Montgomery County (AR): Our Heritage: Quartz Crystal
Capital of the World
Montomery County Historical Society; 1 Jan 1986, 670 pages. Vol 1, compiled and edited by the Sesquicentennial
Committee, contains the county, school and church histories and numerous family
histories. This book contains the information about John and Martha (Hines)
Ewing. John was a younger brother to our James H Ewing. It substantiates
their lineage. Pages 67-68 were devoted to their family.
JOHN EWING written
by Linda Warner
"My great-great-great-grandfather
John Ewing and his wife Martha Hines Ewing moved to Arkansas before the Civil
War and eventually settled in the southeastern part of Montgomery County. They
purchased eighty acres of land and established their farm home.
John Ewing,
born February 22, 1840, was the son of William P. and Sarah Ewing. William P. Ewing,
born in 1802, in Kentucky, and other relatives had settled in Arkansas,
especially in Clark County. The known brothers and sisters of John Ewing were James
H., Adeline, who later married Alexander Maynard, Henderson, Alfred, Reuben,
William N., Joseph R., Emelizer S., who married Jeff Stafford, and Malinda, who
married William F. Keith. John Ewing and his brother William N. Ewing fought in
the civil War, serving in the Confederate Army. John brought home a cannon mini
ball from one of the battles in which he participated. For many years, this
Civil War souvenir was used as a door stop and then passed down to the next
generation of relatives.
Children of
John Ewing and his wife Martha (1844) were Laura, who married Richard Monroe
Coker on 2 March 1877 in Montgomery County; Mary, married her cousin James
Ewing, Albert, who died young, John Henry, my great-grandfather, Joseph A.,
Edward C., and Sarah.
A few weeks
after the birth of her last child, Martha Hines Ewing died in 1880. She is
buried in Mount Tabor Cemetery near her husband. On September 13, 1884, John Ewing
wrote his last will and testament and by November, he, also, had died, leaving
several small children. John Ewing was buried on his farm that he willed to his
children for their support.
The
Montgomery County courts appointed Laura Ewing’s husband, Richard Monroe Coker,
guardian of the miner heirs of John Ewing. Laura was the eldest child of John and
Martha Ewing. Mr. and Mrs. Coker were residents of Montgomery County and the parents
of two children: James Allen, born 29 Jun 1880, and Susan Etta born 16 September
1882. They continued living on the John Ewing property and the births of all
their children were recorded in Miles Langley’s book.
Besides the first two children, they had the following:
Martha Ann, Florence, Viola, Uretha Bell, John Henry, Pittman Monroe, Rod
Arthur, and Claude Nathaniel.
All of the
heirs of John Ewing eventually left Montgomery County and settled in Texas,
where they became farmers, ranchers, schoolteachers, and Baptist preachers. The
R.M. Coker family later moved to Texas, also. These families left numerous
descendants that became prominent citizens of Texas. In later years, some have
moved back to Arkansas to make their homes."
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