Person:James Ewing (4)

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James Ewing
b.1793 Maryland
  1. James Ewing1793 - 1881
m. 30 Mar 1815
  1. Elwood Ewing1815 -
  2. Sarah Ann Ewing1818 -
  3. Hariot Ewing1819 -
  4. William P. Ewing1822 - 1903
  5. Mary Jane Ewing1827 - 1869
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] James Ewing
Gender Male
Birth[3] 1793 Maryland
Marriage 30 Mar 1815 Harford County, Marylandto Jane Brannon
Reference Number 496
Jane Brannon
Residence[6] 1880 Port Deposit, Cecil, Maryland
Death[4] 31 Mar 1881 Cecil County, Maryland
Burial[5] 9 Apr 1881 Cecil County, Maryland
Reference Number 1088

The Cecil Whig, Elkton, 1881: Cecil Co., MD

Port Deposit Items. March 31, 1881 Death

 James Ewing, a well known citizen of this place, died here, on Thursday, of 

apoplexy, in the 88th year of his age. His friends are invited to attend his funeral on Sunday, April 3rd, at 10 A. M., from the residence of his son, Wm. P. Ewing. Funeral services to be held at the

Tome Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church Port Deposit, MD CE MSA S 1512-55 01/09/09/56

Tome Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church Port Deposit, MD CE MSA S 1512-2040 00/59/06/47

Port Deposit Items. Saturday, April 9, 1881 Funerals.

 The funeral of Mr. James Ewing, one of the oldest citizens of this end of the 

county, was largely attended, last Sabbath morning, at the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. N. M. Browne preached a very appropriate sermon, and the numerous carriages in the funeral procession attested the esteem in which he was held by the community.


1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND. 
 
CHAPTER 243. 
 
Passed Mar. 12,

1840.

An act entitled a supplement to an act, entitled an act to build

a Bridge over Little Elk Creek, near the Rock Meeting House, in Cecil County, passed at December session eigh- teen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter forty-one.

Preamble. 
WHEREAS, it appears to this General Assembly, by an

act of the legislature passed at December session eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter forty-one, that John Mackey, William B. Biles and James Ewing, were ap- pointed commissioners to build a bridge over Little Elk creek, near the Rock meeting house, in Cecil county, and that said John Mackey, one of the before mentioned com- missioners, is since dead; and whereas, the commissioners of Cecil county have doubted whether they have the pow- er to fill said vacancy— Therefore, Vacancy to be filled.

Be it enacted, That the commissioners of Cecil county,

be and they are hereby empowered to fill the vacancy oc- casioned by the death of John Mackey, heretofore men- tioned in the preamble to this bill.


References
  1. Kathy Vaughan Brisbin. Brisbin email. (email to Thomas F. Ewing, 10/19/1997).
  2. 1880 United States Federal Census.
  3. 1880 United States Federal Census.
  4. Kathy Vaughan Brisbin. Brisbin email. (email to Thomas F. Ewing, 10/19/1997).
  5. .

    The Cecil Whig, Elkton, 1881: Cecil Co., MD, Port Deposit Items. Saturday, April 2, 1881
    Death
    James Ewing, a well known citizen of this place, died here, on Thursday, of
    apoplexy, in the 88th year of his age. His friends are invited to attend his
    funeral on Sunday, April 3rd, at 10 A. M., from the residence of his son, Wm. P.
    Ewing. Funeral services to be held at the Tome M. E. Church.

    Port Deposit Items. April 9, 1881
    Funerals.
    The funeral of Mr. James Ewing, one of the oldest citizens of this end of the
    county, was largely attended, last Sabbath morning, at the Methodist Episcopal
    church. Rev. N. M. Browne preached a very appropriate sermon, and the numerous
    carriages in the funeral procession attested the esteem in which he was held by
    the community.

  6. 1880 United States Federal Census.