Person:James Eward (1)

... James Eward and his wife Elizabeth, with their two daughters, Nancy and Jane, emigrated from Ireland about the same time the Hamiltons came to this country, and after spending a few years in Pennsylvania removed to Virginia, locating near Augusta. There the family was increased by the birth of four children,—. Mary, Jane, Sarah and Ellen. About 1780 the parents started with their little ones for Kentucky, but while on the journey through the wilderness the father died. The wife and mother, a woman of resolute purpose, continued until she reached her destination and after living for a short period in Lexington, Kentucky, removed to Taylor's Creek, in Bourbon county. It was there that the two Scotch-Irish families, the Hamiltons and Ewards, were connected through the marriage of Robert Hamilton and Mary Eward, whjch event occurred June 9, 1794. Their descendants came to Indiana and established here one of the most prominent families of Decatur county. ...

... James Eward and his wife, Elizabeth, with two daughters, Nancy and Jane, emigrated from Ireland not far from the same time as the Hamiltons, and, stopping in Pennsylvania for a few years, finally passed on South to the region of Augusta, Va. Here were born to them other children — Mary, John, Sarah and Ellen. They again emigrated, about the year 1780, to Kentucky. While on this wilderness journey, the father died, while the resolute widowed mother, with six small children left to her charge, continued her way to the "dark and bloody ground," ...