MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Allan L. Ewing
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ALLAN L. EWING is a son of Lyle A. and Rebecca A. (Leeper) Ewing, born,
respectively, in Georgia and Tennessee, in 1808.  They became the parents of
nine children, eight of whom lived to be grown.  The father began life a poor
boy and afterward opened a store in Farmington and became a wealthy man.  He
was magistrate of his district sixteen years and was an old-line Whig in
politics.  He died in 1853 and the mother in 1878.  Our subject’s ancestors on
both sides were Scotch-Irish.  He was born April 28, 1833, in Marshall County.
His early school advantages were very good; besides this he attended Lewisburg
Academy, Maryville College, and completed his education at Shelbyville
University.  After teaching about four years he turned his attention to
farming, and in 1861 volunteered in Company H, Forty-first Tennessee Infantry.
In 1863 he was captured at Farmington, Miss., and after an imprisonment of
four months at Alton, Ill, he was enchanged at Vicksburg.  After returning to
service he was made sergeant.  In 1864 he was again taken prisoner and would
have been shot had it not been for a Union lad of seventeen.  A drunken
Federal soldier had leveled his gun to shoot him when the lad knocked aside
the gun, the ball barely missing Mr. Ewing.  He returned to farming after the
surrender and in 1868 wedded Marian V. Palmer. They are both church members,
and in politics he is a conservative Democrat.  He owns 353 acres of land
besides a house and lot and grist-mill.


Surnames: Ewing, Leeper, Palmer
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."