MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Newton B. Ewing
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NEWTON B. EWING is a son of James Ewing, who was born in the "Keystone State"
in 1782.  After residing in Georgia for some time he came to Tennessee, and,
soon after his marriage to Mary Neill, settled in Marshall County, where he
reared a family of eight children.  He was a Whig and acted as magistrate for
many years.  After the mother’s death, in 1828, he wedded Mrs. Sarah How, and
died in 1860.  Our subject was born in Bedford County, Tenn., November 2,
1826, and inherits Scotch-Irish blood from his father.  He received the
education and rearing of the average farmer’s boy, and at the age of nineteen
began to battle his own way in the world by farming and trading.  He owns 223
acres of land and is quite a successful farmer.  In 1853 he married Florella
J. Ewing, who was born May 2, 1835.  They are members of the Presbyterian
Church.  During the war he served some time in Company H, Seventeenth
Tennessee Infantry, although his health was very poor. Previous to the war he
was a Whig, but is now a Democrat.  He has lived within the limits of Marshall
County all his life, and he and wife have passed thirty-three years of happy
wedlock, and are surrounded by many warm friends and relatives.


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