professor and Mrs. Ewing.  Their memory will live as long as those who knew 
them, and their good deeds will go on forever.


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