Memorials › Wilson Edley Ewing

Wilson Edley Ewing

2 Aug 1800 – 18 Apr 1869

Birth2 Aug 1800
Death18 Apr 1869
CemeteryOld Tarrant Cemetery
Sulphur Springs , Hopkins County , Texas , USA
Added byJaye Willson on 12 Sep 2010
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58537338

Bio

He was the second child of Edley Ewing (1778 - 1848) and Elizabeth Love Ewing (1782 - 1841). Grandson of Andrew Ewing the first Clerk of Davidson County, Tennessee, Oct. 1783 until 1813. Wilson Edley Ewing and Hannah DeSpain Ewing first lived in Lawrence County, Alabama, they moved to Madison County, Tennessee before 1825. It is not known what route they followed in their migration to Texas. It is believed that the group consisted of Ewings, Hails, Loves and others. They moved to San Augustine County, Texas (along with his parents) during 1835, as he had been granted a leauge of land in East Texas by the Mexican government in the David G Burnet Colony, October 29, 1835. He was also granted Bounty land in Nacogdoches County, Texas, November 4, 1837, for voluntary service in a militia company. The company was organized in San Augustine County after a threat of another invasion of Texas on a grand scale by Mexican General Urrea during the summer of 1836. Jonas J. Hail (brother-in-law) and James Love (uncle) were in the same company. The Nacogdoches County deed record reflects he donated land for a town in 1837. The Indians were causing trouble in East Texas during the 1840s and he sold his land in Nacogdoches and Titus Counties before 1850 and was in Hopkins County with his family in 1850. They settled on a 600 acre farm just north of the South Sulphur River, a few miles south of what is now Cooper in the Liberty Grove Community, which is now the Cooper Lake State Park. He and his wife Hannah had 15 children.

Photos

Family

Spouse

Children

Export GEDCOM

This person only · Entire connected family