Praise of Robert Ewart in 1844--Mississippi Cousins Take Note

In the campaign of 1844 there were political dirty tricks involving the very old Abraham A. Forney, whose being illiterate made him vulnerable.  Misquoted about Ezekiel Polk, he had to get his family to explain his position. One explainer was our Cousin Will Johnston, son of Jane Ewart Johnston and the Colonel James Johnston of the brass monument at King's Mountain. Abraham Forney was a son of old Jacob Forney. See C. L. Hunter's SKETCHES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: Hunter was a brother in law of Cousin Will Johnston, and we are kin to the Hunter and Johnston children. Anyhow, here from the Raleigh REGISTER 25 October 1844 is Forney writing about Major John Davidson (not General William Lee Davidson), language sic:

I served under said Davidson a part of the time--Capt. James Johnston was my captain, afterwards Col. Johnston. Lord Cornwallis came to my father's with the British army on the 26th January, 1781--lay there several days before they crossed the Catawba river at Cowan's Ford. Previous to the British coming to my father's, Capt. Jacob Forney, he sent his negroes over the Catawba river into Mecklenburg to Maj. John Davidson for safekeeping out of the way of the British army. During the war Maj. John Davidson and Robt. Ewart (a good Whig) very frequently come to my father's, Jacob Forney, sen., to consult in favor of the Whig cause--Robert Ewart lived about one and a half miles from Maj. Davidson and five and a half miles from my fathers.

This gives the best description so far as to the location of Grandpa Ewart's house. Forney does not point out that Johnston was a son-in-law of Robert Ewart, but of course he knew. Robert Ewart had been named to the Committee of Safety in 1775, so of course he would be consulted as to the course of the war.

The Mississippi descendants of Robert Knox Bell are, of course, descended from Robert Ewart, that good Whig, and also descended from Robert Ewart, that good Whig--a double grandfather to us.

The 1775 Committee of Safety for the Salisbury district--GGGGG Grandfather Robert Ewart

From the NC Colonial Records
And of course, being a Scot, enough of his children's children married each other so that he is not just my GGGGG Grandfather but also my GGGGG Grandfather again. Way to go! Cyrus Hunter wrote him and his son and sons-in-law up in SKETCHES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

This is a half hour radio show, Elvis Mitchell interviewing Paul Seydor--& mentioning my READING "BILLY BUDD"

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-treatment/paul-seydor-the-authentic-death-and-contentious-afterlife-of-pat-garrett-and-billy-the-kid

 Judy Richter was listening to it and (at 18 minutes in) heard Elvis mention the name of her cousin's husband. Imagine the shock!

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Paul Seydor: The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and...

Editor and writer Paul Seydor on his latest book about Sam Peckinpah's last Western, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

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In a time when the most popular American Westerns were more like pulp, filmmaker Sam Peckinpah made Westerns that had a sense of immediacy and influence that set them apart.
In his new book, The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of Peckinpah's Last Western Film, writer/editor Paul Seydor takes a closer look at this fabled film, examining what makes it so haunting over 40 years after it was made, and why Peckinpah's greatest films are the ones that are somehow incomplete.
Photo: Samantha Rose Seydor

The Authentic Death and Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Paul Seydor

Guests:
Paul Seydor, author and editor
Producers:
Jenny Radelet

http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-treatment/paul-seydor-the-authentic-death-and-contentious-afterlife-of-pat-garrett-and-billy-the-kid

Indiana is the Old Alabama

I never liked Gary much anyhow.

Peckinpah by Seydor in LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS ad from Northwestern UP

Then there is the carpenter from the best appliance store in SLO

who used a power screwdriver to put a screw partly in, and an angle, in a support for a new oven-microwave combination. He never heard of countersinking.
The screw stuck up and extra trips were required . . . .
He also measured a nice piece of oak and cut it wrong.

In 2002 when I added a third of the cabinet space in the kitchen I pre-drilled holes for every screw.

