Everett E. and Mabel (Swearingen) Ewing


In 1900 Cloud County, Kansas, Edmund Ewing born October 1857 is married 20 years to Lucina June 1862, both born in Ohio. George is 16, Everett May 1886, William J. Sept 1889, Lyle D. May 1895, and Gladys C. Feb 1900 all born in Kansas. Uncle Amlas Kelly waws born March 1824 in New York.
Lyle D. Ewing, born May 6, 1895 at Portis Kansas, is working for Ed Ewing at BUrdett Colorado. Lyle is single with an address of Otis COlorado.
Lyle married Edna P. Rumbel in Boulder June 21, 1922.

In 1910 Washington County, Colorado, Edmund Ewing is farming, with Lucina , Lyle E. 17 and Gladys E. 10.
(Edmund moved to Boulder, Colorado, farming there, and is buried in Boulder 1857--1934 # 11104045.

Lucina is in Akron in 1940, widowed, 77. She was in Boulder in 1935.
Lucina M. (McCollister) Ewing 1862-1955 is buried in Akron # 75613020.
Probably because Gladys Ethel (Ewing) Resler 1900-1983 3 75163134 is buried in Akron, with Harold Resler 1900-1987.

1963
In 1905 Cloud County, T. J. Swearingen is 47, Kate 43, Arley Z. 23, Mabel 16, and Leslie 5.
Also in 1905 Cloud County, Edmund Ewing is 47, L. M. 42. Everett is 19, Willie 15, Lyle 9, and Gladys 5.

E.E. Ewing and Mabel Swearingen both graduated from District # 12 in 1908.


Lola E. Ewing married Lynn S. Godsey in February 1914, recorded in Washington County, Colorado.

Everett 23 and Mabel 21, just married, both born in Kansas, are are farming in Magee precinct, Yuma County.

In 1920 E.E. Ewing, north of Yuma, was visited by his brother William Ewing of Deadwood, South Dakota. In 1922 E.E. was teaching at Plainview, near Yuma.)
Everett was farming in 1920 Yuma County, 33, with Mabel H. 30, Roy D. 9, Ralph 6, Nelda , and Ruth 1.

In 1922 Plainview news a surprise party was given on "high school teacher Professor E.E. Ewing."
In October 1923 Cora Bowen of Eckley was teaching at the Hill Top building, and E.E. Ewing of Yuma at the Pleasant Valley building. The district had two buildings, four miles apart on the same road (now numbered 53.)

April 17, 1924 "Our teacher, E.E. Ewing, took the teachers' examinations last Thursday and Friday."
(April 1909 Yuma "E.E. Ewing of Concordia, Kansas was in this vicinity during the week."
In August 1913 Everett E. Ewing of Yuma filed for land in 14, 4N 48W, witnesses William Ruger, George Whitcomb, Edward Cook and Louis Korf, all of Yuma.

In 1925 he spoke at the Yuma Methodist Church dinner, and Everett Ewing was a guest of the Montgomery family in 1927 in District # 35.
September 1927 "E.E. Ewing, of north of Yuma, suffered a fractured wrist last Friday when he attempted to crank the motor of his car."

April 23, 1930 "Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Ewing and children Ralph, Ruth, Floyd and Glen, have moved to their farm near Genoa Colotado and will be greatly missed. ... Roy and Nelda will remain on the farm here for the present."

1932 "Everett Ewing of Genoa was greeting old friends in Yuma Saturday and visited sunday at the Pat Ford home."

