Census Frederick Short Ewing Family in 1910

Frederick Short Ewing and Emma F in the 1910 Census. My grandmother Murphy Ewing is listed on line 21. 

 Year: 1910; Census Place: Caney, Montgomery, Arkansas; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .lines 17 -24

Paul Bryan Quillin and Merphia Ewing Group Sheet

 

Merphia Ewing Quillin Hart - Final Resting Place

 Merphia E. (1901-1985) and Oscar C. (1893-1974) Hart were buried in Wilbarger Memorial Park Cemetery just west of Vernon, Texas. 

Paintings by Merphia Ewing Quillin Hart

 

This painting was from a slide picture that my daddy took in Colorado. Mother and Daddy vacationed in Colorado for quite a few years when I was a child. This was Mother's favorite scene, and Granny painted it for her. Mother had it framed and it hung in my childhood home for as long as I remember.

It is now hanging on the wall of my Possum Kingdom lake cabin. 

This painting was a still life which Granny gave to Mother and Daddy. When Mother moved to Abilene in the early 1980s, Mother hung it in a spare bedroom and used it to decorate the room with a rose theme. When Mother passed away in 2007, I took it to the Possum Kingdom lake home. 

Merphia Ewing

 My grandmother, Merphia Ewing, was born in 1901.  There is/was some confusion about her name. We called her Murphy. Her delayed birth certificate reads "Annie Murphy Ewing". Her headstone and other records list her as "Merphia Emma."  She was an artist and signed her paintings as "Merphia." I will refer to her as she signed her paintings....Merphia. She was my daddy's mother. 

She married Paul Bryan Quillin in 1919 and divorced him before 1940. She remarried Oscar Clifton Hart. I called her Granny, and many times, she was referred to as "Granny Hart." 

Delayed Birth Certificate of Merphia Ewing

 Frederick Short "F.S." Ewing, Merphia's father, gave the information for this delayed birth certificate. F.S. has been a bit hard to find personal information on. He seemed to be a bit of a drifter.  

This information was given in 1953. Frederick Short Ewing would have been about 83 years old. When F.S. died in 1962, he was living in an infirmary, so I'm not sure how accurate his information would be.  

Unfortunately, I believe that this delayed birth certificate led to confusion about my grandmother's name. I had always wondered why sometimes she was referred to as Murphy, or Annie Muphy, or Merphia Emma, or Merphia, so forth and so on.

I have decided to go with the name of Merphia. She was an artist, and she always signed her paintings as "Merphia." 

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