ALLAN L. EWINGis a son of Lyle A. and Rebecca A. (Leeper) Ewing, born, respectively, in Georgia and Tennessee, in 1808.  They became the parents of nine children, eight of whom lived to be grown.  The father began life a poor boy and afterward opened a store in Farmington and became a wealthy man.  He was magistrate of his district sixteen years and was an old-line Whig in politics.  He died in 1853 and the mother in 1878.  Our subject’s ancestors on both sides were Scotch-Irish.  He was born April 28, 1833, in Marshall County.  His early school advantages were very good; besides this he attended Lewisburg Academy, Maryville
College, and completed his education at Shelbyville University.  After teaching about four years he turned his attention to farming, and in 1861 volunteered in Company H, Forty-first Tennessee Infantry.  In 1863 he was captured at Farmington, Miss., and after an imprisonment of four
months at Alton, Ill, he was enchanged at Vicksburg.  After returning to service he was made sergeant.  In 1864 he was again taken prisoner and would have been shot had it not been for a Union lad of seventeen.  A drunken Federal soldier had leveled his gun to shoot him when the lad
knocked aside the gun, the ball barely missing Mr. Ewing.  He returned to farming after the surrender and in 1868 wedded Marian V. Palmer. They are both church members, and in politics he is a conservative Democrat.  He owns 353 acres of land besides a house and lot and
grist-mill.

NEWTON B. EWING is a son of James Ewing, who was born in the "Keystone State" in 1782.  After residing in Georgia for some time he came to Tennessee, and, soon after his marriage to Mary Neill, settled in Marshall County, where he reared a family of eight children.  He was a
Whig and acted as magistrate for many years.  After the mother’s death, in 1828, he wedded Mrs. Sarah How, and died in 1860.  Our subject was born in Bedford County, Tenn., November 2, 1826, and inherits Scotch-Irish blood from his father.  He received the education and
rearing of the average farmer’s boy, and at the age of nineteen began to battle his own way in the world by farming and trading.  He owns 223 acres of land and is quite a successful farmer.  In 1853 he married Florella J. Ewing, who was born May 2, 1835.  They are members of the
Presbyterian Church.  During the war he served some time in Company H, Seventeenth Tennessee Infantry, although his health was very poor. Previous to the war he was a Whig, but is now a Democrat.  He has lived within the limits of Marshall County all his life, and he and wife have passed thirty-three years of happy wedlock, and are surrounded by many warm friends and relatives.

DR. J. C. C. EWING,one of the good farmers of Marshall County, is a son of James V. and Elizabeth (Ewing) Ewing.  The father was born in Wythe County, Va., in 1805 and was one of the most extensive farmers in this county.  He was for many years magistrate, and held for several terms the position of chairman of the county court.  He died in 1878.  The mother was born near Athens, Ga., in 1813, and since the death of her husband has been living on the old homestead, and is now seventy-three years of age.  Our subject was born November 12, 1839, in Marshall
County, and his ancestors on both sides were of Scotch-Irish extraction.  He was reared on the farm and had a fair opportunity for schooling, completing his education at Shelbyville.  In 1860 he began the study of medicine under McClure & Johnson, of Lewisburg, and the same year took a course of lectures at the University of Nashville.  The stirring events of the war cut short his medical pursuits.  In 1861 he volunteered in Company H, Seventeenth Tennessee Infantry.  During the four years of the war he never received a scratch nor was he ever taken prisoner.  After returning home he practiced his profession four years at Lewisburg, and then completed his course at the Bellevue Medical College, and graduated from that institution in 1870.  He then returned home and engaged in agricultural pursuits, and has continued that occupation up to the present time.  M r. Ewing has a farm of 500 acres, and is accounted a good farmer and an enterprising citizen.  In politics he is conservative, voting for the man rather than the party.

GEORGE WYTHE EWING AND WILLIAM K. KERCHEVAL, editors and proprietors of Marshall Gazette, were born and reared in this county, and while growing up, received their education in the common schools.  The former (Mr. Ewing) took quite an extensive course under William Stoddert, D.D., embracing nearly the entire course of the University of Virginia.  After completing his school days, he taught mathematics and language in Lewisburg Institute for two terms, and the same at Farmington Academy and some minor schools.  Mr. Kercheval finished his education at Fayetteville, Tenn.  In 1871 the Marshall Gazette was established, and, two years later, Mr. Ewing and two partners purchased the paper and office, and soon after Mr. Kercheval joined him; thus Mr. Ewing and he became sole proprietors, going in debt for the greater portion of it.  Both were wholly unacquainted with the business, but notwithstanding they have made it a success and their crisp, newsy, eight-column paper has a circulation of about 1,100.  George Wythe Ewing is a son of James S. Ewing, who was born July 5, 1824, in Maury County, and at the age of twenty began his career as a farmer, following that occupation for a period of fourteen years.  In 1845 he wedded Eliza J. Rivens, by whom he had two children, only one of whom (our subject) is living.  In 1859 the father came to Lewisburg and engaged in merchandising, following that business almost ever since.  Both he and wife are worthy members of the Presbyterian Church, of which he has been an elder for about thirty-two years.  For some time during the war he served as conscript officer in the Confederacy.  He served as trustee of this county, and also as magistrate.  He is a Democrat in politics and the son of William D. and Rebecca (Ewing) Ewing, the former born in 1786, and died in 1872, and the latter born in 1791 and died in 1847.

J. BRITT EZELL, farmer, was born July 14, 1838, in Marshall County, and at the age of thirteen, with the consent of his parents, went to live with J. Britt Fulton, an uncle, who had no children of his own.  While with him he received a good academic education.  About the same time his uncle took a little girl, by the name of Sarah J. Reynolds, to raise.  She and Britt grew up together, went to school together, and as time passed on childish affection gave place to stronger affections of man and womanhood, and in 1860, they were united in matrimony.  To them seven children were born, five of whom are living.  He is a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In 1861 Mr. Ezell volunteered in Company A, Fourth Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate Army.  After about fifteen months' service as quartermaster and commissary, he was transferred to the purchasing commissary department, where he continued till the close of the war.  During the whole time he was in the war he was neither wounded nor taken prisoner.  Since that time he has been extensively engaged in farming and trading.  When his uncle died he left a farm of 236 acres to our subject and wife, to which has been added sufficient to make it 670 acres.  Our subject has lived in this county all his life, and is considered a good farmer and an enterprising citizen.  He is a son of Joseph D. and Mary C. (Fulton) Ezell, both natives of Tennessee, the father born in 1810 and the mother in 1817.  The father was a farmer, besides being engaged largely in trading and stock raising.  For several years he held the position of magistrate, but was not a man who aspired to places of public trust.  He died in 1889, leaving his widow and children well provided for. Since his death the mother has lived with her children.

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