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The Ewing brick wall project

James Ewing of Monroe Co is one of the 300 Ewing Brick Walls in the EFA Brick Wall Project

The Ewing Brick Wall project (and site) is the result of The Ewing Family Association's current  Chancellor and board Chairman, Beth Ewing Toscos's vision to provide a framework to aid Ewing genealogist to break down their a brick wall.

The project has 3 main elements:

• Big Y DNA
• Autosomal DNA
• Most Distant Known Ewing Ancestor

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History and Overview of the Ewings of Monroe Co.

The Ewings of Wolf Creek, Indian Creek, Swobe's Knob, and Turkey Creek Areas

This area pre 1770 was Augusta Co. VA, then in 1770 became Botetourt VA and in 1778 became Greenbrier Virgina until finally in 1799 became Monroe Co VA. In 1863 Monroe Co VA became Monroe Co., West Virgina as proclaimed by President Lincoln

These Ewings lived in 2 countries, 5 counties and 2 states and never moved!!

 

The following is an excerpt from William Sproull's remarkable series of articles published in the Ewing Family Journal: : 

“The Early Ewing Families of Augusta County, Virginia–Parts 1-4”

"James Ewing was an early settler of what is now Monroe County, West Virginia. He is most probably of the Scots-Irish Ewing families of Northern Ireland, but no evidence has been found proving this. He simply appeared, with full family,..."

"The arrival of James Ewing to the Monroe County area was not noted since that area was sparsely populated and beyond most governmental cognizance. The marriage of his daughter Susanna to William Sproul in Augusta County in 1773 is recorded, so the family was in the vicinity by then. His first land record there (Greenbrier County at that time) was in 1787 "by virtue of a certificate in right of settlement," meaning he established occupancy of the land some time prior to June 15, 1782.

His wife's name has not been found. But there were ten children in this James of Monroe family, all well documented in records mostly found in the Monroe County Court House in Union, West Virginia."

 

Child	Birth/Death	Spouse	Place Died/Heirs	WikiID	FmlySearchID
125A Oliver Ewing	?/1823	None Known	Monroe Co/No heirs	Ewing-4018	LFQX-BLL
125B Susanna	~1755/1806	William Sproul	?/Heirs	Ewing-2007	MZJ8-TCB
125C James of Nrth Mtn	?/1823	Yes Unk	Augusta Co/Heirs	Ewing-4015	KHDM-671
125D Fanny	~1758/bef 1818	FNU Ewing	?/Heirs	Ewing-4019	LFQX-D4X
125F Sidney	1761-bef 1818	Lt James McNutt	Ohio/Heirs	Ewing-2899	2CY3-CP6
125G Samuel	1765/1815	Isabella McNutt	Monroe Co/?	Ewing-4021	KLXD-1M2
125H Joseph	1742/1822	Yes Unk	Monroe Co/Heirs	Ewing-4012	LFQX-67P
125J John	?/bef 1818	Sarah Davis	?/Heirs	Ewing-4022	LFQX-6NG
125K Wm "Turkey Bill"	1745/bef 1818	None Known	Monroe Co/No?	Ewing-4017	L8PF-RSM
125L Jean Jennett	?/1830	Matthew Patterson	?/No Heirs-will	Ewing-4023	LFQX-6RB

 

 

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