Lewis And Clark County MT Archives Obituaries.....Ewing, William H. January 1905
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The Anaconda Standard, January 12, 1905
VETERAN OF TWO WARS DIES AT RIPE OLD AGE --	

Helena, Jan. 11.-- Death claimed a distinguished war veteran today in Col. 
William H. Ewing, veteran of the Seminole and Mexican wars and one of the 
oldest men in Montana. He was in his eighty-seventh year and possessed his 
faculties to a remarkable degree to the end. Colonel Ewing lived with his son 
and family at 188 West Lyndale avenue. He appeared to be in his usual health 
this morning when his grandchildren, Alice and Bessie, the only members of the 
family at home, left him to go to school, except that he complained of a pain 
in his breast.

When the children returned at noon they found him sitting in his chair, dead. 
He had sustained a hemorrhage of the lungs. The children notified Alice King, a 
neighbor, and she sent word to Coroner Bennett, who, after examining the case, 
decided no inquest was necessary. The dead man's son is in the valley and he 
has been notified.

Colonel Ewing was born in Ohio, July 18, 1818, and reared in Kentucky. He 
enlisted in 1837 with Col. Dick Gentry's regiment for the Seminole war and 
participated in the battle of Okechokee, serving through the war. At the 
outbreak of the Mexican war he enlisted in Colonel Walswick's regiment and 
participated in the battles of Touse and Santa Cruz, carrying in his body until 
death a buckshot received in the former in 1847.

After the Mexican war he crossed the plains in 1849 to Los Angeles and mined in 
Nevada. He returned East, and crossed the plains again in 1864, locating in 
Virginia City, and the following years came to Helena. He engaged in the livery 
business and in ranching. He was married in 1863 to Mrs. Rebecca Hill, who died 
in 1888. One son survives the veteran. Complete arrangements for the funeral 
have not yet been made.



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