Husband Hon. Nathaniel Ewing 1 2 3 4 5
Born: 18 Jul 1794 - near Merrittstown, Fayette Co, PA 6 7
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Died: 8 Feb 1874 8
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Father: William Porter Ewing (1769-1827) 2 3 4 5 9
Mother: Nancy Conwell (1774- ) 3 4 10 11
Marriage: Feb 1822 8
Other Spouse: Anne Denny ( - ) 1 8 12 - 1830 8
Wife Jane Kennedy 1 3 8
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Died: 1825 or 1827 1 8 13
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Father: Hon. John Kennedy (1774-1846) 3 14 15 16 17
Mother: Mary Creigh (1775-1830) 15 17 18
Children
1 M Judge John Kennedy Ewing 3
Born: 15 Dec 1823 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 3
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Spouse: Ellen Willson ( -1884) 13
Marr: 1847 13
General Notes: Husband - Hon. Nathaniel Ewing
He was a resident of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and for a long time was president judge of the courts of Washington, Fayette and Greene counties.
His early years were passed on the farm of his father until he entered Jefferson College, at which institution he graduated with the highest honors of his class. After leaving college he spent a year teaching school in Newark, Delaware. He studied law in Washington, Pennsylvania, with Thomas McGiffin, and was admitted to the bar at Uniontown in November, 1816. The next year he began practice permanently in Uniontown, where his commanding talents and superior legal attainments soon secured him an extensive and lucrative practice, and before many years he became the acknowledged leader of the bar in that place. In several instances he succeeded in obtaining from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania a reversal of their previous decisions.
On the 15th of February, 1838, he was appointed by Governor Joseph Ritner president judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Thomas Baird. He served the constitutional term of ten years, and left the bench with the increased confidence of the people in his integrity and legal qualifications, and without a stain on his judicial ermine. He never again returned to the practice of law, except in occasional cases in the interest of old friends, but such was the confidence of his legal brethren in his ability and sound judgment that his advice was often sought in important cases. As a citizen, Judge Ewing was ever ready and anxious to promote the interests of the community in which he lived. An evidence of this is found in the early history of the Fayette County Railroad. At a time when none could be induced to join him in the enterprise, he gave his time, his talents, and pecuniary and personal aid to carry it through, and it is quite certain that it could not have been built at that time but for his energy and influence.
February 3, 1833, he was ordained an elder in the Presbyterian church, and for forty years was a tower of strength to the cause of Presbyterianism.