Washington County PA Archives History .....Family Record Of James Ewing 1921
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& Rev Geo W. Pollock appeared & called his wife downstairs & in about 15 
minutes, her brother Atty James C. Ewing came in.  Before he arrived, however, 
she explained to me that her brother had deeded the house to her, she to give 
him an old bachelor, a home in it as long as he lived.  Mr Pollock said he had 
a charge at Laboratory where he had a large & growing congregation.  She 
showed me pictures of the old Geo W. Conwell stone house built by her great 
grandfather, William Ewing & of the Conwell burying ground on the top of the 
highest hill, which she & Mr Pollock climbed up to where he & his wife, Mary 
Conwell Ewing are buried, the inscription giving his birth 1769? & his death 
1827.  She said the Ewings & Porters came from the same place in Ireland viz 
Coleraine.  James C. Ewing spoke of Corresponding with John G. Ewing, a lawyer 
of NY then but living now in Washington D.C. who was fully conversant with the 
Ewing History & was a grandson of Thomas Ewing of Ohio, who was of a different 
branch from James C's line, whose first ancestor to come to America was 
Nathaniel Ewing who came to Cecil Co, Md in 1725, but who two years before had 
married Sarah Porter in Ireland & on the steamer or vessel rather coming over, 
a daughter was born who was named Seagull Ewing & from her the Breadings & 
Hoggs descended.  Nathaniel was the father of Rev John Ewing of the University 
of Pa at Phila a very able man & of George Ewing who married Mary Porter, his 
cousin, I think & became the parents of William Porter Ewing who dropped the 
Porter & went by the name of William Ewing & was the father of Judge 
Nathaniel, Major John H, Maria, wife of James Veech, Louisa, wife of William 
Wilson, James Ewing, his grandfather & many others.  The Porters above named 
were of the same Porter families that James C's mother sprang from.  James C. 
said his father, Dr Geo C. was called to treat a case of malignant diptheria 
in the mountain & not having other instruments with him, used a tooth pulling 
pincers he had to loosen & break the coating that had formed in the patient's 
throat.  He inadvertently neglected to sterilize the pincers when he returned 
home & some two weeks later used them in pulling one of his own teeth & thus 
became infected & died himself of the diptheria.  Mrs Pollock & her posthumous 
sister went to her grandfather Porter's to live & James C. went to his 
grandfather James Ewing's to live & lived with him for 11 yrs until he died 
in 1877 attending the "Sassafras School" where during School hours, he often 
heard Major Breading's hounds running the foxes.  Speaking of her great Uncle 
William Wilson's untalkative nature, she said once when she was visiting there 
with other company at the table & all were talking but him, she said: "Uncle 
Wilson is your tongue sore"?  Afterwards, when she was back once, her Aunt 
Louisa playfully said: "Minnie, your Uncle's tongue is still sore".  I left at 
2:20 PM & going across the walk of the house opposite to East Beau St, I soon 
came to 262 East Beau St & Miss Porter came to the door & took me upstairs to 
her front room & she gave me the information recorded on pages 81 to 86 
inclusive & at 4:30 PM I bid her goodbye amid her profuse expressions of 
gladness at my visit, & went around the corner to No 20 South Lincoln St just 
back of the college to Prof M.A. Dickie's, Prof of German & left him for 
translation the old German of her great grandfather which Mrs Towne had given 
me for that purpose on Sept 17th last & told him I would be back in two 
hours.  I then went to A.M. Linn's office & saw Mr Spriggs & the stenographer 
abt the taxes & called up Jno H. Murdoch on the phone & he said he had talked 
to Columbus O on the phone & they s'd they had decided not to buy the other 
15,000 A.

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Extracted from Josiah V. Thompson Journals

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