William Franklin "Frank" Ewing

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• Name: Frank Ewing

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Bluffton Weekly Chronicle - Mar 8 1916, obituary, Frank Ewing.
W. F. Ewing, aged 62, a well known resident of Vera Cruz, died early this morning, at his home there, after a week's illness with pneumonia. His death was a surprise to many of his friends who were not aware that he was seriously ill. He became sick the first of last week and was cared for at first by his friends and neighbors, but as his condition became worse, a trained nurse from Fort Wayne was secured to take charge of him and she has been caring for him for several days.
Mr. Ewing was born in Decatur, on may 15, 1854, and was the son of Levi and Caroline (Mosure) Ewing. He moved to Vera Cruz forty years ago and has made his home there ever since. He worked at the trade of a painter and paper hanger.
Mr. Ewing was married while in Vera Cruz and his wife, Mrs. Sarah Ewing and their six chidren survive. Mrs. Ewing and the children are all residents of California and the children are as follows: Will Ewing, San Francisco; Mrs. J. E. McLain, Oakland, Cal; Chauncey Ewing, Okland, Cal.; Mrs. Linnie McClanaghan, exact residence in California not reported; Lewis Ewing, Sand Francisco; and Miss Marie Ewing, San Francisco. There is also one half-brother, D.E. Shoemaker, of Coshocton, Ohio.
The funeral will be held on Thursday morning at ten o'clock at Mr. Ewing's late home in charge of Rev. W. H. Schroer and the interment will be at the St. Johns cemetery at Vera Cruz.

William married Seraphine Sarah Sunier on 13 Jan 1876 in Wells Co., IN. Seraphine was born on 11 Jan 1856 in Adams, Indiana; died on 10 Sep 1939 in Oakland, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Ferdinand Ewing was born on 3 Oct 1877 in Vera Cruz, Wells, Indiana, USA; died on 31 Mar 1943 in Oakland, Alameda, California.
2. Surelda Elizabeth Ewing was born in Dec 1879 in Wells, Indiana; died on 23 May 1950 in Contra Costa County, California, USA.
3. Louis Edouard Ewing was born in Oct 1884 in Wells, Indiana; died on 13 Jan 1919 in Oakland, Alameda, California.
4. Chauncey Ewing was born in 1886 in Wells, Indiana; and died.
5. Linnie May Ewing was born on 25 Aug 1890 in Vera Cruz, Wells, Indiana, USA; died on 24 Jan 1989 in Alameda, California, USA.
6. Edna Marie Ewing was born in 1893 in Wells, Indiana; and died.

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Parents may be William Ewing and Catherine who had a son Levi b. 1819-1820 in Mohican, Ashland, OH, USA.

This Levi was married 30 Mar 1842, to Mary "Polly" Ann Andrews who died in childbirth and in Dec 1850 to Caroline Mozier who died between the census of June 4, 1860 and his supposed marriage on Oct 30, 1861 to Tamson Marinda van Camp (1846-1918). This marriage I believe is to a separate William Ewing. Tamson remarried in 1868. When their daughter Elizabeth (1863-1939) died this William birthplace is said to be Indiana (not Ohio).

Levi is in Vermillion, Ashland, Ohio in 1850 with his son Elmore b. 1843 by his first wife. He was a carpenter. In 1860 he is in Decatur, Adams, Indiana. He died in Mar 1866 in Decatur.

Decatur is where Dillon Ewing Shoemaker was born. Lydia would then have been Levi's third or fourth wife.

Levi married Caroline Mozier on 16 Dec 1850 in Ashland, Ohio. Caroline (daughter of Jacob Moser, Jr and Susannah Whitmire) was born in 1831 in Vermillion, Ashland, Ohio, USA; died in 4 Jun 1860-30 Oct 1861 in Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1850 Caroline Mosier, Vermillion, Ashland, Ohio, parents Jacob and Susannah.

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1870 census, Montgomery, Ashland, Ohio:
William Ewing M 76y
Catharine Ewing 79y
Elmer Ewing M 27y (grandson, son of Levi)

William Ewing, of Vermillion township, an Ashland county pioneer, came here from Pennsylvania in 1813.

The gravestone of William Ewing which says age 84 7m 1d which puts his birthday at June 9, 1789.