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THE KANSAN --- APRIL 7, 1932
THOMAS SWEARINGEN, who was born in Carroll county, Ohio, June 6, 1858, died at his home in Center township on Tuesday, April 5, 1932.He came with his parents to Kansas in 1863 settling first in Allen county.The family came to Cloud county in 1867, first settling one mile west of where Ames is now.The elder Swearingen made the first filing for a government homestead in Center township, in 1868, and on that claim Tom lived his boyhood days.He was married on December 16, 1880 to Miss L. Kate Johnson and they began housekeeping on his claim in Center township, and where they have made their home to the present.He is survived by his widow; tow daughters, Mrs. S.L. Mansfield, of Concordia; Mrs. E.E. Ewing, of Genoa, Colorado; one brother, Franz, of Humboldt, Kansas and twelve grandchildren.Funeral services will be held at the Christian Church, Concordia, Thursday at 2:30 to be conducted by the pastor of the Methodist church.Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery.Tom Swearingen was one of the finest men we have ever known.He was noted for his unfailing good nature and his pride in his good name.His personal honor and integrity was a passion with him.Of him it can be truthfully said: "His word was as good as his bond."Circumstances brought the editor of The Kansas and Mr. Swearingen into intimate acquaintance and friendship many years ago.It was in August, 1868 that the Indians raided the Republican Valley, Benjamin White was killed by them in Buffalo township, and on the same day Gordon Winbigler was killed by a part of the same gang of maurauders near where Republic City was since located.The murdered man was one of the group known as the White Rock creek settlers.Following that raid they left their claims, some going to Manhattan, otheres to Clifton, some left the country for good, owr own family came to Oak Creek, in this county -- living in a dugout on the bank of the creek, on the claim now owned by Joe Naillieux.Their next door neighbors were the Swearingens, a bit farther up the creek. Mrs. Swearingen, Tom's mother, was an experienced pioneer woman--a Christian woman to the very core of her.Without her inspiration and helpfulness many of the other women homesteaders would have given up in despair.We have heard our own mother say, that Mrs. Swearingen could do more with less things with which to do them, than any woman she ever knew.Our mother was not much given to adulation, but she never tired of giving praise to Mrs. Swearingen, whom she admired greatly and believed to be the most capable woman in her ability to meet the exingencies of the first settlers of Kansas of any of the many fine women of that period in the state's history.Our friend who has just passed on was a worthy son of such a fine pioneer mother and "carried on" throughout his life in such a way as would have been in full measure her hopes and aspirations for him, as a man of fine character, commanding the respect of all who knew him.Such a man was Tom Swearingen.
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In 1940 Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Godsey of Analaska, Washington visited her brother Roy Ewing.

1954 "Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ewing will return to their home in Lancaster, California on Thursday, after visiting here and in the east. Their friend, Mrs. Carl Pagel plans to return to Californina to visi her son Ivan Pagel at El Monte."

Everett is buried in Genoa, Colorado 1886-1970 with Mabel 1889-1940.

NELDA
February 1928 " Nelda and Ruth Ewing spent Sunday night with marie Zwirn.

Nelda attended the school in 1928.

Nelda Mae Ewing married Raymond G. Withington on July 4, 1934, recorded in Lincoln County, Colorado.

2004

She's buried in Genoa # 56924384, 1915-2004. with Raymond 190201958 - so she probably married a Miller.
ROY

1928 Prairie View items " Roy Ewing drilled wheat for Nelson Tribbett Saturday."
"Ruth and Floyd Ewing visited the Ford children Sunday."

1940 Yuma "Mr. and Mrs. Orville Van Norstrand and son, of Analaska, Washington, spent Saturday night and Sunday at the Roy Ewing home. Other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Harley Walter and family of Eckley, and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ewing and family."

Roy married Bernice Arlene Sechrist 1910-1983 - she was teaching school in Lincoln County in 1940 - daughter to Raymond T. and Margaret Sechrist of Cripple Creek and Durango, Colorado
Bernice's mother had died in 1923, and her father married Gladys G. Long in September 1925 in La Plata County.


October 12, 1978 "Roy Ewing of Genoa visited church Sunday morning. His father was a teacher at Pleasant Valley School 55 years ago. He was visiting old landmarks."

RALPH

In 1930 Lincoln County, Fern L. Westfall is 11, with parents Everrett 42 and Rosa G. Westfall 38.

Ralph, born at Yuma 1913-199 is buried in Genoa # 56924259, with Fern L. 1818-1998.

MILDRED

"Mildred Knutson, 68, of Wood Drive, Campbellsville, died Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1999 in Campbellsville, due to an illness. Daughter of the late Everett Ewing and Mabel Swearingen Ewing, she was born on May 30, 1931, in Genoa, Colo., and was a member of Windsor Gardens Community Church in Denver, Colo. She was married to Oscar Knutson on Nov. 15, 1947, who preceded her in death on March 3, 1989. Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Cheryl and Ron Clark of Campbellsville; one son and daughter-in-law, Howard and Sue Knutson of Fremont, Calif.; two granddaughters and two grandsons and their spouses, Kellie and Todd Bratcher of Scottsville, Ky., Lisa and Bernie Matinez of Fremont, Calif., Curtis and Courtney Clark of Bowling Green, and Chad Knutson of Urbana, Ill.; one great-grandson, Colton Jacob Bratcher of Scottsville; one sister and two brothers, Nelda Miller of Hugo, Colo., and Floyd Ewing and Glen Ewing of Genoa, Colo. She was also preceded in death by one sister and two brothers, Ruth Amberger, Roy Ewing and Ralph Ewing."

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