Judge Ephraim McLean Ewing

1789 - 1860  (70 years)

• Name	Ephraim McLean Ewing
  Prefix	Judge
  Born	4 Dec 1789	Davidson County, Tennessee
  Gender	Male
  Group	Davidson 001 Family of Immigrant John Davidson
  	Descendants of immigrant John Davidson of DNA Family 001
  Group	Davidson DNA Family 001
  	Descendants of John, George, and Samuel Davidson of Beverley Manor, Virginia, and Iredell county, North Carolina
  FindaGrave Memorial ID	97495338
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97495338
  Died	11 Jun 1860
  Buried	Aft 11 Jun 1860	Maple Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky
  Person ID	I14621	DNA Family 1 Genealogies
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2018

  
  

  Father	Gen. Robert Ewing, Jr.,   b. 1760, Bedford County, Virginia ,   d. 14 Jul 1832, Logan County, Kentucky  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Jane McLean,   b. 12 Dec 1769, North Carolina ,   d. 18 Jun 1847, Logan County, Kentucky  (Age 77 years)
  Married	4 Jul 1787	Adairville, Logan County, Virginia
  Family ID	F1520	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jean Pope McIntyre,   b. 30 Oct 1795, Hardin County, Kentucky ,   d. 26 Aug 1851  (Age 55 years)
  Married	1821
  Last Modified	7 Oct 2018
  Family ID	F10795	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 4 Dec 1789 - Davidson County, Tennessee Buried - Aft 11 Jun 1860 - Maple Grove Cemetery, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories

  Letter from Alney McLean to cousin Samuel Stockard This letter had been transcribed and posted on the Tennkin.com site and was saved in 2009 and supplied to me by Kenneth Rickett in October 2018. This site no longer seems to be extant. This letter provides many valuable insights on the McLean and Davidson families but it has several provable errors. None the less, it is a useful testimony to the early history of these families.

  
  

• Notes

  From FindaGrave: Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern Historical Press. p. 85. Logan County. EPHRAIM M. EWING, the chief justice of the Kentucky court of appeals, was born December, 4, 1789, in Davidson county, Tennessee, and died June 11, 1860. His father, General Robert E. Ewing, was a distinguished Revolutionary officer. The Judge acquired a fine literary education and pursued his law course in Transylvania University. He became one of the most distinguished jurists of Kentucky, and made his home in Russellville. For many years he was prosecuting attorney under Judge Broadnax and was the representative of his district in the legislature for several terms. In 1835 he was appointed one of the associated judges of the court of appeals, became chief justice in April, 1843, and served with distinction in that capacity until June, 1847, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law. In 1850 he was appointed by Governor Crittenden as one of the commissioners to codify the statutes. In 1821 he was presidential elector, and again in 1833. Judge Ewing was a man of liberal culture and broad mind, a warm friend of the cause of education, and at his death left a handsome bequest to Bethel College, of Russellville, and also to Cumberland University, in Lebanon, Tennessee. He married Jane McIntyre. He left to this family a handsome property, the result of his large law practice. He was a man of finely balanced mind, an able and learned lawyer and one of the most just and upright men that ever lived in southern Kentucky.