Thomas Ewing

Among my Grandmother’s things, I found an obituary for Thomas Ewing.  I don’t think there is a family connection, but I would guess that he was a friend and neighbor of my great grandfather JR Thomas, when they were living in Harvey County, Kansas.  I don’t know the paper or the publication date, but it would likely be a Halstead paper around the time of his death, prior to March 1910.

It has quite a bit of information on him, so I copied the article and will post it here, in case any of his descendants can use the information.

He was born in Johnston, Scotland, March 18, 1837 and died shortly before his 73^rd birthday.  He married Katherine Kelly on Dec 13, 1857.  They had 12 children, eight died before their father.

He came to America in 1864, and lived in Illinois until they moved to Kansas in 1870.

They had a farm 4 miles of Halstead, and lived there until about 3 years prior to his death.

His wife, Katherine and 4 children, Mrs WP Akins (Halstead), James Ewing (Wichita), William Ewing (Newton), and Mrs Ella Shuler (Manhattan) survived him.

©Linda C Robinson 2014