George Washington Ewing

George Washington Ewing (born November 29, 1808 near Adairville , Kentucky , † May 20, 1888 there ) was an American politician.

Career

George Washington Ewing, tenth child of Jane McLean (1769–1847) and Brigadier General Robert Ewing Jr. (1760–1832), who served during the Revolutionary War and the British-American War , was born about four years before the outbreak of the British-American War Logan County was born and raised there. His father moved from Virginia to Kentucky and settled near Adairville. Nothing is known about his youth. Ewing was married to Nannie L. (1821-1883). He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1842 to 1844 and from 1859 to 1863 . After the secession of Kentucky, he then represented his home state in the Provisional Confederate Congress and the 1st and 2nd Confederate Congress . He died near Adairville in 1888 and was buried there in the Old Red River Meeting House Cemetery .

literature

Betty Jewell Durbin Carson and Doris May Durbin Wooley: Our Ewing heritage: with related families , Volume 2, Heritage Books, 1995, ISBN 9780788402364 , p. 511
George Richard Browder and Richard L. Troutman: The heavens are weeping: the diaries of George Richard Browder, 1852-1886 , Zondervan, 1987, ISBN 9780310438106 , p. 490
Presley Kittredge Ewing and Mary Ellen Williams Ewing: The Ewing Genealogy with Cognate Branches: A Survey of the Ewings and Their Kin in America , Hurcules ptg. & book Company, 1919, p. 83

Individual evidence

^ Robert Ewing II in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 8, 2015.
^ Nannie L. Ewing in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 8, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME	Ewing, George Washington
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	near Adairville , Logan County , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH	May 20, 1888
Place of death	near Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky

[1] Robert Ewing II in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 8, 2015.

[2] Nannie L. Ewing in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 8, 2015.