This is one of those blessings that occur for genealogists--a glimpse of Robert Ewart, the Committee of Safety man and the King's Mountain man, two times my GGGGG Grandfather--and a mention of Ewart's son in law James Johnston, whose son Will had married a Forney. This was put down in writing only because politicians had disparaged a good man, John Davidson.
"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.--------- Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Saturday, July 4, 2015
A Glimpse of Patriot Robert Ewart, 6 Decades After His Death--Raleigh Register 25 October 1844
This is one of those blessings that occur for genealogists--a glimpse of Robert Ewart, the Committee of Safety man and the King's Mountain man, two times my GGGGG Grandfather--and a mention of Ewart's son in law James Johnston, whose son Will had married a Forney. This was put down in writing only because politicians had disparaged a good man, John Davidson.
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