Incredibly incompetent licensed local repairmen we have endured. I don't yell. Today I yelled.

What was wrong with the lock on the door to the south battlement was that the painter's assistant had put the lock back on crooked and after a few weeks it broke. Turn the knob, the bolt would not move. Locksmith, professional locksmith from Los Osos arrives and decides that the way to remove the brass plate set in the frame is to pry it out with a screwdriver, thereby savaging the third of an inch of wood between the plate and the inside of the door, and he leaves a jagged piece of wood underneath so you could take off most of a finger on if you ran one up from below. I stopped him before he tried to hammer the plate flat by putting in on tile on the battlement. When I finally told him what a sloppy job he had done he lied--he had not used a screwdriver to pry against the wood, not him. Well, I saw him, just too late to stop him, and let him know I did not like being lied to and hated unprofessional work. Someone else wrote him a check.

Now, our Cayucos electrician is a god among men, but all the others . . . .

The plumber who used his power screwdriver to put up the laundry sink we used for 5 months while we were working on the kitchen and broke the plastic, when he could have screwed it in by hand.

Oh, the roofer putting back in a skylight who used a power screwdriver to force a screw in so tight that in a couple of weeks the glass cracked right at that point and all the way across.

On--this is to be continued, but the electrician--does he have to redeem all the others?

Important New Book by Cousin Jeremy N. Smith

http://www.amazon.com/Epic-Measures-Doctor-Billion-Patients/dp/0062237500/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427217305&sr=1-1&keywords=jeremy+n+smith

Jeremy N. Smith is the son-in-law of my triple cousin Bonnie McMullan, husband of her daughter Crissie. As Bonnie's sister Lois says, in the South if you are not kin you are connected. I am a cousin of Jeremy N. Smith's and Crissie's offspring. In the South, that means I can say, "Hey, watch out for Cousin Jeremy's book, folks."

From Amazon:

Moneyball meets medicine in this remarkable chronicle of one of the greatest scientific quests of our time—the groundbreaking program to answer the most essential question for humanity: how do we live and die?—and the visionary mastermind behind it.
Medical doctor and economist Christopher Murray began the Global Burden of Disease studies to gain a truer understanding of how we live and how we die. While it is one of the largest scientific projects ever attempted—as breathtaking as the first moon landing or the Human Genome Project—the questions it answers are meaningful for every one of us: What are the world’s health problems? Who do they hurt? How much? Where? Why?
Murray argues that the ideal existence isn’t simply the longest but the one lived well and with the least illness. Until we can accurately measure how people live and die, we cannot understand what makes us sick or do much to improve it. Challenging the accepted wisdom of the WHO and the UN, the charismatic and controversial health maverick has made enemies—and some influential friends, including Bill Gates who gave Murray a $100 million grant.
In Epic Measures, journalist Jeremy N. Smith offers an intimate look at Murray and his groundbreaking work. From ranking countries’ healthcare systems (the U.S. is 37th) to unearthing the shocking reality that world governments are funding developing countries at only 30% of the potential maximum efficiency when it comes to health, Epic Measures introduces a visionary leader whose unwavering determination to improve global health standards has already changed the way the world addresses issues of health and wellness, sets policy, and distributes funding.

Dear friends --

My new book, EPIC MEASURES, comes out two weeks from today. Please help the launch by pre-ordering the book and telling friends!

EPIC MEASURES is the true story of a 20-year, 500-scientist, $100-million moonshot attempt to track and quantify every illness, injury, and death for everyone on Earth: the biggest of Big Data ever. This work has already transformed health systems from Mexico to Australia, and it has also shown Bill Gates a way to invest his fortune for global good. Now it may help people everywhere -- all 7 billion of us -- know what really hurts us and what will best improve our health.

Kirkus Reviews calls the book “Fascinating.” E. O. Wilson calls it “Inspiring.” Paul Farmer says that it “reads like a novel and is better than any textbook or survey of this planet’s health.”

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