From: KyArchives [Archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 8:41 AM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Ewing.George.W.1808.Logan-Christian.BIOS George W. Ewing November 29, 1808 - unknown Logan-Christian County KyArchives Biography Author: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume V, 3rd edition, 1886, HON. GEORGE W. EWING, Logan County, was born November 29, 1808, within one quarter of a mile of where he now resides on Red River, to two miles north of Adairville. He is the youngest of five boys and five girls born to Robert and Jane (McClean) Ewing, natives of Virginia. The father, Robert Ewing, immigrated to the West, where lands were very cheap, and between 1785 and 1790, located on Red River, where he entered a large tract of land, and afterward laid out the town of Adairville, which is located in the most fertile part of Logan County; he was born in 1763; his wife, Jane, in 1773. They had two sons in the war of 1812. George W. was reared on a farm; was educated at Russellville and Princeton Colleges, and at the age of twenty-one commenced the study of law with his brother Judge Ephraim M. Ewing; attended law lectures at Russellville; then located and practiced law at Russellville until the breaking out of the war. He represented Logan County in the legislature for seven terms, and was a member when the great conflict came between the North and South. On his journey home, on leave of absence, he was arrested at Harrodsburgh, and detained until a committee from both branches of the legislature could e appointed to investigate the charges against him, and the object of his arrest; the only charge was that he was strongly in sympathy with the Southern cause. He was elected to the Confederate congress from his district, and served until the surrender in 1865. After the surrender of Richmond he made his escape to a farm house in western North Carolina. There he lay sick for some time, and remained at the place until a pardon was procured, for which his son paid $600, and for which he (subject) afterward paid an additional $400, the total amount of which his son agreed to pay for his pardon. After his return to Logan County, he moved to his farm of 400 acres near Adairville on the Red River banks. The Ewing family have always been among the wealthy and distinguished families of Logan County. Mr. Ewing was first married to Susan Moss, of Russellville, who died five years later. He then married Nancy L. Williams of Montgomery County Ky., a daughter of Gen. Samuel Williams, who married Fannie Kluke, both natives of Virginia. Mr. Ewing had born to him by this union one child John. Anna Ewing, deceased wife of Lou T. Brawner. Mr. Ewing cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, in 1832; since 1860, has voted the Democratic ticket. Submitted by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/