Person:Ewing Morrow (2)

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Who is Ewing?

• Ewing is the son of John Morrow based on the fact that applied for letters of administration to John's estate in December 1790.
• Ewing is the son of Margaret Ewing, whose marriage to John Morrow is established by her father's will, based on his name.
• Ewing is the husband of Sarah Gilliam based on the distribution of her parents' estates, in which he received a child's share from Peter Gilliam (standing in for his wife) and Sarah was noted by name in Ann Gilliam's will.
• Ewing is the father of Mary "Polly" (Morrow) Kennon, John E. Morrow, Peter Gilliam Morrow (1799-1881), Margaret Ewing (Morrow) Cox Finnie Alford, and James M. Morrow, based on the estate record of his grandson Ewing T. Morrow, whose estate was left to his surviving first cousins.
• Ewing is likely the father of the Joseph Morrow, Jr. whose letters of administration were granted to James M. Morrow and (presumably the elder) Joseph Morrow on 4 March 1833, the same day those men applied for letters of administration in Ewing's estate.

Records in Georgia

Are there two Ewings?

A common tree circulating online^S1, gives Ewing, son of John m. Margaret Ewing, another son Ewing, who is in turn father of John E. born 1797. There are two key errors that appear to be the basis of this.

• Belief that Ewing died in 1791. In what is apparently a misreading of John Morrow’s death record, various trees claim that Ewing died in 1791 and John was the administrator of the estate. This necessarily meant that the Ewing later found in Wilkes and Morgan County was a different man. But no primary evidence of this is ever provided, and this John must be an otherwise unaccounted for John who left no records and was not named in his parents estate records.
• The Ewing Family in America and Ray’s Tennessee Cousins (likely one copying from the other) claim there is an estate record showing that Ewing and Sarah (Gilliam)’s children are Peter Gilliam, Ewing, and Joseph. This record also states that Peter Gilliam m. Amey Heard and they settled in Knox Co, TN, both of which are also wrong.

In order to make this work and fit two Ewings in between John, born in the 1720s, and John E., son of Ewing, born in 1797, the first Ewing was allegedly born about 1756 and the second about 1775. But based on the 1793 tax record, which under this theory must be the younger Ewing, younger Ewing would need to be born by about 1772, and his father by about 1752--it's possible, but it's a tight fit with the timeline of the extended family (and that's from someone who hasn't looked at those records closely). It also does have to be the junior Ewing married to Sarah Gilliam (because her husband is the one receiving a share from Peter Gilliam's estate in 1800), which contradicts the alleged "source" in the first place. There don't seem to be actual primary records or deeds demonstrating any of this, in an area where significant records exist as otherwise described here. That doesn't mean there aren't significant unindexed records yet that will change things, but, at best, it's possible that there's a Ewing in between Ewing m. Sarah and John and Margaret; all of the children here are children of this couple.

1.   Ewing Family Association.

   B. Ewing Morrow b ca 1755 in Prince Edward Co., VA married Sarah Gilliam, a daughter of Peter Gilliam and Amey Heard
   of Knox Co., TN. Ewing Morrow died in 1791 and John Morrow (Father?) was administrator of his estate. The following
   children are named but we do not know the ages:
   1. Peter Gilliam Morrow
   2. Joseph Morrow was a member of the GA Legislature from Morgan Co., GA in 1822.
   3. Ewing Morrow, Jr. was a member of the GA Legislature from Greene Co., GA. in 1803.
   
   http://www.ewingfamilyassociation.org/books/EwingInEarlyAmerica/Fife_Ch27.pdf

   Much of this is wrong (Sarah's mother was Ann, they didn't go to Tennessee, Ewing m. Sarah did not die in 1791, Joseph in the legislature was not his son, and there is no evidence of a Ewing, Jr.) but retained because of the impact it's had on accounts of this family.

2.   United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33).

   1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   Name: Ewing Morrow
   Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Capt Peter Y Morrows, Morgan, Georgia
   Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
   Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 2
   Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
   Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1775 or before]
   Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1775 or before]
   Free Colored Persons - Males - Under 14: 1
   Slaves - Males - 14 thru 25: 4
   Slaves - Males - 26 thru 44: 2
   Slaves - Males - 45 and over: 1
   Slaves - Females - Under 14: 2
   Slaves - Females - 14 thru 25: 3
   Slaves - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
   Number of Persons - Engaged in Commerce: 8
   Free White Persons - Under 16: 2
   Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
   Total Free White Persons: 6
   Total Slaves: 13
   Total Free Colored Persons: 1
   Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 20

3. ↑ Was of age in 1790 when he took administration of his father's estate.