Died:
William Ewing, full cousin of the late Hon. Thomas Ewing, a soldier in the war of 1812, father-in-law of James E. Cox, Esq., of Mansfield, and an influential citizen of "Old" Richland County, died in Ashland County, on Feb 10th., 1874, aged 82 years. He was for 40 years an Elder in the Lutheran Church. [Shelby (OH) Independent News: 22 January 1874, Vol. 6, No. 13]

Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997
Name: Wm Ewing
Gender: Male
Death Date: 10 Feb 1874
Death Place: Ashland, Ashland, Ohio
Age: 82
Birth Date: 1792

William married Catharine Gorrell. Catharine was born on 1 Nov 1790 in Maryland; died on 22 Jun 1870 in Mohicanville, Ashland County, Ohio; was buried in Eckley Cemetery, Jeromesville, Ashland, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Correll

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Gravestone says Catharine Wife of William Ewing Died June 22, 1870 Age 79 7mo 22d which makes her birthday November 1, 1790.

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Jacob Jr., was 6'2" and weighed 180 pounds and was dark complectioned. He left home when he was 20 years of age and came to Masselon, Ohio and married Susana Whitimire.
To this union was born 11 or 13 children, among them; Tobias, Frank, Ephriam, George, Jonathan, David, Abner, Harvey, Caroline and Katherine.
Jacob came to Decatur, IN and bought 60 acres of land, two miles south of Decatur. There he built a log cabin. He then returned to Ohio to move his family to their new home. While there he was taken ill with lung fever (pneumonia) and died.
Before his death he told his wife to write to his folks in Pennsylvania. They were quite wealthy and would help her rear the children. Instead she moved her family with an ox team to the farm south of Decatur.

Jacob married Susannah Whitmire on 11 Jul 1826 in Fairfield, Oho. Susannah was born in 1803 in Pennsylvania, USA; died after 1870 in Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Richel
• Name: Whitameyer

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1850 she is a widow in Vermillion, Ashland, Ohio, seven children living at home.
1860 she is in Washington, Adams, Indiana with three children, Abner, Catharine and William H.
In the 1870 census she is living with her daughter Catherine and husband Thomas C/Kearney (Irish) in Peru Ward 4, Miami, Indiana.

When her husband died, Susannah moved her family with an ox team to the farm south of Decatur. They cleared most of the land. There were many hardships. Game was plentiful and there were wolves, bears and wild hogs. One time a bear killed two of their fat hogs and boys pursued the bear all night. They finally killed it at what is now the White Bridge, two miles east of Bluffton, Indiana.

Susannah changed the name from Moser to Mosure to aviod mix-ups with the many Mosers around Decatur, Indiana.

Jonathan Mosure 15.8.1836 died may 4, 1912 born in Ashland, Ohio, d. in Indiana.

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Married:
Jacob Mouser & Susan Richel
Marriage
11 Jul 1826
Fairfield, Ohio, United States

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Ewing, Euing, Huens.

John married Anna Maria "Mary" Heichold in 1783 in Lebanon, PA. Anna (daughter of Johann Martin Heichold and Maria Ursula Werner) was born on 25 Jul 1764 in Lebanon, PA; died on 18 Nov 1835 in Mohican, Ashland, OH; was buried in Meng Cemetery, Jeromesville, Ashland County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jacob Moser came to America from Berne, Switzerland in 1765. He settled in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. He bought 100 acres of land in 1770, for $500 in what is now Philadelphia. They were members of the Lutheran Church in Switzlerland. His six brothers and two sisters came with him to America. Some of them settled in Burkes County, Penn. The brothers' names were Burkhart, Fredrick, Franklin, Adam, John and Henry. The sisters were May and Catherine. Later John, Henry , Fredric, Adam and Franklin emigrated to North and South Carolina.
Jacob and Burkhart remained in Pennsylvania, Burk Moser remained single, bought 416 acres of land on Panther Creek called Bowens Grove, in the hills of Schuylkill County, Penn. In the year 1776. Burkhart died about 1845. Later the LeHigh Coal Company bought the land and paid $7,000,000 for it and the largest hard coal company in the US developed.
One of the girls married Russell Colt and moved to New York State. The boys were born to this union, Jack and Lionel. Jack became the father of the great stage and screen people, the Barrymore's.
Fredric went to North Carolina and married and became the father of eleven children. His grandson, John, son of Michael, married Barbara Meretz, decendent of the Royal House of Saxony.
One son, Jacob Jr., was 6'2" and weighed 180 pounds and was dark complectioned. He left home when he was 20 years of age and came to Masselon, Ohio and married Susana Whitimire.
Source: Cora Selby Hoeppner, her mother was Mary Mosure Selby - Ancestry.