Kingsbury-Davison County, SD Obituaries.....Ewart, Robert E. February 3 1886
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Mitchell Daily Republican, Feb. 6, 1886
Death of Mr. Ewart
The late editor of the Capital goes to his rest.
Ewart -- At the house of his father-in-law, Mr. Sylvester Dean, in this city, 
at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, February 3, 1886, of consumption, Robert M. 
Ewart, aged 33 years, 6 months and 15 days.
  Robert M. Ewart was a native of Ireland, having been born in Belfast, July 
15, 1851.  His ancestors were of those stalwart Scotch families who crossed 
the channel during the reign of James I, and who decendants have furnished 
some of the names foremost in the history of this country.  In 1866, he came 
with his parts to Sand Spring, in this county.  He graduated at Lennox 
Institute, and in 1875 was chose County Superintendent of Schools, and was 
again elected two years later.  In 1877 he was married to Minnie S. Dean.  In 
1880 he went to Mitchell, Dakota, first engaging, with his brothers, in stock 
raising.  But he had always had apenchant for journalism, and in 1881, with a 
brother-in-law, he bought the Mitchell Capital, which he made one of the 
leading papers of the territory.  Too close application to the duties of this 
most exacting profession impaired his health, and last fall he was obliged to 
relinquish the paper altogether.  He went to Kentucky, in hopes a change of 
climate might prove beneficial, but it was soon apparent that the end was 
near.  A few weeks ago he returned to the house of his father-inlaw, in this 
city, and on Wednesday ended a short but useful and noble life.
  We knew Mr. Ewart well.  He was a young man of fine ability, a lover of the 
right and a devout hater of the wrong, a firm friend, a tender husband and 
father, and a most worthy and estimable citizen.  Upright in thought and deed, 
conscientious, tenacious of purpose, and of industrious habits, had health and 
life been spared he would have done much good and filled responsible position 
of trust and usefulness.  He leaves a wife and one child, and all who knew him 
in life are, with them, mourners at his grave.

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